Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal’s Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast with fast-paced…
Every now and then, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK passes along vintage Dallas photos for sale on eBay; awful nice of him. Today, this one arrived in the in-box:”Strong Man Pulls Car Dallas Centennial.” From ’36, in other words. Big Hersch has ID’d the front car as a ’36 Ford,…
Two years after sitting down with Texas Rangers’ general manager Jon Daniels for this positive story with the negative headline, I had a long chat with him last week. Daniels deserves tons of credit for Texas’ No. 1 farm system, for strokes of genius like Andruw Jones and Darren O’Day…
In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions’s public stance on earmarks: “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin’ 32nd “steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research…
Till Parks & Recreation and The Office return with new episodes, here’s a suitable replacement for those in desperate need of bureaucratic irritainment: a four-part Customer Service video presentation from the city of Dallas. It’s chock full o’ sketches in which City Hall employees pretend to be citizens in need…
When last we heard word from the campus of Paul Quinn College, local and state legislators had gathered to voice their unconditional support for the college stripped of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in late June. While the school works through the process of appealing…
I was in Epiphany over the weekend, hoping to find a tan XL “Bike Friendly Oak Cliff” tee — alas, all out, so instead the family devoured an Eno’s pie moments before, God help me, hitting Taqueria El Si Hay. No doubt, I’ll find the right-sized tee in October during…
For more than a decade, UT Southwestern epidemiologist Robert Haley has been at odds with naysayers over the existence of Gulf War Syndrome; here, from 1998, is Ann Zimmerman’s piece in the Observer about the doc’s battle with government officials who insisted that those symptoms — everything from all-over aches…
I only listened to Russ Martin’s show on Live 105.3 sporadically. I’ve met the guy just once. Talked with him for all of 45 seconds. So how do you tell the story of a guy like that? You talk to everyone that knows him. That’s worked for him. With him…
Now he tells us: Regrets. Mitchell Rasansky has had a few—and not too few to mention. For example, the former city councilman now regrets supporting Mayor Tom Leppert when the mayor was elected in 2007. “Not too many people pull the wool over my eyes, but he did,” Rasansky tells…
“Tracks of My Tears,” by Jim Schutze, July 23 Rails to the Future I found Jim Schutze’s article on DART to be informative, as his articles usually are. The subway that he describes certainly sounds like a better solution than another surface track going through downtown. The only problem I…
Russ Martin is a jackass. He’s a vulgar, pompous bully who for years physically and psychologically tormented his Dallas radio co-workers to gain fame and fortune. “Stuff he’d say to us on the air he wouldn’t say to us in the hall, because he’s a coward,” says J.D. Ryan, Martin’s…
Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you’d like a report on and I’ll watch it at tomorrow’s practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in…
Ah, good ol’ Morgan Lyons over at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. He noticed that we’d posted a few of the agency’s very well-done in-house videos and very kindly sent over the very latest: this time-lapse featuring the construction of the Traveling Man sculptures Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg are building…
Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company — which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian — filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities’ decision to purchase cleaner, “greener” cement would cost Ash…
Yesterday, Uncle Barky couldn’t get anyone at KDFW-Channel 4 to confirm that the Dallas Fox affiliate had chosen a new co-host for Good Day — one Lauren Przybyl, currently at the NBC affiliate in Boston. But moments ago, the Boston Globe got the official word from the vice president and…
Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight’s appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Austin native who spent…
Kwaku Twumasi had been out of work for seven months when he decided to try a new approach to job hunting — right, the very one you see above. The 34-year-old SMU Cox School of Business graduate had exhausted the more traditional routes of job scouting, like mailing resumes and…
Current Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo and former Dallas Morning News photographer Richard Pruitt have been moonlighting on a side project: a coffee-table book titled Top Dogs and Their Pets, proceeds from which toward rescuing, rehabbing and re-housing abused puppies. The book’s not out till November, but I discovered…
In recent days, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s been awfully busy posting videos to its YouTube page — most of ’em having to do with the Green Line, which is scheduled to open September 14. I’ve put four of them after the jump: Two feature interviews with Brad Oldham and Reel…
Well, after yesterday’s signing of 3-point shooting specialist Tim Thomas I think the Dallas Mavericks are finished with their significant off-season moves. Of course, at points during the summer I also thought Marcin Gortat was coming, Brandon Bass was staying and Mark Cuban was losing to the SEC. And, come…
Via Swing State Project, we find a link to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s interview with WBAP-AM’s Mark Davis this morning, in which the senator said she’ll officially launch her gubernatorial campaign in August and then step down from the Senate “sometime October, November — that time frame.” According to the…
