A bestest Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Peter King’s Monday Morning QB column filed from the annual NFL meetings in Dana Point, California. A the bottom we discover that the Sports Business Journal may have had it wrong earlier this month — as in, AT&T isn’t buying…
A peek at Mayor Tom Leppert’s schedule this week reveals two intriguing appointments. Like tomorrow, for instance: The mayor’s getting together with one Santiago Calatrava, who’s in town for some kind of a dinner tomorrow night — though maybe he’s helping workers unload the steel for the Margaret Hunt Hill…
I see on John Mellencamp’s Web site that the ex Mr. Cougar is headed out on the road this summer, and during the tour he’s looking to get his bud and Fort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett to produce a new record “as American folk as I’ve ever been,” as…
As the Dallas City Council gets back to work today, two updates. First up, the Quality of Life Committee has decided to corral so-called “urban rodeos” — even though, at the moment, there’s just the one, Rio Rodeo, at 704 S. Walton Walker Blvd., about which there’s never been a…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley spent last weekend snapping the dress-ups at the science-fiction convention, as you may recall. This weekend, he’s been hanging out with the Rockers vs Mods. Here’s a sneak peek in advance of a full-on slide show coming tomorrow. Also due tomorrow: a slide show…
As promised a couple of weeks back, here’s that Paul Rudd interview — only, it’s not the one we recorded in Dallas at the beginning of the month. Instead, this chat dates from last Saturday, the morning after I Love You, Man kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival…
Judy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall forwards along the following message from Mayor Tom Leppert: Till he hears otherwise, Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is gettin’ built, so there. You will find after the jump the entirety of the city’s media release announcing that the feds have extended the…
Word around my Northwest Dallas neighborhood is that home burglaries have become troublingly common in recent days, as police officers have ID’d men between 15 and 22 who’ve been known to knock on the front door before breaking down the back door. Just the other day, a neighbor reported two…
Shortly after Dallas-based Blockbuster reported a quarterly loss of $359.7 million yesterday, CEO Jim Keyes hopped on a conference call with analysts to reassure them that, look, all’s not lost. And while there are myriad reasons for the current state of hurt ar 1201 Elm Street that has led to…
Back in January, we told you the sordid story of Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Standric Choice, who, with two other men, was arrested for plotting to steal cocaine so they could deal cocaine — how HBO. Two months and one confidential informant later, the 36-year-old former law enforcement officer is…
T Bone Burnett was raised in Fort Worth: He graduated from Paschal High School, started recording there in the 1960s (chiefly with Loose Ends, whose “He’s a Nobody” is a Texas garage-rock classic), played Panther Hall plenty and, only two years back, was the chair of the Lone Star International…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will finally address what many have considered one of the larger loopholes in the city’s Code of Ethics. For the last nine years, folks who serve on Tax Increment Finance District boards have been allowed to not only own and acquire property within the…
I’ve been trying for some time to talk to Tom Hicks about livin’ it up in Liverpool, where every day it’s something: Liverpool FC sales talks with the Kuwatis “going really badly,” the re-signing of manager Rafael Benitez, the declaring of a cease-fire with partner and frienemy George Gillett. Today,…
A Friend of Unfair Park who teaches in the Dallas Independent School District directs our attention to school board trustee Carla Ranger’s blog, because we missed last night’s post concerning a proposal to trim teachers’ minimum contracts from two years to one. (The max, incidentally, appears to be five.) Writes…
As the Dallas City Council gets back to business next week, I thought we’d start sneaking a peek at next Wednesday’s council agenda. A few easy ones out of the way first; need to stretch amd warm up after a two-week layoff. Like, oh, Agenda Item No. 51, which calls…
At 8:50 this morning, The Real Estate Council sent to local media its Government Affairs Committee’s endorsements for the upcoming Dallas City Council race. Not a whole lot of WTF there: All the incumbents got the nod save for Carolyn Davis, as the GAC went instead with Dallas school board…
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won’t mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park “ericthegardener.” It all started in the comments section of yesterday’s item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at…
The Economist takes a gander at Texas — “America’s most robust big state” — and concludes (spoiler alert!) that “many now fear that Texas’s low-tax, low-spend model will need revision.” Why come?In December 2008 and January 2009 the state lost tens of thousands of jobs. Unemployment reached 6.4% in January…
Two weeks ago, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival finally announced its complete line-up — save for the closing-night title. Pardon — titles. Because, as hinted at, the fest has opted for two final films: James Toback’s doc Tyson, which is indeed about the travails of the former heavyweight champ,…
State Sen. John Carona’s bill that would allow counties to levy taxes and other fees to fund transportation projects is getting major play this a.m. Carona, a Dallas Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security, made his case to a packed house down in Austin yesterday…
Jim Smith’s been a hard man to track down this a.m. — though, seeing as how he divides his time between his three Saturn dealerships (in Irving, Lewisville and Plano), that’s completely understandable. (And, as a former wide receiver for the USFL’s Birmingham Stallions and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Oakland…
What good timing. Perhaps, by now, you’ve read Alexa’s cover story on the grand canyon separating what the city says and what the city actually does when it comes to planting new trees and protecting the ones we’ve got. As in, the mayor says he wants more “Dallas trees and…
