Had a wonderfully weird weekend. On Friday I saw the Fort Worth Symphony’s interpretation of Led Zeppelin. (Thumbs up.) On Saturday I attended a Polish 40th birthday party complete with a full, cooked pig on a skewer, potato vodka shots and, yes, a belly dancer. (Two thumbs up.) On Sunday I…
This morning, Danielle McClelland in the Dallas City Hall Public Information Office posted to YouTube updates from District 4 and District 7, courtesy Dallas Delivers on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Hosted by Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis respectively, they’re the very definition of edutainment –…
Back in November 2006, Megan Feldman wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Farmers Branch and then-city council member Tim O’Hare’s fight to rid the city of illegal immigrants, especially those living in rental properties. Much of the piece dealt with the politicization of Elizabeth…
Considering the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years, the Mavs and Stars are on the brink of missing the playoffs and the Rangers are looking toward 2010, seems a weird time to say it. But say it I must: Atta boy, owners! First Mark Cuban threatens to blow…
This is the first in a morning series of videos provided by members of Your Dallas City Council. First up, this lengthy offering from Angela Hunt (co-starring assistant city manager Jill Jordan), who writes on her Web site by way of introduction today, “If you’ve got 20 minutes on your…
Time just posted its list of “The Ten Major Newspapers That Will Fold Or Go Digital Next.” And, no, The Dallas Morning News isn’t among them. But the Star-Telegram is. Why?9. The Fort Worth Star Telegram is another one of the big dailies that competes with a larger paper in…
When we last left the Dallas Stars they were a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged by injuries, struggling to stay around .500 and in the Western Conference playoff hunt while blaming Sean Avery. This morning – after last night’s 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens – the Dallas Stars are a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged…
The National Football League will release the ’09-’10 schedule next month — at which point, just maybe, Jerry Jones’s Enormodome will officially announce that it’s making its national prime-time bow on Monday Night Football, enh. Sports Business Journal reports that ESPN execs toured Jonestown a few days back in anticipation…
Sipping coffee and singing a kumbaya chorus of social media evangelism, about 40 people filled the back room at Opening Bell Coffee this afternoon for LaidOffCampDFW, the local chapter of a nationwide “unconference” for web-minded freelancers.As we mentioned yesterday, LaidOffCamp comes to Dallas straight outta the SF Bay, where the…
This afternoon, as promised, the U.S. Attorney’s Office forwards John Lewis’s plea agreement — the one that finds him promising to testify against former Dallas City Council member Don “What Me Worry?” Hill. You’ll find that and two other absorbing court documents filed today — a little light weekend reading…
Despite Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council’s plans to begin construction on the convention center hotel April 1 and rush to sell bonds on the project to quash the May 9 referendum, it’s still a vote Leppert and his fellow Build the Hotel’ers (soon to be Vote No! Keep…
They’ve stopped looking for pieces of the “fireball” down in West, where, apparently, it’s plowin’ season. And once the plows start turning up the fields, the samples, which already look like regular old rocks, are going to be difficult to spot. Furthermore, the landowners down there have gotten greedy –…
Only yesterday, Merten mentioned that Crow Holdings’ Anne Raymond and Mayor Tom Leppert would, finally, have theyselves a showdown concerning the convention center hotel — and, for those needing a recap, the mayor’s fer it, while Raymond’s agin it, ahem. Dave Levinthal was there for the debate this morning, which…
And then there were three — which is to say, three folks who have pleaded guilty in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, scheduled to go to trial in June. Taking his cue from Andrea Spencer and Allen McGill, lawyer John Lewis — among the 14 named by the feds…
In less than a month, the impact of Mark Cuban’s personal “Stimulus Plan” has already become quite real for a small group of entrepreneurs around the country. Naked Pizza, an all-natural pizza delivery place in New Orleans, was listed on Cuban’s blog earlier this week as one of the first…
Give me Emmitt Smith and George Teague in retirement. You can have your active cut Terrell Owens…
As we mentioned on Wednesday, Horton Foote’s archives reside on the SMU campus — in the DeGolyer Library, specifically, among the greatest places in the city to spend an afternoon or a month or a forever. As author James P. Bevill proved recently with his Republic of Texas revelation, the…
This morning’s Wall Street Journal tours three new luxury sports facilities — those belonging to the New York Yankees, the New York Mets and Your Dallas Cowboys — and deems them “a case of monumentally bad timing,” which, yeah, is a bit of a no-brainer. Notes the paper, the Cowboys…
After the jump, the City Hall Highlights for the month of March, including news of a Trinity River run tomorrow — the 6.2-mile Trinity River Levee Run, to be specific, which kicks off from Trammell Crow Park and “for the first time … will also cross the Continental Avenue Bridge,”…
While one Live 105.3 alum bites his tongue and cashes his checks, another is on the verge of a return to Dallas radio – and beyond. Big Dick Richard Hunter’s locally based, nationally syndicated show hits our airwaves in drive time – 4-6 p.m. – on KMNY 1360 AM begininning April…
When the Dallas City Council last week replaced former council member John Loza on the DFW Airport board with Brenda Reyes, we were reminded of the memorable 1997 battle between the two for the District 2 council seat. Reyes struggled with controversy early in her campaign, and she later spent…
When Pulle wrote his obituary for Victory Park in January, Ross Perot Jr. and Hillwood execs refused to talk to him about the fate of the taxpayer-subsidized development crumbling around the American Airlines Center. Instead, all he got was a statement, which read, in part, “As we look to the…
