We’ve known for a couple of weeks that Glenn Beck was eying a Westlake manse, but this morning on his radio show he made it official. Let’s go to the “fusion of entertainment and enlightenment” hisself for the official what-for:”I’m moving to Dallas, Texas, and my family is there now,…
Unlike, say, the release below, the one that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box is far less surprising: TNT will indeed shoot Dallas in Dallas. Specifically, the Warner Horizon-produced series, which was formally introduced on Friday and gets a sneak-peek tonight on the cable network before its summer 2012…
On Tuesday Jim noted the rally for John Wiley Price scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this Sunday at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church on East R.L. Thornton Freeway. But, moments ago, we received further details from Vincent Hall, the Dallas County commissioner’s office manager, who notes via press release…
About a month back we sneaked a peek at the city’s fingers-crossed attempt to find someone interested in buying the naming rights to the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill Lane just west of Stemmons, a project expected to run upwards of $38 million and funded with 1998, 2003…
This just in: Chef, novelist (and Bone in the Throat is highly recommended) and TV-show host Anthony Bourdain’s booked a gig at the city-run Majestic Theater in October, with tickets going on sale this Friday. The full release follows, but long story short: “Bourdain will spend the evening sharing candid…
While Mike Rawlings is off in France, Rudy has a pay-walled piece in the morning’s paper recapping the to-do list offered when he was a candidate and the we’ll-see-about-that realities facing him as mayor: “Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings must find a way to deliver on promises.” Speaking of: As Leslie…
We were driving through downtown yesterday, on our way to Dallas Farmers Market, and passed by First Baptist Dallas’s under-construction “spiritual oasis,” sweet fancy Moses. Which reminded me: At week’s end, FBD sent the heads-up that its new-campus webcam is up and running, or at least walking on water, and…
Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin didn’t expect this. Not this. Certainly not. When first they hatched their cockamamie scheme — to rescue from fiscal despair a Days Inn off I-35 in Hillsboro — the two reservoir geeks put out the word via Facebook and guesstimated a grand total of,…
Twice we’ve written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He…
Had a few other things in mind for this work-week wrap-up; maybe I’ll get to ’em tomorrow morning … if you’re really that eager for a couple of Reunion Arena shows, one I attended in ’83 and another I wish I’d gone to in ’89. But whilst looking for something…
At long last, TNT has finally announced that it will indeed air that next-gen Dallas, featuring Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and a cast of younglings playing their offspring. The series, which is expected to shoot here now that the city council’s OK’d that $235,000 so Jack Matthews can…
On Monday, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs will cut the city of Dallas a sales-tax revenue check for $16,658,081.23, as you can see above; City Manager Mary Suhm says that’s 13 straight months the city has seen a “slight increase” in tax revenue, among the “slight, slow signs of a recovery.”…
One week ago this morning, KNON’s Warren Harris passed along the news that local radio icon Linwood Henderson, better known as Cuzzin’ Linnie, died in his sleep after a lengthy illness. Henderson, long considered the disc jockey who broke Dallas radio’s color barrier by being the first to play soul…
ryan=”” reacts=”” to=”” fan=”” s=”” death=”” width=”560″ height=”420>At 10:02 last night, an email from the Texas Rangers arrived in the in-box bearing the subject heading “Statement From Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan.” This is what it said: The adult male who during tonight’s game fell approximately 20 feet…
So, let’s work backward. On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News reported that “bail bondsmen owe Dallas County at least $35 million in uncollected default judgments, many dating back decades.” Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, himself a former bail bondman, refused to speak to Ed Timms and Kevin Krause. But…
Looks like at 11:18 this morning, John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind, or someone in his office, faxed to Channel 5 the search warrant issued on June 24 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney. It’s a seven-page catalog of everyone and everything with whom the county commissioner’s done bidness since…
This morning the city posted the agenda for the first-ever meeting of the Gas Drilling Task Force, which kicks off Tuesday at 2 p.m., don’t be late. The agenda’s mostly a bunch of introductory what-whats: Chair Lois Finkelman will give some opening remarks, outline its scope and schedule, review the…
The in-box is filled this morning with more news concerning Rick Perry’s “day of prayer and fasting” in Houston next month — you know, The Response. Let’s begin with this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have forward a piece I first saw this morning on Startlegram great Bud Kennedy’s Facebook…
Tuesday night, I was on the phone with Park and Rec second-in-command Willis Winters, who happened to be standing near the Lily Pad in Main Street Garden. Mid-sentence, he stopped talking, said, “Excuse me,” then said, rather loudly to someone standing near him: “Are you going to pick that up?”Ah,…
Last night, my wife and I were discussing JWP, millions in uncollected bail bonds spanning centuries, Dallas County politics, Kathy Nealy’s IRS woes as noted on WFAA’s 10 p.m. broadcast, Craig Watkins and so forth. She said something I didn’t quite understand. I corrected her: “No, it’s county management, not…
On June 29, in Judge Ken Molberg’s courtroom, attorneys representing Steven Phillips and Kevin Glasheen argued over money, which is what attorneys often do when they clash in courtrooms. At stake: around $1 million, which Glasheen says he’s owed by Phillips per an agreement they made three years ago. Phillips…
As it turns out, according to an article that just appeared on the Wall Street Journal’s website, life inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport air traffic control towers — otherwise known as the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, or TRACON — is sort of a cross between Airplane! and Pushing Tin…
