Merritt was just on Kickstarter, funding a friend’s project, when she decided to peek at the Dallasites in need of dough from the “crowdsourced fund-raising service.” She forwarded along this most eclectic and interesting list, among ’em: “Batman Rebuilt” co-creator Caleb Christopher needs two grand for his Batman stop-motion LEGO…
A good Friend of Unfair Park (OK, my next-door-neighbor and fellow DISD parent) directs our attention to yesterday’s announcement heralding the launch of this website, which allows you to see how the Dallas Independent School District’s doling out the $1.35 billion approved for the 2008 bond program. Says the man…
Tom Hicks, this shirt’s referring to you.For those wondering why’s it taking so damned long for Tom Hicks to part with the Dallas Stars, Mike Heika has the answer: The lenders are in control now (wuh-oh). That, coupled with Chuck Greenberg’s landing a something-point-something billion-dollar teevee deal, ain’t helping. (If…
Some time after 6:30 this evening, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will approve the $1,256,451,080 FY2011 budget and the Twenty-Year Financial Plan prompted by the sales-tax shortfall — “The Lost Decade,” for those with short-term memory loss. But let’s dig deeper into the DART meeting agenda for today –…
Sam MertenAccording to The Washington Post this morning, the Democratic Governors Association has already poured $2 million into Bill White’s campaign. Which is just the start: Today the DGA’s set to debut an ad in Dallas that attacks Governor Rick Perry on three fronts — for his 2007 executive order…
Over these many years I’ve lost track of the number of Dallas crime maps that have come and gone — seem to recall having SpotCrime bookmarked at one point, there’s the slow-loading CrimeWatch, and the city has its own rustic site that looks like something that was very ahead of…
Rod ClevelandThe Red River Shootout’s up for grabs following the 2015 expiration date of Texas and OU’s deal with the city of Dallas. After that, who knows — Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, most folks figure. Unless something happens between now and then. Hard to say.But up in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, today,…
Carla MainWe were first introduced to Highland Park developer, Humble Oil heir and Hiram Walker distant relation Hiram Walker Royall in December 2008, when he became national news for suing everyone connected to the 2007 tome Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. And by everyone, I…
Way back in January we noted that Fair Park was in the market for a vintage car museum; in July we added that all systems were go following Park and Rec’s green light, which gave the joint a lease in the 50,000-square-foot Grand Place exhibition hall through at least August…
Photos by Chris HowellMarc Ribot and his latest collaborator, a filmmaker named Charlie ChaplinMarc Ribot’s performance at The Kessler Saturday night was one for the ages — proof, if nothing else, that it is indeed possible to get a free-jazz sax skronk out of an acoustic guitar. Ribot, whose estimable…
For those who like to plan ahead (or for those of us who need a few weeks to, oh, I dunno, stop smoking and pump up their tires and generally reconsider several other unhealthy life choices), this heads-up: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff this morning released the details for Cyclesomatic 2010,…
Jeff Carlton at the Associated Press was the one who, in July, first offered the story of Stephen Brodie — the deaf man who, in 1991, was detained by Richardson police for stealing quarters out of a soda machine and ended up pleading guilty to the unsolved sexual assault of…
Sunandan Subramaniam/AirNet.comI live in the Love Field flight path — have all my life. So, you say, there’s more noise than usual coming from the airport? OK, then. Me, I can’t tell. But Angela Hunt has one explanation: construction on Runway 13R-31L, which runs parallel to Denton Drive. It was…
The great Chris Howell promises to share with us later in the day a photo from Marc Ribot’s breathtaking Saturday-night show-and-tell at the Kessler — truly a once-in-a-lifetime event, since the guitarist has played Texas but once (last night) in his storied career. In the meantime: A good Friend of…
Two weeks ago The Wayback Machine landed us at the Music Hall at Fair Park on December 11, 1970 — site of The Doors’ almost-farewell gig, one night before ” it finished in the voodoo juju” of a warehouse in New Orleans, as Ray Manzarek put it. At the time…
Billboard’s account of Willie Nelson’s all-star homecoming concert in Abbott in the fall of ’73This is not your work-week rock-and-roll-and adios — that’ll more than likely come tomorrow morning. But this’ll do. While we await a piece from Patrick Michels about some doings at Cliff Manor this afternoon, I wanted…
Down below, in the comments, we somehow got to talking about Forest and Marsh and how maybe that part of town — my part of town, from the day I was born till this very moment — could use a Better Block Project of its own. Which got a few…
Courtesy Lower Oak Lawn/Kendall ShifflerShooting an art auction scene with Jon Voight for Lone Star at ARTability on Oak Lawn last monthThanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve directed my attention to this blog post from Kyle Killen, the creator of Lone Star, which, as we noted Tuesday,…
Photos by Danny FulgencioBack when we officed downtown — man, those were good times — I looked forward to today: the annual State Fair of Texas kick-off parade, which rolled down Main Street but a few short yards from our Commerce St. HQ front door. Alas, a former publisher rained…
By which I mean: your “potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.” That’s per the Dallas Police Department’s release, sent moments ago, in which it says the DPD and Drug Enforcement Agency will be celebrating Prescription Drug Take Back Day tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are…
Flickr user: John McStravickLast December, Maria Munoz-Blanco, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, told Unfair Park that she had hoped to have in place a new operator for the Majestic Theatre by mid-May of 2010 at the latest. Requests for proposals were out, and, fingers crossed, the city…
Justin TerveenClick to embiggen Justin’s picture of the State Fair-grounds last nightRick Perry’s a disappointment, Craig Watkins is a “demagogue,” Jason Roberts is a fixer — all the name-calling you fit whilst awaiting your first Fletcher’s corn dog of the fall season …Following an outing to Fair Park, speaking of,…
