Determining the best Mavs’ pick of all-time is simple: Dirk Nowitzki. You know the story. In 1998 then-general manager Don Nelson took the giant German in a draft-day switcheroo with the Milwaukee Bucks for the late, not-so-great Robert “Tractor” Trayor. Just a week after their championship parade climaxed in the…
Maybe you’ve seen the ads: On Wednesday we’re co-sponsoring a special screening of Gasland at the Texas Theatre, which isn’t the only movie we’re screening next week. More about that later. But Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated film, as you probably know, features that now-infamous scene of a Colorado man being able…
Arizona forward Derrick Williams is a beast. He has 3-point shooting range, can score in the paint with either hand and has an NBA body that can bang and rebound on the low blocks. And that’s it. The rest of the 2011 NBA Draft class: Weak to questionable. Yes, even projected…
[Update at 9:40 a.m.: Shortly after I posted this, Mark Cuban’s attorney called to talk about the response to yesterday’s filing. Our interview follows after the jump.]We’ve written about and spoken to Fish & Richardson’s Tom Melsheimer on numerous occasions, most often and most recently regarding his representation of Tom…
It would appear that Robert Lange, a social studies teacher at Williams High School in Plano, is well-liked by his students; one writes that he was “was the coolest teacher I have ever had.” And not so long ago he was awarded cash money for having been named a finalist…
Was gonna construct a list of the Rangers’ worst losses this season, then I realized after last night’s 5-3 self-Heimlich to the Houston Astros … there is no No. 2.Two-run lead in the 9th. All-Star closer Neftali Feliz on the mound. At home. Against the worst team in baseball. And one…
I had the audacity to write the truth about Charles Haley. And this was my castigation. Between 1992 and 1994, I made a lot of visits to the Cowboys’ locker room at Valley Ranch. On most of them, I was serenaded by Charles Haley, one of the baddest people and…
We are about to spend $40 million to build less than two miles of modern streetcar line linking downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff. A few things to keep in mind: •According to the experts, modern streetcars are no better at carrying people around than other transit methods, maybe a little…
Speak up, son: So, Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine, long ago dropped his support for the city’s controversial plan to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees. Who knew? We sure didn’t. Last we’d heard, D was still a member of the toll road’s cheerleading squad led…
Earlier today, in an item he’s since updated, Rudy Bush noted the death of Leslie Allen Davis, among the rare regulars at the city council’s public-speakers podium whose presence was welcomed by city officials. They’ve long been charmed by his warm wishes. How Davis died remains a mystery: The police…
Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent a note telling media types to head to its Facebook page for a very special announcement. OK. Let’s see … Ah. “Dallas Police Make Second Arrest in Biker Incident.” And by “biker incident,” of course, the DPD’s referring to the parade of motorcyclists…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier’s flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were “11 fucking over-the…
Found this in the in-box: a few words from Alamo Drafthouse CEO and founder Tim League, who wanted to explain why he decided to add Bottle Rocket to its Rolling Roadshow revue, which has taken iconic Texas-made films to the towns in which they were filmed. The series, which was…
For as long as anyone can recall — at least six years, right? — there’s been an attempt to create a Stevens Park Conservation District intended to preserve the neighborhood around the Oak Cliff golf course. Most of the homeowners in the area are behind it; so too Oak Cliff…
Answer: Nope…
Most of the time, when the subject of scrap-metal recyclers comes before the Dallas City Council the conversation grows contentious, with southern sector council members and residents wondering, yet again, why their part of the city, which lacks grocery stores and movie theaters and other quality-of-life basics, is the one…
No, really. At the 1:41 mark. Pete thinks it’s hilarious…
From time to time we’ll come across federal suits filed by scorned subscribers to Preston Center-based Match.com, all of whom more or less say the same thing: The dating service is nothing but a tease, its “winks” little more than hollow promises of hook-ups between prospective partners — one of…
We’ve written here and there about Ross Perot Jr.’s legal claims that a “reckless and careless” Mark Cuban has done an awful job of running the Dallas Mavericks …. right, Your NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, of which Perot still owns 5 percent. Well, moments ago Tom Melsheimer, Cuban’s attorney, just…
While contemplating defensive coordinator Dwane Casey’s departure to be the Toronto Raptors’ head coach and whom they should take with the 26th pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, a couple more Mavs-related items buzzed through my brain this week. 1. Who from the championship team should have their number raised to the roof in…
After postponing last Thursday’s meeting so council members could ride in the Dallas Mavericks’ parade through downtown, the city council’s Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee got back to speed-dating candidates for the committee Tuesday afternoon. The intention: paring down the list of 67 wannabes to 18 finalists…
Exactly one month ago we got a look at longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews’ list of the best public high schools in the country — the same list that used to run in Newsweek. The School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center came in…
