We’re about two hours from Pitch 1 of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. I’m at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington where Nolan Ryan is talking to the national media, Josh Hamilton is taking batting practice and the glorious sun is shining…
Technically, it’s three of my favorite things, since Robert Duvall’s November 19 appearance at the Hall of State in Fair Park will be a chitchat moderated by one of my dearest friends, Elvis Mitchell, former Star-Telegram and New York Times film critic-turned-At the Movies co-critic. That’s neither here nor there…
One need not go far to find kind words for Dallas County Judge Merrill Hartman, formerly of the 192nd. From our very own pages in 2000, when Hartman was named Best District Judge: “In these highly litigious times when frivolous lawsuits are filed by too many lawyers clogging up too…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins accused Republican challenger Danny Clancy of lying and attempting to be the next Henry Wade at a debate last night at Friendship-West Baptist Church in South Dallas, where Watkins and his family attend church. While Watkins clearly held the home-field advantage for the final…
By now, no doubt, you’ve seen Fort Worth council member Joel Burns’s speech to the council on Tuesday, in which he told the victims of bullying that, yes, life may seem “unbearable” at times, but that “it gets better.” At which point Burns, born and raised in Crowley, recounted the…
All the Idea Week fun that kicked off with a little “speed ideating” downtown on Monday (maybe next year we’ll finally get that speed eating session) rolled along this morning with the second annual bike ride to City Hall, showcasing the latest draft of the Dallas Bike Plan, and spotlighting…
Fascinating case over on Courthouse News involving a Waco woman named Dorothy Isabel who used to live in Dallas and says she can’t return here to visit her relatives because, well, an old episode of A&E’s true-crime series The First 48 ID’d her as a prostitute known as “Lady” who…
Hell of a way to bookend the day — in a courtroom first thing in the morning watching Tom Hicks’s attorneys fight to keep ownership of Liverpool FC, then at the Ballpark in Arlington tonight to watch Tom Hicks’s old team fight to keep home-field advantage over the New York…
Or perhaps not.When last we left this saga we were told that ’round about 8 a.m. this morning, 160th District Court Judge Jim Jordan would rule on that temporary restraining order Tom Hicks and George Gillett asked for two long days ago in order to stop a U.K.-court-ordered sale of…
Ann from Dallas, who puts the “run” in front-runnerThis week on It’s All About Product Placement and Tyra, I was, sadly, bored out of my gourd — it is officially fall, after all.But seriously, I remember those seasons of yore when the models were put into sideshow-freak prosthetics and wind…
Just up the street from Robert’s encampment out at the George Allen Courts Building, The Good Guys crew was wrapping up shooting the second half of its first season with a series of big explosions — like this here, pictured above. Not shown here are Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks,…
Frank Librio, the fine PIO at Dallas City Hall, just sent word: The city’s introducing E-Alerts today, intended to keep locals “connected to City Hall,” which I assume isn’t some kind of a threat. Says the memo, all you gotta do is go to the city’s website, where, at the…
I’m at the George Allen this very moment, where attorneys representing New England Sports Ventures and Kop Holdings (which is to say, Tom Hicks) are squaring off over who owns Liverpool FC. In light of the UK judge’s ruling this morning, which basically tossed yesterday’s temporary restraining order, the attorneys…
Woe are the Dallas Cowboys. I still don’t think their season is kaput, but it doesn’t look good: *At 1-3, they’re firmly in the NFC East cellar. *Sunday they play at the Minnesota Vikings, an equally desperate 1-3 team. *You’d think the Cowboys would have the motivation factor, what with…
Schutze and I just spent the last way-too-long poring over this item up for grabs at Heritage Auction Galleries’ upcoming Texana auction: Official Map of Dallas, Texas, 1875. From the description: On blue oil cloth, 70″ x 55″, delineating the streets, railways, and other details of Dallas as it began…
Hell hath officially frozen over. In Arlington, the Texas Rangers are still playing baseball. And in Dallas, Stars fans are now cheering for the Detroit Red Wings. Well, at least one of them. The Stars, off to a 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 start or whatever the hell it is these days in the…
Bandit TrackerUnrelated, but while we’re on the subject, Austin PD’s looking for a man who last week robbed a bank wearing a George Bush mask.Surely you recall the tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald? No? Then a refresher: In late January, the twosome robbed a bank at East R.L…
George Gillett and Tom HicksFollowing yesterday’s surprising turn of events that landed the sale of Liverpool FC in the 160th District Court at the George Allen, attorneys representing the Liverpool board and Royal Bank of Scotland were back in U.K. High Court this morning trying to push through the sale…
Joel KotkinWe — meaning, you — just got the nicest invitation to Dallas City Hall on November 12. It’s for a little get-together called the 21st Century City Conference, which is being staged by The Trinity Trust, The Dallas Institute and the CityDesign Studio. There’s some info on the website…
This morning, via the social network, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind enough to shoot me a video made by Mark Cizdziel, who spent seven hours yesterday whittling down Rangers-Rays Game Five into quite the pro-looking highlight reel. It’s pre-, post- and in-game audio and video cobbled together from…
Gleefully, I was wrong about Rays in 5. In accordance, take this synopsis with a pinch of salt, a hint of lime, a chug of a six pack, then wake up Friday night and watch for yourselves. ALCS rosters won’t be set until Friday at 10 a.m. so there could…
A month ago we noted that Park and Rec had picked McCarthy Building Company to build the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park; yesterday, the city council added its okee-doke. Which is why, late last night, park officials sent word: The first batch of the 316 110-foot-long, Waco-made beams needed to constructify…
