It featured overtime. It was won by underachievers. Do you exhale in relief? Or boast with satisfaction? Glass-half full guys say a win is a win is a win. That Tony Romo found his smile and Miles Austin at just the right time. That 3-2 is heck of a lot…
Last week, the National Complete Streets Coalition announced that more than 100 cities across the U.S. have adopted at least some of its policies, with Lansing, Michigan and Rockville, Maryland, among the latest to seize the idea that the streets don’t belong just to cars. (Ah, yes. Here we go.)…
Amazing the things you learn from city council briefings. Like this: Oncor has a Web site that allows you to report street-light outages by address or pole numbers. It’s been operational since August, but the council’s Quality of Life Committee is getting a briefing on the subject today. The Web…
So, Dallas-based 7-Eleven wants to keep its yellow bananas from going brown, which’ll surely mean a little extra green at the cash register. Notes USA Today today, the chain will unroll some plastic wrap at 27 Dallas-area locations by way of a test run; Fresh Del Monte Produce says the…
Back in April, we told you about Cathryn Elaine Harris, who claimed that Elm Street-based Blockbuster violated her rights to privacy by allowing Facebook to post her video rentals online. Harris sued Blockbuster in February, but the question was: Would U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn let Harris take Blockbuster…
This was the plan: Cowboys will trounce the sorry ass Chiefs, so I’ll sneak off with friends to the Fair on Sunday afternoon and let TiVo leisurely give me the highlights when I get home. During a Cowboys game Fair Park shouldn’t be too crowded. And the weather will be…
Streetcars have been on the city council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s radar since well before the May 23, 2008, book-club get-together at Dallas City Hall, during which city officials and downtown stakeholders got a talking-to from the authors of Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century. But…
10. Say what you will about the Cowboys’ lack of execution, their enthusiasm and effort was impressive. Keith Brooking. Jay Ratliff. Tashard Choice. They didn’t always play well, but you can’t say they didn’t play hard. 9. I even liked – for a change – the report just before halftime by Fox’s…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who was out at the State Fair of Texas today sends word: OMFG, Oprah! Fried butter for everyone! Nice photo of the clusterflock at top — especially of WFAA’s Cynthia Izaguirre, who looks damned happy to be there — but this one’s the keeper…
It never occurred to Jan Worthington, an East Dallas yoga instructor, that her idea for a community garden could be controversial. “I simply wanted a fresh tomato,” she remembers. Now she knows. Worthington and a group of eager would-be gardeners wanted to build long rows of raised garden beds—wooden boxes…
In the midst of a pennant race into mid-September for only the fifth time in 37 seasons, the Texas Rangers promptly lost 13 of 19 games. Their uncharacteristically punchless offense failed to score at least 800 runs for the first time in 14 years. Star outfielder Josh Hamilton crashed back…
Out of business: So, it turns out Buzz was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you interpret arcane campaign finance laws and city ethics policies, getting caught on camera accepting 10 grand in cash out back of a church the way Don…
Under improvised lighting and despite thunderheads rolling in from the north, polo players on bicycles commenced to crashing into one another while smacking balls with badly beaten homemade mallets. One of the riders sported a football helmet, wise move. Such was the scene on Tuesday night at Good Space in…
My father won’t be surprised: I won’t be the next voice of Your Dallas Mavericks. But one of these 10 men will: Rodney Blue, Doug Branch, KTCK’s Tom Gribble, Sean Heath, Chris Martin (no, not that one), Allan Peck, Michael Rey, KEGL’s Chris Ryan, Steve Sparks or Michael Taylor. The…
Back up to June 2006, when Matt Pulle recounted the tale of Jeffrey Ellard, a prisoner in the Dallas County Jail whose six-inch leg wound went unattended by medical providers and became, as Matt would describe it in September 2007, “a big, soggy hole stocked with pus and the pieces…
No Shep Smith to narrate this time ’round, shame, but Fox News was still plenty giddy over the two-hour, at-the-speed-limit chase that started near Sherman and ended close to Corsicana after some dude drove off without paying for gas. We were watching it for a while — as the procession…
This week on Project Runway, which we’re one local contestant auffing away from turning off forever, Heidi Klum flounced out on the runway and announced that the designers would have to pick new models. But not actual models. Instead she introduced some gay divorcées who wanted a redesign of their…
Fernando Hernandez is a 33-year-old Internal Revenue Service employee working out of the Dallas office. Only, today he’s in federal custody after having been arrested by federal authorities, who dropped by Friday morning following a Dallas federal grand jury’s decision to indict Hernandez for just offering to help out a…
Specifically, you’ll want to stay away from the Chevrolet Main Stage at 10 a.m., when Oprah Winfrey will begin taping her State Fair of Texas special that’ll also include a performance by Martina McBride. Winfrey’s production company just sent the details for her appearance, if you have further questions:Join Oprah…
While we pull ourselves away from the world’s slowest, longest police chase …The Associated Press checks in today with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins as he prepares to run for re-election one year from now. (Two weeks ago we met one Republican who’d like the job.) The rather lengthy…
You ask for it, you got it. The Dallas Cowboys owner tells me and Newy Scruggs this morning on 105.3 The Fan that he not only accepts criticism of his team’s play this season, he desires it. Demands it, even. “I knew when we walked outta Denver with that loss that we…
Monday’s the big day — the grand opening of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, which kicks off at 8 a.m. with South Pacific star Keala Settle performing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before AT&T PAC president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen, Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials play ball. Hence yet…
