Well, this is certainly odd timing: Only a few hours after flashing back to that Dallas Times Herald gimme featuring Spider-Man and Danny White, Your Dallas Cowboys have announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment. As in:Through an agreement that enables the Dallas Cowboys to license Marvel’s Super Heroes, the team…
The boy and I swung by Fair Park Sunday, and on our way out we drove past the Museum of the American Railroad. Which reminded me: The museum and the city of Dallas, which sued to get those trains chugga-chugga’d to Frisco back in January 2010, were set to go…
For those who haven’t really read the Dallas Bike Plan, you might want to sit down with it sooner than later — both the 76-page document and the June addendum, which runs 42 pages. Like, say, turn to Page 33 of the plan, where you’ll find the heading “Strategic Demonstration/Early…
Last week, we directed your attention to a possibly unpublished but nevertheless quite original John Romita Sr.-illustrated comic-book cover intended for a Dallas Times Herald giveaway courtesy Sanger-Harris, which Heritage Auction Gallery intends to let go to the highest bidder at month’s end. But Friend of Unfair Park Ed D…
There were no Fair Park Fourth-goers to be found in the Esplanade Fountain this year, not like last year. All was calm and orderly as thousands marched into the Cotton Bowl, save those who didn’t want to ditch their baby strollers. And, yet again, the great Justin Terveen was on…
Beginning ’round 9ish last night, my Northwest Dallas neighborhood sounded like a war zone — more than usual, anyhow. (As one Facebook friend put it, it turned into a parlor game: Firework or Gunshot?) Clearly, news of the countywide burn ban and threats of Class C misdemeanor tickets for shooting…
Speaking of the Supremes …In January 2010 we listened in as the Supreme Court of Texas heard oral arguments in the case of City of Dallas. v. VSC, LLC, which is now close to a decade old. To sum up: In ’02, tow company VSC was in possession of 326…
As we were heading out the door Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down opinions in two local cases, one of which we’ve written about before but neither of which is the “billion-dollar case” still awaiting a result. Let’s begin with this one: City of Dallas v Heather Stewart,…
Shortly after we recalled Bruce Springsteen’s rock-and-roll down an Oak Cliff bowling alley — almost moments after — news broke that Clarence Clemons had died from complications caused by a stroke suffered a few days earlier. At which point I cued up the ’84 Reunion stop and remembered-when yet again…
Two items-for-listening this morning: First up, a by-request; then, Schutze combs through his recordings archives and discovers he’s sitting on a JWP best-of.Here, to begin, is a segment that aired on The Ticket Friday morning — one week after Craig Miller and George Dunham acknowledged that they knew so little…
To those who helped made last night’s RoboCop-at-OCP HQ event happen — Downtown Dallas, Inc.; Brent Brown and his staff at the CityDesign Studio; the Dallas Film Society; and, of course, the promotions staff at the Observer — a mighty “much obliged” this morning. Couldn’t have done it without you…
A little while ago I saw this lengthy and occasional inside-baseball Q&A with Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney in which he insists that life behind the pay wall’s just fine, thanks for asking. Sorry — that’s “subscriber content initiative.” Anyway. Says Moroney, since the pay wall was erected a…
Shame I only just found out about Sir Mitchell’s newly released Brobocop tee; I woulda have worn it tonight, as it’s no doubt much more comfortable than this helmet I espied on eBay. Ah, well. Next time. Oh, right, there won’t be a next time. Tonight’s screening of RoboCop in…
Rumors have long been circulating that something’s up with Valley View Center. Not sure what, exactly; no one’s returning calls (paging Greg Maloney). Even local commercial Realtors aren’t exactly sure. But … something. Involving the Macy’s spot. Like, say, this: On Thursday, per its agenda, the City Plan Commission will…
If you drove to Grapevine last night, entered the mall on the corner of Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Stars and Stripes Way, hurried past the Legoland, the Foot Locker and, outside the aquarium, two children strapped into some kind of bungee-jumping ride, pogoing slowly over and over again from floor…
Speaking of the Texxas Jam, as we’re known to do from time to time, while researching yesterday’s Fleetwood Mac attack at the Cotton Bowl in ’78 I stumbled across an Internet Movie Database entry for something called Texxas Jam ’78, which promises to be “the first real look at an…
So, the feds want Pettis Norman and Jon Edmonds to appear before a grand jury on July 20 — can’t imagine why. Oh, wait. My bad. And speaking of the Inland Port, for those who knocked off early for the Christmas holidays in ’08, after the jump is a doc…
Former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa officially begins his new gig in Cobb County, Georgia, today. Hence, this morning’s piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “New Cobb superintendent’s job 1: Close students’ achievement gap.” Long story short: Cobb County, like most urban districts around the country, has seen an…
It’s likely you never knew Linwood Henderson by his real name; few did. For decades, since the late 1960s, he was better known by his other name: Cuzzin’ Linnie, or Cousin Linnie to the uninitiated. His was an estimable career that stretched all the way from KLIF (when it was…
Less than a month ago, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a small bomb shell amongst those who follow courthouse doings: Terri Moore, Craig Watkins’s first assistant, and Mike Ware, head of the Conviction Integrity Unit, would be stepping down July 1. At which point, Watkins promised, he’d announce…
At last night’s Gasland screening, an environmentalist activist of some note noted how much he enjoyed reading Unfair Park … for the Friday musical offerings, many of which were echoes of shows he’d once attended. Then, this afternoon, a request from another Friend of Unfair Park: Steive Nicks or Fleetwood…
Speaking of the wrongly imprisoned …On Saturday, we stopped to take note — belatedly — of the passing of Randall Dale Adams, whose October death didn’t reach newspapers till late last week. Adams, of course, was freed from prison in ’89 following the release of Errol Morris’s documentary The Thin…
