Not saying it was great, groundbreaking radio. Not saying you should start trying to put 2 and 2 together. Not saying my radio partner on Tuesday and Wednesday is eternally stone cold straight and beyond another hiccup. What I am saying is that … so far, so good. And, most importantly, what…
Had a long talk with Greg Meyer last night. He’s the guy who owns 645,000 shares of Blockbuster — more than any exec at Blockbuster, save for CEO Jim Keyes, whose stock comes with the title, and more than anyone on the board of directors. He’s the former managing director…
In an attempt to keep Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s schedule private, his office has asked for an opinion from the Texas attorney general regarding a public records request for Watkins’s calendar dating to his first day in office. In a May 6 letter to Attorney General Greg Abbott,…
A Friend of Unfair Park now living in NYC directs our attention to The Daily Beast’s compendium of The Most Corrupt States (which several TDB readers are taking issue with, since Illinois comes in way down at No. 47). And, after factoring in such things as the number of corrupt…
According to the Dallas Police Department, 78 officers have been killed since the department’s inception in 1881; the first to die was C.O. Brewer on May 24, 1892. Each year, the DPD pays tribute to its fallen dead during Police Memorial Day ceremonies, which took place today at noon at…
I’ve been known to be a glass-half-empty sorta guy. (Psst: I’m geniunely positive, I just like to play an a-hole in here and on 105.3 The Fan.) Last summer I wished failure upon the noggin’ of one Terrell Owens. Whatdya know, he sucked in Buffalo and these days is without…
It’s very possible, if not downright likely, that at any second now word will come down that Major League Baseball has seized ownership of the Texas Rangers in order to wrap up the sale of the team to Chuck Greenberg — after which time the creditors will announce that, whoops,…
I just went over to the Dallas Independent School District’s Web site to look for something relating to tomorrow’s school board briefing when I found this: the proposed 2010-2011 budget. I asked DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander if this is the first time the district has posted its would-be budget in…
Tonight, Sotheby’s is selling this untitled 1961 painting by Mark Rothko during its Contemporary Art Evening Auction; it’s expected to sell for between $18 million and $25 million — pocket change. But, according to Bloomberg, it’s also the subject of a lawsuit filed last week in Dallas County District Court…
Two months ago we directed your attention to the fact that the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the city of Dallas had hired, at the cost of $375,000, Baltimore-based Toole Design Group to revamp the antiquated Dallas Bike Plan. Toole has developed bicycle master plans for 16 cities,…
I like Ron Washington. Really do. It’s just that I … Hey, if this feels/sounds like deja vu all over again it’s because it is. Bottom line: I honestly don’t think the Texas Rangers’ manager is good enough to go with his gut instincts. I’m a quirky, color-outside-the-lines guy, but in…
It looks like all the hubbub the Jubilee Park residents and and business owners have raised in recent weeks concerning their on-going fight to keep the Dallas Independent School District from seizing their land under eminent domain may be starting to pay off. We finally heard back from DISD spokesperson…
On April 1 the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced the five finalists for the $2 million 2010 Broad Prize, which goes to urban schools that have made the “greatest progress in America in raising student achievement,” and the Dallas Independent School District was not among them. This, despite the…
With Phil Mickelson out and Tiger Woods out and golf pretty much dead, this year’s HP Byron Nelson Classic in Irving May 20-23 will be much ado about nothing The Pavilion. What’s new, right? That could change, if the dudes in red pants would think outside their yellow-roped box and give an exemption…
Your First-Place Texas Rangers take on the one-game-back Oakland Athletics tonight at the Ballpark in Arlington — first pitch in, oh, 15 minutes. After the game, you can switch it on over to CBS for the Late Show with David Letterman, where perfect-gamer Dallas Braden’s throwing out the Top 10…
A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County’s new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program…
Along with oversized bangles, rompers and feathered headbands, cheating on your spouse is a new supertrend … if, that is, you’re a lady! Press the moral panic button and make sure the smelling salts are close at hand, for demure sensibilities may be offended by a press release sent to…
If your afternoon plans involve heading out to Mountain Creek Lake, and a trip across the toll bridge, you may want to check ahead. According to the Dallas Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Dive Recovery Team was out training at Mountain Creek Lake this afternoon when it…
That’s what promoter Bob Arum suggests to Sports Illustrated today: Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring November 13, and right now, says Arum, “I have reserved the date and both the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and MGM Grand in Las Vegas are available. The cable systems and the satellite providers…
If you ask Phil Collins, Mexican colonel and Battle of the Alamo memoirist José Enrique de la Peña has been getting a raw deal in the press. There’s plenty of good history in the officer’s records, Collins told his audience at the Hall of State in Fair Park last night,…
The Dallas Cowboys finally admitted Monday what we’ve all known for years: Bobby Carpenter is a blonde bust. Drafted 18th overall in 2006 before stars like Antonio Cromartie and Joseph Addai (thank you, Bill Parcells), Carpenter never carved a niche in Dallas. Too slow to play outside in the 3-4. Too finesse…
A few weeks ago, we directed your attention to plans to turn the Riverfront Boulevard into a so-called “complete street” — plans that, as we’ve also pointed out, have drawn a fair amount of criticism for being, well, not-so-complete streets with far too much emphasis on automobile traffic and far…
