Some Tuesday morning odds and sods:First, from The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed from Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who tells the Senate to lay off his boy Ben Bernanke as he tries to re-up his position as Fed Chair. Spoiler alert: Warns Fisher, my…
I don’t watch American Idol because I don’t believe in American Idol. Other than Carrie Underwood and (sorta) Daughtry, the “winners” don’t really become rock stars. Simon’s about to leave for Ellen. What the what? But mostly, I just think the show jumped the shark when it started fabricating contestants. I…
The boy and I wound up spending several hours wandering Fair Park Saturday and yesterday, and he came away from the experience obsessed with a single building: the so-called Swine Building. It’s the lone structure from the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 that hasn’t been retouched whatsoever, according to Nancy…
As if to underscore the fact that he’s a guy who can do it all for the team, Dirk Nowitzki took a seat in the American Airlines Center ticket booth this afternoon to sell the first tickets to next month’s NBA All-Star Jam Session.After contributing 20 points to the Mavs’…
OK, let’s circle around to the Continental Avenue bridge again. We must, if only because it’s on the city council’s agenda for Wednesday and because, on Friday, I had a long talk with Jim Parrish of CH2M Hill. Parrish is the Dallas-based project manager for the project, which will entail…
The Buried Life – MTV ShowsTonight MTV’s The Buried Life — a show about four Canadians, I believe, crossing things off their to-do list — takes a detour to Dallas, where the lads meet up with artist Sam Fuller, who, at the time, was living on the streets while bouncing…
Craig Cunningham of Dallas has an interesting way of dealing with debt collectors: He sues them, as documented in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park. While only a small number of debtors file such lawsuits, the debt collection industry isn’t waiting for such behavior to become popular. Which is…
Went on a date. To re-boot my chivalry, I let her pick the movie. Nine. Oh boy. She says, “It’s about a guy who fantasizes about hot chicks.” I say (fingers crossed), “I’m in. Are we talking porn?” So we go to Magnolia theater in West Village, have a drink…
I may have to tag along with the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee on Wednesday evening when it makes a visit to the former St. Joseph’s Church and Academy on Swiss Avenue. I’ve never met a Waltons cast member before, and as former Observer-er Tom Korosec pointed out in D back…
10. Pierre Garcon > Roy Williams. Cool that he and his AFC Championship Game-record 11 catches are from Haiti. But what’s with the cocky little tail under the C in his last name? 9. Any old French garson > Roy Williams. 8. Is it just me, or does CBS analyst…
That KTVT sign on N. Central Expressway, between Meadow Road and Walnut Hill Lane, has been part of the scenery since I was a kid. But who knows how much longer it’ll be there: Lori Conrad, communications director for the CBS affiliate, confirms that the building’s been on the market…
I know exactly what Mavs owner Mark Cuban means when he says that when it comes to parties, the upcoming All-Star Weekend “will make the Super Bowl look like a bar mitzvah.” Because I had my bar mitzvah at AMPM in the Mosaic on North Akard downtown, and hip-hop comer…
On Friday, the Friends of the Katy Trail posted photos of two new entrances: the Beasley staircase at Hall Street and the Tao of Warren at Armstrong Boulevard, paid for with private funds. On Wednesday, the council takes its own baby steps toward completing the Katy Trail: It will vote…
No Jason Kidd. No Erick Dampier. No momentum. No prisoners. Was dilly-daddling around the house yesterday with a rare Sunday off (thanks, Cowboys). Had the Mavs-Knicks on the TV and it was something like 35-30 early in the second quarter. Next thing I know Roddy Beaubois is raining 3-pointers and…
No need to ask Lisa LeMaster for any further comment this time around — the press release below, just sent out by Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake, is all we’re going to get about the consummation of the “complex business deal” that’s one step closer to putting Tom Hicks’s ball…
Van Morrison was supposed to be play the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth this Sunday and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on Monday — but, of course, he canceled a week ago, claiming “severe exhaustion.” Sure. You bet. But let me make it up to you: Captain’s Dead…
Probably, oh, once every couple of weeks I get a call from a South Dallas shop owner complaining that the city won’t turn over some of that long green from the MLK Blvd. Business Facade/Revitalization Program, which, as we mentioned last February, was supposed to be funded with the $92,522…
On Monday, the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life Committee’s getting a visit from AT&T Performing Arts Center President and CEO Mark Nerenhausen, who will update the council on the AT&TPAC’s Accomplishments in the First 90 Days. The briefing doc that was just posted is mostly a scrapbook of kick-ass…
Things of which I am quite fond: Dallas. Documentaries. Brent Brown. And the work Brown and his bcWORKSHOP — and the bcCORPS, quite an army — are doing along Congo Street near Fair Park and, soon, in nearby Dolphin Heights. Noe Medrano Jr. has put them all together: The filmmaker…
Near the close of business Wednesday, we posted Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes’s admission that the Christmas season delivered little more than a lump of coal for the Dallas-based videotailer, as in: “Our performance during the holidays was well below expectations.” When I spoke with Keyes at great length in December,…
Courtesy the city council’s agenda for Wednesday, we have a little more information about efforts to turn the Continental Avenue bridge into a pedestrian park — as in, how will that anonymously donated $10 million get spent, and when does the city expect to begin design and construction on the…
This morning, I stumbled across this freshly posted video of The Hemingways performing at the Rhythm Room on August 21, 1991. This gift was bestowed upon the Internet by one Doug Baxter, lead guitarist for the group and, apparently, its chief archivist. But you’re no doubt more interested in the…
