Toll-you-so. Sometimes The Dallas Morning News does things so right, Buzz worries they might actually restore their credibility. Then what would Buzz do? But never fear! Just when skies are darkest, the Trinity River toll road story breaks through like a radiant beam. In last Sunday’s Page 1 story by…
It’s all come down to this. All the months of hard work and planning, all the bookings and meetings with Denton city officials, sponsors, band managers and promoters just to get North by 35 up and running again. No musician in his right mind should have to suffer through all…
“Buzz,” By Patrick Williams, March 4 Toll Fatigue I am a fiscal conservative, and I am tired of the toll roads. People and politicians need to suck it up and completely revise the gasoline taxes. Instead of being per gallon, they need to be a percentage of the price. It…
Hate to bring the room down, especially considering it’s probably packed with folks drinking and dancing at parties thrown by Ludacris and Diddy and Dirk as the worlds of hip-hop and hoop hit town for the NBA All-Star Weekend. But last week in the metroplex, we lost two more lives…
What you see up top is the artwork unveiled today for this year’s State Fair of Texas, where the theme is “Super Sized Fun.” Which is in reference to …? Let’s go to The Official Announcement: “Super is the word heard all around North Texas this year and Fair officials…
KTVT-Channel 11 just sent word: The CBS affiliate, and KTXA-Channel 21, has a new news director and vice president, Adrienne Roark, who comes to Dallas from South Florida. Roark replaces Scott Diener, who was summoned to Cali in January and who, in 2007, replaced the not-well-liked Regent Ducas. The Google…
OK, Jim, so Michael Lindenberger didn’t ask Angela Hunt for a “told-ya-so” quote. Didn’t need to, because, after all, the District 14 council rep has her own blog, to which she just posted an item explaining why she just voted against taking $4.75 million from the Trinity River project bond…
We’ll have more from the Park Lane Whole Foods Market over on City of Ate in coming days, as the 62,000-square-foot behemoth prepares for its Monday-morning bow. Till then, sure, I could tell you all about the covered gardening center or how the supplements and cosmetics center looks like something…
Yesterday I called Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway to discuss the fate of the Dallas Convention Center Arena — otherwise known as Memorial Auditorium. Because it was Caraway who really pushed for its overhaul in the fall of 2008; matter of fact, he reminds, he only signed off on the…
While SMU and disappointing head coach Matt Doherty look for their first Conference USA tournament win tonight at 8:30, the Metroplex last night was assured of a dog in the hunt during next week’s March Madness when the University of North Texas captured the Sun Belt Championship. Saw the second half…
SMU just sent word: Its seismologists, Brian Stump and Chris Hayward, joined by researchers from the University of Texas, have found evidence that could very well link those North Texas earthquakes in ’08 and ’09 to the re-injection of saltwater into natural-gas wells. From the report summary:The incidents under study…
One of my colleagues just flew in from Houston and couldn’t find a taxi at Love Field to take into the office — because the cabbies are on strike. Those waiting in line for taxis were instead ferried into shuttles and limos airport officials called in when they discovered the…
Back in November, Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned off a pile of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including a signed guitar, some autographed album covers and his fedora. Heritage says it got the stuff from a Los Angeles man named Benson Hopp, to whom Heritage says it advanced more…
I sat down with Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan yesterday afternoon here at Spring Training in Surprise, Arizona. We talked about Vladimir Guerrero (“He’s making a statement.”), Josh Hamilton (“I expect more production out of Josh.”) and when the heck will he and Chuck Greenberg be formally approved as the…
Till now, this was only seen by those who trekked out to Fort Worth for Faith Hill’s February 6 howdy-do for the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s Kick-off Concert Series at Bass Hall. But the host committee has opted to share this all-star-studded butchering of Hill’s “This Kiss,”…
First, my apologies to anyone trying to access and leave comments on Unfair Park last night and into the wee small hours of this morning — a company-wide server issue led to some unexpected downtime. But this battle station is, once more, fully armed and operational. For now. Far as…
On Monday I mentioned that I hadn’t heard from Greg Williams in a while. Well, lo and behold, Hammer rang yesterday afternoon in an attempt to tell his side of the story in the fizzled radio pairing with John Clay Wolfe. What did I hear? Greggo was angry. Downtrodden on the…
I guess this is one in a series: City-Owned Buildings Gone to Hell. Staying, for the time being, in Northwest Dallas, today’s stop is the former Walnut Hill Library on Marsh Lane and Northwest Highway, which has been replaced with the one-parking-lot-over Bachman Lake Branch Library.The Walnut Hill branch opened…
Courtesy Courthouse News today comes this lawsuit filed two weeks ago in Dallas County District Court: Bernard Veasley claims he wanted to be a Dallas police officer. Claims he was this close to suiting up in blue. That is, until his recruiting officer — who is not named in the…
I spent most of Saturday at the Dallas Convention Center — ostensibly for the Dallas Auto Show, but it turned into an afternoon spent touring the former Memorial Auditorium, where they were holding Wheel of Fortune auditions, and Pioneer Park Cemetery. The boy and I left both places with a…
A couple of items before I return this urgent phone call …Got a brief missive yesterday from KXAS-Channel 5 anchor Jane McGarry: “Hi Robert! Just wanted you to know I’m putting up a Fanpage tomorrow at noon and would love to have you as a fan! I need all I…
Back in August 2007 we directed your attention to a doc-in-progress about Robert Crawford — or, right, Bob as he’s known in East Dallas and ’round downtown. (Schutze knows him as “Bob with the keyboard.”) Looks like the movie about the New Hampshire native and “spiritual savant” is finally finished:…
