So, I’m getting some work done just now when I get an e-mail heads-up from Borders: “JUST ANNOUNCED! A New Memoir By George W. Bush. Available Nov. 9. Pre-Order Now!” And, sure enough: Crown Publishers today announced the release date and further details about the ex-president’s new book titled Decision…
Led Zeppelin played Memorial Auditorium six times between March 28, 1970, and April 1, 1977 — including back-to-back, attendance-record-setting gigs on March 4 and 5 in ’75. Those shows remain perhaps the two best-documented concerts in local hard-rock history: The band’s official Web site features dozens of photos from the…
Yesterday afternoon, before heading to the board meeting at Dallas Independent School District’s Ross Avenue HQ, we stopped by Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse — the lone business that DISD’s seeking to condemn as it moves ahead with plans for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary School building.While the majority of the protesters…
Kyle Rote Jr. — who, it was announced this week, is finally being inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame as a “veteran,” no kidding — did indeed call me back earlier this week. Said I’d have better luck trying him later — meaning, oh, ’round 11 p.m…
I’ve been pestering Frank Librio in Dallas City Hall’s Public Information Office for The Official Word on Harold Nogle, who, according to Texas Tribune’s city payroll database, is the fourth-highest-paid city official. And, while he was at it, maybe he had some more info about the city’s dependence upon the…
As promised, some 70 protesters marched the sidewalks around Dallas Independent School District’s Ross Avenue HQ in advance of last night’s board meeting. The group of men, women and children — most of whom donned white shirts in a show of solidarity — showed up to oppose the district’s plan…
Hand-wringers who said the Cotton Bowl would sit empty now that the Cotton Bowl Classic took its wagons west to Arlington couldn’t be more wrong — why, just this morning, the stadium had to juggle its schedule because it had been double-booked.Of course, there was the big announcement we teased…
Merten just got around to looking at Texas Tribune’s list of city of Dallas employees’ salaries. He called me, shocked — SHOCKED — at some of those numbers. He also wanted to know who the who is Harold Nogle, the fourth-highest paid city employee at $208,000 — which puts him…
Yesterday Patrick Michels brought back this report from Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom Leppert and Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa introduced the so-called the West Dallas “School Zone,” a public-private partnership involving charter schools and a “leadership academy.” But on her blog this morning, DISD school board…
Thanks to Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, I spent a good hour this morning boning up on the professional (and personal) life of Lore Verne Bader — or “King” Bader or “Two Pairs” Bader, as the right-handed pitcher was known during a stint in the majors and minors that spanned…
Dallas Football Classic officials were in Arizona this week making their final pitch-presentation to NCAA officials. You remember that game, right? New Year’s Day? 11 a.m. kick-off? Beginning this January? At the Cotton Bowl? Pits the No. 6 team in the Big Ten against a rotating cast of cast-offs from…
10. As I wrote yesterday afternoon, the Cowboys talked to the Miami Dolphins about trading up. And Texas safety Earl Thomas was indeed one of their three targets in Thursday’s NFL Draft. The others: Idaho offensive lineman Mike Iupati and Oklahoma State receiver Dez Bryant. No matter which one of…
Yesterday, Tom Hicks all but told reporters gathered in Boston that the pending sale of the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express is dead. But why, the very week Greenberg had hoped to have the deal done, did Hicks choose to say it now? That’s…
Which, I’ll assume, is the point of this new promo made by Frisco-based Filmspire Productions. Kinda like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. But something’s missing. Can’t quite put my finger on it…
This morning’s mayor’s breakfast at City Hall featured a parade of speakers covering the need for big-picture reforms in West Dallas education, the sort of shakeups that are remaking schools in such cities as Washington, D.C., New Orleans and New York.Dallas Faith Communities Coalition board president Phil Wise announced the…
Well, it was more of an e-mail from Jon Paul Buchmeyer — a sort-of casual, friendly heads-up about his book Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life. The book tour-slash-traveling party begins, but of course, in Dallas on May 17 with a wingding at the Hotel Palomar. So, then, whatever is…
Source from Valley Ranch tells me this afternoon that Jerry Jones and Bill Parcells are talking. About? The Cowboys are considering trading their 1st- and 2nd-round picks in tonight’s NFL Draft to move up to the Miami Dolphins’ 12th overall pick, where they would take Texas safety Earl Thomas. Yay or…
Because of Tom Hicks and some rich dudes at Monarch Alternative Capital, Nolan Ryan may no longer be a vital part of your Texas Rangers. As I hinted at earlier this week, there are last-minute problems with the sale of the team from Hicks to prospective new owner Chuck Greenberg…
Below, a Friend of Unfair Park takes note of the cynicism aimed at the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park and wonders, “I wonder how this would have been received if the Trinity debacle had never occurred?” At the same time, urban planner Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy has penned a sprawling, epic…
The NFL Draft gets cocky tonight. It goes prime time, up against the networks’ lineup of must-see CSIs and Grey’s Anatomy and such, and against the NBA’s LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. I’ll be at Cowboys Stadium from 6 p.m. until? … at the 105.3 The Fan Miller Lite Draft Party…
A few days ago, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster sent word: It’s pushing back its shareholders meeting one month, to June 24. Said Tom Casey, the video-rental company’s exec veep and CFO, “We believe the additional time will provide us with the greatest…
Back in October I accidentally stumbled across Tanna and Charlie Gilder’s goldmine-of-an-eBay page and separate Web site, where the former Twilite Room proprietor is offloading his punk-rock memories. Which brings me to this: Last night, I came across a rather historic item the Gilders are trying to sell on eBay:…
