I grew up reading Tank McNamara. In accordance, I grew up believing sports cartoon strips were ridiculously unfunny. Lo and behold, today we get an early Christmas present. My ol’ buddy Mike Fisher over at DallasBasketball.com just crafted this beauty. It’s local. It’s clever. It’s topical. And it’s funny. Gotta be…
Sam’s at City Hall, because he’s clearly got nothing better to do, and reports in: The expanded smoking ordinance will not be delayed, per Tennell Atkins’ motion. Instead, by a vote of 9-6, the council has decided to move forward with voting on the sucker today — and Sam’ll report…
Because if you do, there’s a good chance someone’s watching. Like, oh, the Herreras of North Richland Hills, who installed a hidden camera to keep guard over the yard. Reports the Associated Press:Upset after their teeter-totter was stolen, the family trained surveillance cameras on their yard and was surprised when…
Well, as it turns out, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Michael Hinojosa was far more engaged than we all thought. We just received the superintendent’s annual evaluation of Eric Anderson, the district’s former chief operating officer who has been widely blamed for DISD’s epic financial crisis. Long story short: Hinojosa…
Back to my real job (sports) after some quick tinkering with my hobby (radio). As I heard on Monday, management at Live 105.3 105.3 The Fan has not only fired controversial/comment-creating (350? You shittin’ me?) Russ Martin but also agreed to pay him through 2011 just to keep his ass off another…
In last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we took a look at the local GOP through the eyes of Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman. One of Neerman’s critics, Texas Workforce Commission chair (and my former boss) Tom Pauken, says Barack Obama was an important reason why the…
Among the dozens of items being taken up during today’s city council end-o’-the-year everything-must-go blowout, scheduled to begin at 9 this morning and last till forever, is this note for Northwest Dallas residents who likewise believe Chuck E. Cheese serves Satan’s pepperoni: We’re getting a GattiTown! Or, at least, something…
Been a long while since I’ve heard the name Bob Gale, who was quite the big deal back in the early 1980s for having written the likes of Used Cars and Back to the Future, both for Robert Zemeckis, with whom he was Oscar-nominated in ’86. (Gale also wrote the…
Karl Zavitkovsky just called to discuss 1400 Main Street, which I mentioned earlier — and which is actually not going before the council tomorrow. Instead, says the director of the City of Dallas Office of Economic Development, developer Brian Foster and the City Center Tax Increment Financing District board need…
Back in October, we mentioned that local car man David McDavid was suing Turner Broadcasting Systems for $450 million, claiming that way back in 2003, TBS screwed him over plenty big. Because, see, McDavid thought he’d all but closed a deal with TBS to buy the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers,…
View Larger Map What you see above is 1400 Main Street, directly across from the Davis Building and next door to City Tavern. Right now, it’s but 11,000 square feet of nada, a 1954-built building on the tax rolls for some $2 million that isn’t generating a cent in tax…
He just can’t be. Can he? I was in the fifth row at American Airlines Center Saturday night and I still don’t believe what I saw. Or heard. Either Criss Angel is playing some mind trick on me, or J.J. Barea may actually be an NBA player. Barea, all 5-foot-10ish, made…
My little brother used to have the LeRoy Neiman poster at right hanging above his bed. Last I saw of the thing, it was gathering dust in the folks’ garage, but I remember that mess of a race like it was yesterday — temps well above 100, the narrow track…
As we mentioned here a couple months ago, Ann Margolin seemed like a tough candidate to beat in May for Mitchell Rasansky’s open city council seat. However, comments she made to us about a certain $520 million boondoggle may have sparked Mayor Tom and others to find someone who will…
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, former Dallas Morning News columnist William Murchison reviews Judith Garrett Segura’s Belo: From Newspapers to New Media, published in September by the University of Texas Press. (Segura worked at the paper from 1981 till 2004, and she was, among other things, Belo’s…
When Mayor Tom Leppert brought his Christmas list to Capitol Hill yesterday, he wasn’t shy about asking for $386 million from the government to pay for a shiny convention center hotel. After taking a look at our story, Becky Mayad, spokesperson for Build the Hotel, sent an e-mail to Robert…
Okay, I’m swamped up to here penning a cover story about a former Cowboy you haven’t thought about in a long time, so let’s make this snappy. Besides, isn’t it best to eat your crow on the run? After praising Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo in a swath of I-told-you-so’s last week, he…
During Friday’s RE:Vision Dallas design charrette at City Hall — where Mayor Tom Leppert introduced the parking lot some folks hope to turn into a sustainable, self-contained community — organizers screened a nine-minute “photodocumentary” in which residents talk about the city that isn’t and the city that could be. And…
If, that is, you happen to be a kid in the neighborhood with a hot chocolate stand. From CNN yesterday. And speaking of Dallas and national TV, here’s Andrea Grimes’ beloved Fuel City on Nightline last night. And speaking of Dallas the Bushes, the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog this morning…
View Larger Map Earlier this year, ’round about the time it started getting hot, two folks living in our Northwest Dallas neighborhood hipped us to Tierra Caliente Rodeo — for two different reasons. One person thought the so-called “urban rodeo” and taqueria at 9615 Overlake Drive, near the old European…
The new ordinance would prohibit the sale of individual cigars and require cigars to be sold in packages of at least five, with a penalty of no more than $500 awaiting the perpetrator. Notably, it doesn’t apply to cigars sold in tobacco shops or other businesses. So what’s Caraway’s beef…
Nancy Nichols serves up the bad news: Tio’s Tortas on Lemmon Avenue is closed. Which is devastating news for those of us who frequented the joint, oh, once a week — used to, anyway, till we realized we were probably enjoying Tio’s tortas a little too much. (And, look, the…
