It was quite the big deal back in ’80, when the Dallas Diamonds of the fledgling Women’s Professional Basketball League signed Old Dominion star and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Lieberman to her first pro contract. I have a hazy memory of sitting among a few packed houses at Moody Coliseum, at…
On November 2, as you’ll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons’s body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothing to do with the 32-year-old’s death. Instead, they said, the world champion, who’d…
If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you’ve heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I’m yet again hosting a Christmas-music show. Which reminds me of this Darlene Love, um, standard? At last, an excuse for collecting far too many Christmas odds and sods lo these last few…
We’ve noted a couple of times in recent days that Gov. Rick Perry’s appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission are but days away from closing comment on Harold Simmons’s permit application to bury 36 states’ nuclear waste out in West Texas. Ah, but see, Public…
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune’s cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests — since,…
It’s almost Christmas, and the Texas Rangers haven’t done anything to address the hole in the rotation left behind when Cliff Lee signed with the Philadelphia Phillies and the opening created at designated hitter after the club declined a $9 million option on Vladimir Guerrero. Aside from rumors and a…
A long while back I’d promised to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a few images from Guy F. Cahoon’s Sketches of Dallas, a very limited-run book published by the locally based Authors Press in 1933. I’d found it at Half-Price, but alas, I never got ’round to it…
The feller in that holiday photo is one Matt Nerbonne, president and CEO of Tycoon Energy HQ’d in Plano. Don’t know much about him, except what I learned this morning: Folks in the Canadian province of New Brunswick don’t want him doing bidness up there. Per the Telegraph-Journal up thataways,…
In our best-of issue we bestowed upon Society Bakery the honor of Best Cupcake. I’ve found at least one more person, amongst the multitudes, who would agree: Mia Robertson, who penned this “Dear Bon Appétit” letter that appears in the new issue: “I can’t get enough of the S’mores cupcakes…
Surely you’re aware of the ongoing battle between the Environmental Protection Agency and Governor Rick Perry over the state’s enforcement (cough) of the Clean Air Act. Long story short: The governor says the feds don’t have the right to regulate greenhouse emissions, to which the feds have responded with a…
Speaking of short films set in downtown Dallas …About a month ago we were treated to quite the glorious double bill: local filmmaker Jun Kang’s You+Dallas dreamlike tour Uptown’s Greenwood Cemetery and that languid State Fair of Texas recap. To Kang’s estimable collection, made with the assistance of three other…
Hurry up and wait: Pardon Buzz for a moment while we lose our shit: BEER AND WINE HAVE BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS FREAKIN’ BREAD! CAN A MAN HAVE A CONVENIENTLY PURCHASED BEER? Sorry about that, but we get a little het up around the holidays, which is one of…
At every point on the political compass Americans agree something needs to be done about the nation’s policy on undocumented immigration. The problem is what to do with the immigrants themselves—an issue people from left to right consider urgent. The longer the Congress fiddles, meanwhile, the more the state legislatures…
Every Ranger Down in Tex-ville Liked Cliffmas a lot… But the Philadelphia Phillies, Who lived way north of Tex-ville, Did not! The Phils hated Cliff Lee and ignored Cliffmas! The whole winter meetings season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be that their…
I was looking for something completely, entirely, absolutely unrelated on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s website this afternoon when I came across this recent addition to its back catalog: a short film called Big D, which comes from the Dallas Municipal Archives. I will let TAMI describe what’s…
OK, so yesterday I asked you to give me your thoughts on Brett Favre’s legacy now that he appears to have played his last game. Unfortunately, only a few of you weighed in. In an attempt to spark some serious debate, here are my top 10 quarterbacks of all time…
Andrea, as you’ll no doubt recall, spent most of last Thursday in the City Plan Commission meeting, waiting for them to get ’round to the Lower Greenville Planned Development District discussion. During the public hearing, Andrea liveblogged this update:Michael Davis says he does not support fee waivers “of any kind”…
I’ve yet to step foot into the Natural Grocers that recently opened in a smallish section of the old Preston Forest Whole Foods, but my wife has and says it’s “a cross between Sprouts and Roy’s.” As in: There’s very little produce, all the meats are frozen, and there are…
Mark Yost is the author Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics. But back in late September, he was more interested in a high-school game: Plano vs. Allen, which the Eagles won by the score of 30-13. Yost wasn’t really there to see…
This just in from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: As promised, the agency has begun issuing permits to retailers looking to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of town. So far, it ain’t a lot, as just three stores have been given their off-premise permits in the last…
Rudy beat me to it, but for those wondering to whom Mayor Tom’s been sending those come-to-Dallas iPhones, well, The Oregonian found one lucky recipient: Tim Boyle, the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. And while Boyle has no interest in moving his HQ outta the Pacific Northwest, why, he…
Yesterday, the Comics Professional Retail Organization — which is the trade organization for comic-book retailers — announced that for the first time in its history, it’s meeting in Dallas in February, at the Doubletree near the Galleria. At stake, say organizers, is the very future of the brick-and-mortar comic book…
