Okay, now I’m intrigued. For all the Texas Rangers’ promise of a better future, yesterday they made moves geared at providing fans an improved today. I squawked last week about the Rangers not being serious – much less serious contenders – if they trotted out really average re-runs like Frank Catalanotto and…
After taking a long, hard look at this morning’s Quick cover, Unfair Park would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dallas Morning News Managing Editor George Rodrigue to the sexually oriented weekly tabloid business. As a member of this elite journalism club, George, you and A.H. Belo upper management…
The headline in this morning’s New York Times reads like something out of The Onion: “Virtual Leagues Fold, Forcing Gamers to Find Actual Jobs.” Alas, ’tis true — and the man at the center of the story is Dallas’s own Emmanuel Rodriguez, a 23-year-old professional video-game player and world champ…
On DMNCuts, word is A.H. Belo Corp. will start trimming staff at The Dallas Morning News early next week. Which will be followed on May 1 by pay cuts for all: Robert Decherd this morning sent a “Letter to Colleagues” in which the A.H. Belo chairman, CEO and president announced…
In this week’s column in the dead tree version of Sportatorium I maintain that NASCAR drivers aren’t athletes. Conversely, Texas Motor Speedway grand poobah Eddie Gossage counterpoints that not only are drivers supremely athletic, but more fit than even soccer players. Got me to thinking: Which sport truly has the world’s…
For someone who doesn’t have any actual money, Buzz lately has been mighty interested—obsessed even—with the stock market. We check the Dow Jones about a zillion times a day, pulling for positive numbers like craps players around a table hollering for a hard eight. We can only imagine what things…
“Forest Grumps,” by Alexa Schirtzinger, March 19 the Money Tree I enjoyed your article on the tree problems with Dallas City Hall. It looks to me like there should be a follow-up on where the money went. Thanks for this article. I have long felt that our city government was…
I’m going to screw up, Andrea says to herself as she walks a straight line in front of a Dallas police officer. Only hours into what was supposed to be a relaxing Memorial Day weekend, Andrea is on the side of the road near the bar she just left on…
Eddie Gossage thinks I’m an April Fool. Texas Motor Speedway’s president told me so—in no uncertain terms—when I trial-ballooned my thesis that NASCAR drivers aren’t athletes. “You’ve lost your mind,” Gossage retorted from his office overlooking TMS, home to this weekend’s Samsung 500 out in Fort Worth. “That’s the dumbest…
Jim’s opted to wait till the a.m. to post concerning the Corps’ report, but his quick take: “The worse gets worser.” Sam’s also got priceless video coming early Thursday. Which gives everyone time to get their head around these docs. So, speaking of which, the last of the documents worth…
OK, so after the jump you’ll find all the appendices from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Trinity River Floodway Report — including all the photos and maps and cost breakdowns (“breakdown” being the operative word) you’ll ever need. But below is the letter the Corps sent to the city…
Schutze and Merten are at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where the city council has been briefed in private concerning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Periodic Inspection Report of the Trinity River floodway. It’s a massive document consisting of not only the 66-page report, but also 21…
About a month ago in this cover story Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told me his team didn’t fear a first-round NBA Playoff matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. “The Lakers don’t intimidate us at all,” Cuban maintains. “In the West it’s going to come down to whoever stays the healthiest…
The Collin Central Appraisal District still lists Memphis, Tennessee-based Belz Factory Outlet Mall as the owner of some 43 acres on Shelby Road in Allen, near the intersection of State Highway 121 and U.S. 75. So too do county deed records and the county’s latest tax assessment. The only one…
Before touting today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival line-up, this heads-up: The Dallas Film Society just sent along the guest list for Friday’s daylong Texas Day event, which kicks off with the free Texasville screening and Peter Bogdanovich Q&A at the Magnolia. Says the schedule we just received, Victory Park…
On Tuesday, Dallas police officer Robert Powell went on KTVT-Channel 11 to apologize to Ryan and Tamisha Moats for detaining them in a Plano hospital parking lot for 13 excrutiating minutes. Powell, placed on administrative leave last week pending a DPD investigation, also insisted he wanted nothing more in the…
My career has its perks. I’ve sipped Mai Tais on Waikiki Beach with Troy Aikman. Shaken hands with Wayne Gretzky moments after his final NHL game. Seen – first hand – Roger Federer win at Wimbledon, Michael Johnson triumph in Atlanta and Michael Jordan sink his last shot as a…
In more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge.Tuesday night,…
The ad above began airing on local television stations this morning and represents the third installment from the anti-hotel group in what has become an extremely pricey effort funded largely by Harlan Crow to thwart the city’s plans to build a publicly owned convention center hotel. It features the recent…
This is by far the most difficult post I’ve ever written. But it’s time. I can continue this charade no longer. Over the past 11 months on this blog I’ve spewed forth a plethora of radical opinions, most of which this morning I’d like to officially denounce. I admit, most of them…
Back in June, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees voted not to name the district’s Ross Ave. HQ for former school board president Kathlyn Gilliam, despite the protesters at their front door. The polarizing Gilliam, who served on the school board from 1974 till she was replaced by…
I saw this mash-up the day it popped up on YouTube a couple of weeks back, but discarded it because, truthfully, every other day it seems like some genius reaches into the pop-culture dustbin to retrofit the Dallas title sequence. But if it’s good enogh for BoingBoing, well, it’s good…
