We’ve already covered the conditions at Love Field, where just the one runway’s open at present — and, from the looks of this, Southwest has yet to begin its limited operating schedule. (City Hall PIO Frank Librio’s checking with airport spokesman Jose Torres, who hasn’t been available most of the…
… imagine how the people who sell it feel. Actually, no need to imagine it: The D.C.-based Distilled Spirits Council of the United States issued a press release today demanding the state of Texas drop its “outdated law banning Sunday liquor sales,” especially considering the many millions in tax revenue…
Below, in the comments, Brenda Marks wonders what the eff’s going on at Love Field, where all is most definitely not clear. So I called Frank Librio, PIO at City Hall, to see what gives. He asked around and reports back: “The long runway’s open” and can handle takeoffs and…
Earlier this morning, City Hall PIO Frank Librio sent word that the city asked Oncor to keep the city’s lights on during the rolling blackout. He just sent further word about how Oncor energizes downtown. “You learn something every day,” Librio says. To the missive, which includes a streets update…
For a good hour or so this morning, there was a parade of people to the briefing-room podium at Dallas City Hall to discuss the Mayor’s Youth Fitness Initiative, funded with $1 million worth of seed money from Oncor. Among those on hand: Mike Rawlings, Park Board president and would-be…
Personally, I’d love nothing more than to see the council chambers go dark during this morning’s briefing. Need something to liven up that ho-hum agenda that includes runaway shopping carts and a look at the Mayor’s Youth Fitness Initiative — or MyFi, as it’s called. Besides, what glorious irony: That…
The teevee networks, major and minor and cable and otherwise, are starting to slow-roll-out their next-season pilots. And two, very specifically, affect Dallas — which would love to make up the business lost when FOX sent The Good Guys packing and gave Lone Star two whole episodes to find an…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about reports of a rolling blackout, courtesy Oncor at the behest of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Sure enough: Says ERCOT spokesperson Dottie Roark on her outgoing message, “We are doing rotating outages or rolling blackouts. We don’t know how long those…
First, many thanks to the Friends of Unfair Park — without your company, a long day would have felt much, much longer. So be here tomorrow and just stay home tonight: Dallas Police sent the after-2 p.m. traffic-accident tally, and numbers were higher than the morning’s count. From Senior Corporal…
This just in from 3700 Ross, via the Facebook:Because of icy road conditions that are not expected to improve overnight, Dallas ISD schools and administrative offices will be closed on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.I have not yet told the 7-year-old who lives in my house, who, at this very moment,…
I hadn’t seen Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell since forever, but Barak Epstein at the Texas Theatre was kind enough to provide a copy yesterday in advance of its re-appearance at the Oak Cliff movie house tomorrow night — the first of four nights paying homage to the filmmaker. Well,…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word: It’s back in action! For the most part:DART Rail is resuming and all three lines are operating on 30 minute headways. This will continue for the rest of the day. Buses are operating but slowly due to road conditions. All non-24 hour HOV lanes…
Back in October ’09, New York-based public-arts org Creative Time received one of the first two Meadows Prize artist residency awards doled out by the Meadows School at SMU. As the Hilltop notes today, one of CT’s missions was to evaluate the state of the arts in Dallas — “to…
For the last hour or so, a rumor’s been circulating via the Facebook and e-mail that the ginormo tent built inside the Cotton Bowl for the XLV Party — featuring DJ sets from Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor, Passion Pit and Samantha Ronson, among others — collapsed beneath the weight of…
As promised, Justin Terveen sends this picture-postcard look at the “lighting” of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge arch last night. Justin notes he also shot the switch-flickin’ for a time-lapse due to hit You+Dallas before too long. And: He was kind enough to send a peek at the froze-over Fair…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has suspended most of its light-rail service due to ice and wind. There is this update, though: “We are operating 4 trains on the Trinity Railway Express this morning instead of the usual 6. We are trying to operate trains out of Union and T&P about…
Only yesterday, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle filed his campaign treasurer papers with the City Secretary’s Office and made it all official-like: He’s running for Dallas mayor. His website launched this morning — so too the requisite Facebook and Flickr pages and Twitter account. And I see yardsigns, like…
Edie Brickell was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night promoting two new albums. But in this “web exclusive,” the ol’ New Bohemian, aided by one Charlie Sexton on guitar and the great Aaron Comess behind the drum kit, whips out an oldie from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars:…
Nothing short of the End of Days gets the Dallas Independent School District to close its doors. But well before 5 a.m., the district made up its mind and told the kiddos to stay at home. Or: “Debido al mal tiempo, las escuelas del Dallas ISD están cerradas hoy.” Which…
Tomorrow morning, Justin Terveen’s promised us a close-up of the Margaret Hunt Hill’s promised light-er-up from his perch on the Continental Avenue Bridge. But, well, we’ve got an awful good view of the Calatrava from Unfair Park HQ, and our Eric Garcia climbed up to the roof to get a…
Few weeks back we got a long, hard look at the Federal Aviation Administration’s no-fly-zone for Super Bowl Sunday. Ah, yes, but what to do when someone decides to launch their seaplane or go hang-gliding anyhows? Well, of course — North American Aerospace Defense Command to the rescue.But NORAD needs…
Speaking of beer and wine …From the sound of the latest forecast, at least, the idea of standing outside the Aloft Hotel Wednesday morning for a press conference could be rather, well, unpleasant. So we’ll go ahead and pass along this bit of news related to what the release calls…
