The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post are reporting today that as early as next week, Clear Channel Communications will “begin implementing a massive restructuring plan that seeks to cut $400 million in costs at the company.” Both stories say the layoffs are to begin on Tuesday; says…
Two days before Christmas, while addressing the controversy surrounding President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren deliver the inaugural invocation, John McWhorter wrote in The New Republic, “Suppose Obama had invited black megastar preacher T.D. Jakes instead.” Turns out, Obama has given Jakes a speaking slot on Inauguration Day…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio’s Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won’t make a comeback in February — don’t believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that,…
Dave Moore on FrontBurner wonders why “North Texas always seems to get its snout into” a big national news story — like, say, the tale of the US Airways plane that took a dip in the Hudson River yesterday. Actually, there’s a pretty good explanation in the Herald Democrat up…
Wrote the real-estatin’ Friend of Unfair Park who alerted us to the news of Circuit City’s imminent demise today, “Getting ugly out there.” Indeed: Just two months after Circuit City included its N. Central Expressway and Meadow Road location as one the 155 “underperforming” stores being shuttered, the chain today…
Speaking of Fort Worth, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted its class of 2009 last night with a wingding on E. Exchange Ave., and among those taking their bows were Tommy Lee Jones and the great Barry Corbin, who actually has a place in Fort Worth. Said Jones, a…
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee’s moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he’s been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell’s release, which follows in…
Tuned into KTCK-AM (1310) this a.m. for its “big station announcement,” which, all things considered, was relatively enormous after all: The station is “the new radio flagship home for Dallas Stars hockey for the next five seasons,” said morning-show co-host Craig Miller. The deal starts next season and runs through…
I know, I know — we have a music blog. But on this frigid morning, I wanted to direct your attention to this download, warm and well-meaning, courtesy National Public Radio, songwriter Christian Kiefer and a singer named Will Johnson. It’s a song called “Someone to Wake,” the final installment…
After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205. If…
On her Web site, the District 14 council member offers her thoughts on yesterday’s Dallas City Council meeting, where, among other things, the council voted for the “high crime apartment ordinance,” voted against the creation of a Little Forest Hills Conservation District and put on hold a vote concerning the…
Deadspin, with some help from The Smoking Gun, just posted an item in which it breaks down Michael Irvin’s Monday-evening almost-carjacking and finds his story, well, a bit sketchy. As in: “Irvin didn’t report the incident until the following day, more than 24 hours after Monday’s supposed confrontation. And he…
On Tuesday, Governor Rick Perry told the Associated Press he seriously doubted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was going to challenge him come 2010. Because, look, “there’s plenty of time for the senator to think that it’s not in her best interest, Texas’ best interest or the country’s best interest to…
… figured we might as well show you, without further comment, this official First Baptist Dallas video, which was posted to Vimeo yesterday. It’s otherwise known as the “First Baptist Dallas Brand Manifesto,” and it kind of reminds me of this DSpot promo. Has Robert Jeffress found his? First Baptist…
Bloomberg’s story concerning President Bush’s new office digs in Preston Center — first in Berkshire at Preston Center, before he moves into a larger space at Sherry Lane Place — contains an note of interest toward the end. But first, this relevant aside: Says here that taxpayers will pay $38.95…
Meant to mention this yesterday, when the press released landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but got otherwise sidetracked: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival has a new presenting sponsor, NorthPark Center. Which is a big deal because? Well, according to the release, the AMC NorthPark 15 — which, in…
Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer — a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas –…
Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000’s Men of Honor, about a sharecropper’s son who becomes the first black diver in the Navy who becomes the first amputee to return to…
He denied and denied that he was taking the top spot at the New York City Opera, going so far as to tell Bloomberg News right before Christmas, “I’m not interested in the job at New York City Opera.” Well, so much for that. Because not five months after he…
When I spoke to Erykah Badu in February 2008, shortly before the release of New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), she strongly suggested all was not well with the Black Forest Theater, from which Badu had hoped to save the soul of her native South Dallas. “Financially, it’s a…
Remember that Denny’s Super Bowl ad casting call last month? The one looking for “authentically weathered, tough, rugged” cowboys from Dallas? Right. That one. Anyway, today we get a peek at the ‘pokes Denny’s rustled up for its first-ever Super Bowl spot, which Denny’s spokesperson Cori Rice tells Unfair Park…
Yesterday at Nick & Sam’s on Maple Avenue, Weitzman Group held its annual Shopping Center Survey & Forecast luncheon, which GlobeSt.com reports was attended by a “standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people” straining to hear how 2009 was shaping up for the Dallas-Fort Worth retail real estate market –…
