A few news and notes with which to end your red-flag Tuesday:The Bush Institute on the SMU campus today announced its very first “human freedom” event, scheduled for April 19 at the James M. Collins Executive Education Center: The Conference on Cyber Dissidents: Global Successes and Challenges. The former president…
Patrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today’s final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, there’s Billy Joe Dupree!) But for five years, Irving’s been preparing for this moment: Life After the Dallas Cowboys, as…
The Dallas International Film Festival just sent word: It has added five docs to its line-up — chief among them Lemmy, about the Motörhead frontman, which had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival two weeks ago. The NSFW SXSW trailer’s above; the full list of add-ons…
Today, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves sent out a press release urging Texans to send back their 2010 Census forms. Because, according to the numbers, most of the state’s major cities are lagging well behind the national average of a 46-percent return rate. Brownsville (at 25 percent) ranks last, followed…
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map’s done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution’s assets for an undisclosed sum. It’ll be…
So writes new geographist Joel Kotkin on Forbes’s Web site today, a week after his visit to Dallas to speak to the regional chamber. Kotkin, who’s already branded Dallas a World Capital of the Future, writes today that the significant bump in new DFW residents noted by the Census Bureau…
More than a few Friends of Unfair Park were unimpressed with the decision made earlier this month to rename Code 58 — the buddy-cop dramedy currently shooting ’round town with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks — to The Good Guys. Nevertheless, that’s the title FOX and creator Matt Nix are…
For those not paying attention, there’s been quite the firestorm in recent weeks surrounding Dallas filmmaker Israel Luna’s Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives and its inclusion in the Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off April 21. At the end of last week, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a…
SMU sends words of a media and human rights symposium set for next week — which includes a tribute to director Rob Epstein, two-time Oscar winner for co-directing the docs The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. And the April 6 night tribute-to and conversation-with…
The 6-year-old who lives in my house has been wondering since forever: When oh when will he be able to run amok at Main Street Garden, where, since forever, its patch of grass has been barricaded off whilst its roots take root. And then, earlier today, I espied this tweet…
A couple of weeks back, we read the entirety of Blockbuster’s annual report and discovered one significant bit of bad news that had gone unnoticed elsewhere: The New York Stock Exchange sent the downtown Dallas-based company a warning that if it didn’t get its stock price back above one dollar…
Good God. We’re slowly but surely working our way through the Dallas International Film Festival offerings — though, from the sound of the press release that just landed in the in-box, we’d best hustle. Why come? Only a couple of weeks after that fest wraps is the Texas Frightmare Film…
A couple of news and notes before I head out to butter my unleavened bread …A Friend of Unfair Park takes note of New York State Sen. Eric Adams’s latest initiative: “Stop the Sag.” Which only puts New York about three years behind Dallas and, more to the point, council…
Ever since he first posted his item about Dallas getting the National Bible Museum, Jim’s been tracking down the source of funding for this estimable project. And all arrows pointed in one direction: north, toward Oklahoma. Specifically, Hobby Lobby. As a matter of fact, Jim spoke with president Steve Green…
Dunno how we missed this one, but on Friday, Courthouse News posted a lawsuit filed in Denton County District Court on March 18, in which A. Larry Ross Communications alleges that the Miss USA 2009 first runner-up didn’t pay up after the P.R. firm guided her through that rough patch…
Earlier this morning, Pete posted the evidence to DC9: Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” video, the latest informercial for New Amerykah Part Two: The Return of the Ankh, in stores tomorrow. Since its release in the wee small hours Saturday morning, the video — filmed entirely in Dealey Plaza in one…
Over on Bike Friendly Oak Cliff Friday, Jason Roberts introduced “The Better Block Project” — or, as he describes it, “a ‘living block’ art installation” intended to prove it’s possible to turn an area zoned “light industrial” into something that’s actual livable and walkable. The area will encompass the 400…
Jim’s wrapped up his review of Michael Lindenberger’s Sunday story in The Dallas Morning News — you read it, right, the front-pager headlined “Analysis: Dallas’ crucial levees only weakened amid debate on park, toll road.” Schutze’s essay is forthcoming shortly. But till then, then, here’s what council member and vote-nay-sayer…
If you don’t recall the name Chynna Stone, maybe you remember what happened to her on April 18, 2008: At 3:30 that Friday afternoon, the SMU sophomore was sitting on the couch in her apartment living room on McFarlin Avenue when a very drunk and very stoned 24-year-old Brian Michael…
Speaking of Your Texas Rangers …Just checked the e-mail this glorious baseball-season-y Sunday afternoon to find a missive from John Blake, exec veep of communications for the ball club, who sends word that Roger Staubach’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the Rangers’ 1:05 p.m. home opener against the…
Word out of the U.K. has Tom Hicks refusing Rhone Group’s offer of a £100 million for a majority piece of Liverpool FC, the exact amount he and George Gillett owe the Royal Bank of Scotland come July. I’ve asked Hicks’s local spokesperson, Lisa LeMaster, wot the wot, but till…
This week we covered storm debris collection (more than once), council members using (or being) social media tools, the outgoing director of convention and event services and the Dallas International Film Festival (OK, so that was last week). And they’re all subjects included in the packet of memos sent to…
