A Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention yesterday to the trailer for a documentary called Article 19, about events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in February 1987. I recalled having read something about this back in December, when the Mustangs…
Before posting anything about Sports Illustrated’s breaking story about Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington’s positive test for cocaine last July, I wanted to clarify one question: How often are managers tested for drug use? Because initially, the SI story didn’t say, though now it’s been updated to reflect that info.As…
Stayed up way too late last night reading all 148 pages of Blockbuster’s latest annual report, which was submitted yesterday to the Securities and Exchange Commission and is full of dire warnings that, look, bankruptcy may be inevitable no matter what CEO Jim Keyes says. It’s a pretty gritty read…
Passover, which I like to call the Jewish St. Patrick’s Day, is almost upon us. And while my parents and I argue over who’s smoking the brisket this year, this much is certain: Our formerly extravagant seder will continue to inch further toward becoming just a pain-in-the-tuchus dinner with a…
There’s not a lot going on at Dallas City Hall this week and next and next, while the council goes spring breaking. But there is something of interest on the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which is meeting today: a vague agenda item that only says, “Discussion of Post War residential…
At this late date, is there even any need to recount Blockbuster’s myriad woes? They are innumerable, but to the list add this one: the possibility of having to file for Chapter 11. CEO Jim Keyes says that’s so much nonsense, the doing of attorneys who have to give fair…
Old friend, guitarrista, author and one-time Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman stopped by the office yesterday to drop off a copy of his long-in-the-works “autobiographical novel” Black Cracker, which has been available for der Kindle since May of last year. (As Josh summarizes, it’s the story of “the only white…
On April 13 in Las Vegas, Ron Chapman will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Radio Hall of Fame — a momentous occasion that comes exactly one month after the Citadel Broadcasting Corporation pulled the plug on Platinum 96.7 and replaced it with an FM simulcast of WBAP-AM…
SMU just released the 2010 football schedule, and, clearly, the Christmas Miracle in Hawaii meant a little something-something when it came to the Worldwide Leader locking down dates. Because the season opens with a September 5 Sunday-afternoon showdown in Lubbock against Texas Tech — the first of two ESPN showcases…
Several Friends of Unfair Park — and AT&T customers — are wondering why in the world they can’t reach out and touch someone this morning using their 3G voice service. Left a few messages for spokespersons at Akard Street HQ, but the company’s Twitter account just posted the answer to…
Today’s the day FOX’s Midland starts shooting in and around Dallas, with (500) Days of Summer’s Marc Webb directing, Up in the Air and Juno’s Eric Steelberg shooting, Jon Voight and David Keith co-starring and In Good Company’s Paul Weitz exec producing. It’s expected to be a quick shoot too…
On his blog this morning, Central Dallas Ministries CEO Larry James breaks some intriguing news: With the assistance of the Embrey Family Foundation, CDM has acquired 3.6 acres on the southeast corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Interstate 30. I’ve got a call into James to get further details, but…
There’s magic in these hits hot off the charts, all charged with original star power — pure power! New, from K-Tel and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, this hit parade of local tax preparers, investment advisers and other no-filing nogoodniks currently serving five to Top 10! The original hits of ’09…
This got buried beneath the stack of legal docs currently devouring my desk, but I’d just hate it if you missed out on Your Big Break: Spike TV, the network for dudes and Star Wars movie marathons and Entourage reruns, is looking for a couple of broheims to host a…
Fair warning: Last time we directed your attention to original photos from the ’36 Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park being sold on eBay, the three pack went for a small fortune. Bidding opened at $9.99 and closed at $147.50. Nice work.Now, then, on to the latest find: two separate…
Council’s off this week and next for spring break — which, for Mayor Tom Leppert, includes a trip to D.C. early tomorrow morning to, yet again, ask Washington suits to expedite the stuck-in-a-ditch Trinity River project. After the jump, you’ll find the batch of memos that ushered the council out…
Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem – book trailer from Bad Juju and Other Tales on Vimeo.I came across the above video this morning. I know well one of its makers (our pal Hal Samples), but not its neo-noir star: Jonathan Woods, a peddler of crime fiction…
So much to do this weekend — like, oh, I dunno, that St. Patrick’s Day Parade we co-sponsor. But before you go, here are Angela Hunt’s do’s and don’ts, not only for the parade but the daylong after-party (and after-after-party, and after-after-after-after-party) on Lower Greenville. Do keep in mind, “There…
Several Friends of Unfair Park who like their oldies (and their terrestrial radio, same difference) are wondering what in the what is up with KPMZ-FM, otherwise known as Platinum 96.7. Because up until a short while ago it appeared the station had gone back to playing country. Only now, when…
A good Friend of Unfair Park wonders:My daughter just texted me. She said they’re filming something at Woodrow Wilson today, and she got an actor named Jesse Metcalfe to take a picture with her. You’re the Movie Man … what’s going on up there? Are they filming a movie?Nope. That’s…
So, then, back to Memorial Auditorium for a moment. But only because council member Ron Natinsky shares with Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway the hope that sooner than later, the city can and will give the venerable arena a makeover and begin marketing it as an alternative to the Nokia…
Over on photopol.us — otherwise known as “the metropolis for dfw photog nerds” — you’ll find, what else, photos taken at Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art in Deep Ellum. That’s where, beginning tomorrow night, you’ll find the exhibition 18 Photographs, featuring the work of such photographers as Andrea Roberts, Andrew Shepherd,…
