Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season’s TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season’s Brinker International Forum Series, also at the ATTPAC and set to commence November 3 at the Winspear with…
Yesterday we took a look at the latest version of the Dallas Independent School District’s budget reduction plan, as necessitated by the state Legislature’s decision to gut public education in the wake of its $27-billion (give or take) shortfall. After the board briefing, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went in front of…
This hasn’t been a good week for 1717 Main Street: First, TM Advertising announced it’s moving out and heading to Victory Park, which didn’t faze Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crawford. And then, this morning, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Metropolitan Real Estate, which bought the downtown high-rise,…
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Carnegie Hall this week as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest. The piece performed: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, the LBJ commission that world-premiered in Dallas on September 18,…
From the looks of the video on the other side, I’m surprised the whole audience at Trees didn’t sue following Andy Dick’s “performance” on December 19. But, no, it’s just the one guy: Robert Tucker, who says he didn’t much appreciate it when the former star of NewsRadio “forced his…
On the afternoon of October 12, 2007, former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs went into a Medical City of Dallas operating room for what he and his family believed would be a simple surgery — the removal of a cyst from his left forearm. But as Richie noted in…
So. Funny thing. A couple of weeks back, while writing about 508 Park Ave. and Robert Johnson’s 100th, I pulled down a few blues histories-of to dig a little deeper. Among the stacks: Elijah Wald’s essential Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, published in 2004,…
Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Many good Friends of Unfair Park have forwarded me the clip you see above, which District 103’s state rep, Rafael Anchía, posted to YouTube last night. In it, the Haynes and Boone attorney and former Dallas ISD school board trustee argues against the passage of Carrollton state Rep. Burt Solomons’s…
It’s been a long, contentious meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, and we just got to the latest budget update. First, Carla Ranger wanted to know why Bernadette Nutall, with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s OK, halted construction at a handful of South Dallas schools. Nutall said it…
Surely you recall the case of J.B. and H.B., two Dallas men who went to Massachusetts to marry in 2006, only to separate two years later and then try to get a divorce. In October 2009, Judge Tena Callahan gave the couple her blessing to get unhitched, at which point…
Meant to get to this two days ago, when Texas Rangers Executive Vice President of Communications John Blake sent out the announcement, but it’s not too late to make it to NorthPark Center by 1 p.m. That’s when C.J. Wilson and Chanel Iman (well, hello) are scheduled to stop by…
Back in June of last year we took a look at the state of Denton’s Golden Triangle Mall, which, at the time, had fallen into foreclosure and was being put up for auction. Like Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall and Valley View, it’s seen better times. But per a piece on…
We never did talk to Debbie Georgatos about why she wants to become the next Dallas County Republican Party chair following the adios of Jonathan Neerman. No matter: After the jump, for those who have 10 minutes to spare, you’ll find Georgatos and former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade…
After 10 long years of maybes, doubtfuls and dunnos, it would appear that The Dallas Buyer’s Club, the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, is closer to becoming a big-screen reality: Relativity Media today issued a press release announcing that co-producer Robbie Brenner is shepherding the project from limbo to multiplex,…
It’s been more than three months since 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson found $2,000 outside a North Dallas strip mall and returned it to a nearby Chase bank, thinking someone there could find the owner. But city officials tell Unfair Park the bank didn’t turn over the dough to the Dallas Police…
So far today we’ve heard from Ron Natinsky, David Kunkle, City Auditor Craig Kinton and even Mayor Dwaine Caraway about last night’s Channel 8 story, which alleged that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings used his influence as Park Board president to get city officials to hire his friend and former TracyLocke…
At around 10:30 on the night of March 22, 1984, two girls, both younger than 16, were on their way home from a store in their Dallas neighborhood when they were approached by a man wielding a gun. He told them to go with him into a nearby field. He…
Speaking of getting city officials’ responses to WFAA-Channel 8 stories …Maybe you saw the story last night about 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson, who found $2,000 stuffed into an envelope and, though her family sure could use the bread, did the right thing and turned it in. According to Ashley, she took…
I promise: Unfair Park won’t be clogged with piece after piece about that Happy Trails safety campaign contract. But this one merits its own item: City Auditor Craig Kinton, who functions as an independent investigator inside the hallways of City Hall, returned my call moments ago and said his office…
I’ve left messages and sent emails all over Dallas City Hall — to City Manager Mary Suhm, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner (who oversees Park and Recreation), City Auditor Craig Kinton, city spokesman Frank Librio and Chris Heinbaugh in Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway’s office. I’ve been told they are all presently…
The song “Dirk41,” by German musicmaker Flula Borg, was originally released in December 2009. It’s available for purchase on iTunes, or you can listen to it on Borg’s MySpace page, where it’s received but a scant 6,709 plays in more than a year and a half. But, trust me, you’ll…
