The rumor’s been circulating for days that John Rhadigan would replace ousted-in-October Josh Lewin as the teevee play-by-play man for the Texas Rangers, pairing him with analyst Tom Grieve. The team just made it official in a release that follows in full. But long story short: Chuck Greenberg and Nolan…
… but half the site didn’t load this morning. Instead, I kept getting the message, “Sorry you are experiencing a delay. Please try your request again.” And it won’t verify my subscriber account — now I have to call just so I can read that story about how “Carrollton councilman…
Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard’s Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper’s yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital — two heretofore “sacred cows” in Dallas. Wrote Beelman, both institutions received nothing…
What you see at left is but a bit of a photo currently up for grabs on eBay at the low, low price (for now) of $39. It was taken in 1890 at the intersection of McKinney and Harwood, and the photo IDs the manse only as “Maroney’s House,” per…
Verizon announced yesterday that beginning next month, it too will offer service via the iPhone — thus ending iPhone users’ long national nightmare known as AT&T exclusivity. Jon Stewart’s so excited by the news he used some seven minutes at the top of last night’s Daily Show to celebrate the…
Take a moment and peruse the apps listed at CivicApps, a competition launched by the city of Portland last year for which cash prizes were handed out in such categories as Most Useful, Best Use of Data and Most Original. Portland’s hardly the only city using apps to make city…
First thing this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to a chat, with photos, currently taking place over at the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum, where posters are trying to decide of this new venue in the old Boardroom spot: permanent or temporary? One DFWUF’er said wrote…
Don’t get defensive. That’s just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America’s Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six “key indicators of literacy,” including the newspaper…
Last we checked in with the Jubilee Parkers fighting the Dallas Independent School District’s attempt to snatch up their homes to make room for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary building, the controversy looked to be finished. State Rep. Eric Johnson intervened on the residents’ behalf, you’ll recall, and shortly thereafter,…
When I spoke with Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney Wednesday morning about the paper’s forthcoming “‘Subscriber Content’ initiative,” the very first thing he said was that he couldn’t believe someone hadn’t leaked his memo sent to the staff, which he then proceeded to summarize. This morning, the…
Two different announcements have landed in the in-box in the last 24 minutes alerting our attention to the fact the American Institute of Architects has given the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre one of its prestigious Honor Awards for Architecture, along with these other estimable edifices. One release says the…
Clearly, Rick’s Cabaret needs to put the Dallas and Fort Worth mayors on its press-release list. Because in case you missed it — and how could you, it even made Huffington Post — Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are suddenly very opposed to…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention this morning to a just-posted Flickr set from friend of the show Scott Dorn, a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting this teardown town. Turns out, Scott got a last-minute call late last week from Lindamood Demolition, the company…
This morning Sports Illustrated launched a site allowing folks to vote on the Most Decisive Super Bowl Moments, which coincides with a list that appears in the issue hitting stands today. One moment — a “game-changing play, player’s leadership or coach’s decision” — from each Super Bowl is pulled out…
Shortly before The Dallas Morning News announced the erection of its paywall, which goes into place February 15, publisher and CEO Jim Moroney sent to the staff a memo in which he wrote: Brace yourself. Said Moroney in a phone conversation with Unfair Park at 6:30 this morning, as he…
You’ll note there’s an empty space on the American Airlines Center’s calendar tonight, which doesn’t meant it’ll be dark. Far from it: The National Sports Marketing Network, a sports-biz trade organization with some 10,000 members, is holding its first North Texas Chapter meeting tonight, a three-and-a-half-hour networking backslapper that wraps…
For the hell of it, I ran a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission report this morning to see how the off-premise beer-and-wine permitting process was going — seeing as how on New Year’s Eve, only a handful of applicants could sell spirits in formerly dry parts of town. And as you’ll…
First, The Dallas Morning News was going to begin charging for online content December 14; then came a delay. But this morning comes The Official Word, via online story (still free!) and press release, outlining the “The Next Generation” in A.H. Belo news delivery.What the story says that the release…
Everything I’ve learned about the more-n-likely-to-happen Kabletown … pardon, Comcast-NBC merger I’ve learned from 30 Rock. Well, OK, not everything: This morning’s New York Times alters our attention to a December 23 letter Comcast’s veep of Regulatory and State Legislative Affairs sent to the Federal Communications Commission that suggests the…
For the last eight months, I’ve lived within earshot of La Grange, this year’s Observer winner for Best Bar 2010, and have come to know owners Rob and Stephanie Schumacher through the drunkest of times and the soberest of times. Their foray into revitalizing their historic Deep Ellum block, along…
While everyone’s looking back at 2010, let’s glance ahead at the first meeting of the Landmark Commission in the new year, which takes place Tuesday. There you’ll find the results of that so-called “courtesy review” First Presbyterian Church of Dallas asked for in advance of its decision to purchase 508…
There may have been an Observer staff meeting this year during which Jason Roberts’s name wasn’t brought up. Maybe one. The rest of the time, we were either talking about Jason Roberts or talking about how we should probably write about Jason Roberts, except that we were over-covering Jason Roberts,…
