After hanging out along the parade route for a while this morning, Nick and I ducked into the convention center for what we’d been told would be a half-hour interview session with the Mavs before they floated their way to the AAC.Little did we know we’d be cooling our heels…
Courthouse News brings us this lawsuit filed two days ago in Dallas County District Court: John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum v. The Dallas Morning News, inc. and Steve Blow. At issue is this column, which appeared in the paper on July 12, 2010: “Shrouding suicide in secrecy leaves its…
On and off since posting that original item about Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin’s plans to save the Bottle Rocket motel in Hillsboro I’ve spoken with the twosome about…related matters, let’s say. And today, we can officially announce at least one significant bit of breaking news: The Austin-based Alamo…
Rick Carlisle just called Dirk Nowitzki “the best basketball player on the planet.” Screw it, let’s go with it. And, for the record, Carlisle did smile. And DeShawn Stevenson did show up, smoking a victory seeegar. Jason Kidd: “We already got this championship. Now we gotta go get that next one.”…
The tail end of the Mavs parade left the Dallas Convention Center moments ago; more to come from that traffic jam shortly. But till then, this just in from the folks overseeing the LBJ Freeway redo: The second — and final — wave of HOV lane closures is set to…
Pardon me as we take a brief detour from the parade route for just a moment, but Texas Monthly’s just posted its latest list of the best and worst state legislators — and Leo Berman made worst? No way. Anyway. The preview’s here, sans further categories awaiting their print and…
My personal fave: No. 9 from J.J. “Bareeia” — The congratulatory sext from Anthony Weiner…
Early this morning Mavs fans packed the intersection of Griffin and Young, setting up chairs and coolers and settling in behind the barricade along the first block of the parade’s route. And there, amongst the growing throng, was none other than the ubiquitous Robert Crawford — better known, simply, as…
As you might have heard, just a few folks have skipped work to hang out in downtown today to pay homage to a group of very tall men (and one of-average-height Puerto Rican). But with an hour to go, traffic’s an issue: Dallas PD reports that the Jefferson Street Viaduct…
10. It was a simple offensive rebound and putback layup off the glass, but when Shawn Marion produced it at the end of the third quarter on April 25 it gave the Mavericks a 14-point lead over the Blazers in crucial Game 5 of the first round, and it restored…
Nick and Patrick are at the convention center; another photographer’s embedded with the Mavs inside the barricades; another is posted at the American Airlines Center. That said, we won’t beat you down with all-day posts from today’s parade; only when it’s appropriate and when it’s over. But here, two hours…
Some of the staff’s already downtown for the parade — along with the thousands already on hand both at Victory Park and behind the barricades stretching back to the Dallas Convention Center starting point. And, this just in from Dallas City Hall:Accommodations will be made for people who are handicap…
Dear God: OK, Buzz is a little late with cracking wise about “The Response,” Governor Rick Perry’s national day of prayer and monster truck rally to take place next month in Houston. What? No monster trucks? Why, then, would anyone in his right mind travel to Houston in August for…
So when exactly did you give up on these Mavericks? There are those at Thursday’s championship parade through downtown Dallas who might have claimed, above the cheering and through the confetti, to have believed all along. But this is a safe space. Let’s lay it out there: Unless you’re named…
The great George Gimarc called yesterday to talk about … look, I forget what. But at some point, the man who introduced me — and a generation of kids who would have otherwise been stuck listening to Boston and Styx and Kansas in the early 1980s — to punk rock…
Since we’re about to get all Dallas City Hall up in this piece, a programming note: We were planning on doing another liveblog from tomorrow’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee (band name alert!), since yesterday’s was such a big hit. Only: It was just…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a handful of emails from KERA-FM supporters wondering what the heck happened to 90.1’s lineup in recent days. Because as of Saturday, there’s been a significant shakeup to the programming schedule: Out, for instance, are Tell Me More, To the Point, The…
Starting September 1, if you’re a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor’s office. You’re going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you “in detail,” and possibly be asked to listen to a…
Last night I finally had the chance to read the new issue of Rolling Stone, which happens to feature a feature by former Observer-er Jesse Hyde, who decamped for his native Utah a couple of years back. The story’s a good one: “America’s Most Twisted Crime Family: Inside a Mormon…
One week ago today the Dallas City Council made good on its promise to rename a small stretch of Cedar Springs — from Mockingbird to Contrail Lane, which is the street just before Love Field’s parking garages — to Herb Kelleher Way, so named, of course, for the founder of…
Please don’t take this as a complaint. More of an — as I do from time to time, and always — observation. I love my job(s). Getting paid to attend sporting events is all I ever wanted to do since the day I realized I’d grow up to be too short…
