Brother Bill Holston directed our attention yesterday to the Facebook page of former state Rep. and movie star Allen Vaught, who writes of “organizing a grassroots program focusing on the legislature and DISD to not gut our schools.” I called Vaught at his office at Baron & Budd for more…
talking heads – 78 dallas from das ubuibi on Vimeo.Given Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz’s Valentine’s Day-trip to the Eight-Track Museum’s grand opening, the timing’s certainly good: Only yesterday, someone posted to Vimeo about 28 minutes’ worth of footage from the Talking Heads’ ’78 trip through town during the More…
We were first introduced to Eric Brauss in December 2009, when a good Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off that the money man behind, oh, the Dallas Design Center, Denton Towne Crossing, Lake Highlands Plaza and other local developments had done disappeared. As in: skipped town, left the country,…
The editor of our sister paper in Houston just forwarded along a press release sent out moments ago by the Houston Independent School District: “Arnold Viramontes, the Dallas ISD chief of staff, is coming to HISD to oversee the district’s technology operations.” The entire release follows, but Viramontes, of course,…
No doubt tired of taking it in the shorts over the icy weather and the “horrible mistake” involving Cowboys Stadium seating — the two things over which it had absolutely no control — the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning sent a sneak peek at some early…
Patrick Michels went to yesterday’s City Plan Commission meeting, where food trucks in the Arts District were among the items on the menu. Next stop, city council — next month, all goes according to plan. A big reason this got rolling was Arts District exec director Veletta Forsythe Lill, also…
On Tuesday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that it was looking for this gentleman, at the time suspected of having committed at least 11 robberies in North Dallas — including the Frankford and Midway T-Mobile store hold-up shown in the video the department made available to media. This morning,…
On Christmas Eve afternoon, radio-radio’s Julia Barton stopped by the offices to interview Schutze and me for an episode of Public Radio International’s Studio 360, which is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Barton had been tasked with doing a piece on Dallas as part of the show’s “American Icons” series, which,…
City Hall and most other municipal facilities are closed till Tuesday, furlough day and President’s Day and all. Which means council briefings normally posted on Friday night went live last night, including this one that’ll be presented to the Public Safety Committee on Tuesday: 2010 Dallas Police Department Traffic Contact…
It’s been close to two years since we last looked at Ash Grove’s federal lawsuit, filed in the fall of ’08, in which the cement-maker whined that Dallas’s refusal to buy its dirty, wet-kiln-made concrete was a violation of the state’s competitive bidding laws. Dallas, claiming its thanks-but-no-thanks was due…
IFRAMES not supportedThe U.S. Census Bureau sent to the state Legislature today the map you see above, along with details about the latest population count intended to assist with redistricting — including numbers related to racial make-up and voting age.Per the latest tally, since the 2000 Census was taken the…
If you’d driven by the Texas Theatre oh, ’bout an hour ago, you’d have seen this scene — the great Harry Shearer standing out on W. Jefferson, bracketed by Jason Reimer on the left and Barak Epstein. Random, right? Not really: Shearer was at The Thin Line Film Fest in…
Speaking of changes at Love Field …Mayor Tom Leppert — along with council members Delia Jasso and Linda Koop — yesterday sent a memo to City Manager Mary Suhm proposing that the city change the name of a section of Cedar Springs Road to Herb Kelleher Way. In honor of…
Whilst cleaning out the in-box I came across this sent-yesterday heads-up from the city involving two new inconveniences for those heading to Love Field, which is presently getting with the Modernization Program. Long story short: Expect lane closures on Cedar Springs, and don’t try to use that West Pedestrian Bridge…
What you see above is a video presently making the rounds amongst those of us who live in the T.C. Marsh-W.T. White feeder pattern: Marsh eighth-grade U.S. history teacher Miguel Solis speaking a few days ago at Teach for America’s 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C. And when I say…
By now you’ve no doubt heard: Two men were killed and two more were arrested last night following what appears to be a drug-related robbery outside the Burger Street on E. Mockingbird, between N. Central Expressway and Greenville Avenue. Officers were called to the scene at 10:16 p.m, writes Dallas…
As we noted last week, attorneys representing Tom Hicks in the U.K. were in court trying to get a judge there to overturn his ruling that keeps Hicks from suing in the U.S. over last October’s sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures. Hicks and his Dallas legal…
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark hasn’t officially opened yet on Broadway; due date’s still a month away. Still, it’s considered The Most Amazing, Spectacular Failure of All-Time — a horribly told, injury-plagued, critically despised mess of a musical laid at the feet of writers Julie Taymor (also the director) and…
We knew Borders’ bankruptcy was coming; it wasn’t a particularly well-kept secret, either in the business pages or in the stores themselves, which long ago began pushing books off the shelves to make room for tchotchkes and trinkets that had nothing at all to do with, ya know, books. It’s…
As Sam pointed out in February 2007, when he covered Tom Leppert’s mayoral campaign kick-off at St. Philip’s School in South Dallas, Roger Staubach served as his campaign co-chair alongside Elaine Agather. But Staubach couldn’t make it four years back; he was “not in attendance.” He is expected at Dallas…
Every so often, Friends of Unfair Park send in e-mails full of questions to which we only wish we knew the answers. And I’ll send those queries to the experts. So, this morning, we tackle two topics pulled at random from the grab bag. First up …Friend of Unfair Park…
A couple of weeks back, ABC-TV publicist Erin Felentzer, who handles the network’s drama schedule, told us she wasn’t sure where Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches would shoot. She also said it wasn’t getting a full-blown tryout, only a presentation…
