A hundred bucks for a hookah pipe? Please. The Gas Pipe’s much, much cheaper — and closer! The new King Tut exhibit, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, opens Friday at the Dallas Museum of Art. To give the show a little kick in the hype department, because…
For dang sure, it doesn’t involve listening to this moron’s sports picks. In between explaining how “close to seven” players expressed their intentions not to play for Dallas if coach Avery Johnson returned this season, promising to be even more hands-on this season and revealing that he’ll this week go…
Lara Solt, a Dallas Morning News staff photographer, just won an online-photography award from the Military Reporters & Editors Association for a collection of images that chronicled a U.S. Marine’s recovery after a bridge exploded beneath him in Iraq. Corporal Eric Morante lost a leg, underwent extensive surgeries and endured…
A mustache-loving Friend of Unfair Park sends along this note upon his return from lunch: I just sat near Karl Malone at Houlihan’s in Addison for lunch. Trying to figure out why he’s here, I came across this article about a possible comeback in Boston. With training camp ramping up,…
Over at AskMen.com, where new Dallas Star and soon-to-be movie subject Sean Avery is some kind of a “style correspondent,” the former Vogue intern’s taking your fashion questions. And while most are practical Q’s with helpful A’s — among them, if you must, “What’s the simplest way to update your…
Rep. Jeb Hensarling The Senate will vote tonight on an altered version of President Bush’s $700-billion bailout bill. And, far as Rep. Jeb Hensarling figures, the Senate will give it the okey-dokey before bailing out of Washington, “putting the House in a take-it-or-leave-it position on Thursday.” And that isn’t sitting…
John Danks was once a can’t-miss prospect for the Rangers. Now he’s all growed up, for the White Sox. If you’re a Rangers fan that watched the Chicago White Sox win the American League Central Division with a 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins last night, my deepest sympathies. You…
The State Fair of Texas is on. So where is everybody? On Monday afternoon the midway was empty. Nobody was throwing too-big basketballs at too-small hoops to win a stuffed critter. There was no line for chicken-fried bacon. No line for Fletcher’s corny dogs. And that’s weird. Maybe it’s gas…
Flickr photo: Lost Tulsa In the wake of the news of CD World’s shuttering, a Friend of Unfair Park who swears we’ve never met but who clearly shares my love of Dallas nostalgia sends along this link to a year-old piece about Dallas’s long-lost record stores. Among those name-checked: Hit…
This morning, I was bitten, then infected, by this City of Dallas-provided public service announcement about how to prevent the West Nile, which is sweeping the land! This pilot episode has tremendous potential, and I look forward to future episodes: “What Do I Do With This Syringe?,” “How Do I…
The Los Angeles Times this morning heaps piles of praise upon Jerry Jones’ under-construction EnormoDome in Arlington, which Sam Farmer coins the “Y’all Mahal,” a nickname that will never, ever stick. Still, the piece does contain two classic Jerry quotes, the first one concerning the $1.2 billion price tag: “The…
What if the Cowboys would have taken this guy over Troy Aikman. Cringe at the thought, I tell ya. Cringe. So there I was, a snotty-nosed lil’ 24-year-old. Couple years out of college, cutting my journalistic teeth at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. On this particular Sunday – Dec. 18, 1988…
You say this is not Sarah Palin? Hunh, coulda sworn. This time around, the Canadians have asked SMU political science prof Cal Jillson — the print journalist’s go-to guy for all things political — for his preview of Thursday night’s veep debate, wherein Joe Biden will try not to say…
Patrick Michels One more photo of Mayor Tom Leppert giving a speech about the convention center hotel, and we’ll have enough for a free night! Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, had billed the mayor’s speech today before the Dallas Regional Chamber as an opportunity to weigh in on…
Josh Howard isn’t a bad guy. So says Josh Howard. Josh Howard isn’t Jewish. Nonetheless — on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year — the Maverick’s period of atonement likewise commenced. The marijuana admissions. The crappy play. The defiant birthday bash. The drag racing. The charity softball…
Says the Hall of Fame QB-turned-ESPN talking head, Jerry Jones has the best football team in the league … on paper. Only, they’re a team without a leader or a “moral authority in the locker room.” They do, however, have a petulant, occasionally team-wrecking crybaby about whom Young knows plenty…
We dangled a teaser photo late yesterday, but thanks to the good people down at Dallas’ newest cushy downtown hotel, we’ve got a dozen more shots from the Joule’s opening gala last Friday, which boasted quite the guest list. Not the headiest kind of news, but there’s a special kind…
The New York media has spent the past several weeks lamenting the loss of George Steel, who’s due to become the Dallas Opera leader this week; there was a New York whine in August, then this mention in The New York Times two weeks back. In advance of his going…
View Larger Map Speaking of downtown development, about two weeks ago we mentioned that the city had compiled a list of three dozen-plus vacant buildings downtown, the purpose of which was to identify roadblocks to development — at least, as far as Mayor Tom Leppert and the city’s economic development…
Right this way, sir. To the end of the punt-return line. Jim Leonhard. Brian Witherspoon. Leodis McKelvin. Syndric Steptoe. Michael Bumpus. Buster Davis. Give up? Those, believe it or not, are just a handful of the 45 NFL players that are better punt returners than the Cowboys’ Pacman Jones this…
Ann Margolin Sure, the city council elections are still more than seven months away, but candidates are starting to file, and none may be more significant than Ann Margolin. After spending a year on the Dallas Park and Recreation Board representing District 13, Margolin quit the board and filed to…
Late yesterday, in advance of Thursday’s Economic Development Committee meeting, members of the city council were given a memo called Atmos/Forest City Conveyance. In it, the city details a deal that involves shifting the four-building Atmos Complex, which sits behind the old Statler Hilton Hotel on Commerce, from Forest City…
