On October 12, the Texas Park and Wildlife Department issued a press release that went virtually unnoticed at the time: The state’s offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for 17,638 acres further downriver, which are presently owned by Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder…
Yesterday we took a long, hard, glassy-eyed look at KXAS-Channel 5’s Newy Scruggs’s run-in with the denizens of Weed Rock. This morning, after the jump, we turn to FOX 4’s Steve Eagar, who, whilst stationed outside AT&T Park following last night’s Rangers loss, runs into some folks showing off “their…
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a month after his nine-year relationship with the Texas Rangers ended, Josh Lewin has been hired by 105.3 The Fan to host a midday sports talk show. Lewin will debut in the 11 a.m.-2 p.m. time slot Monday, November 1 as The Fan unveils…
–>–>First thing Wednesday morning down in Austin, Mayor Tom Leppert visited with Texas Tribune editor Evan Smith about a whole host of subjects — among them, right off the bat, why Leppert endorsed Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, despite the fact his is supposed to be a nonpartisan position…
Couldn’t make the new Parkland groundbreaking this morning, during which conceptual renderings of the $1.27-billion facility were debuted to press and public. But a note that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box from Parkland CEO Ron Anderson, which you can read here in full, reminds me: The new Parkland…
I felt like I was watching Dazed and Confused last night — though, to be honest, the whole Tim Lincecum-as-Mitch Kramer meme’s been around for a good long while, well before The Wall Street Journal asked Wiley Wiggins about it during Giants-Braves. And speaking of pot — well, I was…
This morning’s headline is brought to you by C.J. Wilson’s favorite website, Jorge Parrales and Jacob Herrera’s Cliff Lee Facts. Here’s another fact, courtesy Jeff Francoeur, who recounts in this morning’s New York Times how nervous he was during dinner before Game Five against Tampa Bay. Cliff Lee, however, was…
Long story short, a friend of the show sent word that he was looking for something entirely unrelated today when he stumbled across the website for The 40/40 Club, a lounge-y “all-American sports bar and lounge owned by hip hop mogul Jay-Z and partner Juan Perez,” per its about-us. There…
That quote, from Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, is the theme of this morning’s World Series round-up.It comes from an interview in USA Today concerning the prospects of keeping Cliff Lee, which doesn’t sound like the impossibility others have made it out to be; says Lee, beating the San Francisco…
From below, this pointed comment posted moments ago: “As a longtime fan, I am beginning to cautiously think that the Rangers have a chance of being in the World Series this year.” Not surprisingly, the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up World Series random notes this morning. Let’s review.Sabernomics…
So writes George Vecsey this morning in The New York Times — referring, of course, to The Commerce Comet himself, Mickey Mantle. Insists the sports scribe, of the myriad comparisons made in recent days — Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. chief among them, per vanquished Yankees manager Joe Girardi…
This weekend they’re laying the first of the concrete beams over Woodall Rodgers Freeway for the deck-park-to-be, including the Ceremonial First Beam pictured above, which served as a centerpiece for a wet ‘n’ wild celebratory picnic Saturday afternoon. With 15 more trucks waiting just down the access road with the…
That, surely, is the question on your mind after reading of the 79-year-old Penthouse founder’s death at the Plano Specialty Hospital yesterday, following a years-long battle with lung cancer. The answer is simple, says one New Jersey attorney representing some of the myriad creditors in an ongoing Chapter 7 case…
Sums up George A. King III in this morning’s New York Post: “The Yankees arrived last night deep in the heart of Texas with a pulse. Faint, for sure, but enough of a beat that the ALCS stethoscope detected it. Can the pump tick long enough to get the Yankees…
Eight days ago, Joel Burns delivered to his Fort Worth city council colleagues the “It Gets Better” speech since heard ’round the world. Today, he went on Ellen DeGeneres’s show to discuss what the host calls a “real and raw and moving” moment. Burns’s mother, who was in the audience,…
This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts’s twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peoples, armed with cafe seating and greenery and chalk-marked bike lanes, take back the streets and sidewalks. Roberts is…
Writes Mike Lupica in this morning’s New York Daily News: “So it has come to this for the Yankees, after the Texas Rangers threw them down another flight of stairs, trying to throw them all the way out to 161st St., all the way into next season. It has come…
As part of its rebuilding effort, Terilli’s is selling welcome-back bricks that’ll become part of a “Friends of Terilli’s Wall” upon its February reopening.Shortly after a four-alarm fire destroyed the block of Greenville Avenue housing Terilli’s, Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and the Greenville Bar & Grill on March 2, a Friend…
The view from Museum Tower in, give or take, three yearsBack in June, you no doubt recall, Brook Partners announced that the long-in-the-works Museum Tower would finally sprout in the Arts District, courtesy the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System’s $200 million investment in the 42-floor condolith. Just one week…
If you woke up this morning respecting your local news broadcasters a little too much, well, witness the healing power of the KDFW-produced video after the jump. Since it hit the station’s Facebook page yesterday morning, it’s been drawing raves from ROFL’ing commenters, but if, like us, you missed last…
A month ago we noted that Park and Rec had picked McCarthy Building Company to build the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park; yesterday, the city council added its okee-doke. Which is why, late last night, park officials sent word: The first batch of the 316 110-foot-long, Waco-made beams needed to constructify…
About a month ago, Patrick Michels sat in on the planning session for Deep Ellum’s attempt to build a Better Block, a la Oak Cliff’s two experiments with taking back the streets. Today, organizer Brandon Castillo sends more details — as in, when and where. Castillo had hoped to stage…
