The Dallas Regional Chamber just posted to YouTube this short film made to commemorate its 100th anniversary, and it’s star-studded: Ebby Halliday, Erle Nye, Ray Hunt, Jan Hart Black, Bob Estrada, Wright Lassiter and, of course, Mayor Tom Leppert talking Trinity. Also, it’s absolutely loaded with old movies and photos…
Last year, The New York Times noted a sharp increase in violent crimes committed against the homeless — up 65 percent from ’05 to ’07, according to statistics kept by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. But at the moment, attacks on the homeless aren’t considered hate crimes…
After the jump you’ll find a photo Patrick Michels took ’round 6ish in front of the Kidrobot joint in Mockingbird Station. In it, you’ll see only a handful of the 400-plus lined up to get one of the free 200 golden dunnies created by artist Huck Gee, who was on…
The battle over the Disney Streets in Northwest Dallas — pitting those who want the neighborhood to become a conservation district against those vehemently against it — has been going on for more than a year now, with the “No” Conservation District signs taking deep root in some homeowners’ front…
Back, for a moment, to that item about concrete-maker Ash Grove suing the city of Plano for refusing to buy its cement, made with the dirty, antiquated wet-kiln method. I do need to clarify a few things: Yes, Plano was originally sued by Ash Grove — along with Dallas and…
This just in from FC Dallas: Kenny Cooper is a Hoop no more. The star striker, who came to Dallas in February 2006 from Manchester United and who’s on the US national team, is being shipped off to TSV 1860 München — which sounds like a Bavarian television station, but,…
A Friend of Unfair Park with deep DISD roots forwards along the link to the We are Teachers Web site, where Woodrow Wilson High School’s Michael Moran is among dozens of teachers from around the country competing for a Digital Learning Microgrant. And micro it is: $200 and a Flip…
Like I wrote last week, Kidrobot’s opening in Mockingbird Station this evening … though it would appear the former Erica Wright has already paid a visit to the joint. The grand-opening fete kicks off at 6 p.m., and it’s first come first served with one of those limited-edition golden art-toys,…
I honestly can’t recall ever receiving a press release from Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. But mere moments ago, up popped this item in the in-box: “Dallas County Gains Three New Truancy Magistrates.” The full release follows, but the short version is Foster has appointed former Civil District Court Judge…
In the wake of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s comments on WBAP yesterday — you recall, she said she’d quit the Senate in October or November to chase Governor Rick Perry down Congress Avenue — Time weighs in with a wrap-up that wonders, “Kay Bailey Hutchison is Running for Governor! (Or…
Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal’s Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast with fast-paced…
Every now and then, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK passes along vintage Dallas photos for sale on eBay; awful nice of him. Today, this one arrived in the in-box:”Strong Man Pulls Car Dallas Centennial.” From ’36, in other words. Big Hersch has ID’d the front car as a ’36 Ford,…
In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions’s public stance on earmarks: “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin’ 32nd “steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research…
Till Parks & Recreation and The Office return with new episodes, here’s a suitable replacement for those in desperate need of bureaucratic irritainment: a four-part Customer Service video presentation from the city of Dallas. It’s chock full o’ sketches in which City Hall employees pretend to be citizens in need…
When last we heard word from the campus of Paul Quinn College, local and state legislators had gathered to voice their unconditional support for the college stripped of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in late June. While the school works through the process of appealing…
I was in Epiphany over the weekend, hoping to find a tan XL “Bike Friendly Oak Cliff” tee — alas, all out, so instead the family devoured an Eno’s pie moments before, God help me, hitting Taqueria El Si Hay. No doubt, I’ll find the right-sized tee in October during…
For more than a decade, UT Southwestern epidemiologist Robert Haley has been at odds with naysayers over the existence of Gulf War Syndrome; here, from 1998, is Ann Zimmerman’s piece in the Observer about the doc’s battle with government officials who insisted that those symptoms — everything from all-over aches…
I n the Loop doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the know. In Armando Iannucci’s movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern country, it means that all the poor bastards are stuck in a loop, making the same bad decisions and tragic mistakes over and over…
Ah, good ol’ Morgan Lyons over at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. He noticed that we’d posted a few of the agency’s very well-done in-house videos and very kindly sent over the very latest: this time-lapse featuring the construction of the Traveling Man sculptures Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg are building…
Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company — which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian — filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities’ decision to purchase cleaner, “greener” cement would cost Ash…
Yesterday, Uncle Barky couldn’t get anyone at KDFW-Channel 4 to confirm that the Dallas Fox affiliate had chosen a new co-host for Good Day — one Lauren Przybyl, currently at the NBC affiliate in Boston. But moments ago, the Boston Globe got the official word from the vice president and…
Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight’s appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Austin native who spent…
