Can’t say this was much of a surprise: 93.3 FM — now known as i93, yawn — just introduced itself as Your Home For Today’s Hit Music with a serving of Black Eyed Peas followed by Miley Cyrus. In other words, Pop 40 as predicted by a Friend of Unfair…
Nobody gives a speech like Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO Richard Fisher. He quotes Bob Dylan. He likens the economy to a Rube Goldberg contraption, which he proceeds to render in extreme detail. And, yesterday, during a speech given to the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance…
State Rep. Rafael Anchia filed House Bill 1736 in February; Governor Rick Perry signed the Dallas Democrat’s legislation, which ups compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned, in late May; it took effect Tuesday. Which means all those exonerated by DNA evidence in recent years will receive $80,000 per year they spent…
More than a quarter of those wearing Dallas Fire-Rescue uniforms are between the ages of 50 and 59 — in other words, not too far from calling it quits. Indeed, Dallas Fire-Rescue higher-ups are concerned that in coming years the attrition rate amongst firefighters and paramedics will skyrocket — to…
Says this sneak preview of the city council’s Economic Development Committee agenda next week, Dallas is considering forking over an economic development grant to Hilton Hotels, which is looking to relocate a regional headquarters to Dallas. Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavitkovsky, as always, has at least some insight…
It’s been too long since we’ve published a photo from The Wayback Machine, so much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who was messing around on Flickr and found this gem amongst the treasures kept by the Library of Congress — a photo of Judge Quentin D. Corley, for…
A few minutes ago, I spoke to Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander concerning his voice-mail message this morning. I wondered if today’s decision, to let teachers and principals decide whether their classes could watch President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday, was a change from any kind of…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that former Dallas Cowboy hitting machine, 48-year-old Eugene Lockhart, is among nine people indicted by a federal grand jury. They’re accused of a running a mortgage scheme out of Dallas between 2001 and ’05 under such monikers as America’s Team Mortgage, America’s Team…
So, the Plano Independent School District has opted out of President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday, but what says the Dallas ISD? I asked Jon Dahlander, district spokesman, via e-mail this morning about the district’s plans. While I was out of the office, he left the following message on…
This go-round, Dallas City Hall has thoughtfully provided a list of city-run buildings that’ll be open and closed tomorrow, the second furlough day per City Manager Mary Suhm’s cost-cutting efforts. So, let’s see: City Hall’s closed; so too the Oak Cliff Municipal Center, so there goes my Friday. All Dallas…
Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas iMedia Network sent word of its Slam Bang Theater 50th-anniversary celebration scheduled for September 24 (an in-studio taping for which you’ll need to RSVP) and September 26, when, at the Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, Richard Kent will screen his doc Icky…
Late yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested that Cumulus Media’s going to rebrand 93.3 on Your FM Dial as a pop-40 station — as in, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas. Maybe so. But this much is (almost) certain: Sooner than later, KDBN-FM will most likely be known…
Don’t know how we missed word of the Whole Foods “buycott,” which kicked off Tuesday night in St. Louis and at the Preston Forest location. Read about it in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, where author Meghan Daum brings word of the National Tea Party’s response to the response to…
It Might Get Loud
Marketed as a guitar summit between The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim’s affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric triptych than meeting of the minds. Yes, the trio gather ’round the soundstage amps to teach each other a few tricks, but it’s anticlimactic—save for the schoolboy…
Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always intended as bookends, with Extract countering the earlier film’s woe-is-me tale of the put-upon prole with its fucked-am-I…
For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make ’em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at…
If the Dallas City Council winds up passing an ordinance requiring rent-house owners to register with the city — a proposal we mentioned Sunday and just discussed at the council’s briefing — it’ll apparently have to do so without three members’ input. In the middle of Code Compliance’s presentation, two…
Several Friends of Unfair Park — which is to say, the handful of people still listening to 93.3 Quality Rock — have e-mailed me this morning wondering what the what is going on on the left side of the FM dial. Because starting at midnight, the fledgling station began broadcasting…
Tuesday morning, Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka took note of Schutze’s column from July, in which Jim got a no-nuthin’ from the mayor and his peoples concerning his interest in running for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s could-come-open Senate seat. Wrote Burka, he’s never taken the idea seriously, as big-city mayors haven’t done…
Last Friday, we broke the news that the Texas Attorney General’s Office is threatening to take control of the W.W. Samuell Trust if the city of Dallas doesn’t turn over by September 11 documents that were due July 15. What the AG wants: an accounting of “current operations of all…
View Larger MapSpeaking of DART stations …What you see above is all that empty land up around Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Bush Turnpike Station at U.S. 75 and the G.B.H. — 220 acres’ worth, to be precise. For years, it belonged to the Hunt family, which wasn’t in a hurry…
Yesterday in Dallas federal court, Carter Albrecht’s parents, Ken and Judy, finally sued Pfizer, claiming that its smoking-cessation drug Chantix played a “direct and proximate” role in Carter’s shooting death almost two years ago to the day. The Albrechts have long considered suing Pfizer, but Ken waited until the Food…
