On Paper, At Least, the Trinity River Park is Awesome and Amazing

Per the city’s Trinity River Park guidelines, this is a “rendering of West Dallas Lake Amphitheater used for concert venue and spectator viewing of fireworks.” Tomorrow, in addition to discussing the new name for Industrial Boulevard — spoiler alert: It’s Riverfront — the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee…

Is it Bigger Than a Bread Basket?

Biggest Dallas sports ticket. Ever. Just got my grubby little hands on what will be one of the hottest tickets in Metroplex sports history – the final regular-season Cowboys game at Texas Stadium. As you can see, the Cowboys certainly think it’s big. The actual ticket to the Saturday, Dec…

Where’s Greggo, You Ask?

Coming to a station near you soon: The Ticket’s new head-to-head competition? As his old bunkmates revel in ratings success, Greg Williams is angling to become one of The Ticket’s head-to-head rivals. Though he’s been flirting with a weeknight gig at ESPN Radio for months, Live 105.3 is now the…

Extreme Home Demolition Makeover

Speaking of the council getting back to work, it looks as though the city is trying to speed up the process that allows the demolition of properties within historic districts. In about half an hour, the city council’s Public Safety Committee will meet to discuss, among other things, the streamlining…

Dallas to Give AT&T $11.5 Million, In Exchange for $2.2 Billion

At this very moment at City Hall, the city council’s Economic Development Committee is discussing myriad topics as it gets back to work, chief among them AT&T’s relocation to Dallas, as announced on June 27. This morning’s briefing includes further details about the move, including AT&T’s moving its air fleet…

The Scorsese of Lower Greenville

Look, when, on a Sunday afternoon, you get an e-mail from Avi Adelman bearing the subject line, “This is your face after telling the restaurant manager you want to smoke crack in the bathroom…,” you’re going to see it through to the end. Turns out, Avi has added to the…

Post-Greggo, The Ticket Keeps Ticking

Better than ever? In this story, The Ticket didn’t seem to really miss their old colleague, Greg Williams. And in the radio ratings for Spring ’08, the station likewise seems as healthy as ever. The Ticket finished No. 1 in Dallas-Fort Worth for their target demographic – men 25-54 –…

Tatum O’Neal and the Fab Five: Must Be Summer Camp!

Tonight’s the big night; get your pom-poms ready for 8 p.m.. Should be fab — or, at least, Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal — as Lifetime gets its hep on with a mean-girl makeover about those McKinney North High School cheerleaders. And, hey, Slate seems to think it’s a…

Colin Ross Has An Eyebeam of Energy He’d Like You to Hear

Daniel Rodrigue When we got up this morning, no way we imagined this photo is how we’d end the day. Wednesday, Unfair Park told you about Dr. Colin A. Ross — you remember, Cyclops? Based in Richardson, Ross applied to the James Randi Educational Foundation’s One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge…

KTVT Misses Terrific Opportunity to Cross Promote Swingtown

The least Stephanie Lucero could have done last night, while busting wide open this swingers joint in McKinney, was toss off an obligatory Swingtown reference. C’mon, CBS’ hit series about swinging in the ’70s airs tonight at 9:03. (Sounds interesting: “Laurie and Doug interrupt her parents’ ‘after party’ with Brad…

Dumb and Dumber

Two wrongs give us a right — to wonder about his future. Sure enough, Josh Howard has learned from his off-court mistakes. Best way to rehab a pothead image and regain the trust of your teammates is by – wait, what? — getting arrested for driving 94 in a 55…

Calm Down, People. Jenny’s Not Going Anywhere Till October.

Jenny Seriously, I hadn’t intended on writing another Jenny the elephant item this week — not even to point out this freshly minted Associated Press story about the zoo vs. sanctuary debate or to direct your attention to this ever-growing petition calling for her to be moved to The Elephant…

Commence: Re-Entry

Anyone remember where I live? Okay, let’s see what I missed here on the homefront while vacationing in Canada and “working” in California. Hmm … *Rough week for our beloved Mark Cuban. First, Ron Artest gets traded to the Rockets, dropping his Mavericks to fourth-best in their own damn division…

Josh Howard Has a Court Date — Not a Basketball One, Either

Sure, things can get a little slow in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but, seriously, Josh Howard. Arrested? For drag racing? In a black Lexus? Yup: “The 28-year-old has been charged with drag racing, exceeding the posted speed limit, and reckless driving to endanger.” Guess it coulda been worse. Lesse — September…

Pony Express to Ride Again, If Only For Charity Auction This Month

Eric Dickerson, whose e-mail address still contains the word “ponyexpress,” no kidding. If nothing else, SMU’s trying awful hard to get the old ponies back into the stable after what’s felt like centuries of losing records. A month ago, the school announced that for the upcoming football season, June Jones’…