JWP Already Gets a T-Shirt
Pete directs my attention to this tee presently making the rounds courtesy Curtis Black, the same graphic designer responsible for the Obey Dirk shirt. My, that was fast…
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Showing 15973 - 15994 of 36083Almost All My NBA Texas Exes Live in … Obscurity
Soon as the Mavericks “drafted” Texas shooting guard Jordan Hamilton, I received texts and tweets and a couple of phone calls from excited fans. Hamilton played for the Longhorns, so he must be good, right? W-R-O-N-G. Not sure if any school has more NBA busts than the one down south in Austin. Rick Barnes’…
Dirk Nowitzki’s Final Assist This Summer to … Michael Young
His Flamingo Fadeaway on the mound with a basketball was funny. And his cartoonish, exaggerated Max Patkin-like delivery was funnier. Dirk Nowitzki on Friday night was the best thing on a Rangers’ pitching mound in a while. Only thing better would’ve been if Michael Young’s leaping catch wouldn’t have saved Captain…
FBI Confirms: It’s Conducting Searches of John Wiley Price’s Office and Home Right Now
Jim’s on his way to Dallas County HQ at this very moment to watch with his own eyes as FBI agents search the downtown offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, as initially reported by KTVT-Channel 11. The CBS station also notes that “federal investigators have also been dispatched…
“Welcome to the Future of the City of Dallas.” Though Ross Could Use a Few More Trees.
Yesterday afternoon, the stretch of Ross from North Hawkins to Pavilion temporarily became a pedestrian oasis of sorts as cars slowed into a narrowed traffic pattern, bike paths ran alongside car lanes and a marketplace island replaced the center lanes of one area, as Robert dispatched yesterday. Visitors enjoyed crepes,…
Texas Rangers and Josh Hamilton Are Fighting the Summer Blues
Alexi Ogando has suddenly produced three consecutive outings of five innings or less. Fourth outfielder David Murphy just went 1 of 9 to drop his average to .233. And the Rangers have lost 12 of their last 19 — including 3-3 on a homestand against the Astros and Mets — in…
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For Sale: A Tex Avery Original Drawing Dating Back to Animator’s Days at North Dallas High
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site — where you’ll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas High School by none other than Frederick Bean Avery, otherwise known as Taylor-born Tex…
He’s Mayor For Two More Hours …
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano will ascend to the title of mayor pro…
Tomorrow, Dallas County Will Clear Name of Man Imprisoned For Assault He Didn’t Commit
Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars …Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to both…
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Scenes From a Better Ross Avenue
Tomorrow, we’ll have much more from the Build a Better Boulevard event presently slowing traffic along a stretch of Ross near and into downtown; maybe I’ll even let Leslie run the photo she took of me submerged into the dumpster swimming pool parked in Fellowship Church’s lot at Ross and…
A Belated Farewell to The Thin Blue Line‘s Randall Dale Adams, “The First Innocent Man”
“It’s an Everyman’s story. It’s the story of someone slipping through the cracks — if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode.” That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line — otherwise known as the film that proved Randall Dale Adams did not…
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Replacements Will Dare at the Bronco Bowl
A couple of months back, Friend of Unfair Park Bob wrote: “Waiting patiently for you to find and post a Replacements performance in Dallas. I think there was only one, yes?” But as we ascertained, no, there were several, from a Theatre Gallery gig to that unfortunate and wildly disinterested…
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City Hall Expects Sunday’s Better Ross Ave. Experiment to Lead to Citywide Changes
Several times now we’ve sneak-peeked the Build a Better Boulevard Challenge set to debut along Ross Avenue, between Hawkins and Pavilion, this Sunday morning beginning at 11. Preparations are underway at this very moment, as teams of architects and planners and students begin building their better bus stops and outdoor…
On July 1, See RoboCop In Front of Omni Consumer Products HQ, Dallas City Hall
Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we’ve talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in “Detroit” but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of 1986. (Ah, yes, I remember…
Dawn Rizos, Newt’s Favorite Strip Club Owner, Welcomes the Latest “Pole Tax” Setback
Around lunchtime yesterday, Dawn Rizos was walking through The Lodge, the Spangler Road strip club she owns, when her adult daughter handed her a freshly printed-out copy of this Texas Tribune story. Supporters of the so-called “Pole Tax,” a five-dollar fee tacked on to every visit to a strip club,…
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And the Love Field Concessions Bidding Process Goes On … And On … And On
I just went over to the city’s bids website to look for something unrelated when I noticed: The deadline for would-be Love Field vendors to submit proposals for restaurants and retail shoppes has been extended yet again — this time to July 13, following an earlier add-on that had ’em…
“Are We Going to Live in a Time Where Your Kid Goes to Red Bull High?” Yeah, Maybe.
In April director Morgan Spurlock came to the Dallas International Film Festival to show his sponsored-from-start-to-finish documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, after which he and I engaged in a little post-screening Q&A at the Magnolia. During our chitchat, I asked him about a sequence in the film concerning budget-beleaguered…
Auto Erotica: The History of DPD’s Sweet Rides
On its Facebook page this morning, the Dallas Police Department has posted an estimable visual history of its squad cars, beginning with the 1928 Model A. My father, a parts man his whole life, could do without the AMC Matador, wishes he had the ’56 Fairlane pictured above and is…
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We Went to Visit Al Lipscomb at Hall of State and Ran Into The Man Who’s Mayor Till Monday
Being fairly new to town, I’m learning my Dallas history little by little. Yesterday was a good step: On the way home I stopped by the Hall of State at Fair Park, where Al Lipscomb is resting comfortably till this evening’s public wake, which begins at 6 p.m., and tomorrow’s…
CBS News on How Video Games Saved Dallas
Technically, I guess, that’d be Plano — if we’re talking about Gearbox, which CBS Evening News’s Mark Strassmann does in the piece that aired last night and follows after the jump. And Grapevine, since he mentions GameStop. And Mesquite, if we’re talking about id … though Strassman never mentions the…
EPA to Study Whether Hydraulic Fracturing Taints Drinking Water in North Texas
All at once the in-box filled up with releases from the Environmental Protection Agency, both the national HQ and the regional offices. Long story short: After a series of public hearings held last year, including this one in Arlington, the EPA has decided to go ahead and take a long,…
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How Much Will the Mavericks Victory Parade Through Downtown Cost Mark Cuban?
This just in from Dallas City Hall: One week after last week’s Dallas Mavericks victory parade rolled from the Dallas Convention Center to the American Airlines Center, the city’s done totaled up the receipts and is ready to submit an invoice to Mark Cuban, who said he’s happy to pay…