On the other side is a memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the city council and Mayor Tom late last week in which she extends an invite to Thursday’s “public discussion” of the Dallas CityDesign Studio’s West Dallas extreme makeover. Brent Brown and Larry Beasley, funded by the Trinity…
After a wildly entertaining weekend of the NFL playoffs, the following will not be playing in Arlington on February 6: *Michael Vick *Peyton Manning *Who Dat?! *The Dallas-born Kansas City Chiefs Despite intriguing story lines being buried, that was some damn skippy football. Three wins by road teams and the 7-9…
When I spoke with Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney Wednesday morning about the paper’s forthcoming “‘Subscriber Content’ initiative,” the very first thing he said was that he couldn’t believe someone hadn’t leaked his memo sent to the staff, which he then proceeded to summarize. This morning, the…
Dunno why Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are so stimulated to keep that new Rick’s Cabaret from getting its TABC on; don’t they know that girls, girls, girls getting that cherry pie hot in herre all night long is good for the coffers? Says so…
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for most o’ North Texas from late tonight till Sunday evening, but cautions: Sure, it may snow. Could be anywhere from three to five inches, matter of fact. Or not: “This is a very fluid situation and many factors may…
“It isn’t easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog. For actor Preston Truman Boyd, starring as the mad doctor’s stitched-together Monster in the Broadway tour of Mel Brooks’ musical comedy Young Frankenstein playing at the Winspear Opera House through January 23, being green isn’t the half of it. He also…
Got a press release this afternoon offering further info about that Prince pre-Super Bowl show on the old Reunion Arena site: Erykah Badu’s been added as the opener. Which is nice and all, but tickets — which go on sale tomorrow morning — still start at $1,500, which is only,…
I certainly hope this doesn’t become a daily occurrence; no doubt you feel the same way. But there has been a development today in the city’s case against Robert Groden, the JFK conspiracy theorist who’s been selling his materials in Dealey Plaza for almost two decades and now finds himself…
An old friend of mine who has better things to do, like get his kid ready for a bar mitzvah tomorrow morning, just called to ask: Why are there Dallas police cars parked on every North Dallas Tollway overpass? He got on at Northwest Highway heading north to Plano, and…
Not up for driving out to Mansfield (Hi, Mom and Dad!) tonight in Friday-evening traffic to talk about children who are bought and sold into sexual slavery and will probably live an average of seven years before dying as a result of the danger and trauma of the industry? No?…
Two different announcements have landed in the in-box in the last 24 minutes alerting our attention to the fact the American Institute of Architects has given the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre one of its prestigious Honor Awards for Architecture, along with these other estimable edifices. One release says the…
A press release announcing the month’s-end Sci-Fi Expo at the Plano Center just hit the in-box containing the full list of ladies scheduled to attend the event, themed this time ’round as “Women of Sci-Fi.” Among those scheduled to appear: Morena Baccarin, star of V but who I’ve seen more…
Speaking of the great state o’ Texas’s $25-billion budget shortfall …Clearly, there are many Get Him to the Greek fans amongst the Friends of Unfair Park who’ve spent the better part of the morning filling the in-box with a copy of actor and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s…
No doubt you’ve heard about, or read about, the fuel-tanker spill that closed down I-30 west of downtown early this morning. So happens good, good friend of the show Jeff Liles, who was on his way back to Oak Cliff after the Frankie Campagna memorial show at Club Dada at…
No doubt this will displease Shotgun Schutze, the noted model rocketeer and crop-duster who has crazy-big plans for Super Bowl Sunday. But via RotorNews we get a look at the Federal Aviation Administration’s just-issued temporary flight restrictions issued for Dallas-Fort Worth during that weekend. Among the myriad do’s and don’t:The…
At this very moment the Television Critics Association is holding its biannual press tour in Pasadena, during which the stars of series debuting and returning parade across a stage to tell writers how great those series are. Yesterday, during the press-the-flesh, Variety’s Stuart Levine grabbed TNT and TBS programming chief…
Cornell Companies, the private operator of correctional facilities ‘cross the country, has a motto: “People Changing People.” A lawsuit filed this week in Dallas County District Court proposes an alteration: “People Filming People.” At least, so suggest 36 former inmates of the Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center in Wilmer, a…
U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall of Rockwall says that despite evidence to the contrary, why, sure, he’s willing to take a few courses in “climate science.” Because as he said during an Energy & Environment subcommittee hearing only last November, “Reasonable people have serious questions about our knowledge of the state…
Clearly, Rick’s Cabaret needs to put the Dallas and Fort Worth mayors on its press-release list. Because in case you missed it — and how could you, it even made Huffington Post — Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are suddenly very opposed to…
Tony Fiorillo curates the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science’s paleontology collection, and he’s spent every summer since 1998 in Alaska, studying dinosaurs’ tracks and bones. It wasn’t till last year that he seriously considered all their crap. Fiorillo’s also an adjunct professor at SMU, and his work’s been featured…
While we’re on the subject of TV shows I actually watch, I’ll share with you the contents of a press release that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. During the Super Bowl Weekend, something called Style Icon will be setting up “a two-day celebrity luxury lounge” at the Crescent…
A couple months back we noted that Glee casting director Robert Ulrich would be in town this month auditioning wannabes for a new role to debut during the FOX series’ third season. Only, before a shot at network prime-time you first have to make your way through The Glee Project,…
