Coming Soon: Basketball’s marquee event. One of sports’ worst-kept secrets will officially be spewed forth tomorrow night, as the Mavericks’ pre-game activities before the season-opener against the Houston Rockets will include the announcement of the 2010 NBA All-Star Game being hosted by Dallas, in Arlington. Back in May, Mark Cuban…
GlennSacks.com When The Dallas Morning News ran its story last Thursday about The Family Place’s “provocative new campaign” on Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, the agency, which assists victims of domestic abuse, said it had received few complaints. The ads, depicted above, began running on October 1, and DART spokesman…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Yesterday, shortly before the Dallas Independent School District officially announced it’s rehiring 57 of the teachers laid off two weeks ago, school board trustee Carla Ranger yet again laid into the district and its leadership. As in: “It is hard to do the right…
From Sunday’s Meet the Press, the battlegrounds? This morning, CNN’s Roland Martin takes a look at Dallas County and, sorta-kinda Harris County, and comes up with this conclusion: “Democrats may soon make Texas a competitive two-party state.” Martin’s analysis, I think it’s called, comes a mere three days after the…
Flat out, who deserves the most credit? Jimmy Johnson transformed the Dallas Cowboys from 1-15 laughingstock into back-to-back Super Bowl champs. Jerry Jones hired Johnson. So which one is more deserving of immortality in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Both are on the HOF’s preliminary list of 2009 inductee…
15 UNT football players found a unique way to show school spirit. The first sip: As Richie pointed out yesterday, somehow Todd Dodge’s job is safe as UNT football coach despite an 0-8 start and a defense that ranks dead last in the nation in points allowed per game. Perhaps…
Brian Harkin John Wiley Price and John Scovell showed up last week to defend Mayor Leppert’s hotel, but it was council member Vonciel Jones Hill who stole the show. At last week’s meeting, the city council approved selling bonds to refinance the convention center and spending another $4 million on…
Sierra Club From the Environmental Protection Agency today, a breath of fresh air.–Robert Wilonsky As the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s economy has grown to one of the nation’s most vibrant, its citizens have also enjoyed improvements in air quality. This summer saw the lowest levels of ozone in three decades, thanks…
Patrick Michels From the Tom Leppert-Terrell Owens press conference, about which Patrick just posted. Somebody’s very, very excited about Friday. Still, trick or treat? –Robert Wilonsky…
Patrick Michels Mayor Tom, and especially Laura Leppert, are thrilled T.O. could join them. The State Fair of Texas may have wrapped, but don’t worry — next week’s “Passport to Health” Diabetes Awareness Expo at Fair Park promises to be a real hoot too. To help spread the word about…
Those Eagles aren’t buzzards. Yet. Didn’t see this coming. You? When high-school coaching legend Todd Dodge took the job at North Texas back in December ’06 I predicted great things. Great, instant gratification-type things. Yikes. Never did I envision Dodge overseeing a porous defense of record-setting proportions, a 2-18 record…
On Friday, I came across a black-and-white version of the illustration you see above and contacted the artist, Wimberley-based Susan Rudat, to see if I could share it on Unfair Park. She went one better, offering this Technicolor version in its place. Rudat, whose pen-and-ink sketches were featured on Boing…
Jody Dean, whose beard misses him No doubt, you’re very familiar with most of the details contained within Skip Hollandsworth’s latest “Letter from Dallas” in the new Texas Monthly, in which he hashes over the plight of Jenny the Elephant. But Skip does serve up one rather hilarious anecdote, courtesy…
Oh, yeah, because on November 22, Dallas will be filled with conspiracy theorists using the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination to peddle their thick tomes filled with Last Words and Conclusive Research that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that JFK was gunned down by Fidel Castro, Oliver…
Swear, I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Lessee, “World Series game ends in a tie”? Boring. “Brad Johnson sucks”? Yawn. “Texas Tech’s Mike Leach is the greatest offensive coaching mind ever”? Heard it. Perhaps I can interest you in “Dorky sports blogger experiences the most bizarre round in…
Seems like only last Christmas Eve we were tallying the box office for Jessica Simpson’s movie Blonde Ambition, only to realize that it took in the amount of pocket change found in Mark Cuban’s couch — about $400, rounding up to be nice. And, for about 29 seconds thereafter, we…
Newsweek this week follows in the footsteps of U.S. News & World Report and suggests the last sure bet in this crap economy is sin. Or vice, as Newsweek puts it — specifically, the Dallas-based Vice Fund, which proudly “invests in companies, both domestic and foreign, engaged in the aerospace…
A Dallas family makes the cover of the new Fortune: Lindsay and Zach Mayer, among those singled out as the “high earners, not rich yet” — or HENRYs, get it? — who would vehemently dispute the notion that just because you make more than $250,000, you’re wealthy and ought to…
Hey, at least he’s better than Brooks Bollinger. Or is he? Now that you’re with me on Brad Johnson — you are with me, right? – would you rather see Brooks Bollinger try to guide the Cowboys to a win, or at least a touchdown, Sunday in New York while…
This morning, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and DowntownDallas’s John Crawford are hosting an Executive Marketing Task Force meeting at the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, where, among other items on the agenda, they’ll case-study that damned DSpot ad campaign created in early ’07 to sell Dallas to Dallasites…
Sam Merten Ron Natinsky points out a booger on the wall during a Trinity toll road debate last year in North Dallas The first sip: Dave Levinthal keeps digging into council member Ron Natinsky’s expenses, and things continue to get worse for one of Mayor Leppert’s buddies. Essentially, it amounts…
To be fair, Renee Wiggins has more of a Rachel Green thing going on in these photos. Here, though, more Sheryl Crow, maybe? On her MySpace page, Dallas actress Renee Wiggins offers copious sneak peeks at next week’s run of Family Feud, which, apparently, is still on the air. Wiggins…
