After a week of previews, tomorrow night the Dallas Theater Center officially debuts its revisal of the 1966 Broadway smash flop musical It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman! — maybe you’ve heard. And, as I noted, Patrick Cassidy reprises the role of villainous Max Mencken originally…
A 1998 Washington Post story about Krandel Lee Newton, electrical engineer turned West End Marketplace artist, described his technique thusly:Not since Masaccio birthed the Italian Renaissance by realistically depicting a three-dimensional scene upon a flat canvas has an artist emerged with such transformational potential as Krandel Lee Newton. Newton …..
[Update at 9:14 p.m.: So, for those still with us at this late hour (and, really, why?), the council’s back — and City Secretary Deborah Watkins has just announced that Progress Dallas did indeed gather “a sufficient number of signatures” to trigger a November 2 election regarding the sale of…
Mayor Tom Leppert just stopped down the city council’s meeting to announce that, yes indeed, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Ron Natinsky and Friends of Fair Park’s Craig Holcomb have managed to resurrect the Fair Park Fourth … on July 5. And they’ve done so with the donations of…
Jim returned a short while ago from the Poor People’s March. Drenched in sweat, grime, fury, he saw, through our office window, the Calatrava bridge’s center arch now, suddenly, this close to completion. He shrugged, sighed.Said he hoped that garish monstrosity wouldn’t close the Continental Avenue Bridge between now and…
It’s been a long while since we’ve made mention of the New LBJ Freeway — like, since February 2009, when the Texas Department of Transportation announced that an international consortium called LBJ Development Partners — which includes Spanish-based Cintra, French-based Meridiam Infrastructure Finance and other local firms — would be…
Yesterday afternoon, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn delayed the sale of the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express pending some changes, both the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and the first lien lendors had their reps send press releases huzzah-ing the opinion. Which, I know,…
You know that antiquated covered parking shed at the corner of N. Malcolm X Boulevard and Indiana Street, behind Cafe Brazil in Deep Ellum? Right. This one. Well, this morning Brandon Castillo sends word that he’s found a use for it: a Deep Ellum Outdoor Market, set to make its…
As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council’s Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of fireworks at Fair Park on July 4. Said Caraway, “We’re inviting people to go out to Plano and see…
Seems we weren’t the only ones following the case of the Institute for Creation Research v. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; so too was The Chronicle of Higher Education, which alerts our attention to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks handed down Friday that has closed the case…
We’ve known since March that Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts would put on hold several key projects, chief among them the second downtown rail line, or D2. But exactly what and for how long? Those are answers we didn’t know, not until this evening. DART…
I see here that Andy Siegel, an attorney at Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, is claiming that Progress Dallas has come up 5,555 signatures short of getting the dry parts of Dallas soaking wet in beer and wine. To which Progress Dallas, headed by Kroger’s Gary Huddleston says, “What the what?”…
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s memorandum of opinion in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 case just appeared on PACER, oh, 15 minutes ago? And it’s below, all 28 pages. And: It would appear to be a good day for the creditors, as Lynn writes that he ain’t OK’ing nothing till…
A little light lunchtime reading …To begin with, the U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates today, and, as usual, Texas — and the DFWA (as in, Arlington) — fared bestest in all the land. “Star of the Sun Belt,” says here. And that means you, Frisco and McKinney and…
I heard over the weekend that Kenny & Ziggy’s, the beloved Houston deli, ain’t coming to town after all. At least, not yet and not for the foreseeable future.A few months ago, Ziggy Gruber confirmed to Unfair Park that he did indeed have a letter of intent to take over…
Initially MIG Inc.’s Downtown Dallas 360 plan was due to the city council before its summer vacation, set to start more or less after tomorrow’s marathon meeting. But the addition of the parking study pushed back the deadline till later this summer, which gives MIG more time to meet with…
Jim’s office has been dark all day. I called him earlier, to see if it he was OK. He spoke in a whisper, sounded down. I told him he was missing it — from the office window we could see them placing the first curved piece on the center arch…
Speaking of criminals …Courthouse News today has this lawsuit brought by an Austin law firm against the City of Arlington, in which Sullo & Bobbitt PLLC claims that the city, by moving its criminal records to municipal court, is attempting to restrict access to docs every other city in the…
If you’ve yet to see a movie at the Texas Theatre, which recently began showing classic and foreign-language films after too long in the dark, tonight would be a good time to check it out. At 7:30 they’ll screen Gerardo Naranjo’s I’m Gonna Explode, which opened in New York last…
While I wait for folks to return calls, I wanted to share with the Friends of Unfair Park one of two items I picked up at Half Price Books over the weekend: a 1952 black-and-white pamphlet from the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts showcasing Impressions of Dallas, consisting entirely of…
When Jason Roberts first introduced the Better Block Block project in late March, he did so with the caveat that it was “a ‘living block’ art installation” intended to prove it’s possible to turn a screwed-up Oak Cliff intersection zoned “light industrial” into something livable and walkable. But three months…
Tomorrow in a Fort Worth courtroom, should all go according to plan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn will rule on whether Hicks Sports Group can move ahead with its sale of the first-place Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But this morning in a subscription-only…
