Dirk Nowitzki was obviously unstoppable with 48 points and an NBA playoff-record 24 of 24 free throws, but the Mavs were stagnant and stale offensively until J.J. Barea entered the game in the second quarter. As Thunder coach Scotty Brooks said afterward, “He’s a handful.” I’m still shocked at his…
Last night, at the end of the first quarter of Mavs-Thunder, I spoke on the phone with Flula Borg — yes, that Flula Borg. The man behind “His Name is Dirk (Nowitzki),” who, according to the press release one of his friends sent out last night, is pushing to make…
At the end of last year we spent quite a bit of time following Nuke Free Texas’ efforts to stop Governor Rick Perry’s appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission from giving Waste Control Specialists the thumbs-up to bury nuclear waste out in West Texas that…
For once and all, he pronounces it “No-WIT-skee.” Has since the day he stepped off the plane from Germany back in 1998 and arrived at the Mavs’ old practice facility at the Baylor-Tom Landry Center in Dallas. You call him “No-VIT-skee”? He shrugs. Doesn’t care. Likewise, it doesn’t bother him…
Patrick paid a visit to The Building Formerly Known as the Texas School Book Depository Friday, where Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey fessed up: Looks like at least 25 deputy constables lied about serving papers, chiefly eviction notices. “Another black eye,” said…
We saw one of Family Radio’s end-o’-the-world billboards Saturday whilst driving south on IH-35. Man, if only. Anyway. Over on the CNN today, First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress has posted his thoughts on Harold Camping’s Rapturous ad campaign and says: Don’t you worry. Camping’s been wrong before, and he’ll be…
Visited the SMU website today only to discover that two Denver-living Mustang grads have kicked in $5 mil toward what the Hilltop’s calling the Residential Commons complex, a years-in-the-making project designed to keep sophomores on campus — so they can “live” and “learn” together. Ah, so that’s what they’re calling…
At more or less the exact same moment, two items of note hit the Unfair Park inbox: a statement from Governor Rick Perry concerning Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ guesstimated billion-dollar bump in state revenues, and a Real Clear Politics piece headlined “Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam.” Let’s go…
Yesterday, we sneak-peeked a couple of the big-ticket items on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda. Question is: How’d they sit with council members? First up, let’s visit that Belleview Connector, the estimated $9.5- to $11-million hike-n-bike bridge described by HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock this morning as…
I saw one of these signs on a Bishop Arts sidewalk over the weekend and thought nothing of it — that is till today, when I was looking for something unrelated on the Dallas CityDesign Studio, which led me to its Facebook page, which led me to this: Urban Design…
Those lightweights at Dallas City Hall didn’t go full-frat with, say, a blue-painted bare chest workday to support the Mavericks before tonight’s big game. But with a few gallon jugs of pond water-tint technology, the city’s taking care of business today atop a shimmering pool of deep Mavs blue.At 10…
The Mavericks haven’t lost an NBA Western Conference Finals series in five years. Of course we all know what happened last time Dallas advanced this far — in the 2006 NBA Finals. The come-from-ahead loss to the Heat sent the franchise into a psychological spiral from which it is just now recovering…
OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll road between the levees?…
Execution vs. Explosion. Savvy vs. Speed. Aptitude vs. Athleticism. You get the picture. Mavs vs. Thunder. While — yeah, I know — I shoulda took my Mavs-over-Blazers first-round pick and quit while I was ahead, I predicted a Lakers’ win the West semis and, happily, sheepishly, here we are in…
It’s been almost a year since Mark Nerenhausen suddenly stepped down as CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center after less than two years on the job. But this morning, the AT&T PAC made it official: Mark Weinstein, ex of the Washington National Opera and the Pittsburgh Opera, is his…
Ron Springs’ fight is dead. His litigation, however, lives on. While former Cowboys teammates Roger Staubach and Everson Walls prepare to speak at Springs’ funeral in Carrollton on Thursday, the ex-running back, who died of a heart attack while in a 3 1/2-year coma last week, is still being represented furiously…
On the other side is the entirety of ABC-TV’s fall schedule, sent by the network first thing this morning in advance of this afternoon’s upfront announcement in New York. But, of course, there is that one show with local ties — the one formerly known as Good Christian Bitches, till…
Over the weekend, media folk were invited to ride around in Dallas Police cars with officers of the Southwest Patrol Division in Oak Cliff to witness a summer crime-curbing program called Operation Heat Wave. It’s designed to improve police-citizen relations in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where, at the behest…
It would seem 508 Park Avenue’s been heavy on my mind of late, even more than usual, what with Robert Johnson’s just-passed 100th birthday and First Presby’s not-just-yet-sealed-deal purchase and Friday’s flashback to the sounds of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys cut at that very same spot two years…
While we await some Important Documents, let me distract you with this.No doubt you recall last week’s Greatest Video Ever (as opposed to this week’s), in which German musicmaker Flula Borg pays homage to his “most favorite Basketballer from all times,” one Dirk Nowitzki. Well, so happens that Borg –…
A week ago today, as you may recall, the University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute announced they’d be joining the growing ranks of universities with major studies of hydraulic fracturing, with a $300,000, nine-month project of their own. Today, thanks to the Texas Tribune and KUT News, you can…
More than once during my occasional visits to the Library of Congress’s treasure trove of Dallas-related artifacts, I’ve come across this stereograph: “Night view of Elks’ Court of Honor, at intersection of Main and Akard Streets, Dallas, Texas–Grand Lodge meeting, July 1908.” (A couple of years back, it was “animated”…
