This morning Pilgrim’s Pride announced it’ll be exporting chicken to Russia (my favorite Ramones bootleg, incidentally) from its Dallas plant — good timing too, given that the Brookings Institution just released a report stressing the need for export growth in order to “boost competitiveness.” The report also looked at the…
I’ll say it, Texas Rangers’ fever is at an all-time high. Sunday night’s 6-4 win improved Tommy Hunter to 8-0, allowed the Rangers to win three of four from the Anaheim Angels and pushed their lead to seven games with 63 remaining. More than 160,000 fans went to Arlington Thursday-Sunday…
Some weekend catch-up while we wake up following several base-running mistakes last night: Kevin Smith is at the Granada Wednesday night, and, maybe, he’ll address his earlier-this-year run-in with hometown-based Southwest Airlines, which, you’ll no doubt recall, asked the filmmaker to deplane pronto lest his heft pose a “safety risk”…
Some random notes while I attempt to get myself out of a murky land deal:Dallas Theater Center’s revisal of It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman closes today, following the 2 p.m. matinee. Which prompts this New York Post piece that wonders: “It’s a big hit in…
On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression — as though, really, there could be just one.Full disclosure: Most of mine involve early, awkward dates at…
Three months back I directed your attention to Led Zeppelin’s March ’75 shows at the Dallas Convention Center, a long-time favorite. Till today I hadn’t heard any of the band’s earlier or later Dallas dates, stretching from March 28, 1970, to April 1, 1977. But on the occasion of Robert…
The boots got the boot last week, and my apologies to those Friends of Unfair Park who wrote in wondering what the what. (Out-of-town family obligations, if you must know.) I had intended to make up for that slight with a certain high-quality recording of some renown: Elvis Presley at…
At around noon today, Kelly Qualls, a crime analyst in the Dallas Police Department’s Central Patrol Division, sent to Unfair Park three documents, all of which compare and contrast crime statistics for The Bridge-Dallas Farmers Market area beginning in 2007. All three follow, as does a DPD map of the…
A little more than two months since Dallas County held its first veterans’ court docket, the diversion program has grown to include nine former service members — six Vietnam vets and three veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq — who’ll complete two years of treatment and mentoring to keep a clean…
[Update: After the jump, further information from city of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio.]If you live in the M Streets and woke up this morning to what you thought might have been gunfire, well, you were right. At approximately 6:30 a.m., according to a Dallas police spokesman, a 63-year-old man was…
And by “Dallas,” we really mean three rather familiar figures: oil man Trevor Rees-Jones, waste-ing away Harold Simmons and hotelier Robert Rowling. Reports Justin Elliott this afternoon, they’re among the four major donors who’ve contributed almost all of the $4.7 million raised so far by Rove and former Republican National…
It’s been a long while since we’ve heard from Joe Manning, the Massachusetts historian who gave new life to those October 1913 photos of Dallas taken by Lewis Wickes Hine as he traveled the U.S. chronicling child-labor abuses at the feds’ behest. But this morning, a note from Manning appeared…
Last Friday, Blockbuster’s higher-ups told Bronx bomber Niko Celentano and his ever-expanding band of shareholders that, well, sorry, but despite their demands for an emergency meeting, that ain’t gonna happen. One week later, the shareholders respond to the response. And for the most part, the missive, which appears in full…
It’s been 17 months since the city settled its legal dispute with developer Craig Hall over lease payments related to the Arts District parking garage on Ross Avenue — and then agreed to dole out up to $9 million from the Downtown Connection TIF if he ever got ’round to…
Doubtful this daily video kick-off will become, like, a thing. Nevertheless, Robert Hunt’s Timelapse Dallas, shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, caused a three-minute stop-down this morning and is most certainly worth your time as it fast-forwards though Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Galleria, downtown Dallas and a few other…
Whilst I await some call-backs, some loose ends, odds and sods and other desiderata with which to end the work day:The Dallas Police Department sends word: Car break-ins are up — way up — in Beat 142, which is the area bordered by Mockingbird, Abrams, Belmont and Greenville. Says DPD,…
Andrea, Patrick and I just spent the last half hour getting baked in the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts parking lot on Fort Worth Avenue — sadly, not that kind of baked (though I guess we could have …). Broiled is more like it — that concrete alley is mothereffin’ hot…
Late last week, the newly formed Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association requested a meeting with council member Angela Hunt and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano to discuss their proposed plan to rezone Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District. The LLGABA and the Greenville Avenue Restaurant Association…
The media hath spoken in regards to the 2010 Big 12 Conference football season and the winners are … Oklahoma. And Nebraska. We’ll get to the full pre-season predictions after the jump, but in picking OU over Texas in the South apparently the Big 12 media thinks Landry Jones will…
As promised, Sam just phoned in from outside the Fort Worth federal courthouse where, moments ago, Judge Michael Lynn sneak-peeked at where he’s leaning concerning the proposed August 4 auction of Your Texas Rangers. We’ll get to that in a moment, but perhaps the biggest revelation from the morning’s to-do…
After all the fussin’ and cussin’ accompanying yesterday’s item about ESPN’s decision to home-base in Sundance Square during next year’s Super Bowl, I thought it might be nice to talk to the very person who made that decision: Stephanie Druley. She’s the Worldwide Leader’s senior coordinating producer, and she oversees…
Sam’s back in a Fort Worth courtroom this morning, where Judge Michael Lynn’s trying to decide just when to auction off Your Texas Rangers. Among those in attendance: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan and, for whatever reason, Rangers GM Jon Daniels and skipper Ron Washington, who, from the looks of a…
