Alex Cox’s nutty, brilliant, baffling, beguiling, weird, wild, wonderful Walker’s at the Texas Theatre tonight, following a 35mm screening of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly; a good day for a double feature, no doubt. Cox, maker of Sid and Nancy and Repo Man, has actually been ’round town…
As it turns out, the United States Postal Service is looking at shuttering several post offices in the city — not just the main processing facility on IH-30, but also its locations in the Earle Cabell Federal Building (known as “Station C”), the Belmont Finance Station on Greenville Avenue and…
The most embarrassed I ever felt at a live show was April 16, 1993, at the old Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum — otherwise known as The Night Those Assholes Up Front Wouldn’t Leave Fugazi The Fuck Alone. I just relived it again, courtesy the Fugazi Live Series slowly rolling…
I just stumbled across an item of intrigue that’s presently for sale on eBay for the whopping buy-it-now price of $499. And it’s not just any ol’ auction item: This vintage photo, which comes on a 38″-by-58″ “ready-to-hang stretched canvas,” pulls in via the fine folks at the Ford Motor…
Below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores hopped in the comments to underscore something he said during yesterday’s discussion concerning Teach for America. Said the trustee yesterday, TFA corps members in the district “outperform two-thirds of all our teachers in math and science” — not just first-year teachers or…
For those wondering whatever become of the stagnating Lake Highlands Town Center, a ray of hope appears on the council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday: “Community Development Block Grant Section 108 Guaranteed Loan Application for the Lake Highlands Town Center.” I’ll post the actual briefing docs when they’re posted…
There’s a piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal in which Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Harlan Crow and Fort Worth oil man Charles Moncrief explain why they’re throwing their money at Mitt Romney after years spent filling Rick Perry’s coffers. Long story short: It’s that openin’-his-mouth thing he does. It’s…
Here we go again.Ever since I read this last month, I’ve been trying to nail down whether the United States Postal Service intends to shutter the Dallas Main Post Office on IH30. I went so far as to contact Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office; two weeks ago her spokesperson said, “We…
On August we told you that the Dallas Independent School District had been hit with a $40-million breach of contract lawsuit filed by a technology vendor with whom the trustees had agreed to do business till, out of nowhere, district officials just decided to go with someone else. In May…
Two days after 22-year-old hairdresser Elizabeth Lightfoot was found dead inside her burning car along Preston Road between Keller Springs and Arapaho, her tragic tale became international news. Yet close to a month later, save for a few horrific revelations Dallas Police are still no closer to solving the case…
Three hours after their start time, the Dallas ISD board finally got around to discussing whether or not to extend the district’s contract with Teach for America — which would seem like a no-brainer after you read this 2010 Atlantic piece about TFA or this January 2011 study by the…
My wife and I watched last night’s Highland Park-set episode of Top Chef: Texas in wide-eyed (and, eventually, slightly drunken) disbelief; it was like some Frankenstein monster created from the worst parts of Most Eligible Dallas, The A List: Dallas, Dallas Divas & Daughters and one of those rare occasions…
The Dallas Independent School District board has yet to get down to business; at the moment it’s behind closed doors in executive session. But moments ago it heard from a parade of public speakers, all of whom were awfully well behaved and used their three minutes wisely as they spoke…
Pike Park, on Harry Hines as you’re heading into downtown, sits more or less in the shadow of the American Airlines Center; you’ve probably driven by it hundreds of times, even if you’ve never stopped once. Built in 1914 at the cost of a little more than $18,000 in what…
I didn’t have time to tune in yesterday for the entirety of the ad hoc committee meeting of some Dallas Independent School District trustees tasked with rewriting the district’s “educational philosophy.” At close to two hours, it wasn’t a short discussion either — it never is when trustees gather ’round…
The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for “the beginning of the end,” a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight…
A little more than nine months after those aggrieved ticketholders left out in the Arlington cold during Super Bowl XLV brought their lawsuits, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn — she of tough sentences and no nonsense — has refused to dismiss the breach-of-contract case. But: Lynn did remove the Dallas…
Shortly before word began circulating that the immortal Billy Graham has been hospitalized for the second time this year due to pneumonia, Athletes in Action posted to Vimeo the extraordinary artifact you see above: Graham teasing Explo ’72, which Time called The Jesus Woodstock, that brought some 80,000 Campus Crusaders…
Why, what good timing: Just last week we got back up to speed on the legal doings brought in March by Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., son of the late Wendy Reves, namesake of that estimable art collection at the Dallas Museum of Art. To rererecap the case that made national…
Juan Gonzalez and Rafael Palmeiro made their debuts on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s 2011 Hall of Fame ballot — and didn’t even come close to finishing near the Top 10 vote-getters. Raffy, poor Raffy, came closest with 64 votes; Juando trailed just behind Palmeiro with 30, two ahead…
I won’t horn in on the music blog’s review of last night’s Wilco-Nick Lowe show in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Seems about right to me, though the first-timer can’t appreciate the giddy shock of hearing A.M. standard “Passenger Side” slid into that short, sharp, shard-filled set list that…
Over on Unfair Park I just posted the note that Jamie Foxx’s Brinker International Forum appearance at the Winspear, which was scheduled for tomorrow night, is now a no-go. The reason: Something to do with his inability to get away from the set of Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino…
