Can’t remember the last time Erick Dampier had 12 points on perfect shooting and 13 rebounds in a win over an elite opponent. I’m sure it happened, but not nearly enough. That’s why, in part, Dampier was traded in the off-season for Tyson Chandler. The positive effects for the Dallas…
10. Good to the last drop, hours after being fired Monday, Wade showed up at Cowboys Stadium for a previously scheduled charity event. He’s a better man than me for dang sure. 9. Lose some games? Jerry Jones has been down that road. But lose gobs of TV viewers? Heads…
Patrick should be up shortly with more details from Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano’s 10:30 media meet-down on Lower Greenville, where the council members bowed their plans to give this stretch of street “a pedestrian- and family-friendly destination” makeover. But City Hall couldn’t wait any longer to share at least…
In his two decades in law enforcement, Michael Meissner’s made the rounds of small Texas towns. From Crandall to Caddo Mills, he’s worked in 18 police departments in the last 20 years, according to a January story in The Dallas Morning News.As detailed there, and in a suit filed October…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews David Letterman from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Late yesterday, Erik Clapp, the fellow slowly but surely archiving all of Bobbie Wygant’s chits and chats for KXAS-Channel 5, sent word that he’d just posted to his website golden-oldies featuring a cigar-smoking David Letterman and Jay Leno. Wrote Clapp, “Since it’s…
Guesstimations put the Borders crowd at 1,500-plus, all save for the VIPs still wrapped all the way ’round Preston Royal Shopping Center waiting for Dubya. He won’t be here till 9, and at present media is penned (even the late-arriving Jane McGarry) on the patio — and me without my…
On the other side’s a letter state Rep. Eric Johnson sent Governor Rick Perry yesterday, in which the District 100 representative asks Perry to apply for federal funds intended to “provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs.” That’s per the feds’ definition…
About an hour ago, Deputy Chief Craig Miller, commander of the Crimes Against Persons Division, held a press conference at Dallas PD HQ to discuss yesterday’s police shooting of 32-year-old Tony Menchaca. At the press conference, Miller outlined the day’s events and explained that Menchaca had just been released from…
If you can’t stop by 2010 Greenville Avenue tomorrow morning, round 10:30, don’t worry — Patrick Michels already has it down on his to-do list. We wouldn’t miss it for the world, not after the thousands of words we’ve virtually spilled in recent months chronicling council members Angela Hunt and…
Back in April we ran that Dirk Nowitzki film festival alluded to in the headline. Cute stuff, especially Dirk as The Dude. Tonight at the AAC, when Your Dallas Mavericks take on the Shaq-less Boston Celtics, debuts another addition to the filmography starring Dirk as Steve Martin as The Jerk…
The city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting just wrapped, with Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez updating the council on the status of streetcars. Read all about it. But in the middle of Gonzalez’s presentation, before questions, Linda Koop dropped this little infobomb: The city of Fort Worth, she said,…
This was just posted to You+Dallas: a video tour of some of the city’s landmarks, the well-known and the oft-overlooked, made using the photos of Justin Terveen. Some of the pictures will be very familiar to the longtime Friends of Unfair Park; others, less so. Enjoy with your eyes…
Dallas Cowboys players at Valley Ranch have been told today that head coach Wade Phillips has been fired…
Wild weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. I saw girls in checkered-flag bikinis, monkeys selling programs, a rare pit-crew substitution and even a NASCAR fight. Delicious…
Middle o’ the day to you, Unfair Friends. I’m here at good old 6ES inside City Hall, liveblogging today’s Quality of Life Committee meeting, featuring Pauline Medrano, who has lost her voice and who is being spoken for by Vonciel Jones Hill. Joining us are David Neumann and Sheffie Kadane,…
White Rock Lake celebrates its 100th birthday next year — why, matter of fact, here’s historian Watermelon Kid’s commemorative tee, offered “tongue-in-cheek,” of course. And the city’s got 100 days of events — from regattas and runs to festivals and fashion shows — planned to mark the occasion, beginning March…
A year ago the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles bowed the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, and only a few weeks it rolled out some proposed plates that include one for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Well, just this morning MyPlates sent word that it’s introducing two new Dallas…
Earlier this morning I came across this San Francisco TV report: “Texan to sing at BART station over World Series bet.” Said Texan is actually Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas, who made a bet with his BART counterpart that involved the loser going to the…
Writer Joe Queenan’s always had it out for Dallas. The paper version of Unfair Park has something to do what that. We ended his career as filmmaker. No matter. He never liked Dallas anyhow — not since November 22, 1963. Anyway. He writes for The Weekly Standard these days, among…
This just in from WalletPop: Westgrove Drive is one of the Safest Neighborhoods in America. And how, exactly, did WalletPop come up with this infotainment? Using exclusive neighborhood crime data developed by Dr. Andrew Schiller’s team at NeighborhoodScout.com, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies,…
10. As of now, Wade Phillips has his regularly scheduled press conference today at 4 p.m. from Valley Ranch. But stay tuned. 9. Nose tackle Jay Ratliff vomited near the bench in the fourth quarter. Fans beat him to it hours earlier. 8. Seven points. Four turnovers. A 38-point defeat…
No doubt it’ll return; hell, maybe you can see it now. But I just went to look for something on the team’s official website and instead came up with what you see above, courtesy Network Solutions. WhoIs.Net shows it expired November 3, and that it was updated only today. When…
