Per the city’s Trinity River Park guidelines, this is a “rendering of West Dallas Lake Amphitheater used for concert venue and spectator viewing of fireworks.” Tomorrow, in addition to discussing the new name for Industrial Boulevard — spoiler alert: It’s Riverfront — the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee…
Say this for Dallas-based Blockbuster: It’s willing to throw anything and everything against the wall in the hopes that something, anything, will stick. Because only a few days after taking its new downloading kiosk to the Comic-Con International, the video rental company announced this afternoon that it’s teaming up with…
Later this week, folks around the Fort Worth might spot the bus pictured above and wonder to themselves, “Hey, is Kanye West in town?” No, no, silly. It’s just a roadshow sponsored by Americans United for Change, which has been rolling The Bush Legacy Tour across the U.S. and A…
Lily Tomlin, now a concerned citizen for Jenny Lily Tomlin couldn’t save her show about Dallas that was intended for HBO. But now, she’s trying to keep Jenny the elephant from going to that safari park in Mexico, where the Dallas Zoo intends to send her unless the city council…
Speaking of the council getting back to work, it looks as though the city is trying to speed up the process that allows the demolition of properties within historic districts. In about half an hour, the city council’s Public Safety Committee will meet to discuss, among other things, the streamlining…
At this very moment at City Hall, the city council’s Economic Development Committee is discussing myriad topics as it gets back to work, chief among them AT&T’s relocation to Dallas, as announced on June 27. This morning’s briefing includes further details about the move, including AT&T’s moving its air fleet…
Look, when, on a Sunday afternoon, you get an e-mail from Avi Adelman bearing the subject line, “This is your face after telling the restaurant manager you want to smoke crack in the bathroom…,” you’re going to see it through to the end. Turns out, Avi has added to the…
KERA-FM (90.1) this morning ponders the future of Reunion Arena, as B.J. Austin chats it up with real estate types and with the likes of current council member Angela Hunt, who’d like the city to hold onto the land for at least the next decade, and former council member William…
Dooney Da Priest’s anti-sagging-pants anthem — which, turns out, is just a, erm, homage to this similarly monikered track that came out in 2006 — gets special notice in the U.K. this morning, where the Guardian breaks down Dwaine Caraway’s favorite song with several mentions of the deputy mayor pro…
Tonight’s the big night; get your pom-poms ready for 8 p.m.. Should be fab — or, at least, Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal — as Lifetime gets its hep on with a mean-girl makeover about those McKinney North High School cheerleaders. And, hey, Slate seems to think it’s a…
Daniel Rodrigue When we got up this morning, no way we imagined this photo is how we’d end the day. Wednesday, Unfair Park told you about Dr. Colin A. Ross — you remember, Cyclops? Based in Richardson, Ross applied to the James Randi Educational Foundation’s One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge…
The least Stephanie Lucero could have done last night, while busting wide open this swingers joint in McKinney, was toss off an obligatory Swingtown reference. C’mon, CBS’ hit series about swinging in the ’70s airs tonight at 9:03. (Sounds interesting: “Laurie and Doug interrupt her parents’ ‘after party’ with Brad…
Jenny Seriously, I hadn’t intended on writing another Jenny the elephant item this week — not even to point out this freshly minted Associated Press story about the zoo vs. sanctuary debate or to direct your attention to this ever-growing petition calling for her to be moved to The Elephant…
Sure, things can get a little slow in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but, seriously, Josh Howard. Arrested? For drag racing? In a black Lexus? Yup: “The 28-year-old has been charged with drag racing, exceeding the posted speed limit, and reckless driving to endanger.” Guess it coulda been worse. Lesse — September…
Joyce Foreman On her blog yesterday, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member and political activist Joyce Foreman posted an item in which she called Dallas city council member Dwaine Caraway “[Mayor] Leppert’s head Negro watcher at Dallas city hall.” There has been some tittering about it already today over…
Thin Sweaty Man, by John Bent One of our big bossmens around here is trying to get to Houston, and he sends word from Dallas Love Field that the air conditioning’s out — “has been all morning.” Turns out, he was told, workers were doing some electrical work out at…
Eric Dickerson, whose e-mail address still contains the word “ponyexpress,” no kidding. If nothing else, SMU’s trying awful hard to get the old ponies back into the stable after what’s felt like centuries of losing records. A month ago, the school announced that for the upcoming football season, June Jones’…
Amazing how we got any work done around here about 13 years ago. At this very moment, thousands of gamers are wandering the Hilton Anatole looking to get their annual QuakeCon on. Jason Ocampo of IGN.com live-blogged the warm-up press conference last night — and, wow, sounds like id Software…
If I may direct your attention to DC9 at Night for a moment, Pete’s posted quite the present: the title track to Dallas Observer Music Awards fave Sarah Jaffe’s forthcoming six-track EP Even Born Again, which the great Robert Jenkins dropped off yesterday. It’s your for the taking; don’t even…
Temoc Back in May, Merritt noted the University of Texas at Dallas’s search for a new mascot, one that would replace the rather lazily named Temoc — which, yes, is “Comet” backwards. News of the quest makes the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Edcucation’s subscription-only “Mascot Watch,” which…
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall is a popular venue for patent infringement lawsuits; as The New York Times pointed out in 2006, right after that famous Echostar-TiVo trial wrapped, “more patent lawsuits will be filed here this year than in federal district courts…
Alternate head: “She’s gonna get trashy sluts.” Which is but one among many priceless lines of dialogue from Lifetime’s can’t-miss Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. and, of course, is based on the tale of those McKinney North High School girls gone wild. We…
