A month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about “a New York couple who moves to the man’s hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast wife.” Right — awesome. Now,…
When the Dallas City Council started the process of selecting a site for the convention center hotel in August 2007, it was stressed that the location “foster economic development in the downtown core through retail and entertainment establishments.” Sure, it needed to be within 1,000 feet of the convention center…
Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson and their posse are but bit players in this legal drama. But courtesy Courthouse News comes the tale of Jessica Hardwick, who yesterday filed suit against Blackfinn Restaurant and Saloon in Dallas County District Court. Her claim? That on August 23, 2008, one of the…
In January, as Neiman Marcus was reporting dismal Christmas numbers and laying off nearly 400, the retailer’s CEO and president, Burt Tansky, insisted a rebound was around the corner: “Luxury is not dead,” he insisted. Perhaps not — maybe it’s merely comatose. So notes this morning’s New York Times in…
This morning, the National Center on Family Homelessness made it official: Texas has more homeless children than any other state in the union, and significantly more needs to be done to care for them. Says the center’s new 220-page study, America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, of…
The Dallas Mavericks can clinch a playoff spot tonight. Plain and simple. Leading the Suns by a full four games in the race for 8th in the NBA’s Western Conference, if the Mavs win in Phoenix tonight they’ll own a considerable – insurmountable? – gap heading into the season’s final…
It says on iTunes that Carter Albrecht’s solo album Jesus is alive … and living in London has been available since February 9. Carter’s father, Ken, and Robert Jenkins, whose Summer Break label is co-releasing the disc in conjunction with the Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, say that’s wrong, and that…
With little fanfare and hardly any spectators, the trial in the case of Graciela McKay vs. DISD wraps up this week in U.S. District Court, with a verdict expected as early as tomorrow. McKay is the Preston Hollow teacher who filed a federal lawsuit against the district and the school’s…
‘Bout 20 minutes from now, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk will go before the Senate Committee on Finance for his confirmation hearing as U.S. trade ambassador — finally, right? We’re having a watch party at Unfair Park HQ: Schutze brought the churros; Merten, the Moosehead. And I brought the Maker’s…
The Saturday turnout for this year’s North Texas Irish Festival was pretty solid, even before taking into account the steep price of admission — 15 bucks a pop! Who knew so many people were itching to wear a kilt in public? Then again, it’s really the only day of the…
Had a wonderfully weird weekend. On Friday I saw the Fort Worth Symphony’s interpretation of Led Zeppelin. (Thumbs up.) On Saturday I attended a Polish 40th birthday party complete with a full, cooked pig on a skewer, potato vodka shots and, yes, a belly dancer. (Two thumbs up.) On Sunday I…
This morning, Danielle McClelland in the Dallas City Hall Public Information Office posted to YouTube updates from District 4 and District 7, courtesy Dallas Delivers on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Hosted by Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis respectively, they’re the very definition of edutainment –…
Back in November 2006, Megan Feldman wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Farmers Branch and then-city council member Tim O’Hare’s fight to rid the city of illegal immigrants, especially those living in rental properties. Much of the piece dealt with the politicization of Elizabeth…
Considering the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years, the Mavs and Stars are on the brink of missing the playoffs and the Rangers are looking toward 2010, seems a weird time to say it. But say it I must: Atta boy, owners! First Mark Cuban threatens to blow…
This is the first in a morning series of videos provided by members of Your Dallas City Council. First up, this lengthy offering from Angela Hunt (co-starring assistant city manager Jill Jordan), who writes on her Web site by way of introduction today, “If you’ve got 20 minutes on your…
Time just posted its list of “The Ten Major Newspapers That Will Fold Or Go Digital Next.” And, no, The Dallas Morning News isn’t among them. But the Star-Telegram is. Why?9. The Fort Worth Star Telegram is another one of the big dailies that competes with a larger paper in…
When we last left the Dallas Stars they were a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged by injuries, struggling to stay around .500 and in the Western Conference playoff hunt while blaming Sean Avery. This morning – after last night’s 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens – the Dallas Stars are a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged…
The National Football League will release the ’09-’10 schedule next month — at which point, just maybe, Jerry Jones’s Enormodome will officially announce that it’s making its national prime-time bow on Monday Night Football, enh. Sports Business Journal reports that ESPN execs toured Jonestown a few days back in anticipation…
Sipping coffee and singing a kumbaya chorus of social media evangelism, about 40 people filled the back room at Opening Bell Coffee this afternoon for LaidOffCampDFW, the local chapter of a nationwide “unconference” for web-minded freelancers.As we mentioned yesterday, LaidOffCamp comes to Dallas straight outta the SF Bay, where the…
This afternoon, as promised, the U.S. Attorney’s Office forwards John Lewis’s plea agreement — the one that finds him promising to testify against former Dallas City Council member Don “What Me Worry?” Hill. You’ll find that and two other absorbing court documents filed today — a little light weekend reading…
Despite Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council’s plans to begin construction on the convention center hotel April 1 and rush to sell bonds on the project to quash the May 9 referendum, it’s still a vote Leppert and his fellow Build the Hotel’ers (soon to be Vote No! Keep…
They’ve stopped looking for pieces of the “fireball” down in West, where, apparently, it’s plowin’ season. And once the plows start turning up the fields, the samples, which already look like regular old rocks, are going to be difficult to spot. Furthermore, the landowners down there have gotten greedy –…
