Went to the Wyly rooftop this morning for Dallas Theater Center’s 2010-2011 season announcement. You’ll find the entirety of the lineup after the jump — though, by way of introduction, most of the titles announced by artistic director Kevin Moriarty this morning are very solid and very familiar stage best-ofs,…
Much obliged to Rudy and DowntownDallas for directing our attention to this what-if video made by Merriman Associates, which imagines what the Statler Hilton might look like if it wasn’t, well, a shadow of a shell of its former self. I too asked Ashley Claborn, director of marketing at Merriman,…
Two years and a million misfires ago, local Latino groups began a push to rename a street in Dallas in honor of Cesar Chavez.No luck at Industrial Boulevard, Ross Avenue or Young Street, but the saga reached a poetic finish as the first signs went up today, lining the road…
Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins …This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wednesday, and during his speech he spoke at great length about his…
Says Bike Friendly Oak Cliff and Go Oak Cliff, the slogan you see above is intended to counter the more familiar Dallas motto: “Live Large. Think Big.” It’s precisely that kind of thinking, writes Jason Roberts, that got the city where it is today, for better or worse. Hence this…
When Republican Ken Mayfield admitted to us that he’s been recruiting volunteers to help Democrat Beth Villarreal defeat Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes in Tuesday’s upcoming Democratic primary runoff, Cortes was one of the first people we called for reaction. Especially after Mayfield said he doesn’t know Villarreal, whose best…
If you look at tonight’s schedule for the Dallas International Film Festival, you’ll notice there’s a “secret screening” scheduled for 10:30 p.m. at the Magnolia. The producers have asked we not reveal the title of the documentary for, well, let’s say pragmatic purposes: By keeping the name of the movie…
Mike Modano told us Wednesday: He won’t know whether he’s retiring till, most likely, July — after he turns 40 and around the time the training camp bell rings. And there are myriad other factors at work as well, among them whether or not there’s a new owner in place…
We all remember what happened during last year’s Record Store Day at Good Records — that was the first time the Dallas police got involved when Erykah Badu didn’t have the proper permits. But with Record Store Day a week from tomorrow, Good hasn’t soured on the event: On Monday…
This week’s Observer features the tale of Michael Manos, a parole jumper, party planner and would-be reality TV star. Unfair Park’s more fashionable readers may remember meeting him last fall as “Mordan Stefanov.”Before a few employees got wind of his real identity — and complaints from his old associates in other…
Some news and notes on this light-commenting Thursday:Domingo Garcia’s got himself a whole new immigration-reform MegaMarch to promote — this one, a May 1 parade that’ll start at the Santuario de Guadalupe on Ross Ave. and end at Dallas City Hall. Says Garcia on the Web site, “Our immigrant community…
Didn’t make it to the Dallas International Film Festival press pre-party whatchacallit last night, where they made a major announcement in advance of tonight’s eight-screen orgy at the Angelika Film Center: Frank Darabont — who wrote and directed what I’m sure is your favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption — is…
[Update at 5:10 p.m.: The Dallas Theater Center’s Jacob Cigainero sends word that the National Alliance for Musical Theatre press release, mentioned below, is incorrect. He writes, via e-mail, “NAMT included some misinformation in their release by mistake. Dallas Summer Musicals is NOT attached to the grant or the project.”]At…
The Dallas City Council was briefed behind closed doors yesterday on the two pending cases involving past and present Dallas-Fire Rescue employees: Leanne Siri v. City of Dallas and Helen Watts v. City of Dallas. We mentioned the former in November, when the city released an independent report concerning allegations…
The crack of the bat. Allergies. Longer days. Bluebonnets. And, ah yes, the trumpet. Spring has definitely sprung. Tonight in Grand Prairie Lone Star Park kicks off another horse racing season with its $50,000 Premiere Stakes. The 6:30 post time will officially begin the track’s 65-date season which will run…
The New York Times has just posted a tribute to the Preston Hollow manse Philip Johnson designed in the early 1960s for Henry and Patricia Beck — which, for those interested in a lengthy history-of, is prominently featured in the book Philip Johnson & Texas by Frank Welch. Patty put…
A while ago we looked at that Dirk-as-Tron video, which was yanked from Vimeo but resurfaced on YouTube just this week. Then, a few days back, came the comic-book origin story — not bad, not great. Both of those flashbacks are after the jump. Now, via USA Today today, we…
Seems like it was just yesterday that the Dallas Opera announced they’d picked a new general director, Keith Cerny — and then, there we were at the Winspear Opera House later in the day to meet the man himself.The intervening hours were about enough time to tackle Cerny’s biography — music…
If you answered a resounding “yes!” to the headline above, then today’s your lucky day — well, technically, Sunday’s your lucky day. John Francis Bongiovi Jr.’s Web site has the details. So does that artwork up top, come to think of it. And now I can’t get this out of…
Mavs got a no-brainer, must-win last night over the Memphis Grizzlies to remain tied for second place in the NBA’s Western Conference with four games remaining. While Dallas jockeys to stay out of the Los Angeles Lakers’ bracket and while owner Mark Cuban fired a strange, but strong warning shot over…
Wednesday at 5 p.m. was the filing deadline for anyone interested in running in the May 8 special election to fill state Rep. Terri Hodge’s District 100 seat — and the Texas Secretary of State’s Web site shows there’s but one candidate, Eric Johnson, who trounced guilty-plea-taking Hodge in the…
Directly below you’ll find an interview with Mike Modano, who, for now, plays for one of the teams Tom Hicks owns, for now. But what about the other two? Like, oh … let’s say Liverpool FC. There appears to some breaking news on that front courtesy the U.K. Telegraph, which…
