Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez is asking the Dallas County Commissioners Court to pay for 784 new positions at a cost of $34 million. This comes one year after receiving close to 70 new jailers from the notoriously stingy county commissioners. While it’s not uncommon for county department heads to…
So, ain’t I the slow one? It was brought to my attention just moments ago–pretty much right after I posted that item below about the Sugar Water Festival and the My Morning Jacket cover of Erykah Badu’s “Tyrone”–that I am sitting on two tickets and a parking pass to tonight’s…
If you want to hear how Erykah Badu sounds when interpreted by five white guys from Louisville, Kentucky, by all means go get My Morning Jacket’s version of “Tyrone.” Tonight at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie, South Dallas’ prodigal daughter Erykah Badu will perform as part of the Sugar…
If you can’t make it to QuakeCon 2006, which is taking place from right now till Sunday at the Hilton Anatole Hotel–and if you can’t, maybe it’s because you lost your bong or have a job or something totally dumb-ass like that–then you can always watch it here. Because nothing…
Juan Gonzalez ain’t no Roy Tarpley, but it’s gotta be a very close second. Looks like today is a sportsy day in Unfair Park. So, on that note… On Saturday, the New York Daily News ran a story about a mysterious bag found at Pearson International Airport in Toronto three…
Kenny Cooper scored three goals in FC Dallas’ U.S. Open Cup win against the Charleston Battery. Amazing, innit, when major-leaguers barely beat up on minor-leaguers? The paper version of Unfair Park has always been good friends with FC Dallas. So big ups to the Hoops for advancing to the quarterfinals…
By now you know things are not all rainbows and unicorns and cotton candy at The Dallas Morning News. They’re “reshaping the newsroom,” ya know, getting ready to fire somewhere between 50-100 (or more) newsroom employees in the coming days…sorry, they’re getting ready to offer them buyouts, my bad. That…
The jersey Irving High School’s own Tyson Thompson is wearing in this photo can be yours. Deal or no deal? Gone are the days when we felt like we “raised” the likes of Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith as our own. You know Bill Parcells isn’t really ours,…
Ole Anthony has built a mythology of his life dating back to childhood. Here’s what is true: Anthony was born in Minnesota on October 3, 1938, and moved with his family to Wickenburg, Arizona, at age 10. The desert town called itself the “dude ranch capital of the world.” His…
When CNN news chief Eason Jordan made the off-handed remark last year that U.S. soldiers were deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq, killing 12 of them, pro-military bloggers went on the attack, calling the allegations ridiculous and untrue. Two weeks later, engulfed in controversy over the credibility of his network, Jordan…
Dim bulbs: Buzz doesn’t cry, but even we can be moved by the news once in a while. The stories in April about Mercy, the dog that rescuers tried and failed to save after she was intentionally set afire, were pretty sad, for instance, but years in the news biz…
A House Divided Outta there: Thank you, Jesse Hyde, for this informative and well-written story (“Thou Shalt Not,” July 27). I admire Father Roseberry. I resigned as rector of my Lexington parish over this final straw, effective immediately on the Sunday that Gene Robinson was consecrated bishop of New Hampshire…
Signs that your life may be wobbling off its axis: You’ve been shot more times than Fitty Cent. You lied to police, prompting your boss to lie about your lying. You generate superstar skeptics, even from those highly skilled in the art of handcuff etiquette and fudging about felonies. “C’mon…
The amateur detectives plopped onto couches, waiting to see their handiwork on national television. Nervous? A bit. Excited? Oh, yeah. For months they’d been sleuthing. Diving in dumpsters, following trails of documents, going undercover, telling lies if necessary, all in the service of God. And of their leader, a tall…
I spoke with Ole Anthony, founder of Trinity Foundation, during eight interviews–more than 25 hours of conversation, covering everything from theology to televangelists to drugs. Though often in pain, Anthony proved to be an intelligent, always fascinating conversationalist. A very brief excerpt follows. What has been happening at the Trinity…
Just one day after Cingular Wireless announced it was going to charge customers $5 extra a month if they used older phones–which is to say, those without Global System for Mobile (GSM) technology–you can’t use any of their phones. That is, you can’t use ’em if you live in Texas…
That’s likely what the newest Maverick will hear when Dallas hosts the (grit your teeth) World Champion Miami Heat and Dwyane Wade February 22 at the American Airlines Center. Devean George, signed from the Los Angeles Lakers last night, will join newcomers Anthony Johnson, Greg Buckner and rookie Maurice Ager…
This is the Motorsports Museum as Derrick Mitchem envisions it on his bare-bones Web site. By now, perhaps, you know the name Derrick Mitchem, the man behind the long-scheduled Motorsports Museum that’s supposed to open in the old Bama Pie Co. building on Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourth Avenue across the…
No, Drew Bledsoe didn’t mangle an ACL in practice. But for a handful of rabid Dallas sports fans, the dream ended last night just an hour south of Dallas Cowboys training camp here in Oxnard, California. FC Roma, an amateur soccer team from our beloved city, was beaten 2-nil in…
The missus called this morning with word that the Jewish Community Center of Dallas is employing security guards. She saw two this morning parked out front, and one posted yesterday at the front desk of the new workout facility. A JCC employee confirmed to the missus that, yup, they were…
He brought down Robert Tilton, W.V. Grant and Larry Lea, three of Dallas’ high-flying televangelists in the early 1990s. And when he wasn’t diving in dumpsters to pick through preachers’ trash, he was entertaining journalists from around the world at “The Block,” Trinity Foundation’s collection of homes in East Dallas…
Did you know Spoon was coming? Nope. Now you do. Rare show. Real rare. Like, very and stuff. Blogs always get the skinny, don’t they? In the comment thread on yesterday’s Gorilla vs. Bear photo essay, an anonymous visitor asked, “Is anyone else going to Spoon’s free show on the…
