Defining inanity: It’s not often anything we read in The Dallas Morning News makes us laugh out loud, but we giggled last Thursday morning when we read this headline over a story out of City Hall: “Lobbyist registrations, gift limits discussed in closed-door session.” That’s right, the city council, tackling…
Jerry Jones is unbuttoning his shirt. And as usual—as with everything concerning the owner of the Dallas Cowboys—the whole world is watching. Well, for now, it’s merely a handful of patrons at Coyote Ugly on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. But, seeing that most of them have drawn cell phones…
Slowly but surely Flickr fills up with images of the Traveling Man who strides through Deep Ellum. Here, for now, are two of our current favorites; after the jump, a rare nighttime shot of his seated counterpart. Co-creator Brandon Oldenburg told our Patrick Michels not long ago he hopes the…
View Larger MapThere’s space for lease on Knox Street — nice location too, right between the Apple store and Wild About Harry’s. Until, oh, today, of course, that was the Current Energy location. But according to a press release we received this afternoon, Joe Harberg’s done pulled the plug on…
Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the Daytime Juvenile Curfew went into effect, we thought it might be a good time to find out how many kiddos the Dallas Police Department’s done rounded up for skipping school. But as it happens, that’s easier requested than done: We called…
Two words: Dynamic. Pricing. That, per today’s announcement, is how Your Dallas Stars have chosen to sell seats this season — beginning this very Saturday, matter of fact, when regular-season single-game seats go on sale for October and November. And what, you may be asking, is dynamic pricing, other than,…
Tomorrow morning, the Dallas City Attorney’s Office will present yet another version of its ordinance that would allow for the demolition of buildings in historically designated districts. Surely you know what this is all about — we’ve been down this road since, oh, August 4, 2008, when the the city…
So Coach Joe lures all these women into the locker room and then … Actually, no, it’s not a scene-setter for the most bizarre porn on the planet, it’s Football 101 for Ladies. And it’s not a bad idea. Not bad at all. The premise is that Joe Avezzano and his…
Back in June, Mark Cuban tweeted that the American Airlines Center’s scoreboards were due for a high-def makeover over the summer. (Maybe you recall that video sneak peek of “the First and Only 1080 HD Video Scoreboards in the NBA or NHL.”) From the looks of this photo graciously provided…
Back in May, when the Dallas City Council was starting to tackle the city’s $190-million budget deficit, then-council member Mitchell Rasansky made it clear he was very unhappy with the city’s having spent $18,000 on fiberglass peaches scheduled to be installed at Dallas Farmers Market as part of a public…
At this point don’t fear the valleys, just enjoy the roller-coaster. Just when – yet again – it seemed your Texas Rangers were going to fall out of playoff contention by not scoring a single run in their last 15 innings in Baltimore, this happens. The resilient Rangers, playing without big…
As testimony concluded yesterday in the City Hall corruption trial, it appeared as though the prosecution would begin its cross-examination of Don Hill after Doug Greene, D’Angelo Lee’s attorney, finished what is expected to be his relatively short questioning of Hill, especially after Victor Vital told us he had no…
Didn’t wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well — wouldn’t have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it…
The city’s planning quite the one-two punch for next week: The Woodall Rodgers Park breaks ground Monday, followed on Tuesday by the convention center hotel’s dirt-fly ceremony. The latter, per our invite to the wingding at 800 Young Street at 4:30 p.m. sharp, is a “momentous occasion in Dallas’ history”;…
Went to my son’s 7th grade football scrimmage yesterday afternoon and – it’s official – I’m effin’ old. Uncool. Dweeby. Dorky. And totally outta touch. These two boys – I dunno, maybe 13 or 14ish – were talking underneath the bleachers. At least I think it was talking. To my…
We have 508 Park Avenue; The Dallas Morning News, Adamson High School, which the Dallas Independent School District wants to demolish, save for the facade, to make way for a new facility next door by August 2012. A few weeks back, the paper made note of the DISD’s tussles with…
So, let’s say Jack Ruby’s hat doesn’t do it for you. Fine. In that case, Heritage Auction Galleries has another option for your noggin: one of Tom Landry’s old fedoras, this one circa 1980-something. Heritage’s Noah Fleisher sends word that the trademark hat’ll be amongst a handful of Dallas Cowboys…
While President Obama’s speech to students met a lukewarm reception at some schools around Dallas-Fort Worth, former Dallas mayor and current U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk made sure the speech played to a full house this morning at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.At a…
The Rangers’ past is sucky and their future is murky. There are frightening skeletons in the closet and financial potholes down the road. The present, however, smells delicious. That’s why Derek Holland should be taken out of the starting rotation and replaced by Dustin Nippert. Love Holland. He’s 23 with…
Have yet to make it to Dallas County District Court to read the lawsuits pitting Gilbert Aranza, the franchisee operating as Base Holdings who opened and rather suddenly shuttered the Chili’s in the American Airlines Center, against Center Operating Company, which runs the arena. But I did spend a little…
In September 2004, the Dallas City Council gave Dr Pepper an exclusive beverage vending contract — meaning that at any city of Dallas venue, you had to be a Pepper or else till at last the fall of ’09, since Dr Pepper was paying good money for the exclusive access…
A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees is considering putting a cap on how long speakers get to, ya know, speak at board meetings. Turns out — surprise, surprise — there’s some dissent amongst the board regarding the proposal: At Thursday’s…
