Take the White Out to yesterday’s speculative depth chart and dust off Laura Miller’s old parade plans, your Dallas Mavericks just signed … drum roll … Quintin Ross! Starred at Kimball High School. Starred at SMU. Starred at Bounced around the NBA. I’ll let the Mavs trumpet his arrival: Ross…
Over on the Reuters environment blog, Ed Stoddard sings the praises of the Trinity River Audubon Center, to which he paid “an eye-opening visit.” Writes Stoddard:This is a “good news” green story that shines a spotlight on many different issues: the environmental costs of poverty (no illegal landfills in affluent…
Dunno why a Friend of Unfair Park would send me this heads-up (oh, wait, yes I do), but, indeed, George Takei will be in town in but 11 days to speak at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, in conjunction with The Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of…
The Dallas Independent School District has just posted to its Web site a report titled Staffing Levels in the Dallas Independent School District Report, which was compiled on the school board’s behalf by the Council of the Great City Schools. The board wondered, quite simply, Is the district overstaffed? The…
Speaking of the Bush library at SMU and all the stuff they gotta stick in it some day, a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this link to the George W. Bush Presidential Librarium, created by the guys responsible for Goodnight Bush for whom “themed attractions provide more entertainment than…
A Friend of Unfair Park with an eye for a deal points our direction to this item up for grabs in a Dallas Independent School District surplus-item auction: three pallets of band uniforms and hats. Hell of a deal: Two bids have raised the asking price to a lousy 15…
On Monday afternoon, a Chicago man named Dennis Sneyer found a bag filled with a camera and thousands of digitally stored photos lying in the middle of a busy intersection. After a little sleuthing — which is to say, going through some pics and finding amongst the popular backdrops the…
Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein’s unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush’s SMU library, and a week after Pulle’s piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisville…
Talked yesterday afternoon to David McDavid , he of the best odds to buy the Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks. Nothing definitive, but the auto tycoon has cooled slightly on the idea of owning our baseball team to the point where he said he is – for now – “leaning against…
So reports the Associated Press, which got a sneak peek at a Texas A&M-based Texas Transportation Institute study being released tomorrow that ranks the DFW as the sixth-most traffic-jammed-up metropolis in the country behind Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Houston and San Francisco. That said, the report also counts Dallas among…
Well, none of them are building wind farms in West Texas. Two have known the soft touch of Mike Modano. Three are former or current Disney Channel stars. All are enamored of copious amounts of free publicity. Two have posed nude. And all have been named one of the “25…
A couple weeks before Dallas voters narrowly approved a publicly owned convention center hotel, we brought you exclusive photos of a private development from the offices of Jack Matthews, who’s also developing the city’s hotel. He showed us a model of what he called his “original vision” for the hotel…
Last December, Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program, took nine students from the university to a frigid Poland, where they visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, Stutthof and Treblinka, among several other Nazi concentration camps. (Halperin has led such sojourns for the last 13 years.) One of his students wrote…
I’s aren’t dotted. T’s aren’t crossed. Some negotiations aren’t finished. Others haven’t even started. But let’s assume smooth sailing and peer into the crystal basketball. With the Dallas Mavericks eyeing Shawn Marion, this could be their opening-night roster: Point Guard: Jason Kidd/ J.J. Barea Shooting Guard: Josh Howard/ Jason Terry/Antoine…
After Mayor Tom Leppert announced the need to pony up $29 million to study Dallas’s levees resulting from “unacceptable” ratings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a frustrated city official essentially blamed Hurricane Katrina for everything. “I think the corps is CYA’ing in the worst way,” I was told…
The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP’s first-place prize-winners was a four-minute “travel and tourism” entry commissioned by the DC&VB titled “When I’m Big.” It sounds amazing:Description:…
I appeared on NBC5’s Out of Bounds Sunday night with Matt Barrie and hosted Monday’s mid-day slot on 105.3 The Fan with NBC5’s Newy Scruggs, yet still was somehow clueless that we’re in the midst of a monumental alteration to our TV landscape. Was watching Channel 5’s newscast last night when…
Perhaps you heard Mike Snyder and Jane McGarry’s tearful parting of ways this morning on Dunham and Miller, where the closing segment of Monday’s 10 p.m. KXAS-Channel 5 newscast seemingly played on a loop. The station’s story concerning Snyder’s new deal with the NBC affiliate — as mentioned in May,…
GlobeSt.com’s Amy Wolff Sorter asks Mark Fewin, senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, and Matt Heidelbaugh, senior director with Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, for their takes on the Dallas-Fort Worth commercial real estate market, and neither like what they see in the second quarter: an enormous jump in…
With one All-Star back in the lineup and another shoulda-been All-Star on the mound, the Texas Rangers began their crucial three-game series in Anaheim last night by promptly taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. The next time there was good news for Josh Hamilton, Kevin…
Around the same time the folks at the Hard Rock Cafe were showing local media the new Victory Park digs, Hillwood was handing over the development’s keys to US Treuhand — the German investors who, back in March, warned that Ross Perot Jr.’s company was in danger of defaulting on…
Alas, Pussy Soup is the rather unfortunate translation for the delightful-looking manga-to-movie Neko Rahmen Taisho, one of the films in this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off July 17 at the Magnolia Theater. The fest is in its eighth year now, and though it doesn’t get the…
