Photos by Danny FulgencioFormer prisoners of war at Oflag 64 in front of the wall of the dead at the Dallas Holocaust Museum”Uplifting stuff.”So notes our very own Danny Fulgencio after his visit Friday afternoon to the Dallas Holocaust Museum in the West End, where former American prisoners of war…
10. After a wasted weekend in Arlington we know this: Derek Holland isn’t ready to be a playoff pitcher. Saturday he allowed a single and a walk to ignite Tampa’s game-tying rally and in today’s Game 4 loss he served up a two-run homer to Evan Longoria that broke the…
Flickr photo: Jeff TurnerThree months back, you may recall, attorney-turned-acclaimed writer Ben Fountain took a long, hard look at the increasingly empty Highland Park Village parking lot and wondered why come for The New York Times. It was the first installment in a slow-going, ongoing series of bad-economy close-ups to…
10. ‘Twas an occurrence about as rare as Halley’s Comet this afternoon out here at Rangers Ballpark. In the Rangers’ 39-year history they’ve played 3,092 home games in Arlington. Game 3 was only the fifth playoff contest. Texas is 0-5 all-time in home playoff games. 9. In the owner’s box: Nolan Ryan,…
There’s no need imagining the scene — a show videotaped in Houston, at the Summit, on Halloween ’76 gives you some idea of the spectacle George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, the late Gary Shider and the rest of the Mothership Connection took on the road…
On the other side is the final dispatch from Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, who’s among the traveling party wrapping up that trade mission to Spain and France. The quote in the headline comes from the release that follows, in which Leppert says the Euros are ready…
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we’re offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939…
Back on July 11, I spent a couple innings with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels inside a luxury suite at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the team finished a lousy four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles. His team would lose that day and limped into the All-Star break after…
Just found this on eBay — an old postcard going for 99 cents sent from the HQ of the company that would eventually become Trinity Industries. A real steel. (Heh.)…
Back at the big kick-off lunch for Dallas Justice Revival’s Homes for Our Neighbors campaign, we heard about plans to build a community garden for Cliff Manor residents — an olive branch of sorts between the apartment complex and its neighbors, built in the image of other nearby gardens organized…
Looking for Halloween costume inspiration? You may want to study this historic photo posted today on Shorpy. It’s Dallas socialite Inez Thomas, looking downright stunning in 1920 flapper gear. Her contemporaries appeared to have appreciated her style as well — she was the “Duchess of Dallas” at the 1916 San…
As the education policy call-to-arms doc Waiting for Superman has been released across the country, educators and would-be reformers everywhere have been doing the thing you do when a Davis Guggenheim documentary (or a Mel Gibson film in the original Aramaic) comes out: special screenings and post-movie panel talks to…
Photos by Nick DeWolfA few months back we took a look at the snapshots the late, great Nick DeWolf took during the Teradyne co-founder’s visit to the State Fair of Texas back in ’77. Seeing as how this is the most wonderful time of the year, I went back to…
A couple of weeks ago, MoneyGram announced it was moving its HQ from Minnesota to Dallas — you remember that, right? And at the time, City Hall said the move involved “a public incentive package” that the city council had to approve — oh, like it wouldn’t. Anyway. Some Friends…
Well, well, well. I just found this interesting clip posted to YouTube this morning: H. Ross Perot giving some Dell Services associates a guided tour of his office — specifically, the myriad pieces of memorabilia he keeps in the hallway outside his santuary. And on the wall, right next to…
“When you are a leader and you make hard decisions, you piss some people off.”–Rick Perry to Politico…
Courtesy Chris Heinbaugh, who’s at far rightNo idea what Jack E. Jett means when he says Leppert’s the “most photographed Mayor in the history of the WORLD!”Right now, you’re probably wondering to yourself: Hey, how’s Mayor Tom enjoying his European vacationtrade mission to Spain and France? Well, from the looks…
Last week, I “introduced” you to Liz, the single mom from Arlington with a penchant for bitchin’. At the top of this week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, Liz was right back to her MO, bringing down a light-hearted housemates’ gettin’-to-know-you game of truth with tales of poverty and…
10. I know the Rangers banged two more homers and generally roped the ball around the park, but I think Josh Hamilton set the tenor with his back-to-back superb catches — one diving — in the second inning. 9. As expected, Tampa starter James Shields was, well, James Shields. In…
The so-called Google Heat MapAt month’s end, researchers from SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory — among ’em, David Blackwell, Hamilton Professor of Geophysics and director of the SMU Geothermal Laboratory — will go to Sacramento for the 2010 Geothermal Resources Council annual meeting. There, the trio will present a much more detailed…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins outraised Republican challenger Danny Clancy by more than $50,000 during the latest three-month fund-raising period, while Clancy outspent his Democratic counterpart by more than $20,000, according to campaign finance reports. Both candidates struggled to raise dough — Watkins nabbed just $136,000 and Clancy $83,000…
A lengthy list of city officials and stakeholders have been invited to tonight’s meeting in West Dallas called to discuss plans to shut down the Sylvan Avenue bridge for a year to make way for its out-of-the-floodway replacement. No doubt today’s tragic news will be added to the discussion topics:…
