The Texas Rangers have a five-game lead in the American League West. Tonight they begin a four-game series with the second-place Anaheim Angels in Arlington. (And over the next 11 days they’ll face the Angels seven times. How the West was won, anyone?) In other words, time for new pitching…
I signed up for LoopNet a while back to occasionally scout for some of the more intriguing spaces and businesses for lease or for sale in this town — like, oh, that East Side Ave. church-turned-house or Elliott’s Hardware. Which is why I just received in the Unfair Park in-box…
Three years ago, Dr. Larry Gentilello was chair of the Division of Burn, Trauma and Critical Care at UT Southwestern Medical Center. But, just like that, he was stripped of his position: Gentilello became aware of the fact trauma residents at Parkland were treating patients and performing surgery without attending…
These are detail shots of the A26A before restoration from Franklin Poole on Vimeo.Thanks to an early-morning e-mail from Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, I spent the better part of the last hour getting a history lesson on the the Douglas A-26 Invader, which first took flight to fight in…
Dallas Cowboys’ rookie receiver Dez Bryant may start once the NFL regular season starts. But he’ll be on the sidelines when training camp begins Friday in San Antonio. Almost assuredly. Barring an 11th-hour contract agreement, Bryant will be one of many NFL rookies to miss the official start of their…
Is this thing on?: Last week, Buzz revealed our brilliant plan for a compromise on the fight over Love Field concessions contracts. Our scheme involved the city council bargaining with the companies selling food, drink and retail goods at the airport to get the companies to pay their workers better…
It’s a good time to be playing music in Dallas. Disagree? Well, sorry there, bud, but you’re just flat-out wrong. Here’s your proof: This year, thanks in large part to a massive upswing in online and text voting, we received more votes than ever in the history of these little…
On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown’s Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that’s both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut…
Editor’s note: Following publication of this article, U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton enjoined the state of Arizona from enacting key provisions of state Senate Bill 1070. Though the law’s most dangerous sections were put on pause, pending the outcome of litigation, the remainder of the law goes into effect,…
A couple of weeks back we mentioned that Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Justice Elizabeth Lang-Miers ordered the city of Dallas to respond by no later than July 19 to attorney Andy Siegel’s writ of mandamus in which he claims, among other things, that the council’s call for a…
While I await word from the City Attorney’s Office about a legal matter, baby, let me direct your attention to the registration page for the 2010 National SCRABBLE® Championship — only because it closes today, and only because this year’s wingding takes place at the Hotel InterContinental Dallas beginning August…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Dallas County constables had been watching Star Auto Sales, a North Dallas used car dealer, for nearly 10 months before they made their move on February 18; bearing a search warrant, officers from both agencies flipped through the dealership’s financial records and searched…
What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To’s dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I’ve managed to see so far, it’s yet another…
For the last couple of days the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with missives subject-headed “Mayor Mike Moncrief and Ed Bass to Make Announcement.” That announcement came this a.m.: ESPN will not only set up its production HQ in Sundance Square, but ESPN the Magazine will also plant…
I’m amazed that Texas Rangers’ pitcher Dustin Nippert is alive, much less well. When I initially saw Austin Jackson’s line drive hit Nippert in his right temple and carom over Michael Young’s head into left field for a double, I thought the worst. Didn’t you? The worst, as in, you…
In recent days, newspapers in the Midwest and Northeast have been filled with accounts of churches packed with worshipers who’ve come to visit the relics of Mother Teresa — among them, a lock of her hair, her tattered sandals, her rosary, even a vial filled with drops of her blood…
Tuesday’s testimony in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy case from the court-appointed chief restructuring officer and one of the lenders revealed four potential competitors to the ownership group led by Pittsburgh lawyer Chuck Greenberg and Rangers president Nolan Ryan, whose bid for the team is $520 million, according to Chief Restructuring…
Sam’s already gone though Willis Johnson’s lobbyist registrations forms, which were due to the city at the end of last week. But there’s still plenty of ground to cover, as evidenced by the five pages’ worth of revelations stashed away on the City Secretary’s Office’s Web site. So, where to…
For the second time in 2010, Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Miles Austin has made the cover of Sports Illustrated. A sign of stardom? Or a jinx waiting to strike? Austin is on this week’s cover curiously wearing a No. 2 jersey (as a Yankees fan, he was honoring Derek Jeter during…
Today’s eye-opener is more abstract than a short doc about Willis Winters. Instead, it’s a virtual sculpture by noted neon-sign collector, Dan Holzschuh, who counts among his collection’s pieces remnants from the old Prince of Hamburgers, the Circle Inn, the Gemini Drive-In and even Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club. He appeared…
Back in May there was a story in The News about attempts to ID so-called “chronic offenders” downtown who are “having a hard time complying with the laws in Dallas and the rules of The Bridge,” in the words of Deputy Chief Vincent Golbeck, who was promoted to Assistant Chief…
In 2007, ex-offender support groups in a handful of states began huddling together under a national faith-based umbrella called Out4Life, combining efforts to help prisoners find work and housing, break old drug and alcohol habits, and generally do what it takes to keep out of prison. For life. Texas became…
