UPDATE: Apparently we have some Stars fans in the neighborhood, because the tickets already are gone.
I have 2 tickets to tonight's Dallas Stars - Nashville Predators game available to the first blog reader who sends an email to rwamre@advocatemag.com. The tickets are in the front row on the glass of the upper level, directly behind the net Marty Turco defends in the first and third periods. You'll have to pick up the tickets at our office, but if you're interested, let me know...
If you're tired of reading about the big financial-system bailout, DISD screwups and how great the Dallas Cowboys look this year, check out these diversions in today's Dallas Morning News:
• Remember the big city council vote in May 2007 to criminalize "displaying or brandishing a replica firearm in public? I don't remember it either, and apparently it's a law that even the police have forgotten about. Dave Levinthal reports that since the ordinance was passed, not a single ticket has been written for a violation — talk about your effective ordinance or your irrelevant one; take your pick. In the story, Levinthal asks councilman Angela Hunt: Was it all a big waste of time and resources? "Probably so," she says.
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I had a fascinating conversation last month with neighborhood resident and Bikram yoga instructor Joseph Encinia—you can read all about Joseph in the September issue of Cliff Dweller. He’s an amazing young man—my thanks to reader Nancy Crume for introducing us to him.
So that I could better understand my subject, Joseph invited me to take the 105-degree "hot yoga" class. I took him up on it and showed up at an ungodly hour one Friday morning (classes begin as early as 5:30 a.m.). It was an amazing experience— an hour and a half of challenging sweaty exercise that included twisting, bending, balancing and falling. I left feeling borderline euphoric, and unlike when I tried water skiing a couple months ago, I wasn’t sore for days afterward.
I seriously considered signing on for a few months worth of classes, but because I already belong to a gym and the Dallas Running Club and have two children who play volleyball and basketball for school … my sports budget is pretty much blown for the year. But once my gym membership expires in January, I’m setting some time and funds aside for the yoga. If you want to check out the cost, here you go. A little research revealed some high-performing athletes swear by this stuff.
Don't miss Joseph and some of his students in the upcoming Texas Yoga Asana Championship, which will be held at White Rock’s Winfrey Point Sunday, Oct. 19.
This day has been creeping closer and closer for the past few years, and finally the city has decided it's time to bring in some money by attempting to sell naming rights to the Cotton Bowl — this courtesy of the Dallas Observer. The city says the "Cotton Bowl" aspect of the name must remain as part of any deal (i.e., it will be the Federal Express Cotton Bowl rather than the FedEx Bowl), and it's casting about for a 10-year deal in the neighborhood of $500,000 to $1 million annually. Apparently, the city isn't concerned that the Cotton Bowl game itself is moving to Jerry Jones' Arlington palace in 2010 and the Texas-OU game is only signed through 2015. Additionally, the city council and the landmark commission will have to sign off on any proposed deal, so this whole thing is likely to take a long time and become kind of messy. On the other hand, it might not happen: We wrote about the city looking for naming rights on the Fair Park Esplanade fountains in April and haven't heard any further developments on that front.
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