Earlier today our downstairs neighbors at Big Thought sent the image above, which you’ve no doubt seen if you’ve window-shopped at NorthPark Center during this most wonderful (enh) time of the year. It’s the storefront at Barney’s New York, where the theme’s “Have a Hippie Holiday,” which, I’ll assume, involves…
For years there have been rumors that Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse would be moving up Interstate 35 to the DFW; certainly, local cineastes had hoped as much. Couple of years back, there’d even been much talk of a location moving into the old theater in the Casa Linda Plaza, which, course,…
OK, you know the drill by now: Collect ’em all! Today, it’s Edwin Flores’s turn.First, a disclaimer: I’ve always liked Flores, who’s pictured at right; he’s affable and accessible. And you get the sense that he loves being a trustee and is able to shrug off the criticism that comes…
Odd timing, but in the last couple of days, two Friends of Unfair Park have inquired about the for-sale sign in front of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre on Buckner. Yes, it’s for sale — has been since 2006, matter of fact, says Perry Jones of J&B Commercial, who’s…
Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof – so God could watch his favorite football team, duh – was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later – Oct. 24, 1971 – Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys’ business. Come Saturday night, the ol’ joint at Loop…
To see a larger version of this extraordinary photo, visit Tony Gerber’s Flickr page — he is, after all, the man known as the Firefighter with a Camera. The description says only that this was a vacant home in South Dallas formerly “occupied by homeless people. It was unknown if…
Two entertainment notes to start your day, including news of a new CW TV show set in Dallas. Don’t know the name yet, or even it will be filmed here (calls are in to Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund), but its roots are reputable enough: Endemol USA, the production…
Seems appropriate that on this freezing-foggy night at 7, WFAA-Channel 8 will air A Charlie Brown Christmas, augmented with 30 minutes’ worth of needless extras: “a series of Christmas-themed animated stories entitled Charlie Brown Christmas Tales, based on Schulz’s work, in which each of the beloved PEANUTS characters — Charlie…
About half an hour ago, Allen Gwinn alerted us media types to this Dallas.org item concerning a hoax e-mail being sent ’round concerning the harmful hustle that wasn’t: folks taping fliers to the back windows of cars at NorthPark Center, which they use to lure would-be victims from their vehicles…
The Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl representation dwindled from 11 players last year to 5 this afternoon. Will their win total similarly decline from 13 to 11? … 10? … 9? Tight end Jason Witten, center Andre Gurode, nose tackle Jay Ratliff, linebacker DeMarcus Ware and right guard Leonard Davis were…
Last month, while reporting last week’s cover story on Dallas Independent Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I had two long interviews with school board trustee Leigh Ann Ellis, pictured at right. Most people consider the soft-spoken Ellis one of Hinojosa’s most reliable supporters on the board, but I found her more ambivalent…
In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier “and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into a bridge support and…
A Friend of Unfair Park who travels up and down Central Expressway all day long and uses the Texas Department of Transportation cams before heading out sends word: Many of them are completely useless today, courtesy the ice that has glazed over a few of the lenses. But, on the…
In early November, KTVT-Channel 11 busted 14 Dallas Fannie Mae employees for teeing off at the Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine — 22 days after the feds took over Fannie Mae, whoops. Said the CBS affiliate, taxpayers coughed up $6,279.26 for the golf outing, which “outraged” Rep. Jeb Hensarling. So…
In March, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired Senior Cpl. Jeffrey “Jack” Nelson, one of the three officers involved in the now-infamous phony ticket scandal that also resulted in the officers filing a lawsuit against D magazine last July. As The News recounted upon Nelson’s firing in the spring:Senior Cpl…
The latest issue of Newsweek IDs the latest and greatest way to make money since Ponzi schemes: iPhone applications. Says one Austin-based developer, “It’s kind of a gold rush.” Which, nice segue, leads us to the media release that landed in the in-box a couple of days back from yet…
Tony Romo, all is forgiven. At least for a week. After one of the most Gawd-awful performances of his career – or, let’s face it, any career – in Pittsburgh, the Cowboys’ quarterback went out Sunday night and padded his legacy with a game straight from Hollywood. Aching back and nagging…
Can’t say I’d ever heard of Highland Park’s Hiram Walker Royall till last night, when I stumbled across this piece from the First Amendment Center concerning the developer’s October ’08 libel lawsuit, brought about because Royall’s furious over the contents of the well-reviewed 2007 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and…
How many hours should we stay home this morning till the bridges and overpasses thaw, Don Hill? One? Gotcha. Thanks. Former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, indicted about 28 years ago in that City Hall low-income-housing bribery and extortion case that started back in the days of eight-tracks and bell-bottoms,…
A programming note: Nightline tonight will feature the story of a local man, Tommy Newsom, whose credit card company suddenly — and inexplicably — jacked up the interest rate on his Bank of America-issued credit card, from 14 to 28 percent. That $40 to $50 extra a month makes a…
From now on, this is how we’re ending our broadcast day, seeing as how KXAS-Channel 5 hasn’t used this particular piece of footage since, oh, forever? Fine, maybe not. Still, thanks to the pack rat who posted this to the YouTubes last week. And here I was all these years,…
Dylan Hollingsworth was out at the Dallas White Rock Marathon yesterday, gathering photos for our slide show. The event, though, was been overshadowed by the death of Erin Lahr, a 29-year-old newlywed from Austin whose mother tells the Austin American-Statesman today that she was “really positive and always smiling and…
