This hasn’t been a good week for 1717 Main Street: First, TM Advertising announced it’s moving out and heading to Victory Park, which didn’t faze Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crawford. And then, this morning, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Metropolitan Real Estate, which bought the downtown high-rise,…
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Carnegie Hall this week as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest. The piece performed: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, the LBJ commission that world-premiered in Dallas on September 18,…
Ron Springs was pronounced dead yesterday. After dying on Oct. 12, 2007. I wrote about Springs’ sad plight in a March 2010 Observer cover story. But you already knew his tale. Former Cowboys’ running back who became a national poster boy — along with Everson Walls — for warm-n-fuzzy feelgoods…
From the looks of the video on the other side, I’m surprised the whole audience at Trees didn’t sue following Andy Dick’s “performance” on December 19. But, no, it’s just the one guy: Robert Tucker, who says he didn’t much appreciate it when the former star of NewsRadio “forced his…
On the afternoon of October 12, 2007, former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs went into a Medical City of Dallas operating room for what he and his family believed would be a simple surgery — the removal of a cyst from his left forearm. But as Richie noted in…
So. Funny thing. A couple of weeks back, while writing about 508 Park Ave. and Robert Johnson’s 100th, I pulled down a few blues histories-of to dig a little deeper. Among the stacks: Elijah Wald’s essential Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, published in 2004,…
Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Many good Friends of Unfair Park have forwarded me the clip you see above, which District 103’s state rep, Rafael Anchía, posted to YouTube last night. In it, the Haynes and Boone attorney and former Dallas ISD school board trustee argues against the passage of Carrollton state Rep. Burt Solomons’s…
It’s been a long, contentious meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, and we just got to the latest budget update. First, Carla Ranger wanted to know why Bernadette Nutall, with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s OK, halted construction at a handful of South Dallas schools. Nutall said it…
In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer’s bill that’d require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of their drill sites. The bill got an overwhelming nod from the House yesterday (and just…
This morning, Johnny Pinchback sat in the Dallas County Jail, awaiting yet another stop in court. This afternoon, he will be at a steakhouse, celebrating with his family, friends and fellow exonerees. After 27 years behind bars for an aggravated sexual assault he did not commit, Pinchback, dressed in a…
Surely you recall the case of J.B. and H.B., two Dallas men who went to Massachusetts to marry in 2006, only to separate two years later and then try to get a divorce. In October 2009, Judge Tena Callahan gave the couple her blessing to get unhitched, at which point…
Michael Vick took steps toward rehabbing his image last season. No thanks to the Eagles quarterback, one of his former bait dogs is doing much better as well. You remember Mel, right? I first told you his story almost a year ago. It was later picked up by the Los Angeles Times, etc., and…
While we anxiously await the Mavs’ NBA Western Conference Final opponent — looks like the Thunder — a couple of matters that get, well, right to the heart of the matter. Was talking to Mark Aguirre last week in the wake of his recent health scare. Aguirre, the first overall pick in the…
Meant to get to this two days ago, when Texas Rangers Executive Vice President of Communications John Blake sent out the announcement, but it’s not too late to make it to NorthPark Center by 1 p.m. That’s when C.J. Wilson and Chanel Iman (well, hello) are scheduled to stop by…
Back in June of last year we took a look at the state of Denton’s Golden Triangle Mall, which, at the time, had fallen into foreclosure and was being put up for auction. Like Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall and Valley View, it’s seen better times. But per a piece on…
Going to Frisco tonight for the debut of Cuban defector/Texas Rangers stud prospect Leonys Martin. Or am I? Maybe I’ll go and sit in traffic and have a hot dog and two cold ones and Martin will dazzle with a two hits and a stolen base and…then it will rain and…
We never did talk to Debbie Georgatos about why she wants to become the next Dallas County Republican Party chair following the adios of Jonathan Neerman. No matter: After the jump, for those who have 10 minutes to spare, you’ll find Georgatos and former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade…
Hello, loser: So Republicans in control of the Texas House this week managed to shove through a bunch of bills without debate. This caused a lot of Sturm und Drang—that’s German for “really bitchy Tweets”—in the Legislature, chiefly among Democrats who believe the GOP’s House supermajority is behaving in a…
Two words I never expected to hear organically and joyfully chanted at American Airlines Center: Sweep L.A.! Shocking as it was to hear, it was almost unfathomable to see. If you honestly thought the notoriously soft, choke-charred Mavericks would beat the two-time defending NBA champion Lakers, 4-0, in their Western…
Sonya Fitzpatrick lies on a bed surrounded by her seven cats and five dogs. Dressed in a red blouse with matching red nail polish, blue jeans, gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace, Fitzpatrick, who’s inside her Conroe home that’s shaded by towering pine trees, is on the phone conducting…
After 10 long years of maybes, doubtfuls and dunnos, it would appear that The Dallas Buyer’s Club, the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, is closer to becoming a big-screen reality: Relativity Media today issued a press release announcing that co-producer Robbie Brenner is shepherding the project from limbo to multiplex,…
