Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported in a subscription-only story that last fall, Your Texas Rangers violated baseball’s collective-bargaining agreement by failing to pay $39.55 million into a deferred compensation fund. That happened sometime before October, and, according to Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Michael Weiner in yesterday’s…
Seems not so long ago that then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund were staging a press conference in the Dallas City Hall Flag Room begging the producers of the (ill-fated) big-screen Dallas to “Shoot JR Here.” They brought with them T-shirts and bumper stickers, and…
Chris McGuinness called a little while ago, and he’s decided to set up a tent in the Dodie’s Seafood Cafe parking lot after all. There’s even going to be live music courtesy the Donavan Foy Band; downbeat’s at 7 p.m. sharp. Because danged if the longtime Lower Greenville restaurant owner’s…
If you don’t want to see the fatal luge accident of 21-year-old Republic of Georgia Olympic athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili during a training run in Vancouver last week, don’t click here. I watched it. Not for morbid entertainment, of course, but for education. As in, what went wrong?…
Maybe you heard: On Saturday, Tufani, a 19-year-old female gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, got out of her holding area at the 2-acre Jake L. Hamon Gorilla Conservation Research Center. It was nothing as dramatic as the Jabari rampage in ’04, which prompted PETA to demand the U.S. Department of…
Speaking of crime stats …City Hall sends word this morning that City Auditor Craig Kinton’s look-see into how the Dallas Police Department handles its cash turned up a crime: “Approximately $17,000 was misappropriated by a DPD employee between Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 and FY 2008.” The report doesn’t name names,…
Two years ago the Dallas Mavericks came out of the All-Star break thusly: In his first game back in Dallas after a trade from New Jersey point guard Jason Kidd took the opening possession against the Hornets in New Orleans and threw a perfect lob pass that Josh Howard dunked…
We’ll have more on this later today, when Uplift Education’s Rosemary Perlmeter has a moment to talk. But for months, we’d been hearing that the Science Place Building 2 — otherwise known as the space housing the Planetarium — might be getting a new tenant. And, sure enough, there it…
As you no doubt recall, the state of Texas has been trying for years to find a way to make its so-called “pole tax” stick. The first time around, a judge slapped down the $5-per-gentleman’s-club-customer fee — which was earmarked for sexual assault prevention programs — as unconstitutional; last year’s…
This morning the city council’s Public Safety Committee will take a longer, harder look at the 2009 crime stats. At most meetings, they’re just tallied up and dropped into the chart you see up above. But this morning council members will be briefed on the rise and fall of crimes…
Been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans a couple times. Nothing like it. At least I think remember liking it. In the French Quarter there are no doors, no clocks, no rules. Bars sell buy-one-get-three beers. If you have a glass folks will just walk by and pour whatever they’re drinking into…
Judge Jim Foster conducted a news conference late this afternoon to tell anxious reporters that, well, he hadn’t yet read former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh’s 92-page report about Constable Jaime Cortes, which Foster said his office had received just minutes prior to the 4 p.m. gathering inside the chambers of…
About an hour ago, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster summoned a few members of the media, including Sam, to the commissioners court in order to discuss Danny Defenbaugh’s investigation into the alleged misdeeds of Constable Jaime Cortes. Sam will be along shortly with his notes from his interview with Foster,…
From time to time, I’ve checked in with Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty to see how his Superman musical’s coming. But so far, we’ve yet to speak with his It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman collaborator, playwright and TV scribe and Marvel comics author…
So, let’s see … Larry King now wants Kevin Smith to come on his show to talk about getting booted off a Southwest flight Saturday. Smith would rather go on Jon Stewart with a row of Southwest seats to prove, yeah, he can fit just fine, thanks. Meanwhile, the locally…
For the first time in 18 years, Dodie’s Seafood Cafe on Lower Greenville won’t be having its annual Fat Tuesday outdoor live-music shindig beneath a rented tent set up in the parking lot. The reason: The city of Dallas’s Office of Special Events has warned owner Chris McGuinness that a…
Look, I took time Friday afternoon to build a snowman and go sled-bounding down a hill. Done with winter. How long ’til Spring Break? I actually turned on the TV Sunday afternoon to see which was more boring: The Winter Olympics or Daytona 500. Auto racing was on hold because of…
This week, city officials — both the council and the Park and Rec board — will be briefed on progress at the 5.2-acre Woodall Rodgers Deck park. But it’s more than just an informational heads-up: Park and Rec still has to find someone to landscape the park and built out…
That’s what we gather by looking at the pics sent to us by Kurt Watkins, cousin and PR man to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. Kurt also sends word that Craig endorsed Democratic gubernatorial primary frontrunner Bill White on Thursday, and the DA subsequently began campaigning for White during…
Actually, it’s the “Stemmons Corridor-Southwest Medical District Plan,” which has been simmering since 2008 as officials from UT Southwestern, Love Field, Crow Holdings, Parkland and so forth worked with area residents to hash out the (transit-oriented) development details. Nothing’s final yet — that’s a few months-plus off — but tomorrow,…
This is how it looked as workers transformed Cowboys Stadium from a football field to a basketball court for yesterday’s casual pick-up game. Alas, as there is no soundtrack, this suggestion: I see my old rock-and-roll frienemy, Knack frontman Doug Fieger, has died after a protracted battle with cancer, sad…
Three years ago to the day I loved Josh Howard. But this morning I’m thrilled that he’s no longer a Dallas Maverick. Why? Because lost in the parties and record-setting crowd of NBA All-Star Weekend was a seven-player trade that both re-shaped the Mavs’ roster and re-booted their hopes for contending…
