Just a programming note for those a fan of the Girl on Top at City Hall: Andrea’s liveblogging the council’s Housing Committee meeting — specifically, the 4,293rd hearing involving the Demolition Process for Urban Nuisances in Existing and Proposed Historic Districts. So do stay tuned — she could use the…
I’m sitting here doing what I do every Saturday — catching up on my Texas Rangers bankruptcy docs — when I notice this buried in a hearing order filed by the court at week’s end: “Copies of the Prepackaged Plan and Disclosure Statement, as well as any other document that…
Been thinkin’ about Waylon Jennings quite a bit this week; can’t imagine why. Even went home Wednesday night and dug out the re-release of the 1976 classic Waylon Live, fleshed out years later to 42 tracks of can’t-beat-it country music recorded in Austin and at The Western Place, “a classy,…
It was less than a month ago the city council’s Economic Development Committee went behind closed doors with, among others, Office of Economic Development Director Karl Zavitkovsky to discuss what the what to do with Southwest Center Mall. They confabbed for more than an hour and emerged without ever mentioning…
Vibe’s touting the cover of its June/July issue as “controversial” and “iconic.” Not hardly. There have been plenty more naked magazine covers than the one seen here. Like this. And, this. And, all of these. Still, the Lady of the Lake continues to reap the benefits of a nude springtime…
Late yesterday, Jim was standing at an Observer newsroom window staring, yet again, at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site as crews began putting in place the opposite side of the center arch. Jim was eating from a plate of ginger snaps resting on the windowsill, one after the…
Yesterday, good Friend of Unfair Park IgnoreLander shot me a link to the Flickr photostream of one “davidfromdallas.” He also included this note: “Not sure if Dave really is from Dallas, but I came across this guy during some random Web surfing. Might be someone to watch out for in…
The Dallas Police Department sends along this video taken from a bait car that did its job — says Sgt. Andy Harvey, the man involved in this particular smash-and-grab was arrested not long after he concluded his bad business. The point of this pass-along, says Harvey, is to remind the…
Variety’s reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is fining FOX $25,000 over the January 3 episode of American Dad titled “Horse Chores,” in which — as the trade’s Ted Johnson puts it — there’s a scene “in which two characters engage in ribald dialogue, followed by a scene in which…
Last Friday Daniel recapped the first Dallas Bike Plan Open House — and by “first,” I mean there will be more forthcoming, according to Angela Hunt, co-chair of the committee overseeing the redo of the antiquated Greater Dallas Bike Plan Map. Now we find Hunt’s recap as she returns to…
On the way into work yesterday via the Dallas North Tollway, I noticed a sign on the southbound side warning of a pending closure on June 7 — as in, not one lane but the whole tollroad. But traffic and construction crews obscured the what and the where. Didn’t see…
On Tuesday we looked at the mammoth PowerPoint assembled by MIG for its May meetings with downtown shareholders as the company prepares to hand the council the Downtown Dallas 360 plan at summer’s end. In the past those slide shows have been accompanied by recaps of what was discussed during…
We’ve run this picture of Tom Hicks, oh, a million times in recent years; so have plenty of others — it’s iconic. So much so that I just saw it again on the UK Telegraph’s Web site moments ago. Only this time, it was affixed to an American flag being…
We said it just last week: The Texas Education Agency won’t release its 2010 Accountability Ratings till the end of July, which hasn’t stopped the Dallas Independent School District from spreading the good news concerning a fifth straight year of improved TAKS scores and additional schools being added to the…
The postman was kind enough to deliver my Blockbuster proxy materials yesterday in advance of this month’s board meeting downtown. (I recently bought 100 shares — it was either that or a pack of smokes.) CEO Jim Keyes, yet again, reminded me vote for his slate of candidates to the…
During our server outage of the last hour, several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we noted David Dillon’s death at his home in Amherst, Mass. He suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 68. Dillon, who was among those who took a buyout from the…
The first person I called yesterday after receiving that video in which the drunk driver of a Chevy Impala flew outta Dallas-Fort Worth Airport the wrong way was David Magaña, DFW’s manager of public affairs. And he confirmed it: The driver was arrested for drunk driving. Still, some folks keep…
If you weren’t aware that we’re but a week away from the Republican Party of Texas’s 2010 convention at the Dallas Convention Center, you’ll find Harvey Kronberg’s preview at Quorum Report, part one of which was posted yesterday evening, awfully helpful. (If, that is, you’re a subscriber — the rest…
What you see above is the trailer for Lonestar that FOX Broadcasting posted a few days ago. The pilot, as you surely know by now, was filmed here this spring as Midland with (500) Days of Summer’s Marc Webb directing. And I was going to post this yesterday. But Wednesday…
Two things I probably should replace sooner than later: car and cellphone. Got the former covered. As for the latter, I’m still considering T-Mobile’s HTC HD2, a little more this morning than yesterday. That’s because, per PC Magazine’s just-released survey of the fastest mobile networks, T-Mobile comes in as the…
There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek—the roller-coaster spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall—when it feels as if the thing will jump the rails and smash to the ground in a thousand pieces of what-in-the-fuck. It’s a complete and utter mess from the big-loud-dumb start to the awwww-that’s-so-sweet…
I’ve been trading phone calls with Andrea Bond, head of marketing for Elliott’s Hardware, for most of the day. A few minutes ago, we finally connected, and as you can imagine, following the news that the Maple Avenue location’s up for grabs for a cool $8 million, “it’s been a…
