This is but a sample of Hal Samples’s photos taken Saturday afternoon and evening, as Frank Campagna and his band of artists were wrapping up the Deep Ellum Mural Project just a few weeks after kick-off. (The tunnel’s gone; long live the tunnel!) Patrick M. is compiling the whole wingding…
At this very moment, the Dallas City Council is being briefed by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm, chief financial officer Dave Cook and others on the proposed FY2009-1010 budget, which the council will approve on September 23. But before Suhm and Cook took control of the meeting, Mayor Tom Leppert…
During the waning days of the ’08 presidential election, a piece of Photoshop made the rounds featuring Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin’s shoes. Collin County man Roger Baker, an eight-year J.C. Penney veteran at its Plano HQ, says he printed out the photo and taped it to a co-worker’s computer…
My problem isn’t that Texas Rangers’ All-Star Josh Hamilton got drunk, took off his shirt and playfully licked whipped cream – and vice-versa – off three hot females in an Arizona bar last January. My beef isn’t that a born-again guy who continually tells us I Am Second decided to -…
Check out our slide show for more shots from the tournament and around the stadium.It was a moment you knew was coming ever since the Cowboys unveiled the largest-in-the-world 1080p HDTV screen hanging above midfield in their new stadium.Saturday afternoon at an open house for Cowboys season ticket holders, Sony…
So many pages of Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget left to sort through, and so little time left till tomorrow’s council budget briefing. But several Friends of Unfair Park worry about an item they found at the very bottom of the page devoted to the Central Library’s line-item breakdown: the amount…
Occasional Dallas Observer photographer Allison V. Smith and the namesake of the Barry Whistler Gallery on Canton Street were hitched Saturday evening at Allison’s family vacationland in Maine. Just read all about it in The New York Times, which has a lovely photo of the couple as well as a…
The city has posted the entirety of Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2009-2010 budget, including a searchable breakdown of line-item details. (Look — the demolition of Reunion Arena, which will now be finished come January 2010 per this week’s council agenda, saves the city $3.6 million.) Here too is…
Once again, we found former council member Al Lipscomb in the courtroom at the City Hall corruption trial yesterday, and he predicted the jury will “dump” the case. “The jury’s gonna say, ‘You’ve taken our time up on all this crap here. There’s a hell of a lot of involvement…
I have a notebook and digital voice recorder full of Mary Suhm quotes in which the Dallas city manager offers encouraging words about the FY2009-2010 budget, a teensy-weensy bit of which we saw at City Hall this afternoon. (Turns out, she’s especially excited about once-a-week trash and recycling pick-up.) But…
Moments before her budget presentation to the media, scheduled to begin any second, City Manager Mary Suhm called with a bit of a sneak preview. We’ll have more shortly, upon our return from City Hall, but when asked what was the most difficult cut she had to make to balance…
Via Gawker, we find word that KXAS-Channel 5 has laid off its marketing folks — you know, the promo-makers. NBC Universal’s making the cuts at all of its owned-and-operation stations, of which Channel 5’s but one of 10. Notes Gawker, “News employees will be expected to produce promos for their…
Unfair Park might be a little slow-going ’round 1:30 this afternoon, when I’ll be down at Dallas City Hall to pick up the executive summary of City Manager Mary Suhm’s final budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. Media attending this afternoon’s shindig won’t be given the entire document, but…
Here we go again — though, perhaps, for the final time.Unfair Park has learned that this week, Glazer’s Distributors and Colby Properties, the owners of 508 Park Avenue downtown, filed with the city a certificate of demolition that would allow for the razing of the former Warner Bros. Pictures storage…
So reports this morning’s New York Times, which takes a tour of the Dallas Cowboys’ new home with Gene Jones and finds the walls adorned with works by the Whitney-feted Lawrence Weiner, Franz Ackermann (who’s collected at the Museum of Modern Art), conceptualists Mel Bochner and Daniel Buren, Matthew Ritchie…
View Larger MapThere’s quite a sizable hunk of property available in the West End — 87,000 square feet of office and retail, plus about 40K in parking spots. Says the for-sale brochure, the four-addresses-big, ’bout-100-years-old West End Square on Elm Street’s gone into foreclosure — no asking price listed, though…
Speaking of the late John Hughes, one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year, “Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words.” So happens that the writer-director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stand-up…
10. Tony Romo spent about 10 minutes after practice chatting with long-time San Antonio Spurs’ pest Bruce Bowen. Let’s hope the topic was winning, not defense. 9. For the first time in training camp the Cowboys brought in referees. Today’s lone practice focused on goal-line situations. 8. Amazingly, Flozell Adams…
Hadn’t intended to look at the Dallas Independent School District board’s meeting agendas till next week — damn, summer break went by in a hurry — but Tawnell Hobbs gives us an early warning: Trustee Ron Price would like to rename some schools for President Barack Obama and your newest…
Pardon the break in postings — I spent the last little while watching this nine-minute tribute to the eight films John Hughes wrote and directed, among them Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science (co-starring Fort Worth’s Bill Paxton) and Planes, Trains &…
Jody Dean. A prized pupil of Dallas radio icon Ron Chapman, Dean has been on the local broadcasting scene for 35 years. He’s worked at KRLD 1080 AM, KVIL 103.7 FM and Channel 11. He is currently the morning show host at 98.7 FM KLUV, has a booming voice, was once the…
As we told you Monday, today’s the big day that RadioShack rebrands itself as “The Shack.” And the Fort Worth-based electronics company opted to launch the re-launch with a Web site featuring some dude in San Francisco yukking it via a video feed with some other dude in New York…
