The great Will Clarke hipped us to this sneak peek at Breaking Bad, which returns Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC. The reason Will’s so excited: The above clip features none other than Kitchen Dog Theater’s co-artistic director Tina Parker, who’s had bit parts on the meth-addled thriller since its…
And Schutze and I were just talking about Steve Bartlett. Then a Friend of Unfair Park goes and sends this piece posted a little while ago to The New York Times’s website about how the former mayor of Dallas (twixt Strauss and Kirk, for those new to town or who…
Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, back from summer break, shot me a note this morning about a short film called Von Bagdad nach Dallas. “At some point, you need to see this,” he wrote, explaining he had a lone copy on DVD given to him a while back,…
This just in from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas: Adjust your thermostats to 78 or higher now — or, at the very least, between 3 and 7 p.m. — or the whole state runs the risk of brownouts later. Why? Well, sure — it’s hot, hot, hotter than hell…
I see Avi’s posted a piece to Barking Dogs wondering whether a Walmart will take over the old Whole Foods on Lowest Greenville. Writes Adelman, yesterday “teams of inspectors — electrical, structure, property, roofing — swarmed all over the building, taking photos, comparing architectural drawings to reality, and deciding what…
Last month we noted that Dallas Area Rapid Transit has long has a policy in place prohibiting beer and wine ads on buses and light rail. Why? No real reason, other than previous boards didn’t much like the idea. But DART needs dough, which is why, over the course of…
I was talking to George Gimarc last night (more about that later … ish) when he mentioned that the Texas Radio Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 class of inductees. Among them is a local great who won’t be able to attend the October ceremony: the great Cuzzin’ Linnie,…
I’ve heard from a few folks furious that council member Sheffie Kadane, a vocal proponent of gas drilling within the city limits, sat with the gas drilling task force yesterday during its inaugural meeting. As Marc McCord, an anti-drilling activist, put it in the comments below: “He showed up, took…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth and Mansfield and Grand Prairie;…
Feels like it’s been a long while since we’ve touched upon the U.S. Senate candidacy of former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, last seen gigging David Dewhurst and who’s still insisting that the Trinity River Corridor Project is worthy of federal earmarks. Anyway. On Saturday he was down at the San…
Julia Barton, with an assist from Schutze, covered much the same territory earlier this year in her American Icons piece about Dallas for Studio 360. But now that TNT’s given the green light to that next-gen Dallas, CNN, as part of its Defining America series, takes a look at how…
Gov. Rick Perry will be in Denton this week, according to his office, at which time he certainly will not address if and when he’s going to announce whether he’s running for the White House. And so, the day after the governor met with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in…
The city has a website, Green Dallas, that brags about programs, policies and initiatives that date back, so the site says, to the devastating drought of the 1950s — “when the City of Dallas realized it could not take the environment for granted.” And in between items about bike plans…
This would be … what, round three? And here you thought the Living Plaza was a one-timer. Nope. It may be a 192 degrees tomorrow, but that’s not going to stop the City Hall staffers who’ve taken over where Jason Roberts, Brent Brown and William Whyte started. And so, beginning…
Leslie just got back from the first meeting of the city’s gas drilling task force; her wrap-up’s due shortly. But I tried tuning in earlier, thinking surely the city would live-stream this much-ballyhooed occasion. Instead I got to see Mike Rawlings conduct his first meeting as mayor (from June 27)…
When I got home last night, my son asked if I went to the next-door 7-Eleven for my free Slurpee. I told him, sorry, I forgot about the giveaway. He didn’t: ‘Round 4 yesterday he and my wife stopped by the Preston Forest location, only to find they were all…
Steve Thompson beat me to it, but no matter. Because, see, in advance of this evening’s meeting of the city’s Redistricting Commission, some of us were sneak-peeking the public’s submissions made to the commission, and lookie there: Among the stacks of maps is one turned in by a rather familiar…
There is, of course, the significant local tie to one Kenny Powers: David Gordon Green, the Richardson High School grad and former ticket-taker who’s show-running HBO’s Eastbound & Down and introduced Danny McBride to the world in his 2003 film All the Real Girls. But, perhaps you’ve heard, tomorrow night…
Last month we noted that the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is considering selling ads for beer and wine on buses and light rail — which, right now, is prohibited by policy just because. After the jump you’ll find the board’s back-and-forth over that very subject, which could prove controversial;…
That quote in the headline comes from Patrick Duffy in the behind-the-scenes peek that follows; Bobby Ewing always was so … sincere. Still is. Now, more than ever. Above, of course, is the sneak peek at the next-gen Dallas TNT provided last night — a good year before the series…
The Dallas Police report says only that Andres Muniz was found dead on the morning on July 1, behind Elmer’s Drive-In Grocery on Riverfront, near Commerce Street. Cause of death, per the report: “Unexplained … unknown causes.” He had no known address; Muniz was homeless.He does, though, have a final…
Back in September we noticed that the House of Blues was on the market for $19,120,000. Guess that high price tag kept away interested buyers, as it stayed in the possession of Live Nation. But just as Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is advocating taking Live Nation private, in order…
