Diane once considered herself above other prostitutes. In nearly 20 years working highway truck stops, downtown street corners and even a brothel in Nevada, for the most part she’d managed to shower often, avoid beatings and stay in motels or with regulars, some who called her ma’am and bought her…
The Professional Convention Management Association closed out its national gathering at the Dallas Convention Center this afternoon with a slick keynote luncheon that telegraphed to the hundreds of event planners: Watch closely, this is how it’s done.The food presentation, set design and eight big projection screens all made for an…
Everything I know about the Dallas Texans hockey team comes from The Handbook of Texas History’s Dallas Stars entry:Professional hockey in Dallas dates back to 1941, when the Dallas Texans joined the minor-league American Hockey Association. The debut occurred at Fair Park Ice Arena on November 6, 1941, when the…
Fan of The Sopranos? Mad Men? Andy Richter Controls the Universe? Um … Becker? Then you are already familiar with the name Matthew Weiner, good for you. But how you’d like to see the creator of Mad Men in person? Tomorrow night, no less, at the Casa Mañana Theater in…
Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy just shot us an e-mail with the subject header “Mary Kay > Christopher Columbus.” Also contained within his missive: a link to this Associated Press story about the brewing battle over State Board of Education’s new social studies curriculum standards, for which the…
Shooting starts January 26 on Code 58, the FOX series formerly known as Jack and Dan that will star, among others, Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford. Unlike ABC’s The Deep End, which premieres January 21 and turns Dallas into Los Angeles, this one will be very local. As in, per…
We admit that of the 14 contested primary races for Republican precinct chairs in Dallas County, the odds are that you aren’t paying attention to any of them, even if you live in those precincts. Heck, we hadn’t planned on it either until we discovered an intriguing battle up North…
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced the latest inductee into its hall of fame: the former Irving Harrigan, as he was known to listeners of KLIF waaaay back in the day. The One-Time Voice of KVIL, inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in ’02 (and again in…
As Brad Sham noted toward the end of yesterday’s presentation of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s “Century in the Making” list at Woodrow Wilson High School, the thing ran a bit long — more than hour, and folks got a big fidgety. Shame. Because at the end…
While we’re on the subject of embarrassing videos, let’s take a peek at the one above, posted by the Dallas Police Department a few days ago. In it, a man breaks into a DPD bait car to steal the GPS device, and the department’s asking if anyone knows who’s responsible…
Since I predicted the Dallas Cowboys would win a playoff game this year, to me they haven’t over-acheived. Merely achieved. At 12-5 with an NFC East championship and a playoff win for the first time since 1996, is it enough? Two questions:…
As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will discuss at tomorrow’s meeting its contingency plans for Kimball, Roosevelt, Pinkston and Seagoville high schools should the Texas Education Agency deem them academically unacceptable for a fifth straight year. As DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander pointed out, the…
My favorite auction site is at it again, this time disposing of watches, rings, necklaces and other assorted gold-plated goodies on behalf of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department.The county will use the proceeds to replenish its coffers, and there are bargains to be had amongst the seized loot. Like, for…
Good bless Mr. Rid for reminding us this morning that back in ’84, Steve Dirkx (Telefone, Teenage Queer) directed this video that should have served as Dallas’s promotional reel. This morning, Steve provides the back story: Two women — Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola — wrote and recorded a song…
Last time we saw Duncanville Olympic boxer Luis Yanez he was mending fences, winning fights and building a professional career while re-building his reputation. Whoops. Turns out the snotty-nose brat who got crossways with U.S. Olympic Boxing is at it again, this time acting the fool enough to get dumped…
As promised, there they were this afternoon, seated on leather chairs perched upon the Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium stage: Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Tony Dorsett, “Mean” Joe Greene, Craig James, Daryl Johnston, Billy Sims. Also there, of course, was Woodrow’s favorite son, Tim Brown, joined by the…
First, the NBA All-Star Game. Then the Super Bowl. Could the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022 be next? It’s not so far fetched now that Dallas has made the final cut as the USA Bid Committee has narrowed a list of 27 cities down…
I rip (make that ripped, past tense) Wade Phillips all the time, but, um, looks like Minnesota Vikings’ head coach Brad Childress needs a history lesson. On Dec. 28, 1975, the Dallas Cowboys traveled to frigid Metropolitan Stadium for a playoff game against the Vikings. Trailing 14-10 with less than…
Yet again, we’re back to the subject of redevelopment in downtown Dallas — if only, for a moment, to visit a block of Elm Street that seems stuck in reverse. It’s the section more or less between N. Akard and N. Ervay Streets, which is populated by buildings significantly shorter…
This morning, during a speech at a Big Brothers Big Sisters benefit breakfast, Mayor Tom Leppert announced a few possible corporate relocations to Dallas — among them, he said, a Fortune 200 company to which he clearly sent an iPhone. But that wasn’t the breaking news that jumped out from…
In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium…
Michael May’s the latest to wonder whether the AT&T Performing Arts Center is going to remake downtown. Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and the Dallas City Design Studio at City Hall, says, Yup, sure ’nuff, so long as you include, oh, Main Street Garden in the mix: “It’s still dead on…
