Watched South Carolina win their second consecutive College World Series last night. Their celebration — gloves and hats flying in a giant infield dog pile — got me to thinking: Does baseball over-celebrate? Or, perhaps, do they do it just right? Think about the Mavs’ reaction after a 31-year wait to…
Late last summer we caught wind of First Presbyterian’s plans to purchase 508 Park Avenue, the former Brunswick Records regional office near Dallas City Hall in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and others once recorded. Yesterday, after myriad stops in front of the Landmark Commission, where the church had to…
We’ve seen the Rangers in the World Series and the Mavs win the NBA Finals, and on Tuesday I was reminded just how great a Stanley Cup run can be when former Stars’ goalie Ed Belfour and current GM Joe Nieuwendyk were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They’ll officially be inducted into…
It’s land! No, no, it’s Kwanzaa Fest! No, silly, it’s an art gallery owner at the South Side of Lamar! On the other side, some video and an IRS return we’re entering into evidence as we begin Day Three of Hunh, I Wonder Why The Feds Raided the Homes, Offices…
Yesterday Leslie recounted the Dallas City Council’s vote on the membership of the ad hoc gas drilling task force — during which rookie Scott Griggs’s attempt to add Mountain Creek resident Ed Meyer to the roster was met with a deafening silence. Angela Hunt has posted to her website her…
A couple of weeks back, in his column for the paper version of Unfair Park, Jim wrote about Scott Griggs and Angela Hunt’s desire to get the Trinity River Corridor Project back on track with projects “done quickly, cheaply and on a human scale.” You know who’s also involved? Ding,…
Twice today, including just moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent notes to media asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a red 1999 Ford F150 who police say was responsible for a fatal hit-and-run yesterday at Northwest Highway and the Dallas North Tollway. According to police,…
Maybe you recall: About three months ago Bravo sent word that some time over the summer it would debut Most Eligible Dallas, wherein the city “serves as the sexy backdrop for this jaw-dropping docu-series that follows a group of successful friends living it up like only Texas socialites can.” Right…
On and off in recent years there have been several attempts to fill that vacant lot across Marilla from the Dallas Farmers Market, and each plan has gone nowhere. Which is why I got interested when I saw this: This morning the Farmers Market TIF District Board of Directors met…
Beats me. Monday I watched both Williams sisters lose at Wimbledon, a week after Andy Roddick bowed out. It leaves as the only American quarterfinalist gentlemen’s 10th seed Mardy Fish, a 29-year-old doubles specialist who will hardly threatening Rafael Nadal’s throne. We heard a buzz for years about Donald Young as American…
No doubt you’re aware: This is fast becoming one of the worst droughts in state history — No. 3 so far, at a cost of billions to farmers and ranchers. And save for this tease of “dissipating thunderstorms” moving in, or not, from Oklahoma, it ain’t gonna get any better…
Still amazed that the Mavericks won the NBA championship. Still surprised they did it without a playoff point from Roddy Beaubois (who should be ready for 2011-12 training camp in October after another foot surgery). And I continue to be miffed at how little the sports world really knew about…
While we await delivery of some conceptual renderings from Dallas City Hall (and, really, can this week get any better?) for an item to follow, let me direct you attention to a couple of black-and-white keepsakes, only one of which is up for grabs. Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs…
A lifelong Friend of Unfair Park just called from the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway wondering how in the hell did he miss the news that come Friday, the North Texas Tollway Authority’s jacking up rates, according to the flashing heads-up greeting motorists this morning. That’s understandable: The…
More than Tony Romo, Jason Witten and, yes, Mat McBriar, the most valuable Cowboy is DeMarcus Ware.Drafted 11th overall in ’05, the outside linebacker has led Dallas in sacks in all five of his seasons and is the only player in the NFL with at least 10 quarterback traps in…
Schutze is taking in commissioners court this morning; it’s part of his summer local-government internship program. I see John Wiley Price got there early — why, there’s a Channel 8 cameraman chatting him up as he walks into work ’round 5:30 in the a.m. First and only question’s about all…
But, alas, like the other video on the rally’s Vimeo page, Perry’s invitation, which just went live this afternoon, shatters the already totally shattered pretense that his August 6 prayer rally is anything but a day-long fist-bump to the governor’s personal lord and savior…
The post-inauguration celebration didn’t last long, as Mayor Mike Rawlings and city council members new and old got straight to work at a 2 p.m. meeting. After a few housekeeping items — a quick vote to unanimously select Pauline Medrano as mayor pro tem and Tennell Atkins as deputy mayor…
Leslie’s already summed up Mayor Mike’s first-ever official speech as Dallas mayor, which was given at this morning’s swearing-in of the new council. And she’s up shortly with a recap from the ad hoc gas drilling committee vote, which took a bit of a twist; she’ll let Scott Griggs explain…
I sent one of our interns, Alex Scott, to the law offices of on-and-off John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind about two hours ago. Turns out, John Wiley Price was there — had been all morning. Moments ago he came out and spoke. And this is what he said:The Dallas…
It was only after Mike Rawlings became the new mayor of Dallas, only after council members new and old and in-between (in the case of Sandy Greyson) were sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center this morning did they discover they were about to step into The Breaking…
In the end, it only took minutes for Judge Larry Mitchell to clear Hilliard Fields of the sexual assault charges that have followed him for the last 14 years.”Sir, I’m very sorry for the misery this has caused you in your life,” Mitchell said to Fields, who, at a hearing…
