Texas Gov. Rick Perry has The Response. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has The Resolution. Here’s the press release declaring Your Dallas Mavericks and the rest of us “Honorary Ohioans” tomorrow. And here’s the signed doc, suitable for framing…
We had a photographer out at Love Field, where fans met the 2011 National Basketball Association Champion Dallas Mavericks; a slide show, of course, is forthcomingright here. But one good Friend of Unfair Park was out at the airport and moments ago sent this shot, along with this note: “Cuban…
Here, as promised, is the final “mini-movie” from the 2011 NBA Finals, which was just posted by The Association. Near the beginning you will find Ro Blackman, one “Mavericks legend” discussing another — the Mavericks legend now, the German Moses who led his people into the Promised Land. For such…
Jim and I’ve spilled a lot of virtual ink in recent months writing about Robert Groden’s legal battles with the city of Dallas over his selling JFK assassination-conspiracy wares in Dealey Plaza — specifically, beneath one of the pergolas beneath which the Oliver Stone adviser has long set up shop…
Mark Cuban was fuming. His team had just blown a 23-point lead in a Game 4 loss to Portland in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Mavericks were two losses from another early-round exit, the likely firing of head coach Rick Carlisle and yet another in a seemingly…
The Mavericks — those soft lil’ Mav-wrecks — were headed onto their bus and into the Miami night toward South Beach for an unprecedented night of partying with 100 bottles of Rose at famed night club LIV. More important, the Mavericks were headed into a future as NBA champs. “The best thing…
Sure, you’re satisfied this morning — you just woke up in a city planning for a championship parade, dang it. But how ’bout the rest of the year? Reason I ask: On Wednesday the city council will get a look at the 2011 Community Survey, where, long story short, the…
We’ve long wondered, including just last month, why the city can’t (won’t?) unload its old libraries and other so-called surplus properties, and time after time City Manager Mary Suhm has said: The market’s just not right. But in just a few minutes, the council’s Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee will…
Dallas, it would seem, has a new America’s Team this morning, and so we’ll get to the “news” in a moment. First, though, two Association videos — sneak peeks at the “mini-movie” to come later this afternoon. On this side, Dirk Nowtizki, who “slew the fire-breathing demon of unfulfilled expectations”;…
Only took an hour to get from Oak Cliff to Northwest Dallas tonight. Never shoulda taken Commerce, which, when it reached downtown, was blocked off by Dallas Police, causing an endless stream of brake lights between Commerce and Continental. No matter: The traffic turned into a standstill parade soundtracked by…
10. You knew it was going to be an intense game … even before the game. During shootaround at American Airlines Arena this afternoon neither Dwyane Wade nor LeBron James would respond to Dirk Nowitzki calling their mocking video “childish” and “ignorant.” Their response: “We have no comment.” Before the…
Happened to be down in Victory Park for drinksa meeting during Game 2 of The Finals. Got there well before tip-off, and a small line was already beginning to snake around the American Airlines Center; folks were also starting to congregate in the plaza. By the time we left midway…
As promised, last night the city council received a new FY2011-12 budget update in advance of Wednesday’s briefing, the last before summer break. And on the surface, it looks like better news: The $59.3-million shortfall City Manager Mary Suhm predicted in mid-May is now closer to $32.2 million, according to…
Far as I’m concerned, there’s never been a bad Squeeze record. Sure, some are better than others — that five-record run from the eponymous debut to Sweets From a Stranger is almost unparalleled in modern pop. But Babylon and On did provide The Big Hit (“Hourglass”), while Play has some…
If you care at all about the fate of the Dallas Independent School District, carve out an hour over the weekend. Then, jump to the other side of this item, where I’ve posted the entirety of the school board budget discussion to which I referred yesterday (down below too). Now,…
Only yesterday I watched as my son’s school’s librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trustees who agreed were told: Fine, but we’ll have to fire 42 teachers to make room. Trustees who disagreed insisted: Why do we…
In the latest piece of depressing women’s health news from the Texas Legislature, The Dallas Morning News reported today that the House has voted to deny state funding to public hospitals that either perform “elective abortions” or “do business with entities that provide ‘abortion-related services,'” whatever that means.But that’s just…
If you liked The Association’s Game Four mini-movie, you’ll love the Game Five short film, which was just posted. Come for the in-game footage; stay for the behind-the-scenes stuff. “They’re in the way of our championship,” says LeBron James. Oh, really?…
This week, a couple dozen high-schoolers have been honing their design skills, trying to create the perfect plan for a social space adjacent to a community garden planned for a patch of land along Good-Latimer. Various plans for the space, just south of Canton Street, include a serpent that is…
Wednesday afternoon photo intern Taryn Walker stopped by the Living Plaza, which made its return to Dallas City Hall … and not for the final time, as organizers within OCP headquarters now expect it to become a monthly event, at least. Yet again, bcWORKSHOP’s shipping-container-turned-food-commissary was parked on the plaza,…
This morning, Courthouse News directs our attention to a legal dispute playing out in Judge Carlos Cortez’s courtroom: Country Music Television v. Time Warner Cable, filed by McKinney Ave. attorney Michael Raiff. The original complaint itself isn’t available: All of the available filings in the Dallas County District Clerk’s jacket…
This morning we find two items of local interest contained within the virtual pages of IndieWire. First: Long-ago Observer-er Dana Harris sends word that the extremely authorized Sarah Palin propaganda filmdocumentary The Undefeated has found a collaboratorexhibitor, the AMC chain of theaters. As a result its producers and distributors say…
