If the Mavs-Thunder somehow doesn’t do it for you, how about some Colonial golf out in Fort Worth or even a basketball game played by football players? After delivering a eulogy for his dear friend Ron Springs at his Carrollton funeral this morning, former Dallas Cowboy Everson Walls will help host…
The Mavs can play better than they did in Game 1 of the NBA’s Western Conference Finals. For the first time in the playoffs they allowed 100 points, 112 to be exact. The Thunder grabbed 11 offensive rebounds and, according to Mavs’ coach Rick Carlisle, corralled 13 of the game’s…
There hasn’t been much action in the city’s case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which city attorneys took to court at the end of January 2010 after the museum failed to choo-choo to Frisco as it had long promised to do. Long story short, the…
Just remember: A grand total of 235 people voted to make Wade Emmert the new chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party. But 33,000-and-still-rising have now watched his rival Debbie Georgatos’s film-school thesiscampaign video on YouTube — and far more saw it last night on MSNBC, as Rachel Maddow and…
It’s a Thursday night in late March, a little more than a year removed from the Flaming Lips’ memorable free performance—complete with multiple power outages—at the 2010 35 Conferette in Denton. Frontman Wayne Coyne stands swallowed among a mass of fans in the aisles of Good Records on Lower Greenville,…
He’ll be here before you know it. Sooner than we all expected. He’s got the above-average arm in the outfield. The plus-speed on the base paths. Immeasurable instincts. That sweet lefty swing. Bat resting anxiously on his shoulder, ready to spray the ball, with power, to all parts of any…
Fishin’ in the Trinity: OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll…
What you see above presently resides in the United Kingdom — Yorkshire, specifically, where one “frantique2000” hopes to part with this “pewter beaker” that dates back to 1904. That, incidentally, is when Jospeh Linz and brothers Simon, Ben and Albert had their glorious jewelry store on Main Street downtown –…
Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman — and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an “unstable insulin dependent diabetic” — was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her parents and two sons say Weatherby would…
The Dallas Police Department has now lost 80 officers in the line of duty. The first was C.O. Brewer, who, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, was “shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man for slander at the Union Depot station.” That was on May 24, 1892,…
So, yes, former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade Emmert is the new head of the Dallas County Republican Party, having been elected by a vote of 140-95 at last night’s special election. Upon his victory, Emmert tweeted, “I’m honored to have your trust as the new Dallas Co. GOP…
John Blake just sent word: Josh Hamilton will return to the world of the baseball living tonight in Frisco, when he begins a rehab stint with the RoughRiders as Steve Buechele’s second-place squad takes on the Midland Rockhounds. Hamilton, benched with a non-displaced hairline fracture of his right humerus bone…
Since it’s Follow-Up Wednesday here, may I direct your attention to a piece Jason Roberts posted this morning on Go Oak Cliff, which is more or less a response-slash-reaction-to Schutze’s piece yesterday about that Oak Cliff Walmart planned for Fort Worth Ave. Not to reopen Tuesday’s still-fresh can o’ worms,…
The Rangers lost a game because Matt Harrison walked two guys and then coughed up a home to the White Sox No. 9 hitter. We’ve dissected Dirk. And the Stars … who knows cares? At least there is news with our Cowboys. Sorta. While the NFL lockout storms toward its June 3 court…
Dirk Nowitzki was obviously unstoppable with 48 points and an NBA playoff-record 24 of 24 free throws, but the Mavs were stagnant and stale offensively until J.J. Barea entered the game in the second quarter. As Thunder coach Scotty Brooks said afterward, “He’s a handful.” I’m still shocked at his…
Last night, at the end of the first quarter of Mavs-Thunder, I spoke on the phone with Flula Borg — yes, that Flula Borg. The man behind “His Name is Dirk (Nowitzki),” who, according to the press release one of his friends sent out last night, is pushing to make…
At the end of last year we spent quite a bit of time following Nuke Free Texas’ efforts to stop Governor Rick Perry’s appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission from giving Waste Control Specialists the thumbs-up to bury nuclear waste out in West Texas that…
For once and all, he pronounces it “No-WIT-skee.” Has since the day he stepped off the plane from Germany back in 1998 and arrived at the Mavs’ old practice facility at the Baylor-Tom Landry Center in Dallas. You call him “No-VIT-skee”? He shrugs. Doesn’t care. Likewise, it doesn’t bother him…
Patrick paid a visit to The Building Formerly Known as the Texas School Book Depository Friday, where Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey fessed up: Looks like at least 25 deputy constables lied about serving papers, chiefly eviction notices. “Another black eye,” said…
We saw one of Family Radio’s end-o’-the-world billboards Saturday whilst driving south on IH-35. Man, if only. Anyway. Over on the CNN today, First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress has posted his thoughts on Harold Camping’s Rapturous ad campaign and says: Don’t you worry. Camping’s been wrong before, and he’ll be…
Visited the SMU website today only to discover that two Denver-living Mustang grads have kicked in $5 mil toward what the Hilltop’s calling the Residential Commons complex, a years-in-the-making project designed to keep sophomores on campus — so they can “live” and “learn” together. Ah, so that’s what they’re calling…
At more or less the exact same moment, two items of note hit the Unfair Park inbox: a statement from Governor Rick Perry concerning Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ guesstimated billion-dollar bump in state revenues, and a Real Clear Politics piece headlined “Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam.” Let’s go…
