The INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report is out today, and Dallas-Fort Worth is up one spot from last year’s list: We’re now No. 4 on the most-congested list, behind only Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. (Though do keep this in mind, as the media release reminds: “Coincidentally,…
It was the last question of the night: “What do you think of the mayor’s concept for taking over the Dallas Independent School District?” The audience, consisting of only a few folks scattered throughout the W.T. White High School auditorium last night, let out a collective giggle. DISD Superintendent Michael…
That’s Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s plan, anyway: Folks who bring an “operational, unloaded firearm” (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card — from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such sponsors as 97.9 THE BEAT…
I was at Valley Ranch, a 24-year-old piss-ant reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Only a couple years removed from punching holes in my college apartment walls when the Dallas Cowboys lost, I was totally unprepared and overwhelmed by the press conference I was attending. It was 20 years ago today…
Mayor Tom Leppert reluctantly addressed local media this afternoon regarding City Manager Mary Suhm’s earlier announcement that the Trinity River levees will be rated “unacceptable” in 34 of 170 areas by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in advance of a March 31 deadline. He stressed that safety remains the…
What we don’t want, insists state Rep. Sid Miller, is “some Bubba flyin’ around, sayin’, ‘Pass me the beer and the ammo!'” The District 59 rep’s talking about his most recent proposal, H.B. No. 836, which calls for extending aerial hunting of feral hogs — which currently is done only…
Wade Phillips should wear a skirt on the sideline next season. For never in the history of the Dallas Cowboys has a head coach been so castrated of authority, power and respect. This, my friends, is the result of Jerry Jones’ preposterous gag order. For what it’s worth, Wade probably doesn’t…
Barack Obama nominated Ron Kirk as U.S. trade representative a week before Christmas. A month after that, Obama was sworn in as president. A month after that, the former Dallas mayor’s still waiting for his hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, which still doesn’t have Kirk pencilled in on…
Mesquite-based id Software’s but moments away from unleashing its browser-based Quake Live, and in advance of that momentous open-beta occasion, John Carmack talks to MTV Multiplayer today about everything happening at id these days (everything except Quake Live, which’ll be covered in tomorrow’s chat with the bossman). Chief among the…
To be a true sports rivalry – more than just a plethora of games between teams in close proximity (see Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals) – the meetings between opponents must: *Take place at an advanced level, with championships on the line. *Feature sustained excellence by both teams over a period…
Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to “just say no” is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it’s nice that the folks…
For those who missed the small announcement on their Web site, the good folks behind Art Conspiracy sent a reminder last night that they turned over a $20,000 check to 10-year-old nonprofit Preservation LINK, which uses “arts, culture and technology” as teaching tools for 9- to 16-year-olds attending schools in…
Been meaning to mention this for a few days, but friend of the show Justin Cozart recently grabbed a few scenes (ah, Crozier Tech) from Robocop to offer up a history of New Detroit, by which, of course, we mean Dallas circa 1986. Which reminds me: There’s an even larger…
The Associated Press reports this morning that a man has been arrested in the death of Marlon Alfaro, the 23-year-old from Irving who was beaten and run over in a Lower Greenville Avenue club’s parking lot on January 25. Dallas police and a certain Barking Dog had speculated in a…
Ernst & Young this morning has released its US 2009 Lodging Report, which, turns out, has nothing to do with a certain high-end gentleman’s establishment. Instead, sadly, it’s just a lengthy status report on the state of the hotel business in 17 major U.S. cities, Dallas chief among ’em. And…
By no means is it a steal. But perhaps a deal? When the first Jonestown Coliseum ticket prices were announced last year, we all fainted via sticker shock: 4 lower-level seats on the 35-yard line – adding in $340 tickets, $75 parking and 30-year seat options – cost over $150,000…
Randy Clower’s short film Freaks of Dallas has made the local film-fest rounds — AFI Dallas and Dallas Video Fest, in other words, even KERA-Channel 13 in ’07. But director Randy Clower today posted his 10-minute animated film about the late local “hippie scene,” so if you’ve never seen (or,…
In the comments of a blog item regarding council member Tennell Atkins’s questionable campaign finance reports, someone using the name “joe” suggested that, along with being a hobbit, my motivation in digging around Atkins’s reports was his support of the Trinity Turnpike and convention center hotel. Then he wrote: “cue…
Nearly 450 Dallas-area businesses are for sale at this very moment, priced from $12,000 to $17 million. And, it so happens, many of those those buying in are those recently laid off. So says Douglas Batts, a business broker at BizBuySell.com, which fancies itself “the Internet’s largest business for sale…
I generally agree with Jerry Seinfeld. On everything. Including the Oscars. During a show at, of all places, UTA’s Texas Hall in ’02 the comedian quipped, “Worst thing about The Oscars is that they never tell you the final scores. We’re Americans. We not only want to know who won, but by…
An old client of mine happened to know one of the friends of the MayhewShe reffered them to me, said they’d be in town Sunday You get lots of calls but lo and behold they showed up at the house and it looked ot me like poor Mr M was all…
Terrell Owens was at Elton John’s annual Academy Award viewing party last night at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, where the (current? former?) Dallas Cowboys wide receiver wanted to see and be seen by those who might help him catch (and drop) his second career as an aspiring…
