Last week, our favorite Barking Dog pointed out the latest Resident Parking Only zone in the Lower Greenville area — the seventh such RPO zone to take effect in the last year, Avi notes. To that list, add an eighth: Avi sent Unfair Park an e-mail last night in which…
I’ve heard of the 20-20 feat in baseball. But never the 20-20 final score. I was at a premiere party/fundraiser last night and unable to attend The Ticket’s second annual “Great Game” at Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark, but from what I’m gathering it was – as expected – a unique, memorable…
Earlier this week, WFAA-Channel 8 reported that the Majestic Theater is losing its operator, Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group, at the end of June, because, look, it’s just lost too much money to continue running the designated city landmark. Which isn’t necessarily the case: Dallas Summer Musicals president Michael Jenkins…
Check out this slideshow for more photos from the party.For the first time in a long time, the Dallas Cowboys are actually acting like a unified team. In the wake of the Valley Ranch practice facility collapse on May 2, last night’s premiere of Spike TV’s new reality series Fourth…
Elm Street-based Blockbuster’s stock is tanking this morning — down more than 27 percent before the sun’s even warm, to about 83 cents. It was bound to happen following yesterday’s quarterly report, which noted a 20-percent drop in total revenues over the same period in ’08. But, fear not, CEO…
Jose and Alicia Elizondo, the parents of a Garland teen who died on March 19 from gunshot wounds suffered after a Garland police officer responded to a 911 call for a suicide attempt, have filed a civil rights and wrongful death suit in Dallas County District Court. The 15-page lawsuit…
The headline says it all. But this missive, which we just received from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office concerning the fight over funding at Dallas Independent School District’s magnet schools and learning centers, says it better. Certainly, longer.Update at 5:15 p.m.: As the DISD board of trustees is due to…
All week, Wall Street has been anxiously anticipating Blockbuster’s first-quarter results, which were released moments ago. Analysts didn’t expect good news from the Dallas-based company, whose efforts to reinvent itself we’ve documented at great length in recent months. And the news is indeed mixed, at best: From Elm Street HQ…
By far, the best-reviewed doc of ’09 thus far is Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi’s rockumentary about a Canadian thrash-metal band’s fall and rise. Noted The Village Voice’s thumbs-up, it’s “A Hoop Dreams for heshers,” so, ya know, all right, all right, all right. It finally gets a…
The body was still warm. The emotions, still raw. But when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks, Charles Barkley doesn’t give a damn. “They got problems,” the rotund, ridiculous TNT analyst said last night in the minutes after Dallas’ elimination by the Denver Nuggets. “They gotta get younger and more physical…
After the jump, Michael Irvin’s appearance on FOX News yesterday, where it took Sean Hannity all of one minute and 48 seconds to bring up “drugs, adultery.” Irvin, of course, was on to talk up — sort of — his new SpikeTV series 4th and Long, wherein a dozen pro-football…
USA Today directs our attention to the following tweet sent this morning from Children’s Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern: “Who’s an early bird? Transplant Twittering starts Mon. at 6 a.m. central!” Yup. On Monday morning, a 3-year-old named John Gilbreath is set to get a kidney from his father,…
Big weekend planned on the SMU campus, where Laura Bush will deliver the commencement address Saturday morning at Moody Coliseum to the some 2,000 Mustangs escaping the Hilltop. But in advance of the weekend shindig, there are tomorrow’s honorary degree recipients symposia featuring some fairly bold-faced names: Harold W. Attridge,…
Tonight, of course, is the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ called board meeting, at which the board will discuss and approve campus staffing formulas for the 2009-’10 school year; Schutze is attending, but of course. But at this very moment is the lengthy warm-up: a regular ol’ board…
Before we hop onto the bandwagon of your first-place Texas Rangers, let me chunk one more rock at Alex Rodriguez. And myself. Back in 2004 – in the couple months between leaving the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and joining the Dallas Observer – I got word that A-Rod twice frequented the Dallas…
View Larger MapThere are several items of interest on the City Plan Commission’s agenda this afternoon, chief among them a Planned Development District under consideration for the southwest corner of Gaston and East Grand Avenues. At the moment, the five-acre site is mostly empty save for some unused retail space;…
As mentioned Monday, KERA-FM (90.1) is running throughout this week a series of stories about where Dallas gets its water and how we use it. Which brings us to today’s contribution from B.J. Austin concerning water consumption. Says the story, the average Dallas homeowner is billed for 100,000 gallons used…
Hindsight, they say, is 20/20. Sometimes, unfortunately, so is foresight. On Friday, May 1 I picked the Denver Nuggets to eliminate the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Last night it came to pass, in the form of Nuggets 124, Mavs 110. Dirk Nowitzki was as gritty as he was great…
Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sent Unfair Park a note to point out this “amazing” development from yesterday: Burleson’s Shanda Perkins bid to become a member of the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles was killed dead in the Senate yesterday. Happened just a week after the Senate Committee…
Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few strangers thought and let it get in the way of his training, how would he possibly bring home the…
Save Ferris: Elsewhere in this week’s paper, Jim Schutze is mounting a spirited defense of DISD’s magnet schools for talented and gifted students. The district’s magnets and its learning centers for disadvantaged students were threatened with staff cuts thanks to a federal funding formula that requires each DISD campus to…
If things go badly in Denver, the Dallas Mavericks have lost this series. But Dirk Nowitzki should’ve won your heart. Despite being sucker-shoved by Kenyon Martin, lambasted by TNT’s chorus of critics, privately duped and publicly humiliated by his former fiancée, screwed by the referees and frustrated almost to tears…
