1 The Hurt Locker: The decade’s strongest Iraq movie is also the year’s finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow’s personal best. Working from Mark Boal’s knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old-school in its construction of suspense and character, and horrifically topical in its depiction of…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along an update from the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League: “A Glimmer of Hope for Oak Cliff Christian Church.” That, of course, is a reference to the 1905 building recently acquired by the Dallas Independent School District for the Adamson High…
After the jump you’ll find a video invite just posted to Vimeo in which you’re invited to the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue February 13 for a shindig being billed as “Dallas Dynasty 2010: Flash to the Future,” which will be “hosted” by the Miami Heat guard. It’s but…
Members of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders were in Korea last night — the United States Army Garrison Humphreys, to be precise — bringing some ho-ho-ho to more than 300 troops, civilians and their kinfolk stationed there. Check out the Official Slide Show for some US-oh! Hit it, Bert Convy! Suggestion…
Far as I can tell, Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka hasn’t mentioned this on his blog, but this morning, the Texas Tribune notes that KERA won’t let the political columnist pose questions to the GOP gubernatorial candidates at its January 14 debate. Writes Ross Ramsey, Texas Monthly had been a sponsor,…
If you’re traveling this holiday season, take note: USA Today has reviewed the food-inspection records for 10 airports — including, of course, Dallas-Fort Worth International — and dug up some unappetizing demerits. The story in this morning’s paper doesn’t detail the findings at DFW, but does point us in the…
A little more than a year ago, Dave Clifton, president and co-owner of Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial), told Sam that his left-leaning station would be a success, no doubt about it: “More than half of the people who vote are on my side of the political fence,…
No kidding. The AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Jill Magnuson just sent word that on January 5 at 7:30 p.m., Roger Staubach, Mike Ditka, Bob Lilly, Randy White, Drew Pearson, and Tony Dorsett will take the stage at the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House for the taping of a television…
This reminder: You’ve got till noon today to bid on those items up for grabs in the auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank. At present, the package consisting of the extremely rare miniature Traveling Man bird and Kristian Donaldson’s original comic-book art sits with a high bid of $425. And…
View Larger MapI’ve spent a small chunk of the day trying to reach owners of some of the vacant downtown buildings ID’d by the City Attorney’s Office during this latest code-enforcement blitz. Took a while to find someone to talk about the formerly Dallas County-owned 601 Elm Street, otherwise known…
For reasons still not entirely clear to me, Bill Holston was scouring the Web for instructions on how to tie tefillin when he came across the video below, in which Zvi Drizin of The Intown Chabad on Routh Street wanders the West Village for 40 days and 40 nights (no,…
Earlier today, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, why the City Attorney’s Office sent a letter to Leobardo Trevino, in which the new owner of 1600 Pacific Avenue was warned to clean up dozens of code violations or face fines (up to $1,000 a day per…
The device you see here is the new Sony Reader Daily Edition, which shipped this week at the not-so low, low price of $399. Reason we mention it: Today, courtesy Engadget, we discover that Sony’s fleshing out its list of newspapers available for download over the device. And, yes, that…
Finally, Jeff Catlin, program director at The Ticket, just shot me the links to my Christmas-music spectacular-spectacular, which aired during the very wee small hours of Sunday morn. The sucker ran long — three-plus hours, till 4 in the a.m. — so it’s been broken up into parts one, two…
The Austin Film Society just sent word: After inducting the likes of Morgan Fairchild, Rushmore, the director of Twilight and most everyone else who’s ever made a TV show or rented a movie in Texas, it’s getting around to putting Mike Nesmith in the Texas Film Hall of Fame come…
The front page of this morning’s New York Times takes a long, hard look at how unsafe highway work zones are, especially those involving pavement-edge drop-offs (which, according to one 2006 study, pose “a potential safety hazard because significant vertical differences between surfaces can affect vehicle stability and reduce a…
View Larger MapThis time, there was no spectacle on a downtown sidewalk, no star-studded press conference in the rain, only a sunrise e-mail from Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh. Fourteen months after Mayor Tom Leppert began his crackdown on vacant downtown Dallas buildings, he has added more…
May I interest you in a five-bedroom, 5,214-square foot circa-2002 McMansion near Stevens Park Golf Course? It’s a bit on the pricey side at $1,045,000, but look at all the amenities:Stone & stucco exterior w-circular turret, stunning formals with barrel groin vault & cathedral ceilings, majestic FP’s w-built-ins & more…
We just got the invite: Tomorrow at 4 p.m., there will be a press conference “to announce the return of the Dallas Depserados,” which, as you may (or may not) recall, canceled its 2009 season exactly one year ago along with the rest of Arena Football League. Probably the most…
On January 14, KERA will broadcast, statewide, a GOP gubernatorial debate beginning at 7 p.m.; it will take place at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton. As you can see from The Texas Debates home page, Rick Perry and Kay…
No doubt you’ll hear plenty more about the city’s billion-dollar lawsuit between now and the spring or summer of 2010, when the Supreme Court of Texas rules on whether the city is immune from rescue workers’ claims stemming from a 1979 referendum concerning pay raises and two subsequent lawsuits now…
Not long ago, I was re-reading Michael Phillips’s White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas 1841-2001 and came upon the section dealing with the demolition of 1,000 homes in the early ’90s. Most, wrote Phillips, were in predominantly African-American parts of Dallas; said Mattie Nash, on the city council…
