When you’ve won only one playoff game in 39 years of baseball, there have been plenty of dark days. But Friday night at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington was one of those sparkling nights. On the first official game day of the new Chuck Greenberg ownership era, he lowered prices on…
I’ve never seen a game at the Dell Diamond, home of the Round Rock Express, but friends who have rank it among the finest experiences in minor-league ball — the very definition of fan-friendly. (I’m curious, though — what was “Pajama Collection Night” on July 11, exactly?) So, then, no…
As we mentioned last Tuesday the city council’s Quality of Life Committee got ’round to discussing some tweaks the city needs to make to its graffiti ordinance, which isn’t quite in compliance with state law. At which point Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston, local attorney and KERA-FM commentary contributor,…
Dez Bryant is out. Martellus Bennett is angry. Marc Colombo is hurt. The Dallas Cowboys aren’t scoring. And even mild-mannered offensive coordinator Jason Garrett is mad. You worried? The Cowboys have had 22 offensive possessions without a touchdown in two exhibition games. It’s the first time since 1986 they’ve failed…
According to Dallas City Code, all but three city parks are closed from midnight till 5 a.m. (The exceptions — Barnes Bridge Park, Bachman Creek Greenbelt and William B. Dean Park — close at 10 p.m.) But according to a proposal the Park and Rec Board will consider Thursday, that’s…
It’s been a long while since we’ve gotten an update on the Elm Fork Athletic Complex — you remember, that 20-field soccer complex the city’s been pitching since the ’98 bond election. Last I recall, construction on the $38.6-million, 140-acre project, located off Walnut Hill Lane just west of Stemmons,…
10. Never have I seen so many tattoos under one tent than at Friday’s Mayhem Festival at the Smirnoff/Super Pages Whatever Starplex. One guy had “Lamb of God” inked on his right calf and a girl – swear – had “KORN”, with a backward “R” of course, on her neck. 9. Usually not a…
Two years ago, the council’s Economic Development Committee took a long, hard look at parking rates at Love Field and agreed with the recommendation that it gradually hike prices “over several years” for several reasons — among them, Love Field’s just too cheap, and it’ll help offset some of the…
Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I’ve posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list — I’ve listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to-back…
When David Driskill, his son and three buddies decided to canoe and kayak down the Trinity River on August 7, they were prepared for any challenge the river might throw at them. What they weren’t ready for was a dangerous surprise thrown at them by the city’s construction of an…
The Texas Rangers held a presser a presser at the Ballpark in Arlington Friday afternoon to announce the club’s “Stretch Drive Pricing” initiative, which includes lowering prices on beer, soda, hot dogs, hats and parking — or “five of the basic staples in life,” according to Chuck Greenberg. The newly…
With the clock ticking on the Cliff Manor Task Force’s 6 p.m. deadline yesterday, Patrick “Buzz” Williams and I had a chance to sit down with Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance director Mike Faenza, who wanted to offers his perspective on the fight over Cliff Manor that seems to be getting…
At 4 this morning, the two gentlemen you’ll find in the video on the other side decided to break into the downtown McDonald’s on Commerce and Griffin Streets. Their goal: the ATM in the front window. And, for a little while, it goes so-far-so-good — using crowbars, it takes them…
Pat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he’d been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to condemn his business in order…
As Mayor Tom Leppert told DMN’er Rudy Bush last night, there will be at least four options for the city council to evaluate at Wednesday’s briefing about the Dallas Love Field Airport concession contracts, two of which contain the mayor’s input. We asked Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, for…
Sam’s out at the Ballpark in Arlington at this very moment, where Chuck Greenberg’s holding his first press conference as The Owner of Your Texas Rangers. (Nolan Ryan was called out of town at the last second.) As they mentioned yesterday, the newsome twosome called today’s meet-and-greet to introduce some…
Just found this on YouTube: five minutes of footage from Dallas Video Festival founder Bart Weiss’s work-in-progress about Brave Combo, who’ve been making music for squares since ’79 and whose Musical Varieties I was listening to only last weekend. (“Skokiaan”!) I’d heard such a polkathesis was in the works, but…
As Master o’ Doom John Carmack wrapped his keynote sermon yesterday evening, the old familiar QuakeCon rhythm began drumming back to life, tap-tap-slurp, in the dim and sprawling tournament hall full of home-built gaming towers, beady-eyed gamers lit by their screens and enough snack foods to stock a few 7-Elevens…
Meant to be sung to the tune of this Squeeze single …Remember Hiram Walker Royall? Sure you do — he’s the Highland Park developer who sued anyone who wrote, reviewed or pretty much read Carla Main’s 2007 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which deals…
Anderson Cooper can’t get enough of Texas Republicans’ claims that women are coming to the United States illegally to give birth to future terrorists — ya know, “terror babies,” as state Rep. Debbie Riddle called ’em during her debate with a clearly bemused Rafael Anchía Tuesday night. Wednesday, the namesake…
OK, it’s a hospital — the “new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas” that the UT System Board of Regents agreed to fund to the tune of $800 million. The 12-story, 424-bed facility will open in 2015 on Harry Hines Boulevard at Record Crossing Road and…
I saw on the City Hall blog that Meadows Foundation is calling a morning press conference to announce a grant that will allow the budget-strapped Park and Rec Department to “bring in a director of development this fall to pursue grants and donations for the City of Dallas Park and…
