In the maddening moments after yet another premature evacuation by the Dallas Mavericks, I know what you were thinking: Blow it up! Trade Dirk Nowitzki. Cut Jason Kidd. Fire Rick Carlisle. Ball-gag Bob Ortegel. Hang Mark Cuban. Change everything! I know, because I temporarily echoed those sentiments in the knee-jerk…
It’s a stunning contradiction of beauty and violence. There is color, texture and tension, presentation, passion and puncturing, cleansing, bleeding and pain in both the culinary and the body arts. Cooking and tattooing are art forms created in the chaos of the kitchen and the aesthetics of the parlor, and…
And the wiener is: Let’s send a big horseshoe-shaped wreath of flowers to state Representative Debbie Riddle, winner of the demagogue sweepstakes to be the first Texas legislator to propose introducing a Texas version of Arizona’s recently enacted SB 1070, also known as the Roust the Brown People Act. Buzz…
Citing the April 26 murder of longtime Dallas Morning News delivery driver Robert Lawrence in South Oak Cliff, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway unveiled his “Stop the Violence” program this afternoon aimed at curbing “senseless crimes.” Although he acknowledged that the crime rate has dropped in Dallas, Caraway painted a…
For no good reason, I was wondering earlier this afternoon whatever became of DowntownDallas’s plan to fill up Main Street Garden’s fountain, which, we discovered at the end of March, wouldn’t be operational more than a two hours a day due to the fact Park and Rec’s all tapped out…
Collier’s International sent word today that, yet again, 1401 Elm Street is back on the market — this time, just four months after its owners kicked out the last remaining tenants and locked the doors one last time. The asking price this go-round, though, is considerably less than when Collier’s…
Last I heard, the folks behind the Texas Theatre’s extreme makeover still needed some $7 million to get the historic Oak Cliff movie palace completely put back together again. (Some $2 mil has been raised and spent since redo efforts began in ’01, but those Cliffdwellers behind its restoration hope…
So says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that just landed in the in-box. His name is Brion Gary Randall, and according to the feds, on May 18 the 48-year-old will plead guilty in Dallas federal court to running a handful of scams between 2004 and last July…
San Antonio’s Krayolas have been around a long while — since the late ’70s, on and off. I’d definitely start with Best Riffs Only, which collects the early singles that sound alternately like the Sir Doug, the Kinks and the Beatles, but the newer comeback stuff’s top-notch too, especially ’08’s…
Surely you’re aware by now: The Good Guys, filming here till July, makes its sneak-premiere two weeks from tonight at 7 on FOX. From the sound of the e-mails we get almost every day, most of the Friends of Unfair Park have had at least one run-in with the show;…
I like Ron Washington. Really do. I don’t necessarily trust his relentless optimism about everything and I lost a lot of respect for him for using cocaine in the middle of last season, but I like him. There is a part of him, however, that I don’t like. His in-game decisions…
Pardon the musical interlude so early in the morning; blame an overnight missive from Jeff Liles. He sends very advance word: David Garza’s getting Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom together for the first time in 20 years at The Kessler on July 17 — which is awful big news for Merritt Martin…
What you see above is the first Lewis Wickes Hine photo I ever saw, and one of the few we’ve yet to run on Unfair Park. It appeared in December 2008 on Shorpy; and it’s what initially directed my attention to the Library of Congress’s photo archives. The two boys…
Should probably consult Gustavo for a round of Ask a Mexican on this, but with it being Cinco de Mayo and all I figured I’d just crack open a Corona and give it a go myself. 10. Mike Bacsik – Well, he was a local athlete with an affinity strong feelings for…
Not half an hour after David Brown was sworn in as Dallas’s newest police chief at 3 p.m. sharp today, a caravan of police officers on bicycles rolled up to Dallas Police Department HQ. They’re participating in an annual 2,000-mile ride through the state — the so-called “We Remember” Memorial…
On Sunday we mentioned the proxy fight brewing between Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes and shareholder Greg Meyer, the former CEO of DVDXpress (which eventually morphed into Redbox, more or less) and the man who, in 2005, told Blockbuster, look, get in the DVD-dispensing kiosk business, close the stores early, lower…
Almost four years ago, the great George Gimarc introduced us to his then-latest rock and roll alternative: a would-be syndicated format called Radio SASS, which stood for “Short Attention Span System” — as in, no song lasted lasted longer than two minutes. Said one commenter at the time, the whittled-down…
Those not listening to KVTT-1110 AM yesterday around 2:30 p.m. missed Mayor Tom Leppert’s appearance on Point of View, a nationally syndicated Christian conservative talk show based in Dallas. We weren’t tuned in either, but mostly because we didn’t know about it until today’s post by DMN’er Rudy Bush. As…
Was in the midst of updating my “Top 10 Hottest Women on Dallas/Fort Worth TV” yesterday – stay tuned later this week – when I came across one of the most attractive women in national radio. And by “came across” I mean bumped into in the hall at 105.3 The…
Till not so long ago, on Webb Chapel Road just north of Northwest Highway — and directly across the street from Bachman Lake — there sat a decaying apartment complex that looked as though a small gust of wind would reduce it to splinters. Eventually, it was surrounded by chain-link…
Sorry, but after that PETA item down below, I just wanna look at rainbows. And I need look no further than our old pal Justin Terveen, who grabbed this shot yesterday evening out the window of his loft. Says Justin, “Easily the most perfectly shaped rainbow I’ve ever seen.”…
Had it not been for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, federal investigators might never have known about conditions inside U.S. Global Exotics, the “massive international exotic-animal wholesale facility in Arlington” raided on December 15. For seven months, PETA had a man on the inside gathering evidence that…
