Chad Lacerte, who’d hoped to have that Dallas Watersports Complex up and running on Fish Trap Lake last summer, hasn’t given up hope yet — not even after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled the cable-ski out from under him at the very last minute, after he’d sunk some $800,000 into…
You’ll note there’s an empty space on the American Airlines Center’s calendar tonight, which doesn’t meant it’ll be dark. Far from it: The National Sports Marketing Network, a sports-biz trade organization with some 10,000 members, is holding its first North Texas Chapter meeting tonight, a three-and-a-half-hour networking backslapper that wraps…
If 2010 turns out to be Mayor Tom Leppert’s last full year in office before he attempts to snag Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat in the March 2012 primary, it was certainly another productive year for the workaholic. Whoever takes his place has a lot to live up to…
Over on the city’s Official Website there’s a list of the four Christmas tree recycling stations accepting your yule logs till January 14. Says nothing about Hanukkah bushes, though, which is a bit of a bummer, since City Hall just sent word it’s added an incentive to this year’s recycling…
No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they’re handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Next Portland to Dallas/Fort…
Pete’s asked me to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a link to the rundown for Thursday night’s show at Club Dada, a memorial for Frankie Campagna, who died early New Year’s Day. I’m happy to oblige — not only because I’d known Frankie 45 since he was a…
Matt Angle, the Haltom City boy who used to be chief o’ staff for Martin Frost, is at present the treasurer of the Fred Baron-founded Texas Democratic Trust. He’s also head of the Lone Star Project, dedicated to making sure “all of the new districts coming to Texas should be…
I still get the morning paper, even though I’m now paying $4 more for the privilege than I previously thought, which sucks. Anyway. Saw on the weather page that it’s supposed to be colder than normal beginning next week. Didn’t say how cold, but yesterday Tim Rogers linked to a…
So me and Charles Barkley call the Dallas Mavericks the best team in the NBA, but when I come back from vacation the whole thing’s in shambles. What the what?! I believe when I left they were 23-5 and had just completed a season sweep of the Miami Heat. Now? Entering tonight’s home…
At right is a decidedly familiar figure — the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, which first began appearing in the Southlake-based online travel agency’s ads way back in January 2004. Or is it? Because, you see, Travelocity’s downtown Dallas attorney, Fish & Richardson’s Victor C. Johnson, says in court docs that what…
“It’s a joy to be free again,” Cornelius Dupree Jr. told a courtroom full of lawyers, courthouse staff, media members and several fellow DNA exonerees this morning during his very brief testimony. Dupree spent 30 years in jail serving time for a robbery and rape he did not commit, but…
You can say I botched my 2010 NFL prognostications. But you can’t say I ran and hid from my errors. There’s hope for me surviving this thing, as I have Big Ten Buffoonery dough coming in, tonight’s Megamillions jackpot is up to $330 million and I actually sneaked by with a profit…
For the hell of it, I ran a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission report this morning to see how the off-premise beer-and-wine permitting process was going — seeing as how on New Year’s Eve, only a handful of applicants could sell spirits in formerly dry parts of town. And as you’ll…
First, The Dallas Morning News was going to begin charging for online content December 14; then came a delay. But this morning comes The Official Word, via online story (still free!) and press release, outlining the “The Next Generation” in A.H. Belo news delivery.What the story says that the release…
Your Texas Rangers whiffed on Cliff Lee and Zack Greinke, instead settling for Brandon Webb and Arthur Rhodes. I don’t mind the signing of Webb because he’s another low-risk, high-reward guy. He only costs $3 million, and what if he – 18 months after a reconstructive shoulder surgery – returns…
A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirini calls in a…
Two months back we revisited that magical New Year’s Eve in 1984 when Prince played Reunion Arena, a high number in my all-time concert-going Top 10. And, sure, there’s no more Reunion, but there’s still a Prince Rogers Nelson, and per the announcement that landed in the Unfair Park in-box…
Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast — specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small-scale coup of local terminals dominated by American flights, Virgin invited horde of V- and not-so-VIPs for a barbecue lunch…
As you’ll recall, Blockbuster ended the year by announcing it’s looking over all its leases and planning on breaking many of them, after which it’ll shutter stores, dump inventory for pennies on the dollar and turn over the cash to its creditors. According to a Blockbuster filing two weeks ago…
Speaking of Courthouse News …The lawsuit aggregator brings our attention to this class action filed late last week in Dallas federal court, which accuses Preston Center-based Match.com of breach of contract and negligent representation. It’s not the first time Match.com has been accused of deception: In ’05 there was that…
While we await the Dallas City Council’s decision concerning XTO’s permit application to gas-drill within the city limits, we look just a little westward — toward Arlington, where, tomorrow, the council there will vote on a permit to allow drilling on city property not too terribly far from Cowboys Stadium…
Been a long while since we visited with Enrique Hubbard Urrea, the former consul general for the Mexican Consulate in Dallas who has since decamped for Culiacán, Sinaloa. But Courthouse News brings us news this afternoon involving Hubbard and the consulate and that multimillion-dollar court judgment the consulate lost late…
