Some random notes this a.m. — so till Merten decides to get back in gear with his Virtual Coffee, how ’bout a First Smoke of the Day? Like this puff (piece) from New York magazine concerning New York City Opera’s new director, some guy named George Steel … sounds familiar,…
The Dallas Cowboys and their new $1 billion stadium don’t have a corporate naming partner. (My idea looks better by the day.) Or, for that matter, an exclusive date with a TV network for the sparkling joint’s NFL debut. To which I say, fantastic! Let me repeat the off-season mantra I’ve encouraged…
With protest signs, stuffed animals and matching T-shirts, about 40 people — half of them kids — gathered outside Dallas City Hall this afternoon to shout down the daytime curfew proposed as a way to keep kids off the street during school hours.The ACLU and Citizens Against the Dallas Daytime…
At 6 p.m. on Sunday, the Dallas Galleria will have a vacancy: Mark Shale, which once spread over two floors of the mall till a recent redo, will be closing up shop altogether. This morning, its parent company — the Al Baskin Company — filed for Chapter 11 and announced…
Out of the Dallas County’s 44th Judicial District Court comes this swig o’ news, courtesy the Texas Attorney General’s Office: Never again will you find Cocaine on your local soft-drink shelves. Greg Abbott and his staff, including Dallas-based ADA Joyce Iliya of the Consumer Protection and Public Health Division, has…
As promised yesterday, here are Danny Hurley’s photos snapped during his weekend ridealong with Rockers vs Mods. Which reminds me: I haven’t seen this in way too long. Soon as I finish watching all these danged AFI Dallas movies …..
Had totally intended to attend this weekend’s Christian Book Expo at the Dallas Convention Center, if only for the cameo appearance by the godless Christopher Hitchens. Alas, my weekend got away from me, and, sadly, no expo for me. Or for most folks, as it turns out: Publishers Weekly today…
Give the Dallas Stars credit for being spunky and resilient and stubbornly fun to watch. But the season’s over, right? To me it ended Saturday in San Jose. Not just with the 5-2 loss to the Sharks, but more so with another major injury. This one to Brad Richards, who…
Saturday morning, from the South by Southwest shindig down in Austin, Pete wondered over on DC9 whether Erykah Badu would be playing Auditorium Shores, as expected, or Malaysia, as pictured. Turns out, she was heading to Austin after all — but only after being delayed in Dallas, where police were…
The publishers of D Magazine and the Advocate this morning are extolling the greatness of Michael Lindenberger and The News for making a fraud out of Mayor Tom Leppert. Me? I knew about Leppert’s tall tales 18 months ago and am tickled by the headlines from Wick Allison on FrontBurner…
Shockingly, this one isn’t on No. 76. In fact, it’s a good thing. At least I think it is. You tell me. The Cowboys last week mailed letters to all 2009 season-ticket holders, informing them that their dues for tickets and parking is surprisingly being delayed. Originally due April 1, customers…
Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall was kind enough to pass along this a.m. the latest report from the Office of City Auditor, which has determined that the city’s been losing a small fortune in muni court revenue since 2006. Why come? A bunch of reasons, actually, all of which…
A bestest Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Peter King’s Monday Morning QB column filed from the annual NFL meetings in Dana Point, California. A the bottom we discover that the Sports Business Journal may have had it wrong earlier this month — as in, AT&T isn’t buying…
A peek at Mayor Tom Leppert’s schedule this week reveals two intriguing appointments. Like tomorrow, for instance: The mayor’s getting together with one Santiago Calatrava, who’s in town for some kind of a dinner tomorrow night — though maybe he’s helping workers unload the steel for the Margaret Hunt Hill…
I see on John Mellencamp’s Web site that the ex Mr. Cougar is headed out on the road this summer, and during the tour he’s looking to get his bud and Fort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett to produce a new record “as American folk as I’ve ever been,” as…
As the Dallas City Council gets back to work today, two updates. First up, the Quality of Life Committee has decided to corral so-called “urban rodeos” — even though, at the moment, there’s just the one, Rio Rodeo, at 704 S. Walton Walker Blvd., about which there’s never been a…
What happened to the madness in March? Instead of dramatic buzzer-beaters and Cinderellas and Bryce Drew, the first weekend of the NCAA college basketball tournament brought us the Greg Gumbel Invitational – about as goose-bumpy as a piece of white bread laying on a chunk of cardboard. A year after all…
Yesterday, about 35 people marched from City Hall to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse to protest the Iraq War, which began six year ago. They dressed in black shirts and pants and wore white masks over their faces to represent the dead. From their necks, they hung cardboard…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley spent last weekend snapping the dress-ups at the science-fiction convention, as you may recall. This weekend, he’s been hanging out with the Rockers vs Mods. Here’s a sneak peek in advance of a full-on slide show coming tomorrow. Also due tomorrow: a slide show…
As promised a couple of weeks back, here’s that Paul Rudd interview — only, it’s not the one we recorded in Dallas at the beginning of the month. Instead, this chat dates from last Saturday, the morning after I Love You, Man kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival…
Once every spring, and only for two weeks, Texas buckeyes burst spectacularly into bloom. The tree is generally small and understated, with symmetrically grouped pale-green leaves and bunched blossoms; close up, the flowers are tiny and exquisite, with artful splashes of orange-red on the intricate, cream-colored petals. And just a…
Judy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall forwards along the following message from Mayor Tom Leppert: Till he hears otherwise, Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is gettin’ built, so there. You will find after the jump the entirety of the city’s media release announcing that the feds have extended the…
