The video’s been making the rounds all morning, first on Busted Coverage, then Deadspin, then everywhere else. Question is: Who owns those beards sitting with the Dallas Mavericks in Detroit last night? The Mavs’ front office said: Dunno, ask Mark Cuban. So I did: “No idea,” he wrote back. But…
On Monday the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the subject of setting up electric vehicle charging stations at several city facilities, including City Hall and the downtown central library. For the most part the committee was on board with the initiative, which includes putting three electric trucks in…
One week ago today, during council’s chat about the coming bond program, the subject of the UNT Dallas College of Law came up: Angela Hunt wanted to know when the university would take over the old Municipal Building, at which point City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, “They’re a…
There’s no need to introduce Bill Holston — attorney, KERA contributor, nature-trekker — to longtime Friends of Unfair Park; he’s one of the good ones, and has been for a long, long while. But Bill’s about to disappear from these virtual pages, at least for a little while; he writes,…
In the end, the timing was perfect: The rain, scarce for far too long, had moved off but not before topping off the Trinity River just enough so that it resembled an actual river — roaring, even, almost mighty. The clouds remained, and the glare from an ever-illuminated downtown gave…
Justin Terveen’s already taken his place on the west side of the Continental Avenue Bridge for tonight’s lighting of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, set to begin glowing at 6:15, give or take. He says it’s filling up fast, no joke. I’m about to head that way myself; why not…
That photo you see at right comes from the F.B.I.’s Bandit Tracker website, which we’ve perused in the past. It was snapped June 14 of last year at a State Bank of Texas branch in Garland, off IH-30. The bandit in question: 19-year-old Anthony Blue of Garland. Which we now…
Texas’s dandy new “sonogram law” — which requires abortion-seeking women to look at a sonogram, hear a description of it from her doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat — is legal, a federal court ruled today. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a temporary injunction, issued by…
There’s a book on the subject: The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL. I refuse to read it. Or even link to it. Five years ago, Chris Berman recalled the moment for ESPN. Won’t watch that either. Al Michaels narrated this piece about how…
Feels like three years since last we hopped into bed with Fellowship Church’s senior pastor and resident sexpert Ed Young, who’s been selling his religious sexperience since giving thanks for network morning talk shows in November 2008. But now, via the miracle of the Associated Baptist Press, we find this:…
Last month the Dallas Independent School District officially dedicated George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary, the Addison campus funded by the 2008 bond program. The affair was populated by pols, Ross Ave. administrators and educators, but at the 3:37 mark of the video just posted by the district the man for…
After a few weeks off, the city’s Gas Drilling Task Force gets back at it today at 2. The agenda’s short and sweet — “Develop Recommendations for Gas Drilling and Production Regulations” — but the process has been anything but; initially, you may recall, the group was to turn in…
Below is the 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey dispatched this morning by Dallas Area Rapid Transit in advance of today’s board meeting. Long story short: Despite some issues with the transit agency — longtime riders think the buses are getting shabby, passengers don’t feel there’s adequate notice of service disruptions, there’s…
Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: “Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.” (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage’s website, the listing for the historic artifact, kept by Jim Lovell during…
A little while ago reports began to circulate that Dallas Police and Dallas Fire-Rescue were searching the Trinity River for a car thief who ditched out of his stolen ride and took a dive into the rain-swollen river. That search is over, despite the fact authorities have yet to find…
In the rarefied halls of Cornell, the atmospheric-science equivalent of the gauntlet has been thrown. At stake is nothing less than the suitability of one of the most plentiful, domestically producible forms of energy in North America to replace a fuel speeding climate change and emitting tons of known carcinogens…
Perhaps you were under the impression that the Texas Department of Transportation is responsible for mowing and maintaining the highway rights-of-way throughout the city. Or maybe you just never thought about it. What’s that like, not thinking about highway medians? We wouldn’t know. Either way, you may recall that way…
I’ve got a call out to Robert Edsel — founder of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which honors those who’ve spent decades scouring the globe for art stolen by Hitler and the Nazis — about news that hit The Los Angeles Times yesterday: George Clooney told…
About an hour ago Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks finally got their visit to the White House, where President Obama was presented with his very own Mavs jersey. Obama welcomed the team, former Mayor Ron Kirk and, of course, “the shy and retiring owner of the Dallas Mavericks,” as…
I’d forgotten all about Dylan Hollingsworth’s shoulda-been classic photo taken in January 2010, during what turned out to be the First Annual No Pants! Ride on Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail. Then a Friend of Unfair Park shot me this video from yesterday’s third-annual balls-out trip on a train…
Drove the Continental Avenue bridge several times over the weekend on back-and-forth trips to Oak Cliff; the boy and I even pulled over on the west side, at the under-construction entrance to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, to grab the quick pic seen below. As mentioned Friday, all that and…
On Thursday we plugged into the city’s interest in setting up electric-car charging stations on city property — at City Hall, the downtown library, Fair Park, Dallas Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport — with partners TXU and ECOtality, the latter a San Francisco-based company. As it turns out, per…
