Just got back in the office to find the announcement: Liar-liar-pants-on-fire George Steel’s unholy ghost has finally been exorcised by the Dallas Opera, which this morning named 47-year-old Keith Cerny its new general director — which is big enough news Bloomberg and The New York Times have taken notice. (I…
Late last night, Lori Conrad at KTVT and KTXA sent word: Channel 21’s about to launch a music show: The Texas Music Scene (catchy?), which will air on TXA 21 after Texas Rangers Friday Night Baseball around 10:30ish p.m. every week beginning this Friday, matter of fact. But those expecting…
Late Tuesday, Blockbuster announced two items of interest — one of which, at least, has prompted a early-trading jump of 15 percent in the Renaissance Tower-based company’s stock price. Which puts it at a whopping 29 cents early this morning.First, Jim Keyes’s company sent news that it has wrapped up…
We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard — and every other law-enforcing abbreviation — showed off the guns, drugs and money hauled in after they busted up the meth-trafficking members of…
That’s what I get for not watching American Idol: A Friend of Unfair Park, who suggested I become a fan of The Good Guys on Facebook (and … done), sends word that a promo for the FOX series starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks as Dallas cops aired during the…
It’s been three weeks since New York-based Rhone Group offered to take 40 percent Liverppool FC off Tom Hicks’s hands for a lousy £100-million investment, which would have been enough to satisfy the Royal Bank of Scotland’s demand for a pay-down on that huge hunk o’ debt. Which means the…
In an awfully short amount of time, Austin-born-and-raised Amber Heard has racked up a rather impressive filmography that spans Friday Night Lights to Alpha Dog to the stuck-in-distribution-hell All the Boys Love Mandy Lane to Pineapple Express to Zombieland to the forthcoming Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary to…
Just went over to the Dallas Independent School District’s Web site to look at something else when I found this newly posted release: “Three schools launching a pilot program to give parents online access to their child’s academic progress.” It’s pretty self-explanatory: In May the DISD will let parents at…
Noticed on the KTVT last night that Coach, the maker of luxury handbags and not Craig T. Nelson, has sued Best of Dallas winner Sam Moon in Dallas federal court. You can see where this is headed: trademark infringement, copyright infringement and false advertising allegations, for starters. And though the…
A couple weeks back we mentioned that insurance company The Hartford and the city of Dallas would go on Pothole Patrol and fix one or more of the kettles that have put a dent in the city’s roadways. Now we know which ones they’re offering to fill: one of the…
UNT Dallas and the surrounding area from UNT Dallas on Vimeo.That video above was just posted to Vimeo by the University of North Texas at Dallas — but says here it was sent out a couple of weeks ago to “the Board of Regents, potential donors, the Texas legislature, and…
I keep on a bookshelf in my office a hardbound copy of the City Code of Dallas, Texas 1941, which once belonged to attorney Milton Norton — at least his name is stamped inside, next to the enormous zoning poster I keep meaning to get framed. Among the to-don’ts: “throwing…
Back at the end of January, the Dallas Safari Club sent out the head-scratchingest press release in the history of ever: Said the release, it won’t tolerate companies using its conventions to sell “child sex tourism” as part of their “international hunting and fishing excursions.” Who said what now? But…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: On Saturday afternoon, a 27-year-old Plano man named Erlyndon J. Lo, was arrested by FBI agents at his home on charges that he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center on Greenville Avenue and Lovers…
Now I know why I heard all those sirens early Saturday morning, then found a puddle of smashed glass at the Marsh and Merrill intersection not far from the house: DWI arrest! And, according to an excitable Avi Adelman, not just any DWI arrest but one apparently involving the owner…
So sorry — got sidetracked this morning reporting out items that aren’t quite well-done yet. Till then, then, this flash forward to next Wednesday’s council meeting — the first since forever, feels like. If nothing else, we now know how much that extra downtown parking study’s going to cost: $131,023…
Sweet Science Trailer from chris howell on Vimeo.Our (all too brief) Dallas International Film Festival sneak peek will appear in the paper version of Unfair Park this week, with follows to run on Unfair Park during the fest’s run commencing Thursday night. But I ran into Dallas Film Society Chairman…
As we glance ahead to the city council’s briefing agenda for Wednesday, we see they’ll take up the potential local option election on November 2 that would result in the entirety of the city getting wet — which is to say, the petition drive demanding beer and alcohol sales citywide…
Pretty sure one of us will be at City Hall this afternoon as the council finally gets back from its three week leave of absence. Though about hitting up Landmark Commission for a slice of Bama Pie, but if nothing else it might be worth a visit to the Public…
I never understood why Metal Skool (formerly Danger Kitty) once again changed its name to Steel Panther two years ago — it was such the brand name already, thanks in large part to Special Guest Stars Kelly Clarkson and Jeremy Piven and Kelly Clarkson and Perry Farrell and old Skooler…
Don’t bogart this boot, my Friends, as The Wayback Machine presents this guh-roovy groover’s flashback to June 2, 1978 — the final time Little Feat would play Dallas with Lowell George, who died one year later, and the last time the band would come through till a Bronco Bowl show…
Pete’s headed out to Dallas Police HQ for a 4:30 press conference, during which the department will announce that, sure enough, it’s charging Erykah Badu with something for that “Window Seat” striptease filmed in Dealey Plaza in mid-March.”Yes, we are going to charge her,” DPD spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse…
