Earlier this afternoon I got a call from a phone number beginning with the 903 area code — and, hey, we were just speaking of first thing this morning. Sure enough, the man on the other end identified himself as Eric Foster, who is indeed the gent behind that DFW…
Man, those were good times back in February and March — headin’ down to the George Allen seemingly every other week for a hearing in City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad. But there hasn’t been a court date in a long while, and there may not be…
At 10:30 this morning, the Riverside Branch of the Fort Worth Library played host to Slappy and Monday — two clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus who treated some 43 kids to Reading with Ringling Bros. While one librarian who overheard the two clowns reading during this…
I just spoke with Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, about the potential sale of Samuell Farm and how it landed on the board’s agenda this Thursday in the first place. Says Winters, it actually came up when the City Attorney’s Office was asked to prepare docs regarding…
If you watched Sunday’s 7-2 win in Milwaukee, you’d think Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis (two hits, including a key two-run single) is a better hitter than first baseman Justin Smoak (0-5 with five strikeouts). If you’ve been watching forever, you’re convinced it’s time to shove Michael Young into the organization’s all-time elite…
Actually, it’s more or less one key revelation — and we already had an idea what it was anyhow, which is: Houston’s Jim Crane offered more for the Texas Rangers than Chuck Greenberg. And, according to e-mails from Hicks Sports Group’s legal counsel and Major League Baseball made public in…
The latest Newsweek ranking of Best High Schools in the U.S. of A. is out, and, yet again, The School for the Talented and Gifted at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center is at the very tippy-top. And it’s joined by eight other Dallas schools — though one’s Highland…
The city has spent the better part of six months trying to come up with a proposal that’ll allow neighborhood farmers markets to keep operating without cutting into the city-owned downtown market’s business. The latest proposition goes in front of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee this afternoon –…
We’re not surprised that Vince Young was in a Dallas strip club (Onyx) at 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. We’re not surprised that he was slapped with a citation by police after getting involved in a scuffle. And, considering the kukoos that have played at the University of Texas, we’re not…
I expect this won’t be our last item on this subject today, given the years of blood, toil, tears and sweat that have been spilled over Samuell Farm. But just a little more than a year after the city and Texas Attorney General’s Office hashed out an agreement over the…
While I report out some more, um, substantial items, here’s the perfect kick-start to your work week — because, so I hear, everyone love lists. And the DFW Most Powerful — based, so it says, on “thousands of hours of compiling” using “in-depth analysis and [a] proprietary algorithm ranking system”…
10. When the doors opened at 6 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station, there were already 20 people lined up for a day of World Cup watching. We can rip soccer (and we will), but it’s hard to criticize its fans’ passion. 9. In a sport where you…
Happy Sunday, Friends! While you were out having a nice, relaxing weekend full of neighbors and sun and beers and loveliness, I was at the 2010 Texas Republican Party Convention having a blast talking about ‘Murka and stuff. It was a fun- and camo-filled two days, but I’ve managed to…
As Representative Dan Branch told us yesterday afternoon shortly after addressing the delegation from John Carona’s senate district, what a difference two years has made for state Republicans, whose attitude has changed since 2008’s Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. “There seems to be a lot more positive feeling…
There are any number of interesting and important items on the council’s agenda this week — like the latest suggestions for regulating neighborhood farmers markets (which I’m gonna pass around this morning when I head over to the White Rock Local Market), the proposed budget for street services in the…
Ever since a certain someone played a certain something recorded at a certain somewhere over a certain radio station’s drive-time show Tuesday, many Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: How do I get hold of that? My, my, hey, hey, hang on. No need to feel so helpless, helpless, helpless…
I’ve been trying to figure out: How much of Fair Park will actually get used one week from tomorrow, when it turns into the biggest effing dance party this town’s ever seen (I guess, whatever, close to). Because, in case you haven’t heard, on June 19 the Electric Daisy Carnival…
A few days ago I got a message from a gentleman named Steve Parrino. He mentioned that he too is a native of Dallas and that his family has been here since the 1890s. Said he’s a fan of the history-of items I like to post here and that he…
I’ve spent the better part of the last hour trying to upload some historical documents to Scribd, which is down at the moment. So while we wait out that rain delay, this related item of note: Courthouse News just posted a lawsuit filed last week in Collin County pitting the…
Apparently, one successful season a rebirth makes, as SMU sends word today that Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s about to get quite the upgrade with the installation of a new video scoreboard designed and manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics — the very same company responsible for that towering hi-def monolith installed…
A few weeks ago, you no doubt recall, The New York Times wondered whether American Airlines was becoming “a waning star of air travel.” To which many Friends responded, as they often do when the subject of the Fort Worth-based carrier comes up: Why, yes, yes it is. Among the…
Got an e-mail yesterday about a local author named Randy Schmidt who’s written a book about Karen Carpenter, Little Girl Blue. The book, from the very reputable Chicago Review Press, isn’t officially released till July, but copies have been sneaking into stores in recent weeks, and early reviews are good…
