As promised below, Texas Tribune has indeed posted a snippet of editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins conducted this morning down in Austin. And, as promised, Watkins does indeed say, rather emphatically, that his office’s investigation into the doings of Constables Jaime Cortes and Derrick…
Last night, I ran into noted doc director Mark Birnbaum at a little shindig Lodge owner Dawn Rizos threw in conjunction with the release of good friend and once-and-future Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman’s latest tome, the autobiographical Black Cracker. Mark — who’s directed such films as Larry v. Lockney,…
So says a press release just in from KTVT’s Lori Conrad, who says the CBS owned-and-operated will bump up CBS 11 News This Morning half an hour beginning Monday. Interesting move, considering that KDFW-Channel 4 just did the same thing with Good Day two months ago. Scott Sams and Ginger…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders if the rumors are true — if Mike Snyder is indeed out at KXAS-Channel 5 by month’s end. Why, yes, yes they are: Snyder tells Uncle Barky that his 30-year-run with the NBC owned-and-operated will end on July 1, when he retires. So, did…
It’s been a busy year thus far for Clay Liford: His short film My Mom Smokes Weed played the Sundance Film Festival in January; two months later, his terrific, head-scratching first feature, Earthling, debuted at South by Southwest and, then, the Dallas International Film Festival before it began its currently…
Per the e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, tomorrow Dallas gets yet another all-sports sports site: a local iteration of SB Nation, which promises a “revolutionary grassroots approach to sports coverage [that] places the fan first, with compelling local content.” In other words, from what I can…
A few weeks ago, L.A.-based analyst Stan Manoukian told Bloomberg News that downtown-based Blockbuster “will cease to exist by 2013 for sure,” for the most part because its bondholders think the debt-ridden company’s worth pennies on the dollar. Now, according to Manoukian and Bloomberg, Blockbuster’s bondholders are looking to buy…
It’s been interesting this morning, trying to piece together exactly what Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is telling Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith. At this very moment they’re doing a TT sitdown at the Austin Club, and I’ve been following along via Twitter. The Southern Shift, thus far, is…
Noah writes over on DC9 that Neil Young at the Morton H. Meyerson last night changed his life — why else would a grown man fess up to the fist pumps and teardrops? Brother Danny Hurley, a man with few heroes, seconds that emotion. Pete made sure Danny got this…
KRLD-AM (1080)’s home page still touts News and Views with Ernie & Jay weekdays from 10 a.m. till noon. But one good Friend of Unfair Park says that couple’s been d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d as of yesterday. And, sure enough, the program schedule reveals that after almost five years as one half of…
There are a couple of comments worth pulling out frrom yesterday’s item about Dallas Independent School District’s $23 million budget surplus. Among ’em: Mike MacNaughton, founding member of Dallas Friends of Public Education, recaps yesterday’s budget briefing at Albert Sidney Johnston Elementary School. Following Chief Financial Officer Larry Throm’s PowerPoint,…
In its Tom Hicks puff piece a couple of Sundays ago, The Dallas Morning News noted that Hicks expects to lose, oh, maybe a “couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. But no worries: Hicks told the paper he’d make up those losses when…
Ron Natinksy’s comments concerning Valley View Center reminded me: We never did hear from a local Macerich rep concerning whatever kind of “plans” the mall owner may or may not have for North Dallas’s beleaguered mall. So I called around this morning without much luck: First I tried Rebecca Brownlee,…
I see here that tomorrow, the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force has but one item on its agenda: putting new row numbers and seat number tags on the wood benches in the Fair Park Band Shell. Which may seem like small progress, but it signifies significant strides in terms…
Alas, it’s just the title of one of two briefings the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will consider this morning. I’ll leave it to Sam and Schutze to crunch the numbers and see if they add up — Sam especially has a thing for the Texas Horse Park — but…
If nothing else, this’ll be the last Southwest Center Mall item of the day — only because there’ll be nothing left to talk about till after the council returns from its summer recess. But Ron Natinksky, head of the city council’s Economic Development Committee, called Unfair Park to discuss the…
The Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will receive yet another briefing on the 2010-’11 budget Thursday — here’s that PowerPoint for those who like to get head starts on such things. But today, the district sends word that this year’s budget wraps up with a … this can’t…
Back to Southwest Center Mall for a moment — or, more specifically, the city’s plans to keep the “dead mall,” per the Urban Land Institute, alive. Karl Zavitkovsky kept the council’s Economic Development Committee behind closed doors for almost an hour this morning, during which point it was mentioned that…
I pulled into the parking lot of the Dallas Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Cathedral, Library & Museum at Harwood and Young Streets at 6:40 this morning; right behind me was Mayor Tom Leppert. The lot was already jam-packed with trucks and trailers and catering tables for today’s Good Guys shoot,…
Now that school’s out for summer, the city council’s Public Safety Committee is set to be briefed in a few minutes on the one-year-ish anniversary of the 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. curfew ordinance, passed by council on May 13, 2009, following some debate on whether or not it turned kids into…
Of course you know what goes real good with real Dr Pepper, more or less speaking of — barbecue. Which brings us to this piece from QSR Magazine this morning: “Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Expands Across the Nation.” It’s been a long time coming: Back in October ’07 we pointed out…
That’s the word out of Plano this morning: Legacy Drive-HQ’d Dr Pepper Snapple Group issued a press release moments ago announcing that The Coca-Cola Company is paying $715 million for the rights to license and distribute Dr Pepper products throughout North America. That’s because Coca-Cola Company is buying its bottling…
