Megan, of course, attended George W. Bush’s coming-out as a motivational speaker Monday at the Fort Worth Convention Center; we’ve also got the slide show to prove it. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in; the Star-Telegram’s reporting on the Get Motivated! founders gets a brief shout-out…
More than a few Friends of Unfair Park have asked privately and in the comments of yesterday’s Main Street Garden sneak peek how the city expects to deal with the homeless. So happens, that was one thing Willis Winters and I discussed toward the end of our tour (along with…
Courthouse News brings us the interestingish case of Mary Kemp v. the Texas Department of Transportation over … one dollar. Our story starts on November 4, 2007. The Wichita Falls resident was on State Highway 121 — the Sam Rayburn — and about to take the Denton Tap Road exit…
Just noticed this on the council’s meeting addendum for tomorrow: I called Crenshaw, who served on the council from 1993 till ’95, to find out the details of the complaint, but a friend of hers answered the phone and offered this rather stunning news: “Her mother died Thursday, and her…
So, right. Like I said, Kirk Cameron was in town Sunday, and the Growing Pains star preached to three separate services at First Baptist Dallas — which, frankly, just sounds exhausting. A video’s just been posted from the third service, and as soon as I hit the part about some…
Michael Precker, who rather famously swapped a gig at The Dallas News for one at The Lodge, sends word the Dawn Rizos-Newt Gingrich saga has reached its conclusion: Newt’s people returned the $5,000 check (along with a check “for the value of two nonrefundable plane tickets” to D.C.), and she’s…
Willis Winters, assistant director of the city’s Park and Recreation Department, was kind enough to give Unfair Park a tour of the $17-million Main Street Garden this morning — and by “garden,” I mean mud pit and swimmin’ hole. Hence, Winters’s acknowledgment that, yes, it’s quite likely the garden –…
In this morning’s item about the late, great Don Ivan Punchatz, Jeff Liles drops a comment to remind us of the TCU illustration prof’s estimable contribution to the local music scene. Writes Jeff, he “also created that amazing cover illustration for Biting on Tin Foil, the first Three on a…
The missus and I are going to Steve Martin’s bluegrass hoedown tonight at the Meyerson — good cause, sure, but also a good time from the sound of recent reviews. And, say what, Onion A.V. Club: “The band nonchalantly launched into a bluegrass take on the novelty tune ‘King Tut.'”…
Speaking of The New York Times …On this morning’s front page is a lengthy piece about the rise in runaways turning to prostitution, and how most law enforcement officials treat these children, most of them young girls, “more as teenage criminals than under-age victims.” But, as we’ve noted in the…
Spent the better part of the morning looking at the artwork of Don Ivan Punchatz, the New Jersey-born illustrator and TCU adjunct design professor for 40 years who died last Thursday in an Arlington hospital following cardiac arrest earlier this month. Punchatz’s résumé is the stuff of pop-art-world legend: from…
Sean Salisbury was not — no way, no how, no sir — fired from The Fan 105.3 for “sexting.” At least, that’s what Richie wrote on September 11 about his former radio-station teammate. Gawker Media-owned Deadspin, which has been obsessed with the Frisco resident’s Salisbury steak for a long time,…
Sci-fi cons held days before Halloween are always highly recommended, for reasons made clear in this slide show from Eli Luna, who trekked out to the Plano Centre for Star Wars Fan Days. I was out there for, oh, a solid hour Saturday — waded through the sea of stocky…
First off, how can something be a “flash mob” when local media’s tipped off to the happening, oh, a week before it’s scheduled with a press release? Second, it’s awful hard to make a statement out of a conceptual-art event tied to health-care reform; yellow ponchos don’t have quite the…
When the Dallas County Commissioners Court needed an outside attorney to advise them on how to proceed with their investigation of Constables Derick Evans and Jaime Cortes, they turned to Sidney Davis Jr., a partner at Touchstone Bernays, over the objections of John Wiley Price. Davis was ultimately the attorney…
We’ve already told you when KERA-FM’s all-music offshoot, KXT, launches — November 9 at 7 a.m. But the question remains: Who’s gonna do the talkin’ while the station gets to rockin’? This morning, we have some idea: Jeff Ramirez, veep of radio, sends word that former Ticket traffic reporter Gini…
Mark your calendars: March 8. That, says Jack Fink, is when state Rep. Terri Hodge will finally stand trial, per Judge Barbara Lynn’s decision. Say what? You forgot Hodge was indicted along with Don Hill, D’Angelo Lee and the rest of the found-guilty gang? Then you should go back and…
About a month ago we showed off 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne’s model for the $185-million Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park, scheduled to open in September 2013. But it’s never too early for the Dallas City Council to get a sneak peek at the landscape…
In April 2008, our Elaine Liner spoke with Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty about his “once-in-a-lifetime, life-changing” meeting with DTC founder Paul Baker, who actor Charles Laughton once famously called “irritating, arrogant, nuts — and a genius … one of the most important minds in the world theater…
Too bad that tree-hugger Alexa’s not here — me, I can’t see the forest for the trees, but she knows all about the city’s efforts to take an inventory of our trees and the ramifications of this particular head count. Still, there’s the question of how to do it in…
The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked…
What you see above is the “841-ft long, 16-ft wide signature pedestrian bridge over Mockingbird Lane” that the city hopes to have up and running (see what I did there?) by December 2011, fingers and toes crossed. Of course, that’s if the city can find the walking-around money to fund…
