While we wait for some return calls, let’s set aside the heavy lifting for this never-before-seen flashback about to go on sale on Heritage Auction Galleries’s website: a might-be-unreleased John Romita Sr. drawing done for a Sanger-Harris giveaway comic intended to be stuffed into a Dallas Times Herald, probably some…
Since I’m out on vacation next week let me get to this Fourth of July tradition a little early: Happy Birthday, America. Our country turns the ripe old age of 235 on Monday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I’ll make time this weekend remembering how friggin’ fortunate we are…
In 65 days there will be football at Cowboys Stadium. And it will be before a sold-out crowd. NFL lockout be damned, LSU and Oregon will play in the Cowboys Classic Sept. 3. With 80,000 tickets already sold, standing-room only seats could go on sale as early as next week. Without the NFL,…
As we’ve mentioned before, Dallas has been grappling for some time with how to regulate the city’s nearly 280 group homes, those halfway houses and assisted-living facilities that are protected by federal housing laws. But the operator of 14 North Texas group homes for Alzheimer’s patients isn’t waiting for the…
SMU psychology professor George Holden spends most of his time “understanding the determinants and significance of the parent-child relationship in development,” says his Hilltop curriculum vitae, which is loaded with books and studies on the subject. Among the suggested-reading list: “Children’s Assessments of Corporal Punishment and Other Disciplinary Practices: The…
Silver Boot secured? Check. First place in the AL West? Check. Representation in next month’s MLB All-Star Game? Che … Not so fast. While Ian Kinsler’s first two-homer game in almost two years lifted the Rangers over the Astros, 3-2, and gave them an intrastate five-peat, Texas may wind up with no starters…
Let the games begin: “Should I dance, or should I sing?” Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey asked Monday, after learning what we all did: that FBI agents were searching the office, home and cars of her fellow commissioner and nemesis, John Wiley Price, along with those of two of his…
Put away your worries about the durability of compact discs, squeeze into your acid-washed jeans and let’s go watch the NBA’s model franchise play at one of America’s best sports venues, Reunion Arena. On the way we can fill up our Pontiac Fiero for 91 cents a gallon, mail some…
The story of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price runs deep. The FBI’s investigation of Price will carry the feds back into local ancient history, according to the documents on my desk. Before the feds are done they’ll be looking at everybody from recently slain Dallas police Officer Norm Smith…
One of the first people with whom I spoke Monday morning, following news that federal agents had swarmed Dallas County HQ, was Commissioner Maurine Dickey. Some of what she said that morning had been repeated myriad times since. Like, say, her response to the news that FBI agents were in…
Yet again, the Dallas Police Department sends an email saying there’s a press release on Facebook — so many hoops, but so worth it. The department says Chief David Brown’s fired three officers, including Senior Corporal Cat Lafitte, otherwise known as the artist who took to Facebook in February to…
One week ago today, the union representing Southwest Airlines’ flight attendants threatened to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it became public that a pilot had taken to the airwaves to broadcast his … let’s say … dissatisfaction with the quality of the Love Field-based carrier’s…
In this week’s Paper Version of Unfair Park, you’ll find a story about underage sex trafficking from the Village Voice, our big sister in New York (she’s very sharing, that sister). The story details the recent fascination of the media and Hollywood with the plague of sex trafficking — and…
On Monday Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot three men he believed were of Middle Eastern descent, killing two, lost another appeal to prevent his execution, which is scheduled for July 20 in Huntsville. The Supreme Court declined, without comment, to review his case, after the Fifth Court of…
Back in January ’10, Dallas-based MumboJumbo — distributors of Jewel Quest and Bejeweled 2 and a whole bunch of other familiar time-wasters — was awarded upwards of $4.6 million in actual damages by a Dallas County jury. Long story short: In 2006, MumboJumbo entered into an agreement with Seattle-based PopCap…
Last night KXAS-Channel 5 had a most fascinating story: Dr Pepper v. Dr Pepper. Specifically, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. says the Dublin-based maker of The Real Thing (that is, a Pepper flavored with original-formula Imperial Pure Cane Sugar) is violating its 2009 licensing agreement that says the Central Texas…
After Tuesday night’s 7-3 victory over the hapless Houston Astros, we can fit the Rangers for another Silver Boot. Texas got homers from Josh Hamilton, Mitch Moreland and Ian Kinsler and C.J. Wilson cruised against baseball’s worst team. A favorable ump call helped the Rangers in the 6th when Jeff Keppinger beat…
At some point the conversation below, concerning the plan to create a so-called quick-win trail that would link Bishop Arts to the Katy Trail across the Trinity, took an odd swerve, with someone insisting that Jason Roberts, Andrew Howard and the rest of the Better Block-ers are trying to “kill…
Watched South Carolina win their second consecutive College World Series last night. Their celebration — gloves and hats flying in a giant infield dog pile — got me to thinking: Does baseball over-celebrate? Or, perhaps, do they do it just right? Think about the Mavs’ reaction after a 31-year wait to…
Late last summer we caught wind of First Presbyterian’s plans to purchase 508 Park Avenue, the former Brunswick Records regional office near Dallas City Hall in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and others once recorded. Yesterday, after myriad stops in front of the Landmark Commission, where the church had to…
We’ve seen the Rangers in the World Series and the Mavs win the NBA Finals, and on Tuesday I was reminded just how great a Stanley Cup run can be when former Stars’ goalie Ed Belfour and current GM Joe Nieuwendyk were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They’ll officially be inducted into…
It’s land! No, no, it’s Kwanzaa Fest! No, silly, it’s an art gallery owner at the South Side of Lamar! On the other side, some video and an IRS return we’re entering into evidence as we begin Day Three of Hunh, I Wonder Why The Feds Raided the Homes, Offices…
