Pardon me this morning while I now turn to issues most serious and pressing, judging by the e-mails awaiting my return to the office; and here I thought we’d end the year on a solemn note. Turns out, it’s all about the Jessica: A local film publicist sends word this…
Mark Graham Not much early blogging today: I’m scheduled to appear on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s radio show at 8 a.m.: Liberation Nation, sitting at KNON-FM (89.3) on your transistor’s tuner. The subject: this week’s cover story, about architect William Sidney Pittman and his Knights of Pythias Temple…
Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin’-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damned near single-handedly helped the Afghans kick out the Russians in the 1980s. Says right there on page 11 of the paperback edition of George Crile’s 2003 book Charlie…
Once (Fox) Easily the year’s most perfect pop album — damned good movie too, the finest “musical” of the past 20 years. The disc’s making-of refers to it as a “modern musical,” but Once is as old-fashioned as it gets: Guy (Glen Hansard) meets Girl (Markéta Irglová), they fall in…
The crumbling white building sits at the end of Elm Street, bracketed by a patch of dirt and a construction site. Its only tenants are a pair of wasps living in a light fixture dangling from a rotting overhang—round and round they go, like guards on watch. Some nights others…
4:30 p.m. Just got back from an afternoon field trip to the Sigel’s liquor store at Cole and Fitzhugh avenues with Bobsky, ’cause when Bobsky says, “Grimes, let’s drink,” there’s nothing to do but grab one’s purse and traveling hat and follow the man in the motorcycle boots to the…
Uncle Barky, who watches local TV so you don’t have to, today provides his local TV year-in-review — a Top 10 rundown of “2007’s most notable happenings,” leading off with David Finfrock’s hacking cough, poor guy. Amazingly, Rececca Aguilar ain’t the top dog in Ed’s pack o’ picks. –Robert Wilonsky…
Been a whole lotta Led Zeppelin boots circulating in the wake of last week’s reunion concert — like this one from Earl’s Court Arena in London (May 25, 1975) and this one from Paris in ’69 and the complete BBC Sessions from 1971 (all of it essential, most notably “That’s…
Barack Obama officially added his name to the roster of Democratic presidential candidates taking part in the March 4 Texas primary, which may or may not mean something that late in the ball game. Well, he didn’t do it. Obama had former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk filing his paperwork today,…
Sure, that nickname Yoko Romo’s real cute and all. But it sure didn’t take long for it to actually carry some weight. What’s that, T.O.? Got a bad feelin’ about this. –Robert Wilonsky…
Justin Terveen The Wilson Building We’ve mentioned Justin Terveen’s work a few times — he’s better known as Ninjatune, for whom downtown Dallas offers countless postcard photo ops. Well, over the last few days Terveen’s been hard at it, updating his site with copious amounts of stunning photos worth a…
So, what are you more intrigued by tonight: the basketball showdown at the American Airlines Center? Or the one up the street at Moody Coliseum? In a rare clash of national high school titans, Duncanville (Class of ’82, thank you very much) meets perennial power Oak Hill Academy at 8…
View Larger Map GlobeSt.com this morning brings news of a new “luxury multifamily development” on “the last open corner at the Henderson-Belmont intersection in North Dallas.” (Wait, that’s North Dallas?) The piece says the development, spearheaded by Staubach Capital Partners founder Charlie Corson, will take place on a plot of…
Bill Zwecker, gossip columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, writes this morning that he has it on good authority that Dallas Cowboys bigwigs are none to happy with Tony Romo bringing his girlfriend to games — to the point where they’ve asked him to, ya know, tone it down. As in:…
Lotta places you could go with a story pitting one waste-disposal company against another; sounds like two or three Sopranos episodes, at least. Only, this one’s being waged in a Dallas courtroom: Duncan Disposal is alleging that Dallas Waste Disposal & Recycling is hauling off its “roll-off” waste disposal containers,…
Commissioner of Higher Education Raymund Paredes is “not a scientist.” A week ago today we broke the news that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research in Austin was considering the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research’s request to grant master’s degrees in science education. Well,…
Dear Someone Who Has Access To A Phone At Park Cities Volkswagen, Dallas’ No. 1 Volkswagen Dealer, Pick up the phone. Call me. Reassure me that I am not currently on the receiving end of some of the worst customer service in the history of the planet. If you can’t…
Dennis Road runs from Royal Lane north toward Forest Lane, where it turns into Josey Lane. But on that short Northwest Dallas street, federal law-enforcement agents discovered a fairly large heroin trafficking operation that, early next year, could very well land three Dallas men in prison for life. The U.S…
Far as I’m concerned at this point, three e-mails is a “torrent,” so consider this a public service: If you’d like to order yourself one of those pink Tony Romo jerseys, like a certain someone was wearing Sunday at Texas Stadium, all you gotta do is go here — to…
Someone out there’s working on a doc called Devious Dallas, clips from which have been surfacing on the YouTubes for the last couple of months — like this “promo” and this clip featuring the guy who “considers myself a pony or a horse.” Today we’re treated to “The Bubble Dancer,”…
Pardon our absence — server issues, in short. So, back to business. Courtesy The New York Times’ Bloggingheads today comes this video, featuring Time’s Amy Sullivan and The Dallas Morning News’ Rod Dreher. They “examine the growing appeal of Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama.” Feel free to examine, after the…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention this a.m. to KERA’s Arts + Culture blog, which features a short film from Rob Tranchin, who writes, produces and directs docs for station. The subject of his short film Million Dollar Monarch is, no kidding, a tree — specifically, the familiar…
