A Friend of Unfair Park who’s in The Movie Business read yesterday’s item about Fox shooting The Deep End in Dallas and forwards along this note: Producers are in need of extras. Which is why he sends along this casting-call notice for “20 regular extras” willing to work on the…

In case you missed her short speech to the Dallas City Council before last week’s vote on Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget, District 13 rep Ann Margolin has posted to her Web site an item titled, simply, “Why I Voted Against the Budget.” Spoiler alert: She mentions the decision to up…

Lots of little items with which to kick off the day, such as …Kinki Lounge on Greenville Avenue, between Penrose and Martel Aves., apparently opened up without getting a dance-hall license, which is naughty, but hardly kinky. Hence its appearance today at City Hall today before the Permit and License…

If you’re downtown this afternoon — say, beginning at 4 p.m. but most likely after dark-thirty — and start to wonder what the what those helicopters are doing flying so danged low, fret not: It’s all for Billy Zane! (See? The Phantom? Get it? Forget it.) Or maybe you forgot:…

Speaking of tomorrow’s Park and Rec Board agenda …Tomorrow, they’re all set to formally accept a $4.5 million grant that will go toward constructing Phase One of the Trinity Strand Trail — which, you may recall, will one day hook up with the Katy Trail. But that day’s a long…

On September 2, Dawn Rizos, owner of The Lodge, received an invite to A Very Special Event with Newt Gingrich. Specifically, she was asked to fly to Washington, D.C., on October 7 to pick up her award as a 2009 Entreprenuer of the Year — an honor that was to…

Maybe you forgot — it’s been two months, after all. But tomorrow, the city of Dallas turns over control of the Dallas Zoo and the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park to the Dallas Zoological Society and its operating arm, Dallas Zoo Management. “Actually, at midnight tonight we turn over the…

I’d forgotten all about Darrel Rundus till I took a peek at the agenda for tomorrow’s Park and Recreation Board meeting, during which the board will go behind closed doors to discuss the 3-year-old federal lawsuit in which the preacher sued the city of Dallas and the State Fair of…

… and saw this sign at the intersection of N. Lamar Street and Ross Avenue, as our pal Justin Terveen did yesterday. Jeez, was that a whole year ago? Hmmm. Says there’s a fine for taking the sign before the public hearing, but not after. Scavenger hunt, maybe?Update: Though, as…

Speaking of the city council’s Transporation and Environment Committees and Tuesday briefings …Yesterday I mentioned the Great Streets presentation RTKL’s Erich Dohrer and Tom Brink are giving the council today, during which they’re guaranteed to use the word “balance” a lot. But what else? Hard to say: Dohrer chatted with…

On Thursday, the Dallas Police Department will begin enforcing the Valet Parking Services division of the Code, a duty that’s currently handled by Public Works and Transportation. But for nearly a year, the council’s been considering making changes to the Code — specifically, to the part that disallows paid valet…

Since we, oh, couldn’t make Friday night’s $150-a-ticket Trinity River shebang, I went over to The Trinity Trust’s Web site for a recap — oooh, fireworks. Distracting! And “watermelon gazpacho shooters.” And … commemorative T-shirts? Yup — still available for 30 bucks a pop. Which means Schutze and Merten know…