First there was the irate woman, with long dark hair and a low-slung green tank-top; then, the hapless guy being loaded from the street into an ambulance. Between those two and host Joey Greco keeping his cool a few feet away, there was nothing about the display that hasn’t played…
Far as I knew, Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley were still hosting the Today show — apparently not. Nope, says this NBC press release, a couple of gentlemen named Matt Lauer (who I thought hosted HBO’s entertainment news segment) and Al Roker will bring the show to Arlington next week,…
So, let’s see … we’ve got those Victory Park shirts. That Leppert poster. Maybe a Schutze tee or two. Guess it’s time to open up an Unfair Park store, now that our very own Alexander Flores has taken our Friend Heywood U. Buzzoff’s suggestion and turned Angela Hunt’s “hell of…
As the Friends of Unfair Park can probably guess, there were two good reasons why we suffered through nearly four hours of a Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing today. The first: the fate of W. H. Adamson High School, whose historic main building district officials want to…
Speaking of the City Plan Commission …By all accounts, the 3-year-long battle over designating Northern Hills a conservation district’s about to come to an end. (Whassup, Disney streets?) Sources say that 80 percent of the residents in the 61-house neighborhood nestled between Highland Park and the Knox-Henderson shopping district have…
Speaking of vacant downtown buildings … When Mayor Tom Leppert unveiled his list of Central Business District buildings that needed to be brought up to code or else, preservationists fretted that he had his sights set on razing, oh, the Statler Hilton or 508 Park Avenue, for starters. It made…
I have no idea who or what Omega El Fuerte is. But if it’s good enough for Texas Rangers’ fireballin’ phenom Neftali Feliz, it’s good enough for me. When the ridiculous rookie enters a game over the weekend in a crucial series against the Seattle Mariners, he’ll be serenaded by…
Eleven months ago, Mayor Tom Leppert gathered the media beneath 1604 Main Street to detail his plan for dealing with 36 vacant buildings downtown. We’ve spilled plenty of virtual ink documenting the doings with two of the more high-profile properties, but this week comes news that a handful of smaller…
Dunno how we missed this one, but on her blog yesterday Angela Hunt took a long, hard look at City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY 2009-2010 budget and wrote at great length about her most major concern: the pile of debt that would result from bond projects proposed in the…
Even if you’ve never heard of the Fan Cost Index, the name is pretty self-explanatory: It’s what a family of four could expect to spend at a sporting event, simple as that. Factored into the costs, per Team Marketing Index’s arguable equation: the price of two adult average price tickets,…
We caught up with Sheila Hill’s attorney, Victor Vital, after the cross-examination of Don Hill Wednesday afternoon in the City Hall corruption trial, to find out if he had any concerns about putting his client on the stand. “Oh, not at all,” he says. “Don did wonderfully today. The truth…
By now we’ve come to expect it from Dallas Cowboys’ larger-than-life owner Jerry Jones. The man does everything grande: Signings. Stadiums. Expectations. The works. He is, after all, Jumbo Jerry. So last week when he says “I have a hope and feel” that the Cowboys are good enough to win a Super…
First off, let’s settle the debate: His name is nef-tah-LEE. Second, let’s identify the pitch: It’s not his 100 mph fastball, it’s a 77 mph curveball. Last, let’s punctuate the speculation: His talent is as authentic as it is bountiful. No doubt about it, Neftali Feliz is the most mysterious,…
“A Bridge to Somewhere,” by Sam Merten, August 27 Too Much for Too Little It’s very hard to say anything negative about a pseudo-charitable organization, but I am able to force my way through it. I am more of a math guy: $7,000,000 in operating expenses this year…400 people helped…
Defining inanity: It’s not often anything we read in The Dallas Morning News makes us laugh out loud, but we giggled last Thursday morning when we read this headline over a story out of City Hall: “Lobbyist registrations, gift limits discussed in closed-door session.” That’s right, the city council, tackling…
Jerry Jones is unbuttoning his shirt. And as usual—as with everything concerning the owner of the Dallas Cowboys—the whole world is watching. Well, for now, it’s merely a handful of patrons at Coyote Ugly on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. But, seeing that most of them have drawn cell phones…
Slowly but surely Flickr fills up with images of the Traveling Man who strides through Deep Ellum. Here, for now, are two of our current favorites; after the jump, a rare nighttime shot of his seated counterpart. Co-creator Brandon Oldenburg told our Patrick Michels not long ago he hopes the…
View Larger MapThere’s space for lease on Knox Street — nice location too, right between the Apple store and Wild About Harry’s. Until, oh, today, of course, that was the Current Energy location. But according to a press release we received this afternoon, Joe Harberg’s done pulled the plug on…
Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the Daytime Juvenile Curfew went into effect, we thought it might be a good time to find out how many kiddos the Dallas Police Department’s done rounded up for skipping school. But as it happens, that’s easier requested than done: We called…
Two words: Dynamic. Pricing. That, per today’s announcement, is how Your Dallas Stars have chosen to sell seats this season — beginning this very Saturday, matter of fact, when regular-season single-game seats go on sale for October and November. And what, you may be asking, is dynamic pricing, other than,…
Tomorrow morning, the Dallas City Attorney’s Office will present yet another version of its ordinance that would allow for the demolition of buildings in historically designated districts. Surely you know what this is all about — we’ve been down this road since, oh, August 4, 2008, when the the city…
So Coach Joe lures all these women into the locker room and then … Actually, no, it’s not a scene-setter for the most bizarre porn on the planet, it’s Football 101 for Ladies. And it’s not a bad idea. Not bad at all. The premise is that Joe Avezzano and his…
