Talked with a guy I really respect this morning. Peter King has been watching and writing about NFL football for years and years. First met him out at Valley Ranch in the early 1990s and have read his stuff at Sports Illustrated ever since and now watch him on NBC’s…
Since April, city officials have been pushing — hard — to land the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup, either in 2018 or 2022. Matter of fact, they’re even asking locals to sign a petition demanding FIFA bring the soccer matches to Dallas; so far, looks like 6,556 have…
Ran into bcWORKSHOP and Re:Vision Dallas’s Brent Brown Friday night at the opening of Main Street Garden, and during a lengthy chat that spilled over into a downtown dinner with our families, not once did he mention a pending trip to Washington, D.C. But the Dallas Institute this morning sent…
Our Danny Fulgencio happened by the Dallas Rocks benefit Saturday night at Union Station, where Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons gathered quite the hodgepodge of celebrities for his African empowerment-through-education fundraiser: Smokey Robinson (who performed), Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush-Hager, Veronica Webb, former Houston Rocket Dikembe Mutombo, ex Duncanville High…
Sportatorium lifetime member Scott can be a dork. His “Roy Williams … this or that” rants are as legendary as they are ludicrous. But every once in a while he delivers. Like Sunday, when he was at Lambeau Field in Green Bay and snapped some pics of the Cowboys’ carnage…
Tyrone Ellis’s pro basketball career in the U.S. didn’t amount to much: 10 pre-season minutes played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in October 2006, during which he didn’t score a single point. Also on his resume: a single-season stint, in 2001-’02, in the NBA’s D-League, during which his Huntsville Flight went…
The city of Dallas has till December 11 to submit to the Texas Department of Transportation a list of projects it thinks worthy of the Transportation Enhancement Program, through which TxDOT doles out federal funds for so-called “non-traditional transportation related activities.” Which would be what, exactly? Well, bicycle and pedestrian…
10. I said on Sunday’s pre-game show on 105.3 The Fan that the only way the Dallas Cowboys could lose to the Green Bay Packers was to commit 3-plus turnovers. The Cowboys committed three turnovers. Add to that 10 penalties, dropped passes, a missed field goal and a couple injuries…
Even knowing the award would carry his good friend’s name for years to come, it wasn’t easy for Kris Kristofferson to stand onstage at Lola’s Saloon Friday night and say too much after accepting the Lone Star International Film Festival’s first Stephen Bruton Award. Bruton, who died in May, spent…
Under a dusky purple sky, with a well-dressed public milling around Main Street Garden’s fresh-laid lawn, local lights-and-pyro man Kelly Sticksel had some words for Mayor Tom Leppert — advice you rarely hear before city ribbon-cuttings and photo ops: “Don’t look directly into the laser.”Half an hour later, with the…
Fine, I’ll go first. Pride swallowed and head bowed, I enter the Cowboys Confessional. Inside this holy little booth—geez, Cowboys Stadium has everything—I take the Sacrament of Penance for Dallas’ football team, a squad I wholly underestimated. On bended knee I softly admit to my sins, my misgivings and my…
Well-mannered: Well, that was awkward—one of those embarrassing breach-of-etiquette moments, like when some guy on the bus asks to borrow your comb. You want to be generous, do the polite thing, etc. but geez… In our case, the uncomfortable moment involved U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn, who presided over the…
We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you’ll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon’s FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 — some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig?…
That headline, though, isn’t the real takeaway from this Transportation and Environment Committee briefing prepped for next week’s meeting, during which assistant city manager Jill Jordan will suggest how to make $12,000 this year and $20,000 annually after that by going after delinquent cemetery owners who owe stormwater fees. Nope…
Here we go again. First it was Phillip Linder. Then it was David Finn. Now Danny Clancy is the latest criminal defense lawyer to announce his plans to do the seemingly impossible: knock off incumbent District Attorney Craig Watkins. The former Dallas County prosecutor and judge says he has been…
The council’s Public Safety Committee’s got a noon meeting on Monday, and even before Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s surprise retirement announcement yesterday, they had plenty on their plates, including a look at the car burglary stats. There’s even a Top 10 List, with the truck stop at 7425 Bonnie…
Just drove by Main Street Garden to see how it was shaping up in advance of tonight’s Official Grand Opening (promises the media release, there will be “a pyrotechnic ribbon cutting,” which I think has something to do with the mayor, laser beams and his eyes … not sure). And…
Speaking of old Observer stories …Back in 2000, now-editor Mark Donald wrote about “The Resurrection of Sandy Kress: Or, how a Democrat and reviled former DISD board president found a happy home pushing ‘educational acoountability’ for the GOP.” Which seems worth a read this morning given yesterday’s announcement that Kress…
Back in 2005, Keven McAlester wrote one hell of a fine story for the paper version of Unfair Park about former Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis’s immortal acid-drenched no-hitter, done, of course, while he was a Pittsburgh Pirate. Piece wasn’t just about the feat, of course; if memory serves, it…
View Larger MapThe owners of 2525 McKinnon Street, home of The Retail Connection, and Gateway Tower on LBJ Freeway claim in court documents that they’re being harassed by picketers — and by picketers, they mean “homeless persons being paid to protest” by Alex Ornelas of Arlington, who’s listed in court…
On Thursday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission for permission to demolish the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Charlie Parker once recorded. Two months ago, the Landmark Commission denied the application, upholding the Central Business District Task…
Blockbuster sent word at the end of the day Thursday: It had a terrible third quarter — profits again down by double digits, millions hemorrhaged even after adjusting for debt refinancing and the sale of its European operations. And yesterday came word, per the release, that the Elm Street-based videotailer…
