Don’t know what you’re doing tonight, but if you want to say goodbye to the face of Dallas hockey you’d better head down to the American Airlines Center. Because tonight’s game against the Anaheim Ducks will likely be the last home appearance in the star-studded career of Mike Modano. He…
Couple times a month Derrius Bell has trouble sleeping. Maybe it’s more that he has difficulty waking up. Or, in reality, is it merely that he can’t comprehend—much less detail—the full effect of multiple concussions suffered through the years on the football field? “I’ve tried to explain this to doctors,…
Bipartisan: Nothing whets our political appetite like rumors of alliances between Republicans and Democrats during election season. So when we heard that Republican Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield was helping Democratic candidate Beth Villarreal in her campaign against Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, Buzz thought we’d won the lotto. A…
It was the kind of night Mordan Stefanov lived for: red-carpet treatment, limos, high fashion and free-flowing drinks—an A-list of moneyed guests, society and business types, and the poseurs who needed to be seen at the hottest party in town. The January 8 celebration would mark the pinnacle of all…
The Dallas Stars’ season ends Saturday night as it did last year: with a whimper, as once again Tom Hicks’s hockey club fails to make the playoffs. Yet it’s hard to believe tickets remain for tomorrow night’s final game of the season at the American Airlines Center. There is, after…
After council member Angela Hunt led the charge in August 2008 to deny a special-use permit for longtime Ross Avenue staple Woodard Paint & Body Shop, she admitted that it was “one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make on the council.” As other repair shops shuttered as a…
The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce offered up a smorgasbord of presentations last night focusing on various initiatives from parks and the arts to bicycles and trolleys, and the community turned out in droves. An estimated 200 folks piled into Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium for the two-hour-plus shindig, according to…
Last week we met 6-year-old Louis Shuman, one of the many young newsies encountered by Lewis Wickes Hine during his trip to Dallas in October 1913 as he traveled the country documenting worker abuse for the National Child Labor Commission. Late last night, I dove back into the Library of…
I’ve only been in radio for 16 months, but there’s one word that keeps flowing from my lips when people ask me how I like the industry: Volatile. Seems every week day there’s a lineup shuffle or personnel switcheroo at some Dallas station. Over the weekend was no different, as legendary…
So says Hobby Lobby president Steve Green in an interview published today by the Scripps Howard News Service, the latest media outlet to follow our Bible Boy as he prays for its genesis upon 22 acres near downtown Dallas. Green talks about quite a few things already familiar to the…
For whatever reason, Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries’ sale of one of four original Energizer bunnies this weekend is generating big news. Whatever. I was more interested in this item from the April Signature Sports Memorabilia Auction: Rafael Septien’s 1978 NFC Championship ring, made by the fine folks…
Just got back in the office to find the announcement: Liar-liar-pants-on-fire George Steel’s unholy ghost has finally been exorcised by the Dallas Opera, which this morning named 47-year-old Keith Cerny its new general director — which is big enough news Bloomberg and The New York Times have taken notice. (I…
Not trying to pick a fight here. Promise. I just get really tired/annoyed by almost daily emails and comments to this here blog accusing me of stealing content from 1310 AM The Ticket. Got this one Monday for example: “I read Whitt’s End and, seriously you hack, you never have…
Late last night, Lori Conrad at KTVT and KTXA sent word: Channel 21’s about to launch a music show: The Texas Music Scene (catchy?), which will air on TXA 21 after Texas Rangers Friday Night Baseball around 10:30ish p.m. every week beginning this Friday, matter of fact. But those expecting…
Late Tuesday, Blockbuster announced two items of interest — one of which, at least, has prompted a early-trading jump of 15 percent in the Renaissance Tower-based company’s stock price. Which puts it at a whopping 29 cents early this morning.First, Jim Keyes’s company sent news that it has wrapped up…
While Cowboys Stadium is a greedy, event-eating monster and Texas Stadium is an icon about to be reduced to novelty-act rubble, the Cotton Bowl is still a living, breathing attraction. Barely. Later this month in Phoenix the NCAA will likely grant certification to the start-up Dallas Football Classic, a bowl…
We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard — and every other law-enforcing abbreviation — showed off the guns, drugs and money hauled in after they busted up the meth-trafficking members of…
That’s what I get for not watching American Idol: A Friend of Unfair Park, who suggested I become a fan of The Good Guys on Facebook (and … done), sends word that a promo for the FOX series starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks as Dallas cops aired during the…
Nothing whets our political appetite like rumors of alliances between Republicans and Democrats during election season. So when we heard that Republican Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield was helping Democratic candidate Beth Villarreal in her campaign against Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, we thought we’d won the lotto. Sure, Mayfield’s…
It’s been three weeks since New York-based Rhone Group offered to take 40 percent Liverppool FC off Tom Hicks’s hands for a lousy £100-million investment, which would have been enough to satisfy the Royal Bank of Scotland’s demand for a pay-down on that huge hunk o’ debt. Which means the…
Watched an episode of The Golf Channel’s Being John Daly last week and almost came to this conclusion: Tony Romo has become boring. Almost, I said. Romo played a couple Pro-Am rounds with Daly and the mix was – yawn – barely worthy of TV. Even when alongside one of…
In an awfully short amount of time, Austin-born-and-raised Amber Heard has racked up a rather impressive filmography that spans Friday Night Lights to Alpha Dog to the stuck-in-distribution-hell All the Boys Love Mandy Lane to Pineapple Express to Zombieland to the forthcoming Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary to…
