Maybe you’ve heard, but chess is serious business at UT Dallas. Perennial contenders for the national championship, the Comets are one of three Texas teams that always put on a mean show — and unless you’re some kind of Aggie, last weekend’s Final Four of Chess was your best bet…
Nauseated by the Mavs last night, I turned on the Dallas Stars. And what did I see? A team maybe saving its season. The Stars have had their share of bad-luck bounces lately. But last night in Anaheim they saved a gasp of their season with two controversial calls that…
On Friday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the city council the memo you’ll find in full after the jump, in which she presents the latest forecast for this fiscal year. The doc’s of particular interest as we head toward the next round of budgeting, with a new mayor…
The myriad issues with the Dallas Animal Services have been well chronicled, especially in our January cover story on the shelter, which described the conflicting mindsets there thusly: “The old dog catcher mentality of ‘catch, cage, kill,’ which focuses on rounding up strays, keeping them a short time and euthanizing…
And over here — in the opposite corner from your red-hot Texas Rangers — sit your Dallas Mavericks. Bruised. Bloodied. Slump-shouldered. Ready for the NBA Playoffs? At a time when they should peaking, the Mavs are pratfalling. After winning the first three games on their western road trip they lost the…
The Redistricting Commission, charged with redrawing city council district boundaries, meets tomorrow at 6 p.m. at City Hall, at which time commission members Domingo Garcia, Donna Halstead and Gary Griffith and chair Ruth Morgan will present to the public early-look maps and district updates. But as Steve Thompson writes this…
10. That, my friends, was about as thorough a three-game sweep as you can produce. The Rangers out-scored Boston by 15 runs and slugged 11 homers. And that wasn’t the Royals, remember — it came against the team most experts predict will represent the AL in the 2011 World Series. 9…
The Cotton Bowl Classic, of course, is no longer played at the Cotton Bowl — hasn’t been for two years, when the bowl game decamped for Arlington, thus making it a very unhappy New Year ’round Fair Park at kickoff time. Then came along the TicketCity Bowl — Texas Tech…
One week from Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will hold a public hearing and, more than likely, vote to approve the long-awaited, much-discussed (here, at least) Downtown Dallas 360 plan. And while you may be familiar with many of its conceptual renderings and proposed “quick wins,” you’ve yet to read…
Following Thursday afternoon’s presser celebrating the anticipated approval of a plan to restore the Trinity River levee system’s 100-year flood protection, we asked City Manager Mary Suhm about the progress of the Margaret McDermott Bridge — the second Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge that will replace the current IH-30 bridge. After all,…
About a year ago we revisited the Cure’s September ’89 Starplex stop in support of Disintegration, at which time Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone recalled attending an earlier Bronco Bowl show. Why, Monte, you wouldn’t be referring to the July 19, 1986, show at the Bronco Bowl, would you?A brutally…
Earlier this morning, Jason Roberts posted to his Facebook page the photo you see here, along with the note: “Zac & his non profit are taking former school portable buildings & making them into amazing homes in S Dallas.” Turns out, Zac is Zac Lytle, co-founder of Bike Friendly Oak…
Last night’s Dan Savage appearance at the Kessler Theater, his first ever in Dallas, took the form of a Q&A session. Unsurprisingly to anyone who reads his weekly sex-advice column, about 90 percent of the A’s boiled down to: “Sex is good, judgment is bad.” It was billed as part…
If the city’s shutting down another hookers-n-drugs party shack around town, you can bet Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s going to be there for the photo op, and so it was this morning at the Luxury Inn Motel in Southeast Dallas. Backed by a posse including neighborhood leaders, council members, City Attorney…
No, seriously, it’s been a long while since we’ve mentioned the fate of Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster, which has been in Chapter 11 since September and been shutting stores ever since. (Per a recent filing, the store at 6760 Abrams Road had its lease rejected effective yesterday.) But that’s about to…
As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to California. They were carrying with them 11 vacuum-packed boxes…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked this morning when oh when will we post the great Jun Kang’s short film Last Night at the Metro, made specially for the Dallas International Film Festival. Um, now? As I understand it, a trimmed-down version will play before DIFF screenings — since,…
Observer-er Gadi Elkon is one of the twosome behind Pearl Snap Discount, where this morning you’ll find the most detailed blow-by-blow available from last nights’s Dallas International Film Festival gala at the Winspear — as in, you can listen to every last utterance from the likes of Star Award honoree…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department rarely posts videos to the YouTube, and when it does it’s usually something unusual — like, say, this eerie dash-cam smash-em-up. And then there’s this morning’s find, initially posted a few weeks ago: a mini-doc in which you follow along as a man (actor Fernando…
The 7-year-old who lives in my house and I have spent the last two weekends at Fair Park while he wrapped a school project; so — sniff — proud. And somewhere between walking around the Cotton Bowl and sitting in on an Assassination City Roller Derby warm-up at the Coliseum…
It was all smiles and back-slapping this afternoon as the city, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Trinity River Corridor Project partners celebrated the “fantastic news,” according to Mayor Dwaine Caraway: The levees are expected to be repaired by the end of the year, and the cost range of the…
The Dallas International Film Festival, which kicks off tonight with its gala to-do at the Winspear Opera House featuring Elmo and Ann-Margret, features no small amount of must-sees and can’t-misses, among them Clay Liford’s homegrown WUSS, Michael Sheen and Maria Bello in Beautiful Boy, Morgan Spurlock’s product-placement doc The Greatest…
