A couple of weeks back we mentioned The Future of Downtown Dallas Forum scheduled for today at the Dallas Convention Center — 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., for those with nothing better to do (like, um, work? U2?). Anyway, like we said back then, it’s being hosted by the Berkeley-based…
We just received the following press release from City Hall for an event taking place at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow:Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Cowboy Tight End #80 Martellus Bennett and former Los Angeles Raider Tim Brown will announce the Second Annual Passport to Health Diabetes Awareness campaign.I stopped reading after that…
First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday — maybe a copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about … let’s see … Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I…
Over on DC9 I had a few things to say about the extraordinary Wilco show Friday night at the Palladium. But for some the highlights weren’t necessary musical in nature: About halfway through the set, Jeff Tweedy traded his shirt (an H&M long-sleeved button-down) with one fellow who, from the…
Last week, the National Complete Streets Coalition announced that more than 100 cities across the U.S. have adopted at least some of its policies, with Lansing, Michigan and Rockville, Maryland, among the latest to seize the idea that the streets don’t belong just to cars. (Ah, yes. Here we go.)…
Amazing the things you learn from city council briefings. Like this: Oncor has a Web site that allows you to report street-light outages by address or pole numbers. It’s been operational since August, but the council’s Quality of Life Committee is getting a briefing on the subject today. The Web…
So, Dallas-based 7-Eleven wants to keep its yellow bananas from going brown, which’ll surely mean a little extra green at the cash register. Notes USA Today today, the chain will unroll some plastic wrap at 27 Dallas-area locations by way of a test run; Fresh Del Monte Produce says the…
Back in April, we told you about Cathryn Elaine Harris, who claimed that Elm Street-based Blockbuster violated her rights to privacy by allowing Facebook to post her video rentals online. Harris sued Blockbuster in February, but the question was: Would U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn let Harris take Blockbuster…
WilcoPalladium BallroomOctober 9, 2009Better Than: Anything? Two songs into the set came the climactic moment: “A Shot in the Arm,” off 1999’s Summerteeth. Pure rumble and all rapture, the sound of a band falling apart as it comes together. Melody melts into noise–music as mercury–but nobody ever loses their place,…
Streetcars have been on the city council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s radar since well before the May 23, 2008, book-club get-together at Dallas City Hall, during which city officials and downtown stakeholders got a talking-to from the authors of Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century. But…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who was out at the State Fair of Texas today sends word: OMFG, Oprah! Fried butter for everyone! Nice photo of the clusterflock at top — especially of WFAA’s Cynthia Izaguirre, who looks damned happy to be there — but this one’s the keeper…
My father won’t be surprised: I won’t be the next voice of Your Dallas Mavericks. But one of these 10 men will: Rodney Blue, Doug Branch, KTCK’s Tom Gribble, Sean Heath, Chris Martin (no, not that one), Allan Peck, Michael Rey, KEGL’s Chris Ryan, Steve Sparks or Michael Taylor. The…
Back up to June 2006, when Matt Pulle recounted the tale of Jeffrey Ellard, a prisoner in the Dallas County Jail whose six-inch leg wound went unattended by medical providers and became, as Matt would describe it in September 2007, “a big, soggy hole stocked with pus and the pieces…
No Shep Smith to narrate this time ’round, shame, but Fox News was still plenty giddy over the two-hour, at-the-speed-limit chase that started near Sherman and ended close to Corsicana after some dude drove off without paying for gas. We were watching it for a while — as the procession…
Fernando Hernandez is a 33-year-old Internal Revenue Service employee working out of the Dallas office. Only, today he’s in federal custody after having been arrested by federal authorities, who dropped by Friday morning following a Dallas federal grand jury’s decision to indict Hernandez for just offering to help out a…
Specifically, you’ll want to stay away from the Chevrolet Main Stage at 10 a.m., when Oprah Winfrey will begin taping her State Fair of Texas special that’ll also include a performance by Martina McBride. Winfrey’s production company just sent the details for her appearance, if you have further questions:Join Oprah…
While we pull ourselves away from the world’s slowest, longest police chase …The Associated Press checks in today with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins as he prepares to run for re-election one year from now. (Two weeks ago we met one Republican who’d like the job.) The rather lengthy…
Monday’s the big day — the grand opening of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, which kicks off at 8 a.m. with South Pacific star Keala Settle performing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before AT&T PAC president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen, Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials play ball. Hence yet…
Perhaps you saw William Kamkwamba on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday night and thought the co-author and subject of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope just might be The Most Interesting 23-Year-Old in the World. And maybe you said to yourself, “I’d…
When my former colleague Christina Rees says Dallas print media needs to get off its ass and properly cover the visual arts, this probably isn’t exactly what she means. Nevertheless, I now direct your attention to the 350-plus cow paintings and sculptures and whatnots being auctioned off October 14 at…
The NBA thought so much of Jeff “Skin” Wade’s discourse on Dirk Nowitzki’s new-look old-school haircut (” … that is like late ’70s basketball, it’s got a lot of flavor, no one’s rockin’ it like that …”) from Monday night’s Channel 21 broadcast that it turned locks-talk into a minute-long…
Schutze and Merten are off in darkened corners finishing their City Hall corruption trial wrap-up (as in, What does it all mean?), so I’ll refer you to KXAS-Channel 5’s piece concerning the bill for the trial, which, the NBC affiliate says adds up to a whopping $750,000. That’s from the…
