Chile, You Must Try the Dallas
Phillip Jones, president of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, and some tourism-toutin’ pals went on Chilean television to sell Dallas. The result? Magic and chaos…
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Showing 22903 - 22924 of 35753So, See, Super Bowl XLV Really Is Coming to Dallas — Fair Park and Downtown, Even
The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning issued this joint media release, along with the National Football League, announcing venue selections for “16 key events” that’ll be associated with Super Bowl XLV. Dallas and Fort Worth each get five; Arlington, four (including, ahem, the game); Irving, two…
Court of Appeals Tosses Out News‘s “Significant Victory” Over the City in 2007
Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller’s BlackBerry. The city contended that Miller’s BlackBerry was her own, not paid for by taxpayers, and, therefore, not subject to state open…
Sports Economics Prof Says Your Dallas Stars “Could Be the Second Team in Chapter 11”
This morning, the Toronto Star finds an economics prof who specializes in moneyball tomes to speculate that Your Dallas Stars may well wind up in Chapter 11. Because, after all, it was but one month ago that Tom Hicks willingly defaulted on $525 million in loans related to the Texas…
Nowitzkis 119, Carmelos 117
Now that, my friends, was a basketball game. A playoff basketball game, with everything on it. Delicious. Considering they still won’t win this series, the Mavericks had every reason to fold. And after the week he’s had, Dirk Nowitzki had every reason to pout. Instead? Dirk produced one of the grittiest…
So Long As it’s Not a Career in Copy Editing
Observer theater critic and Theater Jones’ing Elaine Liner passes along this photo, taken yesterday at the school where I spent a thousand Saturdays playing soccer as a kid. But, c’mon, that is how you pronounce it, no?…
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Water, Water Everywhere: KERA Kicks Off Its Yearlong Look at the Trinity River
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, KERA’s working on an enormo Trinity River project with pieces for radio, TV and Internets. Today, we got a sneak peek at a major slice of the pie, which includes everything from an interactive timeline to video testimony, as KERA’s Meg Fullwood…
Why Saturday’s Vote Wasn’t the Most Significant on the Hotel and Fighting Mayor Tom Leppert and City Hall is Futile
Now that I’ve had some time to reflect on Saturday night’s narrow loss at the polls by Harlan Crow and the 41,287 Dallas voters opposed to a taxpayer-owned hotel, I realize the most important vote on this issue took place almost 15 months ago. Dallas will get its convention center…
“I Am a DISD Student. I Deserve to be Educated to the Fullest of My Potential. I Am TAG.”
As of this afternoon, we’ve got 50-plus good reasons why we run comments on Unfair Park. They’re affixed to Jim’s Friday-evening item concerning the potential fate of DISD’s magnet schools and learning centers. Jim and I marveled throughout the weekend at the quantity and quality of the comments, many of…
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City Needs Just a Little More of Passengers’ Dough to Pay for Love Field Renovations
In October 2007, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the issue of a proposed passenger facility charge for folks flying out of Love Field. The reason? The council was looking for ways to fund the capital improvements as part of the Love Field Modernization Program, and,…
BREAKING NEWS: Greg Williams Soon to Be Ex-ESPN Radio Host
Don’t have this 100-percent confirmed, but all signs are pointing to Greg Williams being out at 103.3 FM ESPN Radio. Last week I alerted you that Williams sounded incoherent on last Tuesday night’s Choppy & Greggo show. He blamed it on a change in anti-depressant medication. But over the weekend,…
Dallas Mavericks: Worst Week Ever
You know that stupid VH1 show Best Week Ever? Well, when VH2 comes out with Worst Week Ever I’ve got a candidate: Your Dallas Mavericks, May 3-10, 2009. Sunday: Lose Game 1 to Denver Nuggets/ Fail to respond when Kenyon Martin punks star Dirk Nowitzki with a forearm to the back…
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Some Holocaust Denial Facebook Groups Vanish As Brian Cuban’s Twitter-Powered Revolution Picks Up Steam
As we mentioned Friday morning, Brian Cuban’s created quite a stir in the last week with his push — meticulously documented, naturally, at The Cuban Revolution — to have Facebook to delete its user-created groups supporting Holocaust denial.A day after the Dallas attorney — and, yes, brother of Mavericks owner…
It’s Last Call for The Tipperary Inn
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this morning this bit of “sad news from East Dallas”: The Tipperary Inn on Live Oak Street will be no more after Saturday. Writes owner Tim Russi in a message sent to the Friends of the Tipperary Inn yesterday:It is with heavy heart…
Dallas Cabbie Generates Fare Amount of Publicity With a Single E-Mail
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this item from Jalopnik, with the caveat, that, look, it may not be real, but at least it’s real interesting. Fair enough. The road-and-tracking blog reports that it received an e-mail from a Dallas cabbie offering his services — guy by the name…
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SEC Accuses Two Dallas “Oil and Gas” Men of Luring Investors Down a Dry Hole
Late last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission went to Dallas federal court to accuse 62-year-old Harmut Theodor Rose and 47-year-old James Patrick Reedy of swindling about 300 folks out of at least $10 million. According to the complaint, from August 2003 to August ’05, Rose and Reedy ran a…
Dallas Mavwrecks: Series, Composure Both Lost
So much for winning. And so much for losing with class and dignity. Yes, unequivocally, the Mavericks got screwed in Saturday’s Game 3 loss to the Denver Nuggets. (We didn’t need – or really want – an admission by the NBA to confirm that.) But despite the team’s latest case of…
The City Wants to Pay You Up to $10,000 to Improve Your Neighborhood
The Dallas City Council gets back to business today with three committee confabs, chief among them the Quality of Life hoedown where they’re poring over the Code Compliance Accountability Report Card — so “modeled after a 3rd grade report card” and lettered A through F to provide “the reader a…
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Mavs-Nuggets: Irrationally Optimistic Game 4 Preview
*The Mavs haven’t lost four in a row since … *Cattle-prodded by Saturday’s historic hose job, Dallas will … Oh screw it. Tonight’s game tips at 8:30. Wear black…
Angela Hunt, Peacemaker
Late last night council member Angela Hunt posted to her blog a note concerning the vote in favor of the convention center hotel. Therein, she extends the olive branch and vows to make ‘er work, because, well, that’s what 43,382 people demanded:The voters of Dallas have spoken and settled the…
Mayor Tom Leppert: “I Can Tell You Tonight the Winner is the Dallas Taxpayer.”
“The message tonight is Dallas is moving forward,” said Mayor Tom Leppert as the crowd here at Gilley’s roared in approval. The votes still aren’t all in, but, said the mayor, “I can tell you tonight the winner is the Dallas taxpayer.”The mayor looked exhausted and seems to have aged…
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At the Pro-Hotel Party, It’s all Hugs and High Fives as the Counting Nears the End
With 510 of 534 precincts reporting, and the convention center hotel now looking more like a sure thing — it’s 42,433 for, 40,484 against — Pulle reports that it’s all hugs and fist bumps at The Loft at Gilley’s. Says Matt, Mayor Tom Leppert was just spotted giving Mayor Pro…