TCU-Boise State — so far, quite the sloppy, defensive time-kill till Thursday night’s Big Game. Speaking of which, here’s a warm-up from tomorrow’s New York Times: a profile of University of Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle, who grew up in South Oak Cliff and shoulda gone to SOC but instead went…
Admit it. You laughed when the DPD and city officials held a press conference last week urging locals to stop firing guns while bringing in the new year. “No … gunfire … on … New … Year’s … Eve,” Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway said nice and slow in an…
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle says he’s not interested in committing initially to any of the numerous job offers he’s received since announcing his retirement in November. He’s been approached mostly with consulting and teaching positions, he says, and no one has asked him to become the top cop someplace…
A good, but clearly very cheap, Friend of Unfair Park who shares my affection for the old Statler Hilton hotel downtown sends word: An Arkansas eBay’er is looking to offload some coffee creamers and a sugar bowl that came out of that hotel way back when. Says the seller: “The…
A little while ago, the Dallas Film Society — which operates the Dallas International Film Festival, also known as The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International — announced some changes at the top, the biggest of which has to do with Michael Cain being promoted to the title…
It may be a few weeks before we know for sure, but after years of wondering what to do about the Bama Pie mess, the city’s inching closer to filing a lawsuit over the empty building in South Dallas. Oh, right — what Bama Pie building? Longtime Friends of Unfair…
My New Year’s resolution? To be more positive. More optimistic. More don’t-look-now-but-holy-hell-my-glass-is-half-full. Bear with me, this is gonna be tougher than going without a crumb of food for 10 days. Ready? Here goes. I’m open to the idea of Wade Phillips returning as Dallas Cowboys’ head coach, assuming they beat…
Last we talked to Jose Escobedo (actually, his daughter Brandy), he wasn’t going to yank out his fake lawn, no matter what the city said. But that was in August, before he spent months learning you can’t fight City Hall — especially when it comes to planting turf in a…
Dallas-based 7-Eleven’s in the midst of a major expansion in Northern California, and, last we looked, the oh-thank-heavens was looking “to accelerate store development over the next several years through organic growth” in the DFW and elsewhere cross the country. (In ’08, shortly after the chain shuttered its Knox-Travis hot…
Just got around to reading the latest issue of Wired, which details the myriad delays that made the title of Duke Nukem Forever painfully appropriate. The Garland gaming developers at 3D Realms wouldn’t talk — there is, after all, that mammoth lawsuit pending, in which publisher Take-Two, which fronted 3D…
Maybe you heard a few days back that Van Morrison had another kid. Except, whoops, no, he most certainly did not: “The comments which appeared on my website did not come from me. They are completely and utterly without foundation.” Wouldn’t even mention it except the woman at the center…
As I said last week on 105.3 The Fan, the winner of Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles II would be the favorite entering the NFC Playoffs. No reason to alter that after Dallas’ dominating 24-0 victory. The Cowboys have a hot quarterback, a Super Bowl-caliber defense and a home game looming. They’re also…
10. Uh oh, Shaun Suisham misses a 30-yard, chip-shot field goal from right between the hashmarks. Okay, so the victory over the Philadelphia Eagles wasn’t perfect. But it was dang close. 9. I respect Eagles’ head coach Andy Reid, but I also question his strategy. He’s taken Philly to five NFC…
It’s no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year’s Day. Wouldn’t make sense — the Cotton Bowl’s now in Arlington, in case you missed that breaking news. And so it was the rebranded Comerica Bank New Year’s Day Parade that had downtown tied up…
Woke up this morning to find in the in-box this six-minute blast from the past courtesy — who else? — the great George Gimarc, who’s got a treat for every occasion. It’s a New Year’s Day in the life of KAFM in 1973, shortly before the then-year-old progressive-rock outlet perched…
No doubt we’ll call it an early day — I can tell the Friends of Unfair Park have better things to do, and good for you. But before we say, “Till next year,” a few words, very few, about a night spent in Deep Ellum — my first since, well,…
On Tuesday, state Senator John Carona said he’d “give consideration” to a mayoral run should Tom Leppert vacate office early in pursuit of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat. A top Republican in the state and one of several names included among Leppert’s potential would-be successors in Sunday’s story in…
As it’s the last day of the year and all, let’s wrap up some unfinished business — like, oh, the fact your gas bill is going up in the spring of 2010, in part thanks to City Hall. Maybe you remember: Back in September, when the city was trying find…
I could wax poetic about what a great year it was in 2009, or I could half-ass it on New Year’s Eve and just remind you of the people and purposes I found intriguing over the last 12 months. Yeah, that’s what I’m gonna do. 10. Dead Man Coaching. 9…
Is it safe to come out yet? Is this horrifying, recessionary, alien-anal-probe of a year finally—finally!—over? Whew! It is! We made it through the last year of a less-than-auspicious decade. Let’s all get some “I Survived ’09” T-shirts and have a party. Maybe while we’re all together, we can make…
Word that a contractor working for Atmos exposed a water pipe (which eventually ruptured) at Olive Street and McKinney Avenue was enough to convince me to head over there to chronicle the chaos — most notably a traffic clusterfuck on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway service road. Vehicles dodged gushing waters…
Several years ago, out of nowhere, a reader sent me a copy of the four-disc Rock and Roll Cowboy collection, which consists of Neil Young live tracks spanning ’66 to ’94. It was an astoundingly kind gesture: The set had been compiled by an industrious (Italian?) bootlegger tired of waiting…
