Tom Colicchio just called to talk about today’s announcement that Jeff Harris is leaving Craft’s kitchen to open a restaurant on Fitzhugh. Colicchio, who still controls Craft following that reworking of his deal with Hillwood in the spring of ’09, made the decision himself to hire Tim Bevins as the…
Matt Angle, the Haltom City boy who used to be chief o’ staff for Martin Frost, is at present the treasurer of the Fred Baron-founded Texas Democratic Trust. He’s also head of the Lone Star Project, dedicated to making sure “all of the new districts coming to Texas should be…
I still get the morning paper, even though I’m now paying $4 more for the privilege than I previously thought, which sucks. Anyway. Saw on the weather page that it’s supposed to be colder than normal beginning next week. Didn’t say how cold, but yesterday Tim Rogers linked to a…
Just three months ago we ran that three-parter about Jeff Harris, executive chef at Tom Colicchio’s Craft at the W in Victory Park. But Craft sends word this afternoon that Harris has departed, leaving in charge Tm Bevins, who, long ago, was best known as executive sous chef at The…
At right is a decidedly familiar figure — the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, which first began appearing in the Southlake-based online travel agency’s ads way back in January 2004. Or is it? Because, you see, Travelocity’s downtown Dallas attorney, Fish & Richardson’s Victor C. Johnson, says in court docs that what…
For the hell of it, I ran a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission report this morning to see how the off-premise beer-and-wine permitting process was going — seeing as how on New Year’s Eve, only a handful of applicants could sell spirits in formerly dry parts of town. And as you’ll…
First, The Dallas Morning News was going to begin charging for online content December 14; then came a delay. But this morning comes The Official Word, via online story (still free!) and press release, outlining the “The Next Generation” in A.H. Belo news delivery.What the story says that the release…
A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirini calls in a…
Two months back we revisited that magical New Year’s Eve in 1984 when Prince played Reunion Arena, a high number in my all-time concert-going Top 10. And, sure, there’s no more Reunion, but there’s still a Prince Rogers Nelson, and per the announcement that landed in the Unfair Park in-box…
As you’ll recall, Blockbuster ended the year by announcing it’s looking over all its leases and planning on breaking many of them, after which it’ll shutter stores, dump inventory for pennies on the dollar and turn over the cash to its creditors. According to a Blockbuster filing two weeks ago…
Speaking of Courthouse News …The lawsuit aggregator brings our attention to this class action filed late last week in Dallas federal court, which accuses Preston Center-based Match.com of breach of contract and negligent representation. It’s not the first time Match.com has been accused of deception: In ’05 there was that…
While we await the Dallas City Council’s decision concerning XTO’s permit application to gas-drill within the city limits, we look just a little westward — toward Arlington, where, tomorrow, the council there will vote on a permit to allow drilling on city property not too terribly far from Cowboys Stadium…
Been a long while since we visited with Enrique Hubbard Urrea, the former consul general for the Mexican Consulate in Dallas who has since decamped for Culiacán, Sinaloa. But Courthouse News brings us news this afternoon involving Hubbard and the consulate and that multimillion-dollar court judgment the consulate lost late…
Three times since his 1979 rape conviction Cornelius Dupree Jr. has tried to get the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to re-hear his case, and three times he was denied. His most recent appeal came in September 2005 — a pro se plea for help in which, once again, he…
Here you’ll find a list of how many slots are available at each of the Dallas Independent School District’s elementary vanguards, middle-school academies and magnet high schools for the 2011-’21 school year. Might wanna glance at it, hard, if you’re trying to get the wee one into one of the…
The previous Dallas Bike Plan public hearings have been jam-packed. No reason, then, to think it’ll be any different on January 20, when the city hosts another in the Dallas City Hall Flag Room. No times have yet been set; so far, these are the only details available:At the meeting,…
If you’re anything like me, and I should hope not, then you too can’t wait for the first Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting of 2011. But, sorry, we’ll have to wait till two weeks from tomorrow per the city calendar, now available for download and featuring more than a…
We close out the holiday with a look at the Dallas Police Department’s look at how Dallas spent the New Year’s weekend, per a series of stats-filled missives sent out by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse. First, for those wondering whether the threat of a mandatory blood draw works, there were…
The e-mails began arriving in the Unfair Park in-box at around 10 this morning. They said: Frank Campagna has died, referring to the longtime muralist and beloved owner of the Kettle Art gallery in Deep Ellum. But, no. It was not Frank. It was his son, 24-year-old Frankie, frontman for…
I know just where my folks were on October 24, 1987 — sitting in the fifth row for Frank Sinatra’s concert at Reunion Arena, as Mom boasted only this morning. And so we wrap this year with a sound track perfect for any New Year’s Eve wingding. Or maybe I…
Not sure how much longer I’m here today — still need to head out and stock up on celebratory shotgun shells and kegs of Natural Ice, and I’m guessing most of you are in the same solar-powered water taxi. Still, there is some remaining bidness to wrap up, such as…
Everything I’ve learned about the more-n-likely-to-happen Kabletown … pardon, Comcast-NBC merger I’ve learned from 30 Rock. Well, OK, not everything: This morning’s New York Times alters our attention to a December 23 letter Comcast’s veep of Regulatory and State Legislative Affairs sent to the Federal Communications Commission that suggests the…
