A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention this late afternoon to DropWear.com — can’t believe someone didn’t think of this sooner. In short, it’s a tee-shirt company run by Ticket listeners who plan on turning those catchphrases and out-of-context utterances into, right, fashion statements. Brilliant.But right now, there’s a…
[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here’s the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy’s application for an SUP to drill at Hensely Field. XTO can now appeal that decision to the City Council, which will, you have to…
It’s been a long time coming, but it finally happened today — right there, second on today’s consent agenda for the Texas DPS’s Public Safety Commission: “Discussion and possible action to recognize Chuck and Aaron Norris as Honorary Texas Rangers.” The Texas Tribune’s Brandi Grissom spread the word on Twitter,…
Following Friday’s hearing at the George Allen, Tom Hicks’s attorney in the Liverpool FC case, Fish & Richardson’s Steve Stodghill, issued a press release announcing that Hicks and George Gillett’s attorneys would “apply all of their legal energies toward securing at least $1.6 billion in damages they expect will result…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Our Stephen Masker was at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport last night — which is to say, at 1 this morning — when Your Texas Rangers returned from a 2-1 trip to the Bronx. Stephen’s slide show’s here, and though he reports the crowd was on the smallish side — a…
Following yesterday’s DART bus fire by Old Red, a Friend of Unfair Park sends us these smoky photos from a downtown parking garage fire — the Westin City Center structure, specifically, located at 799 Crockett Street, to which the Dallas police and fire departments dispatched multiple units a little more…
I’ve had this feeling before. Oh, say, for example a couple of weeks ago before the 0-2 Dallas Cowboys played the Houston Texans. I thought it then and I believe it again: The Cowboys will win this week. In fact, the Cowboys will beat the New York Giants by 10+…
That, surely, is the question on your mind after reading of the 79-year-old Penthouse founder’s death at the Plano Specialty Hospital yesterday, following a years-long battle with lung cancer. The answer is simple, says one New Jersey attorney representing some of the myriad creditors in an ongoing Chapter 7 case…
At 2 this morning, Dallas Police officers were called to 1930 Greenville Avenue — shots had been fired in a parking lot at Greenville and Alta Avenues, right across the street from the Cavern and Billiard Bar. Officers arrived and found two men had been shot — one in the…
As Friend of Unfair Park Ed D. notes in the comments below, Dallas City Hall just posted to its Facebook page six photos of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken by — let’s see if I get this right — “remote control plane.” Oh, so that explains why I saw…
10. The better team didn’t win Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, but the more desperate team did. The Rangers are on a magical, unprecedented playoff roll, but asking them to be good enough – to be mature enough – to sweep the 95-win defending champions in New York was unrealistic. Those of…
Sums up George A. King III in this morning’s New York Post: “The Yankees arrived last night deep in the heart of Texas with a pulse. Faint, for sure, but enough of a beat that the ALCS stethoscope detected it. Can the pump tick long enough to get the Yankees…
Jim, Jim, Jim: At the risk of getting crosswise with the Observer’s own Jim Schutze—a man who files a memo with management every time we call him venerable—Buzz must say something we’d really rather not say: Maybe Mayor Tom Leppert and City Councilman Dave Neumann, who have complained bitterly lately…
I became a sportswriter because of the Texas Rangers. Well, them and my creative imagination, general obsession for sports and refined knack for exaggerating the details of a game so much so that it grew larger than life. Started something like this: In the summer of 1972 in Duncanville, there…
It took Adalid Arteaga nearly two months to travel, on foot and by train, the 1,100 miles from Honduras to Nuevo Laredo last fall. Exhausted from the journey, Arteaga, at 43, was hardly the spry twentysomething he’d been the last time he’d illegally crossed into the United States. Crouching out…
In the Mexican border town of Nogales, Sonora, where buses drop off the newly deported every few hours from the American side, almost everyone seems to have been through Operation Streamline, a U.S. Border Patrol program that aims to hit all migrants entering the U.S. illegally with a criminal conviction…
Eight days ago, Joel Burns delivered to his Fort Worth city council colleagues the “It Gets Better” speech since heard ’round the world. Today, he went on Ellen DeGeneres’s show to discuss what the host calls a “real and raw and moving” moment. Burns’s mother, who was in the audience,…
Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment — the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn’t officially…
A handful of Dallas Independent School District gatheredn the old board room at 3700 Ross this morning to poke at a question with big implications: How can the district get the most of its new partnerships charter schools, possibly even next school year? Born out of April’s West Dallas “School…
This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts’s twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peoples, armed with cafe seating and greenery and chalk-marked bike lanes, take back the streets and sidewalks. Roberts is…
It’s been about a year now since the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles introduced the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, which still provides endless hours of entertainment as you attempt to see which dirty words you can slip through. (Side note: After typing that sentence, I went off to do…
