Dunno when this was done, but as evidenced by this just-posted clip it’s clear Tom Leppert has a future as an early-Sunday morning community-affairs talk-show host when he’s done being mayor. His interview with special guest Tennell Atkins is a little, oh, Chris Farley for my tastes, but it’s promising…
Two radio items of note for those still on the terrestrial side of the dial: This morning ’round 8:45, a Friend of Unfair Park called with the command to turn on The Ticket, pronto, as Gordon Keith was being attacked by nemesis Nestor Aparicio. Didn’t make it in time –…
A.H. Belo announced this morning that it is going to “cut approximately 500 jobs, or more than 14 percent of its workforce,” at all of its properties, among them The Dallas Morning News and the Providence Journal. Which is why a Friend of Unfair Park sends this announcement from the…
On Wednesday, as you’ll no doubt recall, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway vowed to sweep every Black & Mild cigar off the shelves and into the ashtrays. Said he was preparing to launch a national campaign against the makers of the machine-made cigars, which Caraway says are “poisoning …..
The Nasher Sculpture Center made it official this morning: Its new director is Jeremy Strick, who, for the last nine years, has held the same title at the Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angeles. But this Christmas Eve announcement concerning his resignation from MOCA explains why some will cheer…
The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those “Welcome Home, George and Laura” signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter — a homemade banner from “the Maloufs,” among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I like…
The novella-like media release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which just landed in our in-box, explains the case of Matthew Weigman, also known as the “Li’l Hacker.” He’s a blind 18-year-old “phreak” from East Boston who became infamous last year for his “quick telephone con jobs,” as Wired put it…
Three days after announcing that it was shuttering its EXPO Design Centers, Home Depot just put the whole Dallas Parkway store on sale. The missus sends this photo taken just this morning, as a worker slaps up the everything-must-go sign…
A Friend of Unfair Park and fellow Dallas Independent School District parent directed my attention to the Web site of DISD trustee Lew Blackburn, which isn’t nearly as provocative as Carla Ranger’s — though, of late, she’s been sadly absent from the Internets save for mention of the 10th Anniversary…
Well, look, perhaps that headline’s a little misleading — I have no idea whether she’ll actually show up on February 6, when the council chambers hosts the Texas Big City Mayors Meeting. (I did call; got voice mail.) But according to the schedule posted yesterday by the City Secretary’s Office,…
A few Dallas Cowboys quick hits, apropos on a morning blanketed with a freezing fog. We begin, where else, with MartyB — which is to say, tight (not bright) end Martellus Bennett, who follows his now-vanished rap video (“Romo, homo, etc.”) with the apology below. FOXSports.com is reporting that the…
View Larger MapThis council meeting leftover, which is no small morsel: Mayor Tom Leppert was vehemently against granting Augustine Ekukpe a specific use permit to open a bar called Neighborhood Sports Cafe on South Lamar Street, between Starks Avenue and Haven Street. Said the mayor during the council’s Wednesday meeting,…
There are still plenty of folks a little puzzled by RE:Vision Dallas, which, as we’ve mentioned before, is an effort to turn a couple of parking lots behind Dallas City Hall into a self-sustaining mixed-income “community.” Though some city officials have done some cheerleading for the effort, it’s really the…
The city council won’t take up Dwaine Caraway’s proposal to outlaw single-cigar sales in the city of Dallas today. But if you think this is the end of it, you’re dead wrong. Caraway vowed today during the council’s meeting to take the issue to “Mr. Obama, to Ms. Hutchison, to…
View Larger MapThe Dallas City Council just voted on an agenda item in Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s wheelhouse: permanently shuttering a South Dallas motel surrounded by “ladies of the evening at all times of the day and night,” as Caraway put it before begging Carolyn Davis to continue…
Speaking of Angela Hunt and how Dallas goes about, um, planning a city (?) — as we were this morning — you might wanna click on over to Hunt’s blog. There, she just posted a very lengthy essay concerning last week’s council confab with four noted urban planners. The same…
Gawker has “Jessica Simpson’s Forbidden Workout Video,” for those so interested. And it comes with a commentary track courtesy Mrs. Romo’s business manager — allegedly. Seems awfully, ah, erm, coincidental that this four-year-old vid leaks today; Ashlee will not be happy. You, on the other hand? Dunno. Still, better late…
As the Dallas City Council goes into executive session before breaking for lunch, a few notes. As Dave Levinthal mentions, the Dallas City Council postponed till next month votes on two downtown projects seeking tax increment financing money. One of them is 1400 Main Street (better known as Plush), which,…
Fascinatingish little story this morning in the Northumberland Gazette concerning a rare coin and a faraway country club — the Lakewood Country Club, to be a wee bit more specific. A hospice in Northumberland was sifting through some coins donated for a fund-raising auction when it discovered a particularly odd…
The 5-year-old who lives in my house woke up earlier than usual, ’round 6 a.m., only to discover school had been canceled on account of skating-rink conditions. Which means that after a few hours spent reading the collected works of John Updike and reproducing Georges-Pierre Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à…
More than likely, the Dallas City Council will spend at least the next month re-examining the plan to expand Central Expressway downtown. Council member Angela Hunt called Unfair Park with the news late last night: She has spoken with Ricardo Galceran, head of the city’s Public Works and Transportation department,…
As mentioned earlier, John Updike’s last visit to Dallas was exactly one year ago, when he visited with WFAA-Channel 8’s John McCaa at the NasherSalon 2008 Lecture Series. After the jump, a wonderful photo of the two men on the Nasher stage courtesy Kristen Gibbins, communications manager at the Nasher…
