It all began on May 5, 2006, when the Dallas Business Journal reported that during an April 28, 2006, speech in Dallas, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said he wouldn’t award HUD contracts to folks who “have a problem” with his boss and good pal President Bush…
From a Childress production of The Kidnapper’s Foil, with Melton Barker at right For years, Caroline Frick — founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image in Austin — has sought the answer to a seemingly simple question, “Who was Melton Barker?” She knew only the…
In November, the Dallas Mavericks went to Atlanta for the season-opener, which Dallas lost 101-94. But something tells me that was nothing compared to what Dirk Nowitzki faced when he got back to the hotel. –Robert Wilonsky…
Irving’s John Moore captured several of the defining images of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination moments ago. In June, I mentioned my old friend John Moore, whom I first met at The Daily Texan in the late-1980s. He was one of our staff photographers, and even in college the Irving-born picture-taker shot…
It was a done deal about a month ago, but both Neil Young and the Undermain Theatre’s Web sites have the just-released official announcement: In March, the Undermain will world premiere a stage production of Young’s Greendale, based on his 2003 album that spawned the most head-scratching concert tour of…
Apartments ain’t the only thing coming down in the DFW — corner-lot gas stations are also going the way of the dodo, only to be replaced by banks of banks (like you hadn’t noticed). Specifically, gas stations are giving way to Wachovia branches, according to The Wall Street Journal, which…
Every day, seems like, another apartment complex goes missing just like that; one minute it’s there, and the next there’s only a pile of rubble and a mound of dirt. Turns out, it’s not just perception: GlobeSt.com this morning tallies the number of old apartments coming down and new units…
Geritol Jump-shooters Take it from one of us who believes you only get better with age (“Oldies but Greaties,” by Richie Whitt, December 20). Thank you sincerely for a great tale. For a change, we should all read of proud men who play for the love of the game. Good…
So maybe you didn’t get a Wii, an iPhone or a weekend at the Playboy Mansion. But you know what? You didn’t need them. Because you already got the most valuable and exclusive of all Christmas presents—a franchise quarterback. Even better, yours came equipped with all the atypical accessories. Hall…
Making crime pay: Because nothing says “Happy Holidays” like raging paranoia that faceless criminals are coming for you, we’d like to close out 2007 with a shout-out to our pal, Avi Adelman, who has started up a new business that aims to keep Dallas residents apprised of crime in their…
A week before Christmas, and Luis Yanez is hardly in the mood for peace on earth. If anything, his resolution for 2008 is to wreak some havoc—on the Chinese, the Cubans—the entire world. On this chilly December night in Oak Cliff, in a drafty warehouse-like gym, the first boxer from…
In the latest issue of Consumer Reports, exactly 47,629 cell-phone users from around the country responded to a survey ranking their satisfaction with the country’s major service providers. Turns out, about half of those polled think their service sucks — which sounds charitable, y’ask me. Online you’ll find the introductory…
James D. Smith/Icon SMI Jason Witten doesn’t look like a guy easily hazed. Wrong. At first, the news seems kinda ho-ho-ho-hum: The NFL’s running an online contest, the winner of which will have their ad run during halftime of the Super Bowl XLII broadcast on February 3. Only, see, the…
Not the Schubert she’s looking for, but he’ll do in a pinch, most likely. On our way to the Granada Theater holiday party last Thursday, my Man ‘o The Hour and I noticed a big green sign taped to a pole on the corner of Greenville and McCommas: “SCHUBERT?” it…
The Dallas Morning News and Sporting News say SMU wants June Jones as its next head coach. He says, “Nuh-unh.” Very confusing news regarding SMU’s hunt for a new football coach. According to The Dallas Morning News yesterday, the school was looking at University of Hawaii head coach June Jones…
In other exciting holiday season news, The New York Times today reports: “For the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas.” Used to be around 37 percent, for those keeping a body count at home…
Out today is the latest S&P/Case-Shiller® Home Price Indices, which reveals that prices for existing single-family homes across the U.S. are declining — even in Dallas, which showed an overall 0.1 percent drop in prices from October 2006 to October ’07. Also: Prices have been dropping steadily since August, with…
The downtown Plano of tomorrow, which looks like … the London of yesterday Scott and Tracey Schaefer’s Lexington Luxury Builders is responsible for several townhouse developments and custom homes in the area; and till now, much of their work’s been done around Oak Lawn and Uptown. But this morning, GlobeSt.com…
A Friend of Unfair Park points our attention this morning to this Texas Lawyer profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins — the “Impact Player of the Year,” which I thought was going to Tony Romo, but, anyway. The terrific piece, penned by our old pal Mark Donald, contains…
On Saturday, the Highland Park Scots lost the Class 4A Division II state title to the Lake Travis Cavaliers, 36-34. And ever since then, the Scots have been plastered all over the international press — specifically, the English tabs, which have taken a keen interest in Scots receiver Michael Thatcher,…
Some holiday video choices after the jump, including a can’t-miss local cable-access “Happy Birthday, Jesus!” carol from Len & Esther Hutsell, formerly the pastors at Hillview Terrace Assembly on John West Road, and Linus on the true meaning of Christmas from A Charlie Brown Christmas (not the Scrubs version, either)…
Many things to do before tonight’s traditional meal of dumplings and Dan-Dan noodles. But for those seeking a little light-news snack beforehand, a few stocking-stuffers. Like, this story about a San Antonio software developer named Ben Adams who used eBay to find his stolen 1949 Chevy truck. Turns out, it…
