Richard Smith, pictured here with his wife and high-school sweetheart Amber, was killed outside Baghdad on New Year’s Day. He was 20. As we’ve mentioned twice before, on Christmas Day 29-year-old Spc. Aaron Preston, who was from Dallas, was killed in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his…
Earlier this week we had Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong telling Unfair Park that the paper was Rapturing the Religion section into the rest of the paper. Now, per the paper’s Religion blog, comes the adios announcement that will appear in tomorrow’s edition. The farewell, found after the jump,…
Ralph Isenberg is bringing home the missus and their 18-month-old daughter after months in exile, more or less. Former City Plan Commission member Ralph Isenberg called me this week from Guangzhou, China — at 3 a.m. his time– to say that his years-long effort to get a visa for his…
The mayor today named Betty Culbreath as the next chair of the Dallas Housing Authority board. S’gonna be fun. Just got a call from Mayor Laura Miller, who says she has appointed a new chairperson to the Dallas Housing Authority board. And it’s none other than Mayor Laura fave Betty…
You know why the Cowboys should win? Because Seattle has Pete Hunter. Remember him? No? Lucky you. I know what you’re expecting me to say. Something pessimistic yet clever, like, perhaps: Screw the anointing oil; get out the embalming fluid. Not today, Cowboys fans. The sun rose in the west,…
There’s been much mention this week of how well Blockbuster’s doing with its online video rentals; Wednesday, the Dallas-based company announced it ended last year with some 2.2 million online rental customers, due mostly to something called the Total Access program that allows customers to rent DVDs on the Web…
The Seattle Times is, I guess, trying to pick a fight with the city of Dallas; oh, dear God, please don’t tell Steve Blow about this. This morning, Times assistant sports editor Bill Reader pens a piece, in advance of tomorrow’s Cowboys first-round playoff loss to the Seahawks in Seattle,…
Take a good look at Proctor Hall, which currently sits at 1206 N. Haskell. It’s been there since 1921. Probably won’t be there much longer. Awesome. On Wednesday afternoon, Katherine Seale, the interim executive director of Preservation Dallas, sent an e-mail with the subject heading, “Lincoln Hall to be demolished.”…
We’re so over Tony Romo. Yup. We’re all about Josh Howard now. We’re Jomosexual! At least, that’s what I would say to the Miami Heat these days if I were Avery Johnson or Dirk Nowitzki or anyone remotely associated with the Dallas Mavericks. Proof that the basketball gods feel horrible…
An entire city has filed a lawsuit against, among others, Dallas-based Hotels.com and Fort Worth-based Travelocity.com “for back taxes the city claims the companies never paid on hotel room bookings,” reports the Associated Press today. And the name of that city? Why, lookie here, y’all, it’s none other than good…
The latest issue of BusinessWeek features on its cover a story headlined, “How Business Trounced The Trial Lawyers,” which says, in short: It’s hard out her for a pimp…pardon, personal-injury attorney. Especially in the state o’ Texas, where, the mag says, well into the 1990s, “Lone Star State plaintiffs’ lawyers…
He’s overdramatic. But also underappreciated. Take it from me and Gordon Keith, he’s a big, easy, Polish target. But today — though it’s about a week late — feels like a good day to praise Norm Hitzges. His football picks are above .500, his NFL Draft board is still legendary,…
Illustration by Tony Bones This is the cover of Zac Crain’s double-disc mayoral fundraiser. Looks everything like him. Our boy Zac Crain, who we in no way are endorsing for mayor till he starts sharing his Star Wars action figures with the 3-year-old who lives in our house, is finally…
Really, we’re gonna have to get a new picture of Ann Lott at this rate. Nonetheless, here we go again… A few final words about the resignation of Dallas Housing Authority board chairman Guy Brignon, who submitted his adios yesterday to the mayor who appointed him. Actually, this isn’t so…
Over at Dd, our boy Sam Machkovech has gotten a scoop on a story (and don’t even think about not crediting that guy or he’ll totally kick your ass) that will surely shake the core of a Deep Ellum that has been slowly but surely climbing out of a slump…
Buzz was going to begin our annual look back at the past year this way: Another year has come and gone. Good God, will they never end? But then something strange happened on the way to press. Reviewing the past 12 months, we became afflicted with an odd, unfamiliar feeling…
Fifteen years ago, Larry James was unknown in Dallas political circles. His name didn’t appear regularly in the paper, the mayor didn’t have his phone number, and he certainly didn’t dine with presidential hopefuls, as he one day would. If he was known for anything, it was the AIDS ministry…
It’s one of the more bizarre tales you’ll ever hear from a Texas law enforcement officer: Last Friday, Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree admitted he arranged to have his ex-lover deported to his native Honduras after Dupree ordered one of his officers to arrest the young man at the constable’s…
The Team-Wrecker Stone him: Who would have thought? A member of the press using T.O. (“Terrible Owens,” by Richie Whitt, December 28) as a catharsis for decades of frustration. What was it—a woman? Being cut from the J.V. team? There’s gotta be something eating someone up who could hate a…
Wanna hear the worst idea since Saddam Hussein’s kinfolk got him a tie for Christmas? The city of Dallas is spending $50 million to renovate a lame-duck stadium. Unless you’re a nearsighted, closed-minded, sports-oblivious politico, you know the Cotton Bowl’s present is almost history because its future resides not in…
Since we don’t have a photo of Guy Brignon, we thought we’d run this one of Ann Lott. Again. Hey, could be worse. This came out of left field: Guy Brignon, the Mayor Laura Miller-appointed chairman of the Dallas Housing Authority board, sent the mayor his letter of resignation today…
Just got off the phone with Mayor Laura Miller, who confirms something we just heard: Guy Brignon — the controversial chairman of the Dallas Housing Authority board who worked to oust DHA’s CEO and president, Ann Lott — has resigned. His letter of resignation is on its way to Unfair…
