As many times as the Texxas Jam’s come up, I can’t believe we’ve never seen this: Channel 8’s coverage of the ’78 “Texxas Music Festival,” featuring reporter Randy Jackson’s sweat-soaked, dope-smoked coverage of the billion-degree July 1 concert at the Cotton Bowl. Among the headliners that day: Aerosmith, Ted Nugent,…
Real estate broker and international trade consultant Edward Okpa has submitted the necessary 357 signatures of registered Dallas voters required to run for mayor, joining David Kunkle and Ron Natinsky on the May 14 ballot. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings has also announced his candidacy, but he hasn’t submitted…
In the last 24 hours, press releases have piled up in the in-box announcing three very different mayoral debates featuring ex-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, current city council member Ron Natinsky and former “homeless czar” and Park Board president Mike Rawlings.One’s traditional: On April 19 at 7 p.m., KTXA-Channel 21…
Four long years ago, it appeared Brad Pitt was all set to star in the story of Ron Woodroof — the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and would go on to found the Dallas Buyer’s Club, through which AIDS patients bought…
High road: Now, now, let’s be fair. Just because Msryrr…Mauor…(damn fingers won’t type all of a sudden)…MAYOR Dwaine Caraway doesn’t want anyone to hear what’s on the audio tapes from a police call to his home on January 2, that doesn’t necessarily mean the tapes contain anything bad. You know…
Ah, the rites of spring. Trees blooming. Allergy sufferers sneezing. Michael Young bitching. Spring breakers partying. And the Dallas Mavericks teasing. Or, for the first time in forever, will their annual March push actually carry them to an NBA championship? Admit it, your heart believes. But your head—given the benefit…
There’s a mob of environmentalists in the middle of the room before lunch, and it’s not for the vegan seaweed salad. It’s a cool Friday in February, just minutes before this year’s State of the Air conference, hosted by the clean-air advocate Air Alliance Houston, in a community center in…
As I was heading out, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered if I was going to that Ebby Halliday wingding underway at the Meyerson. No, hadn’t planned on it. Too fancy. Nevertheless, it reminded me: Pete Sessions stopped down the U.S. House of Representatives and C-SPAN today to wish the…
Fingers crossed, we’ll get to this asked-and-answered more than once a month. But not a week goes by that four, five e-mails don’t pop up in the in-box wondering what in the wide, wide world of sports became of City Manager Mary Suhm’s plan to take the downtown Dallas Farmers…
As a big fan of Tosh.0 — a 30-minute show on Comedy Central featuring YouTube clips and jokes from comedian Daniel Tosh — I set my TiVo for Sunday’s premiere of Tosh’s stand-up special Happy Thoughts. Finally got around to watching it last night. It sucked. Laughed maybe once. Nevertheless,…
I had a few minutes of down time this afternoon, so I hopped over to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to see if any Dallas films of note had been added to the collection since last I looked in December. Which is when I came across the film…
It would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick’s Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further than the Central Patrol Division’s website, which has the…
A couple hours after U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert tweeted what you see above, we contacted Leppert spokesman Shawn McCoy to find out why the former mayor supports eliminating public funding for National Public Radio. He said he’d talk to him and get back to us. We never heard back…
For the moment, at least, it isn’t easy to access The Former Trinity Standing Wave, known, for now, as The Dallas Wave — though that’s but an unofficial working title being floated out there (see what I did?). Willis Winters, assistant director of Parks and Rec, offered to show it…
If there was any question that former Park Board president Mike Rawlings would be the top fund-raiser among the three announced mayoral candidates, he’s seemingly answered it by unveiling a new television ad this morning as pricey mailers hit mailboxes throughout the city yesterday. The TV ad and mailer –…
As mentioned below, Gov. Rick Perry was in town yesterday — at Manda Machine Company, on Myrtle Springs Road near Harry Hines — insisting, yet again, that Texas need not tap the Rainy Day Fund to deal with the state’s $27-billion-ish shortfall. You can watch the entirety of his speech…
Bloomberg News says this morning that higher oil prices may be bad for Texans, but are good for Texas — especially the so-called Rainy Day Fund Gov. Rick Perry doesn’t want to touch to offset the state’s $27-billion shortfall. (In a speech in Dallas only yesterday, the gov said the…
Twice in recent weeks I’ve heard Dallas ISD trustee Edwin Flores discuss his proposal to rework how the district determines who its “best teachers” are — the first time, when we spoke two weeks ago about the district’s offer to buy out full-timers, then again at his budget town hall…
Gosh, it’s been … what … four whole days since the last mention of The Zoo? But I can’t help myself: While scouting the YouTube for something wildly unrelated, I came across this just-posted flashback courtesy one “Walter from Waco” (oh, the memories): an old KZEW-FM TV ad starring Johns…
With a crowd of DART execs, reporters and folks who’d apparently misplaced their cars looking on at downtown’s Akard Station, the Kinkisharyo ameriTRAM streetcar made its first arrival a little after 11:30 this morning, just a hair behind schedule. The first of two audition runs through downtown carried VIPs, including…
So says this just-posted AP piece, which notes that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has decided to allow charter flights to Cuba from eight new airports — among them Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Juan … and Dallas-Fort Worth International! Till now, you could only fly out of New York,…
In the comments of yesterday’s blog, commenter “sporty” posed the question of whether Neftali Feliz should be moved into the rotation since we both agree the Texas Rangers rotation needs help desperately. He said the “transition makes a lot of sense.” I disagree. The argument for Feliz becoming a starter…
