Back in June, Mark Cuban tweeted that the American Airlines Center’s scoreboards were due for a high-def makeover over the summer. (Maybe you recall that video sneak peek of “the First and Only 1080 HD Video Scoreboards in the NBA or NHL.”) From the looks of this photo graciously provided…
Back in May, when the Dallas City Council was starting to tackle the city’s $190-million budget deficit, then-council member Mitchell Rasansky made it clear he was very unhappy with the city’s having spent $18,000 on fiberglass peaches scheduled to be installed at Dallas Farmers Market as part of a public…
At this point don’t fear the valleys, just enjoy the roller-coaster. Just when – yet again – it seemed your Texas Rangers were going to fall out of playoff contention by not scoring a single run in their last 15 innings in Baltimore, this happens. The resilient Rangers, playing without big…
As testimony concluded yesterday in the City Hall corruption trial, it appeared as though the prosecution would begin its cross-examination of Don Hill after Doug Greene, D’Angelo Lee’s attorney, finished what is expected to be his relatively short questioning of Hill, especially after Victor Vital told us he had no…
Didn’t wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well — wouldn’t have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it…
The city’s planning quite the one-two punch for next week: The Woodall Rodgers Park breaks ground Monday, followed on Tuesday by the convention center hotel’s dirt-fly ceremony. The latter, per our invite to the wingding at 800 Young Street at 4:30 p.m. sharp, is a “momentous occasion in Dallas’ history”;…
Went to my son’s 7th grade football scrimmage yesterday afternoon and – it’s official – I’m effin’ old. Uncool. Dweeby. Dorky. And totally outta touch. These two boys – I dunno, maybe 13 or 14ish – were talking underneath the bleachers. At least I think it was talking. To my…
We have 508 Park Avenue; The Dallas Morning News, Adamson High School, which the Dallas Independent School District wants to demolish, save for the facade, to make way for a new facility next door by August 2012. A few weeks back, the paper made note of the DISD’s tussles with…
So, let’s say Jack Ruby’s hat doesn’t do it for you. Fine. In that case, Heritage Auction Galleries has another option for your noggin: one of Tom Landry’s old fedoras, this one circa 1980-something. Heritage’s Noah Fleisher sends word that the trademark hat’ll be amongst a handful of Dallas Cowboys…
While President Obama’s speech to students met a lukewarm reception at some schools around Dallas-Fort Worth, former Dallas mayor and current U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk made sure the speech played to a full house this morning at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.At a…
The Rangers’ past is sucky and their future is murky. There are frightening skeletons in the closet and financial potholes down the road. The present, however, smells delicious. That’s why Derek Holland should be taken out of the starting rotation and replaced by Dustin Nippert. Love Holland. He’s 23 with…
Have yet to make it to Dallas County District Court to read the lawsuits pitting Gilbert Aranza, the franchisee operating as Base Holdings who opened and rather suddenly shuttered the Chili’s in the American Airlines Center, against Center Operating Company, which runs the arena. But I did spend a little…
In September 2004, the Dallas City Council gave Dr Pepper an exclusive beverage vending contract — meaning that at any city of Dallas venue, you had to be a Pepper or else till at last the fall of ’09, since Dr Pepper was paying good money for the exclusive access…
A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees is considering putting a cap on how long speakers get to, ya know, speak at board meetings. Turns out — surprise, surprise — there’s some dissent amongst the board regarding the proposal: At Thursday’s…
Back in 1971 a genius named Tom Landry decided it was a swell idea to alternate quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Craig Morton – on every friggin’ play. But after his Dallas Cowboys bumbled along at 4-3, the coach decided on Staubach full-time and, well, you know, the rest is Super Bowl…
Don Hill’s third day on the stand in the City Hall corruption trial began with his attorney, Ray Jackson, asking about statements he made in wiretaps about fairness concerning developer Brian Potashnik’s decision to reject bids from Ron Slovacek and Andrea Spencer because they were too high. Hill says the…
Spent the better part of an hour Sunday having a patient Mac salesman walk me through the pros and pros of ditching my PC; spent the better part of an hour Monday having Mac-using friends congratulate me on my flirtation (finally!) while also pointing me toward less expensive online options…
Another day, another Forbes list on which Dallas scores a good — this time, as the very bestest U.S. city “in which to take home a paycheck.” A whole bunch of numbers were crunched — everything from average salary to cost of living to “economists’ predictions for the future state…
As it turns out, the very day we were wondering what it would cost to move a Hilton Hotels regional HQ to Dallas from Farmers Branch, assistant city manager A.C. Gonzalez was sending that very info to the city council’s Economic Development Committee. Here’s the full memo — and, sorry,…
On Friday evening, dozens of nature lovers and art fans converged on Fair Park’s Texas Discovery Gardens for the opening of Global Swarming, a show of oil and encaustic artwork that explores Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious phenomenon that’s destroying bee colonies worldwide and has farmers in a panic. The…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends the grim news: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Darryn D. Andrews of Dallas was killed in Afghanistan on Friday. The U.S. Department of Defense last night sent out yet another of its matter-of-fact media releases short on details, save for where and how the 34-year-old…
On her blog yesterday, Angela Hunt outlined, very simply, the proposed budget cuts she and 10 of her fellow Dallas City Council members sent to City Manager Mary Suhm. It’s something Hunt’s been working on since late July, if you’ll recall — back when she offered up $457,374 in suggested…
