The Kansas City Brigade of the Arena Football League are 1-7 halfway through the season, and the schedule doesn’t get much easier the rest of the way — far as you know, anyway. Regardless, the team’s woeful record no doubt explains the opening sentence of this media release: “The Kansas…
Mike and Corby, remaining rigid. Just got my grubby little hands on the Arbitron radio ratings Winter ’08 book and, you know what, I can’t make heads or tails of it. The details, that is. Numbers schnumbers. But this much I can tell you: *KTCK 1310 AM The Ticket is…
Mayor Tom Leppert returns from China tomorrow, and he might not get much of a chance to sleep off his jet lag. It’s likely that in coming days, the mayor can expect sarcastic thank-you notes from downtown property owners whose property values — and property taxes — are about to…
Sorry, Stars fans. Put ’em away. Admit it, you got greedy. The Cowboys lose in the first round and the Mavs puke in the playoffs three years in a row and the Rangers remain the Rangers. So, naturally – finally — when your Dallas Stars took a 3-0 series lead…
Just yesterday, during our weekly staff meeting at Unfair Park HQ, we were wondering when 60 Minutes was going to run its profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. Turns out, you can set your DVR to this very Sunday, when former KXAS and WFAA reporter Scott Pelley offers…
Richie’s out the door, which doesn’t stop our Friends from sending along photos snapped at the American Airlines Center last night, during Stars-Sharks Game 5. Says the Friend who passed along this photo from the gift shop, where, apparently, Dallas’ one-and-done NBA franchise is completely cleaning house, from the head…
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? The Dallas Observer sports blog, duh. Right about now, we commence our sports exclusive blog, The Sportatorium. Unfair Park, of course, remains the award-winning trunk of our mighty blogosphere oak, where you’ll still get sportsy whatsits and the daily…
Mark it down. Avery Johnson will get another NBA head-coaching gig (he says he’s already been contacted by a team, by the way) and bring his new team into the American Airlines Center and kick his old team’s ass. Nothing new, really. It’s the curse of the ex-Maverick. I mean,…
From the Collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library Whilst dealing with the very helpful Beth Andresen in the Dallas Public Library’s photo division, for the artwork accompanying Schutze’s item from yesterday about DART, I came across some unidentified photos on the Texas/Dallas History & Archives’s…
On his way outta town Avery claims he never wanted Jason Kidd? Yeah, right. Listening to former — weird, huh? — Mavs head coach Avery Johnson speak from the cushy confines of the Ritz-Carlton, I was confused to whether he had just been handed a pink slip or a gold…
This “Comet-like character” is among the proposed mascots for the University of Texas at Dallas. As a former University of Texas at Dallas co-ed, I can safely say it was never clear exactly what we were. Allow me to clarify: For some sports, we were the Comets, local and proud…
The above video comes from Roger Waters’ Sunday-night performance at Coachella, where, during a performance of Pink Floyd’s 1977 song “Pigs,” his giant inflatable swine took off into the night sky. Alas, it was recovered two days later — a few miles away from the SoCal site of the festival…
In 1972, Candy Barr wrote her own biography. Forthcoming on July 25 is Ted Schwarz’s book Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque, which may be the longest title this side of Fiona Apple’s second album. Kirkus…
Dr. Kern Wildenthal is defended today by UT Southwestern’s executive VP for academic affairs A couple of weeks back, we pointed your attention to an essay in the subscription-only Chronicle of Philanthropy, in which Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, insisted that the Dallas…
Per the GM, the guy in the middle isn’t a candidate to coach the Mavs. Methinks the other two have signficantly brighter futures. Just caught the tail end of Mavericks’ General Manager Donnie Nelson on The Ticket. As far as the next head coach, we now know: *It won’t be…
Shealah Craighead/White House Swore I wasn’t gonna mention Jessica Simpson for at least one more day, but this one’s too good not to mention — because when the President of the U.S. and A. uses her name as a punch line, well, we are through the looking glass. The New…
Ticket listeners just heard the morning Musers debate this a.m.’s breaking Pacman Jones news: Jailed 29-year-old Arvin Edwards tells Nashville’s CBS affiliate that the new Dallas Cowboys corner ordered him to shoot up a Las Vegas nightclub in 2007. Jones has maintained it didn’t go down like that: The former…
An over-wide net: It’s sure a good thing Congress failed to pass any sort of immigration reform. Why bother, when you can just arrest and deport any Jesus, Jose or Maria? Local immigration lawyer Fernando Dubove says his caseload has surged during the recent nationwide crackdown on plants, employers and…
“No Nature for Old Men,” by Jim Schutze, April 17 Old Man River So spend “10 hundred kabillion dollars” to sanitize the [Great Trinity Forest], put in trails, cut out those nasty weeds that are actually a part of the ecosystem and light the place up like a Christmas tree…
Attention Jerry Jones: Michael Vick gets out of prison in 15 months. Rae Carruth will be only 44 when he’s eligible for parole in 2019. Dwayne Goodrich is almost halfway through his sentence. Art Schlichter is a free man. No one avoids his pursuers like O.J. Simpson. And, who knows,…
After moving into his new contemporary home on a bluff overlooking White Rock Lake, Chip Northrup was riding his bicycle when he noticed 20-foot-tall light poles sprouting on the west side of the park. The closely planted poles triggered alarm bells in his head. As a former member of the…
With McMansions galore, a concrete-chic urban planning model and seemingly never-ending sprawl, Plano is many outsiders’ vision of hell. But to Stefan Merrill Block, it’s home, not to mention the inspiration for his debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, recently released to critical acclaim and high commercial expectations by Random…
