Our man Eli Luna was out at the Dallas Comic Con yesterday, where he espied Doctor Wellington Yueh, Brad Majors and other familiar faces amongst the grown-ups playing mid-August dress-up. Here’s his slide show, where you’ll find that oddest of sights — a certain Blue Velvet co-star quantum leaping into…
Angela Hunt’s been on a bit of a tear today, having posted to her Web site three items: one concerning the proposed rules changes for council meetings; one about the city’s turning over the keys to the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society; and one concerning the city budget…
View Larger MapI was taking a sneak peek at the City Plan Commission’s agenda for Thursday and noticed a few items of intrigue — sent one to Pete, which he’ll no doubt get to shortly, concerning an application for a specific use permit for a new joint down in Deep…
With nods to the special teams and Mike Mickens and Jason Williams, the most troubling aspect of last week’s Cowboys’ pre-season loss to the Raiders was the most elementary of plays: The snap. After a season in which Andre Gurode sent back off-speed eephus pitches to Tony Romo in the…
Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outside Cityplace Conference Center this morning, a man in his 60s, in a plain white T-shirt and a bucket hat, had to stop and ask directions on the…
Even the 6-year-old who lives in my house has noticed it: “There’s a new bank on every corner.” To which the Associated Press responds: Yup, you’re damn right, little man. The AP reports today that per its investigation of the invasion of the money-snatchers, 10,000 bank branches have popped up…
As promised, The Trinity Trust today debuted its new campaign to build interest in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, and there’s an accompanying Web site: Discover the Trinity. You’ll also find a second, jazz-scored site pitching the previously mentioned September 25 Bridging the Trinity shindig, tickets for which are selling…
Five months ago, Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group defaulted on a $525 million loan; at the same time, he acknowledged that, yes, he was looking for someone who might be interested in buying some of the Texas Rangers offa him for the right price. Then, at the end of May,…
Not gonna lie and say it was as good/frenzied/energized as Linkin Park a while back, but I saw a pretty damn good concert Saturday night. So good that I slinked back stage and snagged a set list. See anything you like and/or recognize? Name this band and win – I…
Now that the city council’s had two months to digest the Urban Land Institute’s 99-page report on Southwest Center Mall, formerly known as Red Bird, the Economic Development Committee is tasked with figuring out how involved the city’s going to be in keeping the doors open. Far as the committee…
The first time we wrote about Southern Skates on E. Ledbetter Road was a month after Europe agreed go with the euro, a month before Saving Private Ryan opened and six months before the House impeached Bill Clinton. In other words, a million years ago. Back then, former Black Panther…
There are probably a million more important things with which to begin the work week — like, oh, a passel of Hicks Sports Group creditors asking the National Hockey League whether the beleaguered owner of the Texas Rangers has dough enough to keep the Dallas Stars — but this breaking,…
Okay, I’m impressed. Friday night’s kick-to-the-crotch loss to the Boston Red Sox felt like that moment. Big game. Big crowd. Gigantic implosion. Frankie Francisco’s blown save – six runs – felt like the big-bang instant in which a demoralized, gutted bunch of Texas Rangers’ youngsters starts sinking in the standings,…
A few days ago, The Trinity Trust posted to YouTube the video above, in which some of the steel for the never-say-die Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge takes a tour of the city on its way to the construction site. The city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will see it…
Check out this photo set for more photos from the kiss-in.It wasn’t quite the complete and total kiss-o-rama the posters suggested, but toss in the pecks on the cheek, the hugs and the still-awkward bro-pats between strangers, and there was plenty of same-sex affection out in the open at Queer…
Just got back to the computer to find a note from U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom deputy, who says that since last we were in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, the judge met with prosecutors and defense attorneys — separately — to see about picking up the…
Senator and gubernatorial hopeful Kay Bailey Hutchison used her appearance today at the Transportation Summit to establish her cred as someone committed to “a state-of-the-art transportation system” while knocking Rick Perry’s support for tollways and the Trans Texas Corridor. Speaking at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Hutchison said…
Check out more shots from QuakeCon in our slide show. Finding QuakeCon amidst the bustling mini-metropolis of the Gaylord Texan was easy: just follow the kids in flair-laden QC necklaces staggering under the weight of their clunky homemade PCs. It wasn’t the kind of convention that I was expecting. I…
Following up on the memorial bike ride video we pointed out yesterday, Texas Highway Patrol tells Unfair Park that within the last five years, the number of stunt riders on our highways has definitely increased. “In the last three, four, five years, the number of complaints have gone up,” Texas…
In gearing up for Project Runway, we’ve been checking out Louise Black’s fashions. We’ve also been gut-checking to see if we can handle watching Dallas’ David Cohen on, um, Megan Wants a Millionaire (because Beauty & the Geek, Rock of Love and I Love Money weren’t enough for that girl).See,…
Earlier this year, Southern Methodist University graduate Teresa Nguyen and her sister, soldier Ty Reed, began importing handicrafts made by female Iraqi artists. Reed had discovered a community of talented women — many of them widowed during the war and struggling to feed their children — while on her third…
In the fight over the fate of 508 Park Ave., this week saw the opening salvos at City Hall between the Glazers, who own the old Warner Bros. Pictures storage building where Robert Johnson and Bob Wills once recorded, and preservationists who want to keep it standing.Along with worries about…
