The Detroit Free Press has footage of disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick boarding a LearJet Tuesday afternoon, which departed Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti for Dallas. WFAA-Channel 8 and Detroit’s WXYZ-Channel 7 (“Action News!”) have footage of Kilpatrick landing at Love Field last night, where he was greeted by his…
The Dallas City Council will hold its Retreat to Move Forward this morning, as it begins workshopping the FY2009-10 budget with various strategeries and sub-strategeries intended to see the city through tough times. And so City Manager Mary Suhm will gather her Key Focus Area Teams to provide “very little…
I just received the following e-mail from Erykah Badu’s main marketing man Paul Levatino:Erykah announced on her twitter that the baby’s name is MARS MERKABA.Oh, right — her Twitter. And by “merkaba,” I assume Erykah means the Hebrew word for “throne-chariot of God.” Speaking of, anyone ever read the book…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked why the Rangers would broadcast a majority of their games on The Fan, when KRLD-AM has such a mammoth signal, especially at night. Which is why I called John Blake, the team’s recently returned exec vice president of communications, to discuss the decision…
At freaking last. The Texas Rangers announced this afternoon that for the first time in the team’s history, game broadcasts will be available on the FM side of your radio dial — at least, weekday games have gone high fidelity. So says the media release announcing KRLD-FM (105.3, The Fan)…
I missed the October 30 episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien during which the Cone-Zone screened some pirated footage from Major Movie Star, which was then in release only in Russia and Bulgaria — where Jessica Simpson is great success. O’Brien then brought out professional prattler James Lipton, who…
The AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year’s shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 — with, as noted last month, most of the screenings taking place at the AMC NorthPark. Among the offerings are three world-premiere docs, a Zooey…
As Jim noted last week, disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of the joint and heading to Texas — where, no kiddin’, he has a job interview tomorrow. So reports The Detroit News today, which eliminates one potential employer from the list of would-be bosses: T.D. Jakes and…
According to The Dallas Morning News on January 22, today was the day Arkansas-based Bank of the Ozarks was scheduled to hold a foreclosure sale of more than 50 acres Irving-based JPI is planning to develop along the banks of the Trinity River. But the sale of that property, pictured…
The Wall Street Journal this morning examines airlines’ inconsistently, almost arbitrarily enforced rules and regulations — you know, the kind that result in “bewildered and angry fliers.” As a prime example, the paper checks in with a frequent flier who found himself subject to the whims of an American Airlines…
Last night, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word that at 11 a.m. today there would a media conference at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown “to announce developments in a pending investigation.” This morning, a second missive arrived with further details: Acting U.S. Attorney James Jacks; Robert Casey Jr., the…
It’s certainly not the most important item on the Dallas County Commissioners Court’s agenda for today. No, that would probably be the commissioners’ vote on whether or not to re-up for a third and final year in a pilot program that houses folks who’ve aged out of foster care, which…
Work precluded me from listening to today’s Think on KERA-FM (90.1), which I swear I’ll listen to one of these days. So until the local NPR affiliate posts its podcast, I’ll just have to take Wonkette’s word that New Yorker film critic David Denby, Think-ing today in Dallas whilst pimpingpromoting…
Be patient, as this page, forwarded along by Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, may take a while to load. But it’s totally worth it, especially if, on this post-Super Bowl Monday, you’re looking to own your very own Vince Lombardi Trophy. Actually, claims Championship Rings, this trophy belonged to former…
As we drove past the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts this weekend, the missus wondered what, exactly, the area was supposed to look like once the five-acre Woodall Rogers Park was finished. (Utility work started at the end of the month, though groundbreaking’s a ways off.) This illustration from…
Bobby Goldstein Productions is best known as the company behind the TV series Cheaters. Robert Riggs is best known as the ace TV investigative reporter who, in March 2008, was among those at KTVT-Channel 11 inexplicably laid off during a round of CBS-mandated downsizing. Both Bobs turn up in this…
At last, someone’s figured out how to properly use Twitter: by providing a push-by-push account of a baby’s birth. And, how fortunate for us, that special someone’s a high-profile local — none other than Erykah Badu, who yesterday welcomed her third child, a daughter, at 1:30 p.m. on the dot…
Dallas Federal Reserve president and CEO Richard Fisher was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning warning that the “Buy American” provision in the House’s stimulus bill is bad, bad news. European officials said over the weekend they’re terribly unhappy with what they call “protectionist measures”; said British Prime Minister Gordon…
Another item of interest from this afternoon’s Public Safety Committee get-together: a sneak peek at where the city plans to put its surveillance cameras downtown (not to mention a color-coded map containing the location of every single camera already in place). Says the briefing memo, crime’s down substantially in areas…
Just one month ago we recounted the history of Dallas’s 18-year-old Juvenile Curfew Ordinance, which keeps 17-and-unders off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:01 a.m. till 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Long story short, it wound up in court on its way to…
A lawsuit filed in Austin on Wednesday has found its way to the Courthouse News Service: Miguel Salazar and Edgar Soria, both of whom live in Dallas County, and Avila Trejo, currently a resident of Denton County, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety because it refuses to issue…
That picture you see here is from my 1983 Thomas Jefferson High School Document yearbook. It’s of a guy named Tim Watson — or Temo, as most knew him throughout much of his life. Figured I’d share it, since Tim happens to be the subject of Jeff Liles’s Echoes and…
