Shortly after the kick-off of Foote Festival, the through-May 1 area-wide celebration of the life and work of Wharton native Horton Foote, a Friend of Unfair Park bemoaned the fact there was but one of his films featured as part of the fest: Foote’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird,…
City Hall was kind enough yesterday to pass along a recording of Monday’s meeting of the city’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting. That’s the meeting during which DART board member Jerry Christian told council member Jerry Allen he was no longer associated with the litigation attempting to overturn the vote…
Blessedly, the USA Film Festival is far shorter than its marathon counterpart, the Dallas International Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a 10-day run. Dallas’s first major film festival, which was co-founded in 1970 by L.M. Kit Carson and introduced local audiences to the likes of M*A*S*H and The Last…
Last month we noted that the Turtle Creek Association had bumped up the long-running Easter in the Park from April 24 to April 17 and cut from the schedule of events the beloved Pooch Parade, not to mention an appearance by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The reason: The TCA wanted…
Speaking of disputes between Texas Rangers ownership past and present …Courthouse News has the lengthy lawsuit filed Monday in Tarrant County District Court, in which the current ownership team (Rangers Baseball Express) is suing the former owner (Tom Hicks’s Ballpark Real Estate) over 11,679 parking spaces around the Ballpark in…
Mike Rawlings was the first candidate for Dallas mayor to address the Dallas Independent School District when, at the end of March, he unveiled his Education Plan. Said the former Pizza Hut CEO when discussing forming myriad partnerships and alliances with the district, “Some people will say education is not…
No doubt you recall the show Mayor Dwaine Caraway put on April 1 in front of the Luxury Inn on S. Buckner, where he was joined by the Dallas City Hall All-Stars to proclaim the motel closed due to its myriad “unpleasantries,” with rampant prostitution and drug-related crimes high on…
By week’s end, District 2 council candidate Billy MacLeod expects to file in state and federal court a lawsuit over the city’s decision not to remove Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School from its list of polling locations for the May 14 election. As you’re no doubt aware by now, MacLeod…
… but instead, he’s running for mayor. Above you’ll find the spot set to premiere on local TV tonight, which is good timing — Sam’s cover story about the Dallas mayoral race is set to hit newsstands tomorrow. And in it, he discusses when and why “bringing businesses to Dallas”…
There’s a 3 p.m. presser scheduled with local media members. Till then, this and only this is all the Dallas Stars’ front office has to say about the immediate adios of head coach Marc Crawford, who yet again couldn’t get his team to the post-season:Head Coach Marc Crawford Relieved Of…
It’s been, what, four whole months since last we visited 508 Park Avenue and the surrounding properties, which remain in limbo at this late date. (Though better that than a heap of bricks.) First Presbyterian Church of Dallas acknowledged way back in August 2010 that it wants to buy the…
Two weeks ago, Bravo announced that among its new slate of shows is one titled Most Eligible: Dallas, which promises a peek at the dating lives of Dallas’s beautiful people … or something. You let me know how that works out. Now comes this, from the Style Network: Big Rich…
On Friday, Patrick Michels noted that Deep Ellum denizens didn’t exactly greet the city’s long-talked-about plans to two-way Commerce and Elm with open arms. But new streets aren’t exactly around the corner; they’re part two of a three-step makeover that has but the first phase funded. Nevertheless. For those who…
As evidenced by the photo above, Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson espied quite the light show last night coming from Our Convention Center Hotel downtown. Wrote Noah in his midnight-thirty email, “I saw that Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel was testing their LED lights on the back side of…
Been trying to reach council member Jerry Allen ever since yesterday; no luck so far. But we know where he’ll be at 3 today: in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, standing beside Dr. Frederick Haynes and Rev. Gerald Britt at an anti-payday lender press conference on behalf of…
On Thursday, the Department of Defense issued a release stating, simply, that Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy D. Smith — a 26-year-old Arlington native — died on Wednesday “while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.” The official release offered no cause of death and said only that “this incident is…
As we saw this morning, the city’s having enough problems funding that 1.6-mile streetcar starter line from Union Station to Methodist Hospital (or close to). So how does it expect to stretch track over more than 40 miles in and three miles around downtown Dallas, which is the ultimate goal?…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee is being briefed on streetcar funding at this very moment. We’ll get back to that shortly. But a little while ago, the committee was interviewing Dallas Area Rapid Transit board nominees, among them Jerry Christian Sr., who’s a sitting board member and has been…
On Thursday morning, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will take its first long, hard look at a proposal to “streamline the process for implementing a charter school.” It’s the result of months of work by the board’s Charter School Ad Hoc Committee, which was tasked with exploring…
On the other side is the full release sent by the Texas Comptroller’s office in which Susan Combs reveals that personal info belonging to millions of Texans was “inadvertently disclosed” on a server easily accessed by … well, anyone, really. Among the private info made public: Social Security numbers, dates…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Sidney Lumet for “The Morning After” from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Shortly after news broke of director Sidney Lumet’s death at the age of 86 on Saturday morning, our pal Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based keeper of The Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent word: He had in his possession an…
On the other side you’ll find four videos posted by KERA in which BJ Austin asks each of the Dallas mayoral candidates, more or less: Why you? The best part: No video last longer than two minutes…
