Get ready for Mavs-Spurs. And I don’t mean just in Wednesday night’s regular-season finale at American Airlines Center. I mean in the playoffs. Yes, again. With a walk-in-the-park, 23-point win over the ridiculous Clippers Monday night in Los Angeles, the Mavericks clinched at least the No. 3 playoff seed in the…
Lil’ birdie tells me this morning that his contract won’t be renewed. He is a great guy and was a good goalie for a long time, but apparently the goalie of the future for the Stars isn’t Marty Turco. It’s Kari Lehtonen. Developing. Are we sad about this or is it time…
… you’ll find it after the jump. Speaking of Foghat.And keep in mind, this isn’t the made-for-Web version neither, but the one that’s been airing during prime time the last couple of weeks. Took a while to track down, but I found it here this morning. According to the show’s…
We’ve already established this much: Dallas Area Rapid Transit, facing an “anticipated sales tax shortfall” this fiscal year, needs money — pronto. So, with that in mind, we take a look at today’s meeting agenda for the DART board’s revenue committee: “Creative Concepts for Revenue Generation.” Such as? Well, we…
At least for a day, Texas Rangers’ reliever Frankie Francisco wasn’t Texas Stadium. On a tense afternoon in Cleveland, he stopped imploding. Francisco, demoted from closer after two blown saves last week, didn’t fool anyone in Texas’ 4-2, 10-inning victory, but he retired the side in order in the 9th. After…
The owners of Greenville Bar & Grill — Lucky Merk, LLC — filed a lawsuit this afternoon claiming the property owners of Terilli’s were cited 17 times for code violations by Dallas Fire-Rescue in the months before the March 2 fire that burned down four Lower Greenville staples. The suit…
A Friend of Unfair Park who fears my unhealthy obsession with all things Blockbuster nevertheless sends along this item from The Consumerist, which appeared Friday: “Blockbuster Considering Adding Games-By-Mail Service.” Now, that’s not official — far from it. Rather, that information was relayed by Consumerist reader “Emily,” a Total Access…
Not sure what to think of this press release that just landed in the in-box — the one that says come May 7, I’ll be able to buy a ticket to Iron Man 2 that’ll only cost … what the what? … $22. Ah, but look at what Gold Class…
Spent the majority of Saturday inside the warehouse next door to Patina Bleu, which is situated at the corner of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street — which, usually, is quite the clusterfudge, as I explained to the boy. The furniture and home-decor store’s owner, Gregory Barker,…
Karma 1, Tiger Woods 0. See, that’s what I’m talking about. Why give Tiger an exaggerated ovation when you can cheer for someone who overcomes adversity that isn’t self-inflicted? Someone who doesn’t made repetitive, horrible, corrupt choices. Someone whose wife and mother are dealing with breast cancer. Someone like Phil…
Schutze, who loves this subject, is out of town. Otherwise he’d be at Dallas City Hall at 2 today for the meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, during which they’ll discuss how to regulate neighborhood farmers markets. (Also on the agenda, landscaping N. Central Expressway, which didn’t get…
Long story short: Back in December, D ran a story by former Observer-er Tom Korosec about the city’s efforts to shut down nine brothelsmassage parlors, among them the Cleopatra Day Spa, Moon Night, The Passion, 333 Bodyworks and 7th Heaven starring Stephen Collins. Around the same time, the massage parlors…
Over the weekend, New York Times personal finance writer Tara Siegel Bernard visited with Sunset High School’s Mathew Frost, an 11th and 12th grade American history and economics teacher giving his students a real-world look at how to balance the books. In other words, he’s teaching to the actual test…
The Rangers lost three games last season when they took a lead into the ninth inning. In this season’s first week, they’ve already lost two. Hence, an organization founded upon second chances (see Josh Hamilton and Ron Washington) is suddenly playing hardball accountability, yanking Frankie Francisco from the closer’s job…
Courtesy GreenLiving this morning, we discover that all three men are attending the 2010 Windpower Conference and Exhibition, which’ll be held at the Dallas Convention Center May 23 through May 26. No, seriously. Costello’s up first, with a $125-to-$225-per-ticket May 24 Wind Foundation fund-raiser at the House of Blues –…
No doubt you’ve seen Texas Stadium’s adios a thousand times from 100 different angles since yesterday’s implosion. But this morning, in the comments to Patrick and Nick’s stills-and-video round-up posted first thing Sunday, Jeremiah Warren of Shoot Smash Boom sent word that he’d captured the whole thing with high-speed cameras…
A few days ago, Stream Data Centers announced it was in the process of building out a 20,000-square foot server farm in Richardson, in the Telecom Corridor — not necessarily the sexiest press release in the world. (Though there is the part about the building’s being able to “withstand 125…
You know it’s a weird week when Mike Modano’s final home game as a Dallas Star is only the second-saddest story. Went out to Texas Stadium Sunday morning for a funeral and – hate to admit this – but I cried. For a building. I know, silly. Or is it?…
At 9 this morning, I asked Tom Hicks’s local spokesperson Lisa LeMaster to comment on reports out of England that he’s finally ready to sell Liverpool FC. No word yet — perhaps because The Official Word’s not expected till later this week. So, instead, looks like we’ll have to go…
The first blasts shot up at 7 this morning, setting off car alarms and cheers and waking up Sunday sleepers for miles — and those were just the pre-implosion fireworks. Minutes later the real show began, as a series of dynamite blasts horseshoed around Texas Stadium, throwing up a monster…
Woke up this morning all prepared to direct your attention to Monday’s Transportation and Environment Committee briefing involving neighborhood farmers markets, in which the key city-staff recommendation reads, “Neighborhood Farmers Markets may operate 24 non-consecutive market days per year between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.” Seems … low, let’s say…
On this shapin-up-to-be picture-perfect roll-down-the-windows weekend, some classic classic rock: Foghat live in ’74. Which means it’s pre-Fool for the City — so, sorry, no “Slow Ride.” But even better: Following last week’s trip over some Little Feat at the Dallas Convention Center Theater, yet another radio broadcast — this…
