I have a notebook and digital voice recorder full of Mary Suhm quotes in which the Dallas city manager offers encouraging words about the FY2009-2010 budget, a teensy-weensy bit of which we saw at City Hall this afternoon. (Turns out, she’s especially excited about once-a-week trash and recycling pick-up.) But…
Moments before her budget presentation to the media, scheduled to begin any second, City Manager Mary Suhm called with a bit of a sneak preview. We’ll have more shortly, upon our return from City Hall, but when asked what was the most difficult cut she had to make to balance…
Via Gawker, we find word that KXAS-Channel 5 has laid off its marketing folks — you know, the promo-makers. NBC Universal’s making the cuts at all of its owned-and-operation stations, of which Channel 5’s but one of 10. Notes Gawker, “News employees will be expected to produce promos for their…
Unfair Park might be a little slow-going ’round 1:30 this afternoon, when I’ll be down at Dallas City Hall to pick up the executive summary of City Manager Mary Suhm’s final budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. Media attending this afternoon’s shindig won’t be given the entire document, but…
Here we go again — though, perhaps, for the final time.Unfair Park has learned that this week, Glazer’s Distributors and Colby Properties, the owners of 508 Park Avenue downtown, filed with the city a certificate of demolition that would allow for the razing of the former Warner Bros. Pictures storage…
So reports this morning’s New York Times, which takes a tour of the Dallas Cowboys’ new home with Gene Jones and finds the walls adorned with works by the Whitney-feted Lawrence Weiner, Franz Ackermann (who’s collected at the Museum of Modern Art), conceptualists Mel Bochner and Daniel Buren, Matthew Ritchie…
View Larger MapThere’s quite a sizable hunk of property available in the West End — 87,000 square feet of office and retail, plus about 40K in parking spots. Says the for-sale brochure, the four-addresses-big, ’bout-100-years-old West End Square on Elm Street’s gone into foreclosure — no asking price listed, though…
Speaking of the late John Hughes, one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year, “Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words.” So happens that the writer-director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stand-up…
Hadn’t intended to look at the Dallas Independent School District board’s meeting agendas till next week — damn, summer break went by in a hurry — but Tawnell Hobbs gives us an early warning: Trustee Ron Price would like to rename some schools for President Barack Obama and your newest…
Pardon the break in postings — I spent the last little while watching this nine-minute tribute to the eight films John Hughes wrote and directed, among them Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science (co-starring Fort Worth’s Bill Paxton) and Planes, Trains &…
As we told you Monday, today’s the big day that RadioShack rebrands itself as “The Shack.” And the Fort Worth-based electronics company opted to launch the re-launch with a Web site featuring some dude in San Francisco yukking it via a video feed with some other dude in New York…
A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the U.S. Trustee handling Bob’s Steak & Chop House’s Chapter 11 reorganization wanted Judge Harlin D. Hale to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to replace owner Bob Sambol. Because, see, as far as Willliam Neary’s concerned, Sambol — operating here as Silveroak…
By no later than tomorrow, we should get our first look at City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year — specifically, what stays and what goes to clear out the $190 million shortfall. (Suhm had told Unfair Park last week she expects to present the budget…
Let’s start this item over — clean and shorten this sucker up. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission finally sent over the 32-page report detailing the events of the raid on the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth; it’s below, as you can see. But Tameka Harris, the agency’s legal secretary,…
Every local media outlet’s been waiting for it, but KTVT-Channel 11 managed to get its hands on the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s internal investigation concerning the raid on the Rainbow Lounge, and it isn’t pretty. Right, Fort Worth State Rep. Lon Burnam? “I think there’s been a foul up that…
It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There’s half of a great movie in Julie & Julia—but since Meryl Streep has already starred in one titled Julia, perhaps it was merely necessary to tack on the “Julie” half to distinguish Nora…
On this bargain-hunting Wednesday, a note concerning one hell of a steal for art collectors: From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on August 16, Jeff Scott’s going to unload a major hunk of his Elvis Presley artwork at Studio 1019. One reason: Scott had been showing in Gerald Peters Gallery,…
Speaking of aquariums … If you’re looking for something to do with the kiddos on Friday, and you’re particularly fond of the free stuffed animal, may I recommend a trip to the Dallas World Aquarium? At noon on Friday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will be in front…
If the discussion at Dallas City Hall today is any indication, that outta-nowhere proposal to privatize the Dallas Zoo and the Aquarium at Fair Park is all but a done deal. Expect the city to turn over the keys to the Dallas Zoological Society by October 1 following a vote…
I’m in desperate need of a new car — unless it’s supposed to smoke after 13 years, in which case, never mind. That said, the city of Dallas is slashing and burning its inventory of dozens of used fire engines and ambulances over on my favorite auction site. The kid…
Right — this should probably be over on City of Ate, but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to make this inexplicable (on my part) Esquire subscription count for something, so here goes. For the September issue, which just landed in the mailbox, editors asked chefs (and TV-show hosts)…
Yesterday, just because, the NBA posted some of the Dallas Maverick’s home movies from his trip to China. In a word: adorable…
