OK, admittedly this may be a tad premature. We’ve still got – what? – 4.5 months left of NBA regular season. But what happened last night in Miami was too delicious to bypass. Turkey comes Thursday. Monday night the appetizer was served. Last week I officially wished failure upon the unfortunate noggin’…
Yesterday, the highly debatable Walk Score posted to its site so-called “heat maps” for most of the nation’s biggest cities and their surrounding neighborhoods. You’ll find Dallas here — along with a ranking of 26 neighborhoods from highest (Main Street Districts, which scores a near-perfect 98) to lowest (South Dallas,…
For months I’ve been saying that Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton is the best player in baseball. Today he’ll at least be validated as the Most Valuable Player in his own American League. Around 1 p.m. Hamilton should win AL MVP, joining Jeff Burroughs (1974), Juan Gonzalez (’96, ’98), Ivan Rodriguez…
Way back in May, before the filmmakers yanked the trailer from YouTube, we sneaked a peek at something called Article 19, a doc-in-progress by two Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas grads about the events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in…
On September 17, we noted: The New York Times, for whatever reason, really wanted to get its hands on a tape made in Fort Worth bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s chambers on July 9, when the judge ordered a closed-door sitdown with those involved in the bankruptcy and subsequent auction of…
Forty-seven years ago today, Temple Bowley was headed for a weekend getaway with his family when he found Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit lying dead beside his cruiser at 10th Street and N. Patton Avenue in Oak Cliff. He used the radio in Tippit’s car to alert dispatch, then helped…
Friday night’s Robert Duvall speaking engagement at Hall of State went down swell: He and Elvis Mitchell bantered cheerily for an hour about stage and screen in front of an audience that included Mayor Tom, other city officials and various well-heeled arts patrons and Dallas Film Society supporters. After which…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Not three weeks after her abortion wingding at the Majestic, Sarah Palin’s coming back to Dallas on Sunday to sign copies of her book America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, which went rogue over the weekend. She’ll be at the Lincoln Park Barnes &…
Before the auction, an update of sorts: This afternoon I got an e-mail from Michael Roach, the FOX Broadcasting publicist charged with publicizing The Good Guys. I’d sent him a note Saturday about the fate of the show, which, as we noted yesterday, is in some dispute. To which he…
Yesterday ’round 3ish, the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I stumbled into the recently reopened Millennium in Deep Ellum, a couple of doors down from Lula B’s. And as he sat on the antique exerbike parked outside, a horde of nattily attired cyclists pedaled past, headed down Elm…
Fifteen years ago, the Pittsburgh Penguins had Jean-Claude Van Damme to keep them safe. In a few months, Cowboys Stadium and the rest of North Texas will have THOR, a one-stop shop for fighting crime and responding to any emergency that could arise during the Super Bowl. Built by Intrado,…
Would you rather your football team – like the Dallas Cowboys – implode during a 1-7 start, fire its head coach and be done by Halloween? Or would you rather your football team – like FC Dallas – make it all the way to the Super Bowl only to dramatically lose…
Local law enforcement agencies have scheduled two press conferences this week — one at the Jack Evans this morning, another at the Kroger on Mockingbird at Greenville Wednesday. Long story short: DPD wants to get the word out two programs coming down your chimney at this, the most wonderful time…
We can look at CQ Press’s just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way — based upon the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports that include “the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft,…
Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, sends word this morning likely to be hailed as good news for riders of the Trinity Railway Express: Starting December 6, the fare zone boundary is moving two miles west — from the West Irving Station in Dallas County to the CentrePort/DFW…
On January 10 of this year The Dallas Morning News ran a lengthy obituary for Hugh E. Prather Jr.: “one of the last surviving icons of the early 20th-century Dallas real estate industry, a former civic leader and a longtime Highland Park resident,” wrote Steve Brown. Hugh Jr., who died…
10. Two-game winning streak be damned, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones isn’t getting too caught up in his team’s re-booting: “I want to say it again: No fan should think I’m happy with the way things are,” Jones said after his team’s win Sunday at Cowboys Stadium. “I’m happy having these two…
Spent some of yesterday trying to get the answer to that question, following a note from a good Friend of Unfair Park with ties to the show that said it looks like Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford won’t be bustin’ punks as Dallas PD detectives for a second season. But…
Earlier this afternoon, Dallas Police Department spokesman Warren Mitchell sent word: Shortly before 7 this morning, security guards at Fountain Place downtown called 911 after espying what considered “a threatening note” affixed to a scooter in the underground parking garage. Mitchell’s narrative suggests that at least one person at Fountain…
Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he’s still — still — writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and…
Perhaps you’ve heard: One week ago today, a real estate holdings company controlled by Stan Kroenke — owner of the St. Louis Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche and husband of Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton — purchased the moonscape at Walnut Hill Lane and N. Central Expressway, about which we’ve…
On July 23 — the second day of Brian Potashnik’s testimony in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial — prosecutor Marcus Busch played a series of damning wiretaps for jurors. He paused them numerous times, read them into the record and then asked Potashink to confirm if what he’d read…
