Unlike, say, the release below, the one that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box is far less surprising: TNT will indeed shoot Dallas in Dallas. Specifically, the Warner Horizon-produced series, which was formally introduced on Friday and gets a sneak-peek tonight on the cable network before its summer 2012…
On Tuesday Jim noted the rally for John Wiley Price scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this Sunday at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church on East R.L. Thornton Freeway. But, moments ago, we received further details from Vincent Hall, the Dallas County commissioner’s office manager, who notes via press release…
Just talked to a National Hockey League source who confirmed what the News reported last week: that former Texas Rangers’ CEO Chuck Greenberg is seriously interested in buying your Dallas Stars. The Stars have been for sale since Tom Hicks’ sports empire went kaput, and for a long time it…
About a month back we sneaked a peek at the city’s fingers-crossed attempt to find someone interested in buying the naming rights to the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill Lane just west of Stemmons, a project expected to run upwards of $38 million and funded with 1998, 2003…
This just in: Chef, novelist (and Bone in the Throat is highly recommended) and TV-show host Anthony Bourdain’s booked a gig at the city-run Majestic Theater in October, with tickets going on sale this Friday. The full release follows, but long story short: “Bourdain will spend the evening sharing candid…
Two of the sweetest words to any man’s ears: Free. Upgrade. Thank you, US Airways. 9. For the life of me I can’t figure out why casinos offer the game of War. It’s the the most balanced, fair game in Vegas. It’s high-card wins, with ties merely forcing the player to double the bet for…
While Mike Rawlings is off in France, Rudy has a pay-walled piece in the morning’s paper recapping the to-do list offered when he was a candidate and the we’ll-see-about-that realities facing him as mayor: “Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings must find a way to deliver on promises.” Speaking of: As Leslie…
We were driving through downtown yesterday, on our way to Dallas Farmers Market, and passed by First Baptist Dallas’s under-construction “spiritual oasis,” sweet fancy Moses. Which reminded me: At week’s end, FBD sent the heads-up that its new-campus webcam is up and running, or at least walking on water, and…
You know what I think of women’s sports. Why watch them when you can see men run faster, jump higher or hit the ball longer? And you know what I think of soccer. A potentially entertaining game is ruined by archaic offsides rules, ridiculous fake injuries and the worst officiating of…
Thursday: The lowest point in the history of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Sunday: The high point of Texas’ baseball season. Was sitting at a blackjack table in Las Vegas when I looked up and saw Nolan Ryan in front of a microphone on TV. As the closed caption scrolled “Josh is…
Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin didn’t expect this. Not this. Certainly not. When first they hatched their cockamamie scheme — to rescue from fiscal despair a Days Inn off I-35 in Hillsboro — the two reservoir geeks put out the word via Facebook and guesstimated a grand total of,…
Twice we’ve written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He…
Had a few other things in mind for this work-week wrap-up; maybe I’ll get to ’em tomorrow morning … if you’re really that eager for a couple of Reunion Arena shows, one I attended in ’83 and another I wish I’d gone to in ’89. But whilst looking for something…
Once more Nolan Ryan gathered the media together to discuss “a very, very sad day for the Texas Rangers organization” — the death last night of 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter Shannon Stone, who fell 20 feet to his death at the Ballpark in Arlington attempting to reach a ball Josh Hamilton…
About 40 homeless people descended on Main Street Garden this morning, beginning just a little before 6. They congregated on the patio of the Lily Pad Cafe; as far as we could tell there were no “bums” in the crowd. These people were midway through their morning run. The group…
On Sunday the daily reported that Dallas County had some $35 million in outstanding bond forfeitures. Oh, but wait: Yesterday Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins shot back, calling the number a “gross misinterpretation of the true nature and totality of the bail bond forfeiture challenge facing Dallas County.” The “legally…
At long last, TNT has finally announced that it will indeed air that next-gen Dallas, featuring Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and a cast of younglings playing their offspring. The series, which is expected to shoot here now that the city council’s OK’d that $235,000 so Jack Matthews can…
Last week, just outside of Houston, a little boy’s parents were scrambling. Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital had told them there was nothing more they could do for the boy, 14-year-old Jordan Allen, whose brain is dotted with inoperable tumors. He was on a ventilator and in a coma, and…
On Monday, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs will cut the city of Dallas a sales-tax revenue check for $16,658,081.23, as you can see above; City Manager Mary Suhm says that’s 13 straight months the city has seen a “slight increase” in tax revenue, among the “slight, slow signs of a recovery.”…
One week ago this morning, KNON’s Warren Harris passed along the news that local radio icon Linwood Henderson, better known as Cuzzin’ Linnie, died in his sleep after a lengthy illness. Henderson, long considered the disc jockey who broke Dallas radio’s color barrier by being the first to play soul…
ryan=”” reacts=”” to=”” fan=”” s=”” death=”” width=”560″ height=”420>At 10:02 last night, an email from the Texas Rangers arrived in the in-box bearing the subject heading “Statement From Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan.” This is what it said: The adult male who during tonight’s game fell approximately 20 feet…
If you were were strolling through Main Street Garden late this afternoon, perhaps accompanied by Angela Hunt and a homeless acquaintance or pausing to let your dog take a leisurely crap on its spacious green lawns, you may have seen a group of increasingly sweaty teenage boys running towards a…
