The official press release arrived early this morning, along with the official newspaper: The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is now the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Or both, per the Web site.) Nobody’s saying how much AT&T’s spending on the naming rights, only that the package includes “cutting edge…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
So, you say you wanna meet Drew Barrymore — have ever since E.T. or maybe since she gave Dave Letterman a birthday surprise? Well, this week you get your chance: She’s doing a meet-and-greet at Urban Outfitters in Mockingbird Station on Wednesday. But, of course, it’s first come, first served,…
Ned Startzel was 3 years old when the new Majestic Theatre opened on Elm Street in downtown Dallas in 1921. Startzel began writing shows, performed in Vaudeville acts and fought in World War II, while Dallas’s theater row rose and fell around the Majestic — with 10 neighboring theaters downtown,…
Just discovered my new favorite thing about Dallas Cowboys game: the Randy Galloway-Michael Irvin video that follows…
Been feeling awful nostalgic for KZEW in recent days — maybe it has to do with the latest eff-you over on 93.3; maybe it stemmed from catching a vintage clip last week on The Ticket, where someone had dug up Mike Rhyner talking media-league softball way back when. So, of…
Uh-oh, another faceplant by Derek Holland. After a doubleheader split the Rangers trail Boston by 4 in the Wild Card and Anaheim by 6 in the West with 20 games remaining. If the Red Sox (who swept a doubleheader) and Angels (who never ever never lose) maintain their .600 paces they’ll each go…
As much fun as Mayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson could have had shoveling dirt down onto rush hour traffic, this morning’s “ground-making” for the Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Park took a more conceptual direction.Inside the future home of the Parkside Condominiums, with an expansive view of the…
We can’t find Jim this morning — sure hope he’s not down at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site! Or out taking photos après le deluge, as is his wont. Especially since our old pal Justin Terveen was out and about over the weekend, trying to cross the Trinity…
Not really a local, Dallas-y angle here. Other than the fact that I know you guys appreciate sports greatness when you see it. And since this moment happened in the U.S. Open tennis semifinals while y’all were probably still high-fiving Cowboys 34, Bucs 21, perhaps you didn’t see it…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation & Environment Committee will take up taxis — specifically, whether or not to cut cab companies a few big breaks in the middle of an economic downturn that’s turned smack into oncoming business. According to briefing documents, calls to the airport are way down:…
Check out more photos from the launch day in our slide show.He’d just guided his 1,900-pound rocket to a successful simulated moon landing, but while his teammates rushed to refuel for a second flight — their ticket to a $1 million prize and serious bragging rights — gaming guru John…
Newspapers ’round the country are filled this morning with obituaries, such as this one from The Washington Post, mourning Norman Borlaug, who died Saturday at the age of 95 at his Dallas home. All the obituaries more or less read the same: father of the “Green Revolution,” Nobel laureate, the…
10. I admit, I had doubts when the Cowboys drafted a kicker in the 5th round back in April. But after one game and three touchbacks by kickoff specialist David Buehler, it looks genius. 9. Dear Raheem Morris: You are not a player. Please stay off the field. 8. Combining…
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison criticized Governor Rick Perry in a speech to the local Republican Jewish Coalition this afternoon, claiming Texas has the country’s highest property taxes, an education system with the worst dropout rate in the nation and a government growing faster than the federal government with more than…
During the past 21 years, Larry Covington has seen vacant lots morph into shops and homes at the intersection of Maple and Wycliff Avenues. For most of that time, he’s worked at or near this very spot — as a sandwich vendor, a foundation leveler, a custodian. These days, his…
Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Fair Park …I was looking for something entirely unrelated on YouTube when I came across this vintage footage posted by DART a couple of weeks ago. Says the description of the footage that was kindly provided by one Johnnie J. Myers:Fair Park saw…
Developing. UPDATE: From what I know there were numerous contributing factors, such as Sean’s schedule and, yes, personality conflicts between him and management. I’ve talked to all parties involved and – sorry Deadspin – “sexting” wasn’t involved…
Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials got their first ride on the much-anticipated Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line this morning. The first four stops on the $1.8 billion, 20-station, 28-mile line will officially open Monday — following tomorrow’s Super Saturday spectacular at the MLK Jr., Fair Park, Baylor…
You know why it seems like Angela Hunt’s always on Unfair Park? Because she’s the only council member with a regularly updated Web site to which she posts items of significance to Dallas residents. Hey, Carolyn Davis gets herself a blog, we’ll post the hell out of it; same for…
The Project Runway designers were worried: Heidi Klum was being all kinds of shady as she gave this week’s challenge. With her spritely German accent she mumbled something about 13 women, waiting in the the workroom, knowing what they wanted. It was terrifying.Oh, but it was just the models! What…
I only ask because the Dallas Zoological Society, which is now operating the Dallas Zoo, is auctioning off a date with Mayor Tom as part of its Zoo to Do 2009 Gone Wild! fund-raising event, which runs through September 30 — so act now! Let’s see what you get for…
