Mayor Tom Leppert has said it time and again: No tax hike. No way, no how. But in case you missed it the first 29 times, his e-vite to tomorrow morning’s council budget briefing serves as yet another just-say-no note in which he takes aim at Angela Hunt and the…
We’re but days away from the due-by date for the FY2010-11 budget, which will dominate much of the council’s time this week and next; City Hall expects so many speakers at Monday’s budget briefing that the mayor will convene the council in chambers at 9 a.m. before moving everyone upstairs…
Back in April I interviewed Ray Manzarek for When You’re Strange, Tom DiCillo’s doc about The Doors. I thought I’d lost the transcript till earlier this week, when I stumbled across it in a virtual file folder buried amongst the clutter kept in this creaky computer’s dark, musty recesses. There…
Dallas CountyGreg KitchenOn January 22, a 32-year-old Dallas County Jail inmate named Gregory Kitchen was pepper-sprayed — twice, in the face — by guards who, according to a report released in March, also choked him from behind while kneeling on his back. Less than a minute later, he stopped breathing…
Perhaps you’ve heard of Tiffany Lonsdale, who counts among her stage-and-screen credits Bedroom Farce at Theatre Three, several commercials and a few indie productions. Clearly, she has plenty of friends: Many of them have e-mailed in recent days begging us to push her attempt to land a walk-on role on…
Speaking of conceptual renderings …Just because the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee canceled its meeting yesterday for lack of a quorum doesn’t mean you can’t look at the Grand Ricchi Dallas design docs that were passed out ahead of time. Whenever the committee finally does get together, it’ll discuss…
No doubt you’ve at least heard about KTVT-Channel 11’s story that aired last night, in which the CBS owned-and-operated reported that a homeless man from Mexico made it past those security gates and all the way to George W. Bush’s front door. Said Channel 11, which has since yanked the…
Thanks — no, really — to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded Anna Fermanova’s Thursday-night debut on the CW33, for which she’s now an entertainment-gossip correspondent. I’ll leave it to you to review the performance, which is on the other side, though how she squeezes even two minutes…
Photos by Jeffrey LilesMount Pisgah Baptist built its first church at the corner of what’s now Preston and Spring Valley in the late 1800s; the structure that sits there now is a rebuild that dates back to 1945. But in 1981 the church bought property on Webb Chapel near Forest,…
The Dallas Business Journal this morning brings news of a $1-billion, 1-million-square-foot movie and teevee production facility being planned in Frisco, near the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway. And that’s not all: According to Premier Studios’ elaborate website, filled with conceptual renderings and site plans and build-out phases and…
Spirit of ShanklyHit it, Lozninger: Baby, can’t you see what the Royal Bank of Scotland just did — it moved Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s £237 million debt in Liverpool FC to the totally-teffed-list. Meaning: After asking somewhere between £600 and £800 million for the Reds (which, I believe, translates…
Courtesy Danny BalisA couple of nights back, my ol’ pal Danny Balis — a radio producer of some kind, a musician of some note — sent me the link to a scratchy 45 released in September 1955: “Another You,” credited to Deonne Dome With Hoyle Nix And His West Texas…
Patrick MichelsAngela Hunt at a budget town hall in late August at Frontiers of Flight MuseumYesterday, shortly after I posted that budget amendment memo in which eight council members called for a 4.91-cent tax hike, I heard from countless Friends of Unfair Park who said, more or less: “Yeah, but…
I’d planned on going to the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee Meeting, but, well, I had a prior commitment, and, besides, the thing was canceled for lack of a quorum. There was, though, an item of interest on the agenda: “Review and approval of design plans for 1600 Pacific…
Yesterday, I mentioned that some Dallas Independent School District parents are concerned about a proposed change to magnet admissions that would allow room for “students of promise”; today it’s in the paper, where trustee Edwin Flores “acknowledged that a proposed change would reserve 10 percent of magnet admission slots for…
Justin TerveenI woke up this morning to find this present in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy — who else? — our old pal Justin Terveen. It speaks, or sings, for itself — and needs to be seen much larger than I’m capable of displaying it here. (So too does this…
Between the weather and the Rosh a few things fell through the cracks yesterday. Like, oh, former FBI agent Terence Hart’s report to City Manager Mary Suhm concerning the funeral procession for Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s son. City Hall sent the 11-page doc, and Suhm’s accompanying memo, late Wednesday…
Photos by Eric GarciaAs I said below, I picked, like, the worst possible time to drive north on the tollway to the folks’ Walnut Hill house this evening — or the best, since a bottle of decent wine had already been cracked open for the Rosh. (As I told the…
On the other side is a fresh-off-the-virtual-presses press release from the city warning that by early tomorrow morning, there’s a pretty decent chance that as the Trinity River crests — and, as of right now, NOAA has that happening at 42.8 feet — “some areas of the City may experience…
They’ve been on pre-sale since forever, with “mid-September” as the made-available date. (And at $31 too, including shipping and handling!) But Texas Rangers exec veep of communications John Blake just sent word: Beginning today, “the official Claw & Antler Shirt is now available at the Majestic Grand Slam Shop at…
Moments ago I received from council member Angela Hunt’s office a memo that follows, in which Hunt and seven of her colleagues (Delia Jasso, Vonciel Hill, Steve Salazar, Carolyn Davis, Pauline Medrano, Tennell Atkins and Dwaine Caraway) call for a significant tax hike — 4.91 cents per $100 in valuation…
I’ve left a few messages today for Taylor Burns, the officer at Park Cities Bank charged with tending to 807 Elm Street. As I noted Monday, PCB, which got the property in foreclosure, would like to raze the 85-year-old building sitting in a parking lot across from El Centro, though…
