As Sam pointed out last week, it’s clear that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings is well funded — so much so he’s released what appears to be a web-only mini-doc shot, for the most part, at the Good Street Missionary Baptist Church on Bonnie View. It also features two current council…
ABC’s set to start shooting that Good Christian Bitches pilot around town on Monday, last we heard, with Carley Bobby as Amanda Vaughn, the divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities with her tail tucked. Late last night, ABC announced it’s added a new castmate to Sex…
Sooner than later, of course, there will be but one Borders left in Dallas — the Lovers and Greenville location, spared, so far, from closure following the company’s Chapter 11 filing a few weeks ago. The other two locations, in Preston Royal and the West Village, are well into their…
Sour Grapes at Neiman Marcus from Carlos Donjuan on Vimeo.Tagged, that is, by the estimable, Dallas Contemporary-endorsed members of the Sour Grapes crew. The Neimans windows received their new look in advance of next month’s Dallas Art Fair, located at the Fashion Industry Gallery — and sponsored by Neimans, so…
At this late date, tell me there’s no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We’re good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you’re still not clear: He’s Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and the Beatles 1960s — the author of masterpiece…
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa was among those who spoke Saturday in front of the guesstimated 12,000-plus parents, educators and students amassed in front of the state capitol building in Austin. His brief remarks are above. They am what they am. Dalton Sherman spoke after the super and…
SlashGear this morning directs our attention to a press release issued late Friday by ad agency Publicis’s Dallas office, which has found a rather ingenious way to garner attention for a billboard — by filling the thing with “thousands of live cockroaches.” You read that right. It’s for Terminex, a…
The South by Southwest Film Festival is still underway down in Austin; awards won’t even be doled out till tomorrow night. But moments ago, the Dallas International Film Festival — which has already named a few films, not to mention Star Award recipient Ann-Margret — released its complete list of…
A federal lawsuit filed in Dallas on Friday has all the makings of a Vanity Fair feature story, down to the famous names who make cameo appearances — among them, President Franklin Roosevelt, Coco Chanel and Winston Churchill. But far more notable is what’s at stake: a signature collection of…
Forthcoming at some point this morning, a second slide show’s worth of photos from the festivities on Greenville Avenue Saturday. (Update: Check out Sam’s choice pics, including one of an arrest.) Till then, here’s the first 40. And Nick also shot some video that’s available on the other side, for…
Six months ago came word: Park Cities Bank, which had taken possession of circa-1925 807 Elm Street in the West End, wanted to raze the building, which sits in a parking lot across the street from El Centro and which one Friend of Unfair Park had pursued, briefly, as a…
Apparently, the Dallas Police Department is none too thrilled with how info is being disseminated about tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party along Greenville Avenue; what — this wasn’t as clear as green beer? Which is why Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, the department’s spokesman, forwarded a memo First Assistant…
As the Japan-American Society of Dallas/Fort Worth’s website points out, “Dallas and Sendai became International Friendship Cities in August 1997, when Mayor Ron Kirk and Mayor Hajimu Fujii signed a formal agreement in Sendai.” Which is why, shortly after the 8.9-magnitude quake and tsunami struck off the shore of that…
Vanity Fair’s Jim Wolcott directs our attention today to a dispatch from Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat: “Disappointment at Dealey Plaza,” posted yesterday. Long story short: Barnat was in town during the Super Bowl and, like most visitors to our city, found himself at the corner of Houston and Elm…
Odd news to wake up to this morning: After being the man leading the charge to take control of the Texas Rangers last summer, and having been very much the public face of the franchise in the months since, Chuck Greenberg’s gone. Did he jump or was he pushed? According…
Superintendent Media Availability from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo.When I asked Jim for his take on yesterday’s board briefing at 3700 Ross Avenue, this was his initial pass: “My interpretation of the day’s events is that we are all dangling on the end of Rick Perry’s yo-yo string and…
Yesterday we covered Dallas Mayor-turned-U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert’s position on National Public Radio. This afternoon, on the Facebook, I got this note from Not Mayor Tom:Excited to launch our new petition calling on President Obama to stop our dependence on foreign oil, boost natural gas production, and create jobs…
Jim — lucky — is at 3700 Ross at this very moment, where the trustees are doing a little math involving employees and enrollment. Moments ago, Carla Ranger wanted to know: If enrollment has dropped, why has the number of employees grown? She didn’t get the answer she wanted; she…
As many times as the Texxas Jam’s come up, I can’t believe we’ve never seen this: Channel 8’s coverage of the ’78 “Texxas Music Festival,” featuring reporter Randy Jackson’s sweat-soaked, dope-smoked coverage of the billion-degree July 1 concert at the Cotton Bowl. Among the headliners that day: Aerosmith, Ted Nugent,…
In the last 24 hours, press releases have piled up in the in-box announcing three very different mayoral debates featuring ex-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, current city council member Ron Natinsky and former “homeless czar” and Park Board president Mike Rawlings.One’s traditional: On April 19 at 7 p.m., KTXA-Channel 21…
Four long years ago, it appeared Brad Pitt was all set to star in the story of Ron Woodroof — the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and would go on to found the Dallas Buyer’s Club, through which AIDS patients bought…
As I was heading out, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered if I was going to that Ebby Halliday wingding underway at the Meyerson. No, hadn’t planned on it. Too fancy. Nevertheless, it reminded me: Pete Sessions stopped down the U.S. House of Representatives and C-SPAN today to wish the…
