Speaking of short films set in downtown Dallas …About a month ago we were treated to quite the glorious double bill: local filmmaker Jun Kang’s You+Dallas dreamlike tour Uptown’s Greenwood Cemetery and that languid State Fair of Texas recap. To Kang’s estimable collection, made with the assistance of three other…
I was looking for something completely, entirely, absolutely unrelated on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s website this afternoon when I came across this recent addition to its back catalog: a short film called Big D, which comes from the Dallas Municipal Archives. I will let TAMI describe what’s…
Andrea, as you’ll no doubt recall, spent most of last Thursday in the City Plan Commission meeting, waiting for them to get ’round to the Lower Greenville Planned Development District discussion. During the public hearing, Andrea liveblogged this update:Michael Davis says he does not support fee waivers “of any kind”…
I’ve yet to step foot into the Natural Grocers that recently opened in a smallish section of the old Preston Forest Whole Foods, but my wife has and says it’s “a cross between Sprouts and Roy’s.” As in: There’s very little produce, all the meats are frozen, and there are…
Mark Yost is the author Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics. But back in late September, he was more interested in a high-school game: Plano vs. Allen, which the Eagles won by the score of 30-13. Yost wasn’t really there to see…
This just in from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: As promised, the agency has begun issuing permits to retailers looking to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of town. So far, it ain’t a lot, as just three stores have been given their off-premise permits in the last…
Rudy beat me to it, but for those wondering to whom Mayor Tom’s been sending those come-to-Dallas iPhones, well, The Oregonian found one lucky recipient: Tim Boyle, the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. And while Boyle has no interest in moving his HQ outta the Pacific Northwest, why, he…
Yesterday, the Comics Professional Retail Organization — which is the trade organization for comic-book retailers — announced that for the first time in its history, it’s meeting in Dallas in February, at the Doubletree near the Galleria. At stake, say organizers, is the very future of the brick-and-mortar comic book…
Two You+Dallas offerings this morning, both guaranteed to put a smile on Robert Jeffress’s face. At top is our pal Justin Terveen’s Crèche Crawl — “from Lakewood to Baylor Hospital to Highland Park,” and points in between. Prematurely aged for your pleasure. And on the other side: the bright Christmas…
‘Bout two and a half years ago we first introduced you to Wyatt Cenac — “introduced,” because he was only a few weeks into his new gig as correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As you no doubt recall, he grew up here and graduated from the Jesuit…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards some raw, silent footage from KXAS-Channel 5 of an experimental plane that landed the hard way at Love Field earlier this afternoon. The video follows, and given the markings, odds are the pilot was shot down by Darth Vader — that, or “the landing…
We stopped by the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market Saturday and were pleasantly surprised by the breadth of vendors on hand. But we spent a good 30 minutes at the Red Ranger Ray Guns table, where the 7-year-old who lives in my house and other wee passers-by discovered the possibilities presented…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom’s chief of staff, sends this early Christmas gift taken this morning. He also sends this note: “My friend Mike Walker grabbed this shot from Trammell Crow Park this morning. It’s why we live here! Too good not to share!” Actually, this is why I live here…
Glad to see yesterday’s eBay offering landed in the right hands: The folks at Dallas Market Center send word this morning that they purchased John and Storey Stemmons’s Christmas pamphlet, and that it “will find a permanent home here in the historical archives of Dallas Market Center and Crow Holdings.”…
A couple of weeks back we passed on our invite to the concerts in the Cotton Bowl during Super Bowl week. But this morning, the Unfair Park in-box offered other options, among them: Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed will be taking over Centennial Hall at Fair Park on February 2…
The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Texas is still executing more inmates than any other state — 17 in 2010, the lowest in almost a decade –…
Packed a bowl of mistletoe and tried to get excited about last night’s lunar blackout, but in my stretch of NW Dallas, skies were murky with thin, high clouds — not terribly whelming even at prime time. So, then, to Justin Terveen (who else?) we turn for a look at…
A couple of weeks back, as you no doubt recall, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner sent the mayor and city council a memo in which he wrote that come January 3, the general public would no longer be able to park beneath Dallas City Hall. One James Reginald Calloway Schutze…
A couple of months back we noted that the Texas Park and Wildlife Department had proposed making one hell of a trade with Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Home, for some land down in Val Verde County. Sanders, you may recall, owns the 17,638-acre Devils River Ranch — which,…
Back in ’08, Neiman Marcus offered in its annual Christmas Book something called the Super Bowl XL Opus MVP Edition, which, as you can see in the photo, is a mammoth keepsake — “the heaviest sports-related book ever published,” per Amazon’s description of the limited edition, not to be confused…
It’s been exactly a year now since our last extensive sit-down with Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, who, at the time, referred to the downtown-based videotailer as “a football team that’s rebuilding.” At the very same time, Blockbuster was shuttering dozens of stores, including the location at Royal Lane and N…
While browsing eBay for hyperlocal Christmas suggestions late last night, I came across this two-birds-with-one-stone offering — John and Storey Stemmons’ tribute to their father Leslie Allison Stemmons. As you can see, it looks like a Christmas card from the Stemmons Towers, which are clearly under attack from Giant Santa…
