Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked when we’re going to address Saturday’s Dallas Morning News story about a letter from the city of Dallas to the Texas Attorney General’s Office in which it’s suggested that there is, in fact, a draft of HVS’s convention center hotel financial feasibility study…
Fort Worth-born horn player Jim Price is usually a footnote in most Rolling Stones histories; his contributions to the canon — he appears on Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup — seldom merit mention, save as a sideman to sideman Bobby Keys, the Slaton, Texas, native…
Tried to listen to The Ticket’s “Great Game” last night, but … no, unh-unh. (Though it sure did sound like a great game — from 16-1 to 20-20, awesome.) But, fortunately, Patrick Michels did stop by Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark just long enough to grab yet another installment of Awkward…
According to its Web site, Apogee Software “is considered the founder and father of the local Dallas-area game development community,” but it’s no more. The PC shareware developer’s been dead all of a week now, some 12 years after Apogee’s 3D Realms announced development of a video game, Duke Nukem…
Friend of the show Don Johnson, who maintains East Texas Photo, happened by Reunion Arena yesterday, where the demolition’s in full swing. And he snapped a handful of terrific photos that he’s posted to his Flickr page. But this one in particular stands out — “Reunion Inside-Out,” Don calls it…
Last week, our favorite Barking Dog pointed out the latest Resident Parking Only zone in the Lower Greenville area — the seventh such RPO zone to take effect in the last year, Avi notes. To that list, add an eighth: Avi sent Unfair Park an e-mail last night in which…
Earlier this week, WFAA-Channel 8 reported that the Majestic Theater is losing its operator, Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group, at the end of June, because, look, it’s just lost too much money to continue running the designated city landmark. Which isn’t necessarily the case: Dallas Summer Musicals president Michael Jenkins…
No doubt your Today in Music News item’s forthcoming. But till then, this bonus video from last night’s so-so 30 Rock season ender, where, as Pete has pointed out a few times, a certain Old 97 made a cameo alongside the likes of Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Michael McDonald, Moby,…
Elm Street-based Blockbuster’s stock is tanking this morning — down more than 27 percent before the sun’s even warm, to about 83 cents. It was bound to happen following yesterday’s quarterly report, which noted a 20-percent drop in total revenues over the same period in ’08. But, fear not, CEO…
The headline says it all. But this missive, which we just received from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office concerning the fight over funding at Dallas Independent School District’s magnet schools and learning centers, says it better. Certainly, longer.Update at 5:15 p.m.: As the DISD board of trustees is due to…
All week, Wall Street has been anxiously anticipating Blockbuster’s first-quarter results, which were released moments ago. Analysts didn’t expect good news from the Dallas-based company, whose efforts to reinvent itself we’ve documented at great length in recent months. And the news is indeed mixed, at best: From Elm Street HQ…
By far, the best-reviewed doc of ’09 thus far is Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi’s rockumentary about a Canadian thrash-metal band’s fall and rise. Noted The Village Voice’s thumbs-up, it’s “A Hoop Dreams for heshers,” so, ya know, all right, all right, all right. It finally gets a…
After the jump, Michael Irvin’s appearance on FOX News yesterday, where it took Sean Hannity all of one minute and 48 seconds to bring up “drugs, adultery.” Irvin, of course, was on to talk up — sort of — his new SpikeTV series 4th and Long, wherein a dozen pro-football…
USA Today directs our attention to the following tweet sent this morning from Children’s Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern: “Who’s an early bird? Transplant Twittering starts Mon. at 6 a.m. central!” Yup. On Monday morning, a 3-year-old named John Gilbreath is set to get a kidney from his father,…
Big weekend planned on the SMU campus, where Laura Bush will deliver the commencement address Saturday morning at Moody Coliseum to the some 2,000 Mustangs escaping the Hilltop. But in advance of the weekend shindig, there are tomorrow’s honorary degree recipients symposia featuring some fairly bold-faced names: Harold W. Attridge,…
Tonight, of course, is the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ called board meeting, at which the board will discuss and approve campus staffing formulas for the 2009-’10 school year; Schutze is attending, but of course. But at this very moment is the lengthy warm-up: a regular ol’ board…
View Larger MapThere are several items of interest on the City Plan Commission’s agenda this afternoon, chief among them a Planned Development District under consideration for the southwest corner of Gaston and East Grand Avenues. At the moment, the five-acre site is mostly empty save for some unused retail space;…
As mentioned Monday, KERA-FM (90.1) is running throughout this week a series of stories about where Dallas gets its water and how we use it. Which brings us to today’s contribution from B.J. Austin concerning water consumption. Says the story, the average Dallas homeowner is billed for 100,000 gallons used…
Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sent Unfair Park a note to point out this “amazing” development from yesterday: Burleson’s Shanda Perkins bid to become a member of the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles was killed dead in the Senate yesterday. Happened just a week after the Senate Committee…
We sent Hal Samples to the House of Blues this morning to shoot Erykah Badu and friends offering a lengthy discourse on blues history to students from St. Philip’s School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School. More photos and some video are to come tomorrow, after we get it…
I spent way much of the wee small hours of this very morning listening to Elvis Costello’s Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, his country record due June 2 and one produced by Fort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett. It’s more or less Almost Blue 2, though a wee bit more hushed…
Moments ago, the Dallas City Council voted on the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.daytime curfew ordinance — and, not surprisingly, it passed almost overwhelmingly, by a vote of 12-2. The vote was taken shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert stressed that the ordinance (which you can read here, beginning on Page…
