First place, thanks to 1st base. With his 11th-inning homer to beat the looming storm last night in Arlington, Mitch Moreland not only provided a walk-off win over the Houston Astros but also further cemented our confidence that he’s the Rangers’ 1st baseman of the present, and the future. It’s been…
Speaking of redistricting …Had an awfully long talk with Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey this afternoon, which I’d post now if she didn’t mention a few things worth tracking down. So that’ll have to wait till tomorrow. But while we’re on the subject, I see here that Nate Silver and…
On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only flying to Fort Lauderdale and Las…
Back when we officed on Commerce Street, Zac Crain and I were three-times-a-week regulars at Doug’s Gym, which looks today more or less like it did when it opened in ’62. I still drop by on occasion to see Doug Eidd, one of my favorite people in the world. At…
On Fourth of July weekend in 2008, Don “Dunn” Hardge, an 18-year-old member of Dallas’s DFW Mafia gang, stashed his AK-47 in his friend’s trunk and walked into an Oak Cliff club. It was a sticky night, made stickier by the presence of nearly 200 sweaty teenage bodies packed into…
No doubt you recall Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey’s blow-up over that redistricting map sprung on her during commissioners court a couple of weeks back. Long story short: She’d agreed to one map, only to have John Wiley Price give her, at the last second, an entirely different one that…
No doubt you got a nasty wake-up call in the wee small hours of the morning from the storms that rumbled through; chances are there’ll be some kind of a repeat this evening. But Brother Bill Holston wanted to make sure we noted that the great Justin Terveen was out…
First, a programming note: Plans are to liveblog, yet again, today’s 2 p.m. meeting of the council’s Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee, if only because last week’s was such a humdinger as the council struggled to add someone — anyone — from the Oak Cliff area affected…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board’s meeting today, and top o’ the agenda is the FY 2012 Budget and Twenty-Year Financial Plan, which factors into this news brief concerning Fitch’s decision to downgrade DART’s sales tax revenue bonds. Says the rating agency, the small dip from AA to AA- “reflects…
As I watched Mitch Moreland’s gargantuan, 472-foot homer sail into the soon-to-be stormy June night, I was reminded that the Rangers-Astros’ fight should be stopped on account of inhumane bludgeonry. Moreland’s blast — tied for third-longest in baseball this season — capped an 8-3 Texas cakewalk that continued its dominance…
One week ago today we got our first look at Joe Ayala and Larry Chen’s late-night shenanigans at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as documented in the short film Stuck, which, in short order, would become a national story because of security concerns raised by some (including Friend of Unfair Park…
There’s no shortage of stories extolling the genius of John Tatum, the 45-year-old who in 1994 co-founded Genesco Sports Enterprises, the Woodall Rodgers-based consulting group that marries the right product with the right athlete, sport or major league. Sports Business Journal noted in ’08 that “Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s defection was…
During last Thursday’s NBA championship parade for the Mavericks, Fake Mayor Dwaine Caraway — remember, he’s only interim Mayor because Tom Leppert up and quit — rode in a red convertible and waved to his unadoring crowd. Yep, the guy who gave the key to the city to Michael Vick…
Here at day’s end, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the just-and-I-mean-just-launched Bike Friendly Dallas, which, from the looks of it, is intended to serve as a sort of round-up for news, notes and two-wheeled events ’round town — not just in Oak Cliff, where BFOC’s long…
A long-time Deep Ellumite gave me a tip the other day: If you want to see a cool place where a guy with a great beard makes motorcycles from scratch, check out the gray building on Main Street.So I did, and that’s where I met Aaron Kaufman, the 29-year-old self-taught…
This morning, Frank Librio, spokesman for the city, called to say that at 10 this morning, officials with the city, the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue were meeting to review the events leading to the likely drug overdose of 19-year-old Andrew James Graf and the hospitalization of 30 others…
No doubt, Dallas PD’s million-dollar helicopter is the big-ticket item over on Lone Star Auctions — bigger, certainly, than the donkeys, mules and potbelly pigs being sold off by Dallas County. (I’m gonna call this one “Groucho.”) But I see the Dallas Independent School District’s selling off dozen of portables…
I was going to post about something else presently up for grabs on Lone Star Auctioneers’ website … till I ran into this: The city of Dallas is auctioning off a Bell Helicopter Model 407, with the current bid sitting at $987,500. Sounds nice: “The engine is a Rolls Royce…
On Friday we spoke with Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, about why the city council will on Wednesday more than likely approve a $235,000 economic development grant for a film and television production studio in a S. Lamar warehouse owned by Jack Matthews. Long story short: Burklund…
It’s always fun to play around with Dallas County’s elections website after a race. Above, for instance, you get a look at which parts of town went Rawlings and which went Kunkle. More fun (and dispiriting): the precinct-by-precinct breakdowns. Lotta zeroes and single digits on there…
So what do you give the man who — all the sudden — has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he’s never met. After getting serenaded with “Happy Birthday” by a post-parade American Airlines Center crowd…
First off, to the Friend of Unfair Park who noted yesterday that Paula Blackmon would be named mayor-elect Mike Rawlings’s chief of staff today, kudos. That’s indeed correct, says City Hall: Former Mayor Tom Leppert’s deputy chief of staff, who took a gig as University of North Texas at Dallas’s…
