Long ago I used to run into Eric Nadel — The Voice of Your Texas Rangers — all the time in the music section of the Borders in Preston Royal, which should tell you how long ago that was. First time I saw him, I’ll never forget, he was schlepping…
I don’t trust Mark Lowe. Mason Tobin doesn’t yet belong on a Major League mound. And Julio Borbon makes me a little nervous in center field.But that’s it, the extent of my minuscule Texas Rangers concerns through five games. 5-0, headed to 6-0 and beyond?Reigning AL Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez…
And you thought I was actually going to blab about women’s basketball? Okay, here goes: Texas A&M beat Notre Dame for the National Championship last night. Love coach Gary Blair, who cut his coaching teeth at South Oak Cliff High School. But, let’s be honest, their star player — Danielle…
Mexican folk artist Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira died in 1979, leaving behind an estimable collection of works — some of which, over the years, have turned up at auction at places like Sotheby’s and New York’s Swann Galleries. But according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, most landed in the possession…
Dallas has been trying to get a handle on group housing for years, dating back — at least — to the Boarding House Task Force formed in June ’07, which consisted of everything from code compliance to Dallas Fire-Rescue to the City Attorney’s Office. That was but one of myriad…
The question “Why does Dish Network want Blockbuster?” was asked and answered late last week, though one Friend of Unfair Park suggested, “Twizzlers.” Turns out, the Colorado-based Dish wanted it plenty bad — more than Carl Icahn and the lenders who turned up to take the Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster off…
Keith Loutit achieved quite a bit of renown a few years back for his time-lapsed tilt-shift shorts, in which he made the very big (Sydney Harbor, the Roman Forum, Shanghai’s Nanpu Bridge) appear very, very small. Local filmmaker Fabián Aguirre pays homage to Loutit with this three-minute short, Formicarium |…
U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert posted to his website today a piece titled “Serious Leadership,” in which he says he’s just the man to take Kay Bailey’s place in D.C. because, look, “I’m not a career politician and I didn’t expect to be in this position. I’m a businessman.” Of…
I called Heritage Auction Galleries PR man Noah Fleisher about something we’d mentioned long ago when he asked, out of nowhere, “Do you remember JOT the Dot?” Oh, sweet fancy Moses. Barely.”Is that the Presbyterian Period?” George Gimarc just asked. (He called while I was writing this.) No, George, JOT…
A Friend of Unfair Park asks if there’s any news about those federal lawsuits filed following those copious Super Bowl ticket snafus. As a matter of fact, at this very moment, U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn is considering two things — whether to consolidate the two cases, and who’ll…
At the behest of City Manager Mary Suhm, the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee this morning unanimously approved a revised $8 million contract with architect Santiago Calatrava to redesign the Margaret McDermott Bridge. “We believe it’s a viable, favorable way to go,” Suhm said. Making a rare appearance…
Well, it seems like it. If you’re counting at home — and I know you are — after last night’s 6-4 win over the Seattle Mariners, that’s 13 homers in 32 innings for the Rangers. At this rate they’ll … man I’m really bad at math be really hard to…
Ron Natinsky asked members of the media to join him Monday afternoon at The Cedars Social — not for a drink, sadly, but so he could announce an endorsement (from the MetroTex Association of Realtors) and unveil a handful of “priorities” intended to rejuvenate Dallas — which include, ta da,…
When Dennis Rodman graduated South Oak Cliff High School he was 5-foot-8 and he’d never really played organized basketball. Years later he wore a wedding dress to marry himself. And he was once suspended for kicking a photographer in the crotch. Throw in two Defensive Player of the Year awards, five…
10. March Badness: Butler shot 18.8 percent, lowest ever in a National Championship game. Eighteen percent. That’s 12 of 64, including an unfathomable 3 of 31 on two-pointers. 9. I for one am happy. Butler’s will-over-skill routine might have been efficient, but it isn’t a tad entertaining. And, yes, I’m…
Close to midnight this morning I got an email from Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director in which, at last, he revealed the title of the fest’s closing-night film: Burke and Hare, the latest from director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers), starring Simon Pegg and Andy…
Speaking of the Trinity River Corridor Project …When the boy and I visited the Standing Wave — or The Dallas Wave, as it’ll be known — about a month ago, it had been a long while since it had rained. Kayakers said the Trinity was as low as they’d seen…
Sam’s bringing bagels and coffee to this morning’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee; he’s got questions, many questions, specifically about the second Calatrava bridge that was all but dead a month ago till, well, it wasn’t no more. There’s another bridge on the agenda — the Sylvan…
When Florida pastor Terry Jones finally made good on the threat he’d been toying with in the press for months, to burn a Quran in his church, it set off days of deadly protests in Afghanistan. And while U.S. military officials and lawmakers work to undo the damage he caused,…
Don’t tell Dallas Morning News bigwigs that the newspaper business is in trouble: The A.H. Belo-owned Providence Journal reports this afternoon that Chairman Robert Decherd, Publisher Jim Moroney, President John McKeon and Chief Financial Officer Alison Engel made out pretty, pretty well during 2010. The paper added up some figures…
Longtime observers of the local political landscape probably hear the name Rob Allyn and think of the Trinity River Corridor Project (Schutze insists it was Allyn who came up with those solar-powered water taxis), myriad mayoral campaigns, those Dubya ads attacking John McCain’s environmental record and the Dallas Cowboys adding…
Below is City Manager Mary Suhm’s memo to the council noting that revenue from red-light cameras is way below last September’s FY2010-11 guesstimates. But at present, that’s the least of her concerns: On Wednesday, the council will hear from Assistant City Attorney Larry Casto, the city’s Director of Legislative Affairs,…
