Well, there’s no Shaft of Austin Powers or James Bond after all. But filmmaker Mike Jefferies has, as promised, just posted to the YouTube his short film Dear Mr Hicks, aimed at you-know-who over you-know-what. There are some familiar faces mixed in there, not that that’s important. But for some…
Hard to believe it’s been almost two years since we posted that item about the two local companies to rise from the ashes of Ensemble Studios — Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, each consisting of ex-Microsofties scattered to the virtual winds after Ensemble’s September ’08 demise. Robot’s still mining familiar…
Inside 807 Elm Street from documents submitted to the Landmark CommissionAside from 807 Elm Street, there were a handful of other items of note on the Landmark Commission’s agenda Monday — like this proposed plaque for the Cotton Bowl, or a more detailed look at Jack Matthews’s plans for a…
‘Twas the most wonderful day of the year at the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus flagship, where, this morning, the retailer debuted the offerings found in the 2010 Christmas Book. All the details, and pretty pics, are available here — from the $250,000 MetroShip Houseboat to the $17,500 just-50-in-existence Leica M9…
Funny thing: Yesterday, in the comments below, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone asked this about the Dallas delegation’s trade mission to Europe: “I wonder if this latest terror threat/alert/political red herring will have any effect on their trip?” Well, Monte, the mayor made a video just for you, and…
State Fair – Twixtor Test from Robert on Vimeo.Just came across this on Vimeo: Robert Hunt’s short film made during an outing to the State Fair of Texas. On the Vimeo page he explains how and why he made it, and apologizes for the stuttering start to the slow-mo short…
Andy SiegelA Friend of Unfair Park was saying only yesterday he hadn’t heard much in recent weeks about the upcoming vote to get Dallas wet from folks for or against the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. Which reminded me: Whatever happened to election foe Andy Siegel’s plan to…
It’s been a question since forever: When oh when will the National Basketball Association or National Football Leaguer NFL start selling ad space on their team unis? Because, c’mon, the Euros do it and make millions. The WNBA does it. Some Major League Soccer teams do it. Why not everyone…
Remember when I said you’d never see this picture again? Apparently, I was wrong.Right about now, Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia, Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavikovsky and a few other folks on the Dallas trade mission to Europe are probably fast asleep…
Two months back we got to discussing the case of Saad Nabeel, who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 3, graduated from Frisco’s Liberty High School, received an electrical engineering scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington — only to find himself deported by the…
One of our own’s presently teaching at Brookhaven College, which, for the second time in a week, is on lockdown. Last week it involved two men who’d robbed a nearby apartment complex; that was Thursday night. This afternoon’s lockdown appears to be a whole different event: Reports from within the…
Back to the Dallas Farmers Market again. But only because following our discussions on Friday, the city posted to its official up-fer-bids website further addenda concerning the physical and fiscal shape of the market after some folks interested in taking the market out of the city’s hands had further questions.Among…
On March 23, 2007, the Dallas City Council signed off on the anti-idling ordinance, which went into effect October 1, 2007, and penalized vehicles weighing more than 14,000 pounds from idling for more than five minutes between April 1 and October 31 — the so-called “ozone season.” Drivers caught idling…
Andrea’s decided to spend some time at the city council’s Public Safety Committee briefing this afternoon, where she’ll learn a little more about iWatch Dallas, the DPD’s just-launched “virtual crime watch” that allows the citizenry to type in tips from their computers and cell phones. Says the DPD, “iWatch Dallas…
Sam MertenFor a long while during the auction of Your Texas Rangers on August 4 — and into the wee small hours of August 5 — it looked as though Mark Cuban and Jim Crane’s Radical Pitch LLC might indeed take possession of the team. Every time Chuck Greenberg and…
At right, that’s Amtrak’s Texas Eagle — or, at least, the coach car and first-class sleeping car that pulled into the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park yesterday. It’s part of what the museum calls “its long-standing partnership with Amtrak to re-introduce the benefits of rail travel to…
Joe Prock, courtesy George GimarcElvis Costello on stage at Faces, on Cedar Springs, on January 28, 1978I asked George Gimarc this evening: Where oh where was Faces?”Faces, Faces, Faces,” he said, trying to knock lose his memory. And there, amidst his estimable KZEW ad archive, was the precise address: 4001…
OK. So back to the Dallas Farmers Market for a moment …As promised, I spoke with City Manager Mary Suhm. I asked her, straight off: Did the Dallas Farmers Market in fact lose $800,000 during the fiscal year that ended, like, yesterday? Her answer: “It’s the end of the fiscal…
Click to embiggen the Daquiri’s To Go menuYou’ve been to Daiquiri’s To Go, no? Most of our staff has — something, methinks, to do with its proximity to Unfair Park HQ (it’s more or less at Oak Lawn and Market Center Boulevard). That, or there’s just something about booze in…
The Enforcement Expo wraps up its three-day stay at the Dallas Convention Center today, which means: There’s goes the Fear and Loathing coverage I’d planned for months. But that’s not important. What is? Yesterday’s presentation by a 21-year vet of the Texas Highway Patrol, during which the great Dub Gillum…
From time to time (to time to time) we write about Jason Roberts, who’s become synonymous in recent months with efforts to rejuvenate North Oak Cliff — without City Hall’s assistance (or, occasionally, OK). Hence this just-posted You+Dallas piece, from TEDxSMU, about the self-described community activist, in which he explains…
Justin TerveenHaven’t heard in a few weeks from our Friend looking to rehab 807 Elm Street, but I do know this much: The owners of the circa-1925 building really want to get that thing gone, the sooner the better. On Monday, matter of fact, it comes up before the Landmark…
