Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Republican challenger Danny Clancy stared each other down and traded barbs this afternoon at the Belo Mansion during their first debate, and tensions peaked when Watkins was asked what three issues the two candidates can agree upon, along with what three issues separate…
Let’s be honest: We can just post this pic of Dallas model Ann and walk away, right?For another week, we watch America’s Next Top Model so you don’t have to. That, right there? That’s a solid. So then, to commence with the recapping.Last night’s episode began with the de rigueur…
Kelcy Warren, proof that a UT-Arlington graduate can make the Forbes 400I’ve been told: Everybody loves lists, especially this one — Forbes’ annual countdown of the richie-richiest ‘Merkins, which contains more than its share of locals, as usual. Tops, through, is a Fort Worth resident who I’m pretty sure lives…
A little bit o’ this and a little bit o’ that while admiring that picture taken yesterday by Best of Dallas-certified Justin Terveen:A Friend of Unfair Park whose name rhymes with “Jason Roberts” forwards along this Washington Post piece in which Oak Cliff’s Better Block Project inspires a faraway woman,…
So happens that a good Friend of Unfair Park transferred — and augmented — that dash-cam video on which a Good Citizen captured that phony peace officer with the laser-sighted semi-automatic about a block from the Oak Lawn Eatzi’s a few days back. Our Friends passed along a much better…
While we ignore crapola like this from north of the big border bloggers – Jimmy Johnson to return to coach the Cowboys? Really?! – let’s construct a blueprint toward something much more realistic: Making the Dallas Cowboys a better football team. We know they are talented. But in their first two…
Hence, this pic of the bike-and-hike-path construction site the council member Plixi’d early this morning. That is all. So, see you at the Dallas Bike Plan meeting tonight? Looks like I’m covering. Everyone else’ll be at the going-late Best of Dallas (on stands today!) wingding. This job is awesome…
When they were first alerted to his unprecedented cocaine use just after the 2009 All-Star break, I thought Texas Rangers’ management should have fired manager Ron Washington on the spot. You know what? I still think that. But by the time the public became aware of his transgression – at…
Kimberly ThorpeSpeaking of things that make the mayor happy …MoneyGram International is moving its HQ from Minnesota to 2828 N. Harwood. It’s bringing 75 people to Dallas; could grow to double that in coming years. Says Mayor Tom Leppert in an official release just dispatched by Chris Heinbaugh: “Clearly Dallas’…
And where, exactly, will TXU install these outlets? Dunno yet. I asked Sophia Stoller, TXU spokesperson, if she can provide the list following this morning’s announcement, released in advance of a 5 p.m. press conference at the Automotive Building at Fair Park. Says Stoller, “We’re working with both of the…
On Tuesday we got our sneak peek at Central Japan Railway Company’s presentation to Houston transportation officials intended to get ’em revved up about high-speed rail linking Dallas and Houston (and points in between). This morning, Culturemap Houston provides this lengthy follow-up: interviews with some of the Houston officials in…
I hate you, Jimmy Johnson. Not for winning two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and then up and leaving in a huff, but for luring me into watching reality TV. I really despise reality TV. And, I admit, I’m really hooked on Survivor: Nicaragua. On CBS’ hit show they…
[Update at 9:40 a.m.: Hinojosa is being interviewed at this very moment. You can watch here, if you have RealPlayer.]This morning, as you’re no doubt well aware, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will be interviewed by the Clark County School District board of trustees — because, as of…
Woke up this morning to find an in-box full of Blockbuster releases, chief among them the downtown-based video-rentalist’s announcement that, sure enough, this morning it filed for bankruptcy in a federal court in New York. Says the company, the voluntary, “prepackaged” Chapter 11 filing is the result of a deal…
On August 11, 1983, Ben Gold walked into heaven. The details seemed preposterously unlikely. He’d found it in a shiny, 44-foot-long 1953 GMC bus. The bus was parked in Ottumwa, Iowa, a town whose primary attraction was a coal museum that had closed 90 years ago. Presumably because people knew…
A Pinal County sheriff’s sergeant is discussing Deputy Louie Puroll, who famously claimed on April 30 that a Latino drug smuggler shot him in the desert. “I can’t speak for our sheriff [Paul Babeu],” Dave Hausman says, “but I can speak for our unit, and the sheriff can slap me…
Man behind the curtain: So, Mayor Tom Leppert complained in last week’s “state of the city” address that unnamed “federal partners” aren’t being very nice to him. Who, we wondered, was he talking about? Hanging around City Hall, Buzz chatted up a couple of people who are keeping close tabs…
This isn’t going to be a popular theory. In this knee-jerk, dog-pile news cycle, it’s chic and easy and lazy to call the Dallas Cowboys overrated. To label them underachievers. To say they are perpetually hyped yet eternally flawed. To pronounce them—at only 0-2—dead before Big Tex’s first “Howdy, folks.”…
Maybe you were shocked to discover that copy of Der Gute Onkel you downloaded wasn’t, in fact, a meditative German cop drama from 1998. Or maybe that feel-good family porn video was exactly what you were looking for. But if you pulled it off a BitTorrent site in the last,…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: On September 19, 2010, at about 12:30 am, the pictured suspect was seen by a complainant performing a traffic stop in an unmarked, black Ford, 4 door sedan, at Lemmon Avenue and Wycliff Avenue. The complainant suspected that the suspect was not…
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who forwarded along this just-released report from TRIP, a D.C.-based transportation research group: Hold the Wheel Steady: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother. Says the study, which paints a grim picture of the bumpy road ahead, out of…
Tomorrow marks the first annual Michael Hinojosa Day: At 9:30 a.m. CST, or thereabouts, the Dallas Independent School District Superintendent will be interviewed by the Clark County School District’s board of trustees, after which he and Colorado’s Commission of Education Dwight Jones will meet their would-be constituents at two public…
