The Zoo Tapes: An interactive serial by John Rody | Episode 1 from John Rody on Vimeo.I just discovered, via the wonders of Vimeo, the “trailer” you see above for something called The Zoo Tapes posted by none other than The Great John Rody — one half of LaBella and…
It’s been five whole weeks since the City Plan Commission denied giving a specific use permit to the proposed bowling alley next to Good Records. But fear not: It will resurface in two weeks, when the city council considers its last-ditch appeal. Before then, though, the CPC will once again…
By cutting funding to libraries, eliminating raises (or just paychecks) for City Hall workers, raising taxes, closing pools, deferring maintenance on pothole-ridden streets and privatizing parks clean-up? I kid. Only, I don’t. Anyway. This just in from Dallas City Hall: Angela Hunt, a 2008 recipient of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship,…
This just in from the Department of Justice: No way, no how does it want downtown-based AT&T from getting its hands on T-Mobile. So much so it’s just filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in D.C. federal court to block the sale, insisting that …… the proposed $39 billion transaction would…
If you have a moment, take the time to read this just-released report from the Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force, formed in November 2009 by the Supreme Court of Texas to see just how at-risk the state’s historical docs are. Because most of the most important docs in Texas…
On June 6, 2006, this item appeared in the regional roundup found in the Metro section of The Dallas Morning News:Authorities have identified a woman fatally struck by a Dallas police car Saturday night as 51-year-old Patricia Ann Brooks. Police said Officers Juan Rangel and Susan Kreun were driving south…
Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park’s ‘cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole — specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as “a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh.” The suit, filed Friday in…
On Friday, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger posted a note to her blog saying that she was resigning. She didn’t say why. We speculated instead. But, no, she’s not leaving. Not now.”I’ve heard overwhelmingly from the community and constituents who have asked me to stay, and I am…
A couple of weeks back, the city acknowledged that a “renegade pruning operation” was responsible for hacking down trees in the Great Trinity Forest, kinda the last place you’d expect someone to go nuts with a chainsaw. Now, this: Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston sends along an item posted…
The case involving the citywide sale of beer and wine, which voters approved in November, is set for trial September 12. Could be a short trial, could be a long trial, could be no trial at all; a hearing’s set for this Friday in front of Judge Laurine Blake of…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park tipped us to this Dangerous Minds interview with Freya Bardell, one of the principals in Los Angeles-based eco-art collective Greenmeme. For the past six years, Bardell and Brian Howe have been dropping into the Los Angeles River art installations known as River…
Your Texas Rangers are a long way off from clinching the American League West — magic number’s still a whopping 25 after the Mariners’ 5-3 win over the Angels last night. That said, John Blake sends word this afternoon: If you’re interested in scoring ducats for “potential Rangers 2011 Postseason…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a batch of unhappy missives from Jane Bryant, the owner of 600 Elsbeth near the Bishop Arts District — a property that’s been the subject of years’ worth of litigation. Bryant’s particularly unhappy with my characterization of the property on Friday –…
Dallas Complete Streets Competition from Andrew Goodwin Brown on Vimeo.Absolutely, says Dallas filmmaker Andrew Goodwin Brown in the short you see above. It’s his entry in the 2011 Dallas Great Streets Visual Essay Contest, which City Hall sponsored in order to find out “what people like about streets in Dallas…
Looks like this is the last we’ll write of Chad Lacerte and his Dallas Watersports Complex, once slated to become a West Dallas destination on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority stepped in and drowned the deal last summer. Lacerte’s already said he’s taking his wakeboarding operation to…
Damn it. We got so caught up in the state Supremes’ pole tax ruling at the end of last week we missed the far bigger one staring at us from the top of Friday’s Opinions on Orders page: City of Dallas v. Keneth E. Albert et al., otherwise known as…
After this, I’ll let Pete handle whatever becomes of the Dallas Backyard Music Festival — since, ya know, it’s a music festival? But we begin on Unfair Park for a couple of reasons: It’s on the Park and Rec board’s agenda for its Thursday meeting, which is where I was…
On the other side’s freshly minted First Baptist Dallas trailer for Robert Jeffress’s upcoming sermon series, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” which begins on September 11. Sounds like a blockbuster — the thing’s very Jerry Bruckheimer. Says the doom-saying voiceover: “Economic chaos, moral relativism, terrorist threats, global turmoil — are we witnessing…
Earlier this month we outlined Lewisville-based Delcom Group’s $40-million breach of contract claim against the Dallas Independent School District, which was filed after the district suddenly and surreptitiously yanked its board-approved contract to give classrooms a high-tech makeover and went with second-place finisher Prime Systems out of Houston. Delcom alleges…
At this late date you should have a pretty good idea in which city council district you’ll be in, should the map going to council next month wind up as the one officially adopted. And when it comes to redistricting, well, it’s left the Dallas Independent School District one trustee…
In ’05, the city outsourced its parking-ticket operations to locally based Affiliated Computer Service; then, a year later, forked over an additional five figures so the company could mount a few AutoVu license plate recognition cameras, making it easier to spot and track drivers who couldn’t, didn’t or just wouldn’t…
Sat down this morning to find much music in the in-box. Always welcome on a Sunday. To begin, George Gimarc forwards this link to an auction on eBay: a promo copy of the Coral single “Peggy Sue” b/w “Everyday” by, you know, Buddy Holly. What makes this one particularly special,…
