Not gonna lie and say it was as good/frenzied/energized as Linkin Park a while back, but I saw a pretty damn good concert Saturday night. So good that I slinked back stage and snagged a set list. See anything you like and/or recognize? Name this band and win – I…
Now that the city council’s had two months to digest the Urban Land Institute’s 99-page report on Southwest Center Mall, formerly known as Red Bird, the Economic Development Committee is tasked with figuring out how involved the city’s going to be in keeping the doors open. Far as the committee…
The first time we wrote about Southern Skates on E. Ledbetter Road was a month after Europe agreed go with the euro, a month before Saving Private Ryan opened and six months before the House impeached Bill Clinton. In other words, a million years ago. Back then, former Black Panther…
There are probably a million more important things with which to begin the work week — like, oh, a passel of Hicks Sports Group creditors asking the National Hockey League whether the beleaguered owner of the Texas Rangers has dough enough to keep the Dallas Stars — but this breaking,…
Okay, I’m impressed. Friday night’s kick-to-the-crotch loss to the Boston Red Sox felt like that moment. Big game. Big crowd. Gigantic implosion. Frankie Francisco’s blown save – six runs – felt like the big-bang instant in which a demoralized, gutted bunch of Texas Rangers’ youngsters starts sinking in the standings,…
A few days ago, The Trinity Trust posted to YouTube the video above, in which some of the steel for the never-say-die Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge takes a tour of the city on its way to the construction site. The city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will see it…
Check out this photo set for more photos from the kiss-in.It wasn’t quite the complete and total kiss-o-rama the posters suggested, but toss in the pecks on the cheek, the hugs and the still-awkward bro-pats between strangers, and there was plenty of same-sex affection out in the open at Queer…
Just got back to the computer to find a note from U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom deputy, who says that since last we were in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, the judge met with prosecutors and defense attorneys — separately — to see about picking up the…
Senator and gubernatorial hopeful Kay Bailey Hutchison used her appearance today at the Transportation Summit to establish her cred as someone committed to “a state-of-the-art transportation system” while knocking Rick Perry’s support for tollways and the Trans Texas Corridor. Speaking at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Hutchison said…
Check out more shots from QuakeCon in our slide show. Finding QuakeCon amidst the bustling mini-metropolis of the Gaylord Texan was easy: just follow the kids in flair-laden QC necklaces staggering under the weight of their clunky homemade PCs. It wasn’t the kind of convention that I was expecting. I…
Following up on the memorial bike ride video we pointed out yesterday, Texas Highway Patrol tells Unfair Park that within the last five years, the number of stunt riders on our highways has definitely increased. “In the last three, four, five years, the number of complaints have gone up,” Texas…
In gearing up for Project Runway, we’ve been checking out Louise Black’s fashions. We’ve also been gut-checking to see if we can handle watching Dallas’ David Cohen on, um, Megan Wants a Millionaire (because Beauty & the Geek, Rock of Love and I Love Money weren’t enough for that girl).See,…
Earlier this year, Southern Methodist University graduate Teresa Nguyen and her sister, soldier Ty Reed, began importing handicrafts made by female Iraqi artists. Reed had discovered a community of talented women — many of them widowed during the war and struggling to feed their children — while on her third…
In the fight over the fate of 508 Park Ave., this week saw the opening salvos at City Hall between the Glazers, who own the old Warner Bros. Pictures storage building where Robert Johnson and Bob Wills once recorded, and preservationists who want to keep it standing.Along with worries about…
You might remember the headlines back in May about some unsavory accusations against the Dallas Mexican Consulate — the ones that dubbed the place “a lawless world where rules do not exist, where corruption, ethical violations, bribery and kickbacks reign supreme?” In the last few months, we’ve covered the story…
Everybody knew it was about “pay-to-play” at City Hall. Don Hill, a former city council member and 13 alleged confederates are accused of strong-arming real estate developers for money.But nobody knew…1. Carol Reed’s name would come up. Reed is the top political guru and campaign consultant to the old Dallas…
Shortly after Elm Street-based Blockbuster reported its second-quarter stats Thursday evening, chairman and CEO Jim Keyes hopped on an investors’ conference call to explain, yet again, what ails the former video-rental giant. The usual, of course: Netflix, shitty movies, the used-DVD and gaming market, slow transitions to digital delivery and…
Six years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald filed in Dallas federal court a complaint that The New York Times predicted in 2007 “could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record.” The suit stemmed from Fitzgerald’s tenure at Novation — a company HQ’d on John Carpenter Freeway that sells medical supplies…
A few afternoon follow-ups to some morning items, plus a note from City Hall, where pink slips are going out in advance of tomorrow’s scheduled layoffs. (Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm says she’s laying off 840, with the hopes of hiring back 500.) Rudy has word about some losses at…
John Mackey’s no stranger to a little controversy, especially the online-first Mark Cubanesque variety. But the Whole Foods co-founder took it up a notch with his Tuesday guest editorial in The Wall Street Journal, in which he takes issue with universal public health care proposals, and offers his eight tips…
On the drive home from the office Tuesday, ’round 7 p.m., I got struck in a sudden snarl on the Dallas North Tollway between Oak Lawn and Mockingbird. Turned out, the cause of the logjam was a familiar one: a few stunt riderz on motorcycles zigging and zagging through traffic…
I know it’s only August. It’s only pre-season. But it is, after all, football. Tonight at 9 on Channel 11 and 105.3 The Fan we officially begin washing 44-6 out of our mouths. What will you be watching tonight? As for me … …
