In advance of this afternoon’s City Plan Commission meeting, during which several Deep Ellum and Exposition Park bars and clubs will have their specific use permit hearings in the council chambers at City Hall, two Friends of Unfair Park have asked for some room to explain the differences between the…
Ole Anthony, not sitting on a commode of any kind As we noted Tuesday morning, Sen. Charles Grassley’s investigating six top televangelists: Paula and Randy White, David and Joyce Meyer, Creflo and Taffi Dollar, Eddie L. Long, Wise County couple Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and Irving-based Benny Hinn. And it…
Roy Abraham Varghese, founder of The Institute for Metascientific Research in Garland Last May, the paper version of Unfair Park published a piece about Garland tech consultant and amateur science philosopher Roy Abraham Varghese, founder of the Institute for Metascientific Research, a one-man, home-grown organization under whose auspices Varghese publishes…
On October 29, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in the following evening for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli’s on Greenville Avenue for the second time in October. Carrol was told only that Ivery was ill: He’d been checked into Presbyterian…
Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in greatest hits from Sesame Street before the neighborhood was gentrified for Elmo’s protection. Chief among the copious highlights in this…
No, this is not a day of “silent protest,” as one Friend of Unfair Park asks below. Far from it — thought it’d be nice just to let folks talk about the election results, without pointing out, oh, that Southwest Airlines is working hard to get your business or that…
O.K., let’s do this. We know that everybody on the Angela Hunt side will be gracious. So I believe I owe it to that side to do them a small service here and not be gracious. I mean, who expected me to be gracious and dignified, right? So, instead of…
Matt’s got notes from Mayor Tom’s victory speech at Gilley’s, but first a scene-setter: “There was zero mention of Angela Hunt, which seems weird,” says Matt. “Doesn’t it seem odd? Seems like the gracious thing to do, to thank her for all her hard work.” Also, wonders Mr. P, “It…
Might as well learn to live and love the Balanced Vision Plan. Almost there: 383 precincts in now, and Mayor Tom’s got 40,983 out of the 77,296 votes cast. Which leaves a mere 36,313 for Angela Hunt. And only 17 precincts left to go. It’s over: The Trinity River toll…
Almost done here. As in, the Trinity River toll road’s damned near a done deal. With 355 out of 400 precincts reporting, it’s 37,006 folks for the toll road and 33,011 against. –Robert Wilonsky…
Matt reports that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has made an appearance at Gilley’s — guess everyone was waiting to see which way the wind blew? Not Angela Hunt’s way so far: With 282 of 400 precincts reporting, the numbers are exactly the same as they were about half…
Seems we called the mayoral election much earlier than this. Alas, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway tells Our Man Downtown “prepare for a long night.” Maybe, maybe not: The numbers are slowly trickling in, with Dallas County now reporting that 235 of 400 precincts’ totals are in. And it’s…
Council member Dave Neumann Matt’s at Gilley’s right now, sharing a Shiner with Mayor Tom — can’t beat ’em, drink ’em under the table, we say. Actually, this is how Matt breaks down the not-quite-a-victory party at this very moment. I ran into council member Dave Neumann, who was pretty…
Took long enough — turns out, says Our Man Downtown Matt Pulle, “a flurry of votes” came in after 5 p.m., delaying the counting of votes. But, looks like you can get 90,000 or so folks to sign a petition calling for a referendum, but you can’t make ’em vote…
Well, if you wanna drink with the early-voting winners, they’re here — drinking wine with council members, save for, ya know, Angela Hunt. Well, there’s a pattern here. Every time I call Carol Reed on election night, she quickly pounces on the phone and sounds jubilant. Reed, who managed Tom…
The early numbers are in, and so far on this chilly November eve, things aren’t looking good for the Angela Hunt TrinityVote gang. Dallas County elections officials report that 21,911 cast their lot in early voting, with 12,341 of them voting against Proposition 1 — or, in other words, for…
Katherine Seale is the new exec director in charge of trying to keep historic buildings from becoming parking lots and condos Well, so much for this. About three months back, we announced — rather prematurely, turns out — that Preservation Dallas had appointed a new executive director to replace Dwayne…
Seems that last week’s dismissal of Josh Venable at KDGE-FM (102.1) was just the tip of Clear Channel’s melting iceberg. Industry observers and insiders have noted that the San Antonio-based multimedia giant has been letting other people go at various local radio stations, among them, ratings giant KISS-FM, where midday…
David Matula, another smart guy against the Trinity River toll road. And he has six SMU profs to back him up. And those dudes are tough. David W. Matula seems like a pretty smart dude. For the past, oh, 33 years he’s been a professor of computer science and engineering…
Ole Anthony still doesn’t like televangelists. And they probably don’t like him. CBS News has quite the revelation this a.m. (revelation — heh): Sen. Charles Grassley an Iowa Republican and the party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into half a dozen televangelists to see if they’re…
I voted at 7:12 this morning at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School in northwest Dallas, where the “Vote Yes!” signs appear to be in bloom this fine, warm fall. The voting booths were filling up; I was No. 12 on the sign-in sheet, and folks were lining up behind me. “Impressive,”…
M. Thomas Lardner — and the M, apparently, stands for “Man, that dude is smart and handsome!” All these snap-crackle-pops at The Dallas Morning News want to tell me that of course the Trinity River toll road will be good for development downtown. How in the hell would they know?…
