This morning I was scouting Heritage Auction Galleries’ website for local items of note perched on the auction block when I noticed a few bookshelves’ worth of titles being offered at the low, low price of … one whole dollar (not including buyer’s premiums, which do tend to add up)…
Having trouble getting cast in shows as a young actor new to Dallas eight years ago, Steven Walters made a bold move: He started his own theater company (with the help of four other fellow Baylor alums) and hasn’t stopped working since. Second Thought Theatre, based in Addison and now…
A couple of months ago, Tim Rogers provided a generous peek at the miniature version of the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden scheduled to take root at the Dallas Arboretum some time next year. Says the Arboretum of the $50-million, seven-acre site, it’ll be an “outdoor laboratory that will delight…
Standing near the pool at the Belmont Hotel in what 2007 mayoral race runner-up Ed Oakley called “the best part of the city of Dallas,” mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky this morning announced his five-pronged approach to implement the West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines plan. He said the first step…
Former New York State First Deputy Comptroller-turned-investment banker Tom Sanzillo released a report this morning, via the Sierra Club, demanding that Dallas-based Energy Future Holding (and its Luminant subsidiary) shutter three of its coal-fired power plants: Big Brown (in Fairfield), Monticello (in Mount Pleasant) and Martin Lake. In a press…
First Baptist Dallas has taken out an ad on KRLD to promote Robert Jeffress’s Sunday-morning “special message” titled, as you can see above, Earthquake Theology (which just triggered the Album Title Alert), during which he will “give bold, biblical responses to the most common questions that arise after natural disasters.”…
The New York Times this morning revealed its long-expected plans to erect a pay wall (again) around some of its content: Starting March 28, visitors to the paper’s website will be able to access 20 articles every month without paying. After that, it’ll cost $15 a month to keep reading…
Let’s make this simple, shall we? Sat down with Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington yesterday here in Surprise and asked him what I thought were some pertinent questions. Allow me to paraphrase, in the spirit of keeping this short and sweet in the wake of last night’s 3.5-hour, come-from-ahead 11-10 exhibition…
No doubt you recall the hubbub surrounding the Love Field concessions-bidding process that consumed much of last year as Mayor Tom and the council argued over no-bid contracts for incumbents Gilbert Aranza, Helen Giddings and Eddie Bernice Johnson. It was certainly fresh on my mind only Tuesday night, when I…
[jump] 5. I asked Jon Daniels the other day to give me an under-the-radar player to watch, maybe even on the back fields here on the Surprise campus. The name: Doug Deeds. And what do you know? Deeds started last night in left field and singled his first time up. Dude has…
Mr. Right: Dear ex-Mayor Tom Leppert: Please don’t shoot a coyote. We know you’re running for the GOP 2012 Senate nomination, so you have to be Mr. Hardcore, anti-gummint pseudo-Tea Party guy. And we realize Governor Good Hair Perry got tons of publicity when he killed a coyote while out…
The dozen or so drinkers who show up for Ranger Creek Brewing and Distilling’s free Saturday afternoon tours in northeast San Antonio don’t have much in common, save the ability to find the industrial park building that looks as if it might house a sports trophy warehouse or screen-printing operation…
We’ve been waiting since at least September to see whether TNT and Warner Horizon Television would be shooting that Dallas pilot here — ya know, in Dallas? Larry Hagman, who will be among The Holy Trinity of original cast members reprising their roles from the original CBS series, demanded as…
Still waiting for a call from City Hall, which is worth sticking around for. So with some time to kill, let’s go to the vaults — specifically, this gem suggested by a Friend of Unfair Park who’s cranked that Frampton set up to 11. Our Friend insists he was there,…
While we await confirmations and return calls, let’s take a look at this short film I just found (again) featuring one John Erik Jonsson and, specifically, the former mayor’s creation of something called Goals for Dallas, which I really never knew much about till coming across a copy of a…
There was a rather interesting exchange between mayoral candidates Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle at this morning’s mayoral debate at the North Texas Food Bank. And it began with a question posed to all four candidates (including, of course, Ron Natinsky and Edward Okpa) by moderator Janet Davis, one of…
A few weeks ago, as you’ll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy’s requests to drill near…
You’ve waited for this moment all your life. Practiced. Rehearsed. Trained. Sacrificed. Compromised. Even went to college class, some of the time. But now, on the eve of a major company extending you a lucrative dream job, veteran workers at the company are suddenly urging you not to accept the job…
For the next three weeks, the Dallas Police Department will focus its attention on these mostly southern-sector neighborhoods near Bruton Road & Masters Drive, Hatcher Street & Scyene Road, Sunnyvale Street & Custer Drive, Beacon Street & Columbia Avenue and Polk Street & Twelfth Street. Says the DPD, it’s part…
Twice this week Friends of Unfair Park have written in to complain about the Crow family’s decision to move their collection of sculptures formerly on display at the Trammell Crow Center behind the gates of Old Parkland, now Crow Holdings’ HQ. A few weeks back, you’ll recall, the Crows announced…
Don’t know what else to call it, I’m just getting a weird vibe here in Surprise, Arizona. The defending American League champion Texas Rangers somehow only have two starters (C.J. Wilson and Colby Lewis) inked into the rotation. Their elite closer (Neftali Feliz) might be a starter but his replacement (Alexi…
On the other side, for those who haven’t read it, is the class action complaint filed on Friday by the National Football League players (among those named: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Payton Manning and homegrown Aggie Von Miller, who’s yet to be drafted) presently locked out by the team owners…
