Came across this interesting item on the Interwebs today: CRM Studios is being forced to move out of its longtime home on the downtown Fort Worth RadioShack Corporation campus. Which is a very big deal, even if you’ve never heard of CRM. Because, see, years ago it was RadioShack’s in-house…
Still haven’t seen a copy of A.H. Belo’s Briefing, the single-section freebie being chucked on the lawns of the 75-thou-and-up crowd not currently taking The Dallas Morning News, luckies. Alas, all I’ve seen is the online media kit, which describes the ad supplement thusly: “Briefing delivers concise and informative news,…
Did the Cowboys just lose the Super Bowl? Did Tony Romo just lose his mojo? Did I just answer a question with a question? Just got my Sports Illustrated and guess who’s on the cover, defiantly laughing at the mag’s notorious jinx? That’s right, Tony Friggin’ Romo. Of course, it’s…
Brian Harkin Dr. Elba Garcia, Mayor Pro Tem When the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee voted unanimously to both rename Industrial Boulevard “Riverfront Boulevard” and move forward with renaming Ross Avenue “Cesar Chavez Boulevard,” I finally became interested in this whole mess. Why? Simple: The process had finally…
A Friend of Unfair Park e-mails with some literary doings courtesy a familiar face: KTVT-Channel 11 chief meteorologist Kristine Kahanek has a kiddies’ book forthcoming titled Katie and the Magic Umbrella: A Stormy Adventure. The book’s due in stores on Monday, and from the publisher’s description, the 44-pager aimed at…
Daniel Rodrigue Colin Ross, some folks think you’re just a “sincere kook.” I just knew we weren’t done with Colin Ross just yet. Surely, you recall our favorite X-Man — said he could get his mind to make a sound using eyebeams … or something? Anyway, last week The Skeptics’…
The “new and improved” White Rock Lake spillway, which the council will likely vote to fund today Two more items of interest before the city council today, including agenda item No. 56: spending $16,748,070 to fix the White Rock Lake spillway, which was damaged during the storms of March 2006…
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report titled Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007 American Community Survey, in which it lists the cities with the highest median income and the lowest poverty rate. And, as you’ve no doubt guessed from the headline, Plano comes out on top…
At present, the proposed Main Street Garden downtown is but a fenced-off patch of dirt and rubble — very sexy scenery for folks to whom Forest City’s trying to sell apartments in the newly constructed Element, some of which faces the Municipal Building and the abandoned Statler Hotel. Plans for…
Over at the Sportatorium this a.m., Richie has news concerning a certain ex-Ticket host who’s got himself a new gig he’s sure to like, which, I know, wasn’t the question. Only, what is an “R.J. Choppy,” and how much does it cost? Alas, in other sporting news, Tony Romo finally…
Greg Williams of ESPN Radio. How weird does that sound? The longest-running, worst-kept secret (ahem, welcome to the party mainstream media) in local radio finally has replaced its question mark with a period as former Ticket co-host Greg Williams has officially landed a show on ESPN Radio. Williams confirmed to…
After news of yet another delay in the Trinity River Project, we thought it was about time to check in on the progress of the Texas Horse Park, especially with the deadline for Texas Horse Park, Inc. to raise $15 million rapidly approaching. Turns out THPI ain’t nowhere close to…
Harold Simmons Harold Simmons spent about $3 million on that Barack Obama attack ad, and Politico.com’s making sure he’s getting his money’s worth. Because moments ago, Ben Smith posted the second missive Obama’s counsel, Robert Bauer, sent to the Department of Justice in which Bauer demands an investigation into the…
By now, you’re no doubt aware of my insatiable and irrational interest in Oliver Stone’s W, which opens in October. So imagine my delight, then, to come across this item from late last week: extensive making-of footage from Lionsgate provided by Access Hollywood in which, for the first time, we…
So if this guy launches a punt and a bunch of weird things happen, what’s the net yardage? A guy wants to know. Guy named my dad. If you pin-pointed cornerback Quincy Butler, punter Jay Ottovegio, receiver Daniel Polk or quarterback Jeff Terrell as a Cinderella to make the Dallas…
Sam Merten snapped this photo yesterday in front of Chapman Motors, located at 4312 Ross Avenue near the Peak Street intersection. Said the Friend of Unfair Park who tipped us to its existence: “The whole Ross Avenue renaming controversy seemed a little, ya know, abstract until I saw the sign.”…
How many dollars are currently in your wallet, Don Hill? No wonder you can’t pay Ray Jackson, then. Don Hill’s tried all kind of ways to get out from under the feds’ indictments in the City Hall low-income-housing bribery and extortion case, including last month’s claim that federal prosecutors are…
I guess we’re supposed to feel better about the Mavs because of him. Somehow, we don’t. So our Dallas Mavericks officially re-signed Devean George yesterday. That goes in the positive category. I think? Two years ago the Mavs were an elite team coming off an NBA Finals appearance with the…
Two notes this a.m. concerning the Texas delegation’s afterthought treatment at the Democratic National Convention. First, from KERA-FM (90.1) via Capital News Connection, this report in which Dallas City Plan Commissioner and Cesar Chavez Tollway fan Neil Emmons explains why the Texans are stuck 45 minutes away from the convention…
Dallas Power & Light At this very moment, Commercial Property News is hosting the Dallas-Fort Worth Property Opportunities Conference at the Westin Galleria Dallas. So it’s no coincidence that CPN is on top of the shindig, reporting this morning about this morning’s keynote address, which was delivered by Ted Hamilton…
A troubling lead from this morning’s back-to-school report on KERA-FM (90.1): “About 30,000 students were no-shows in classrooms in the Dallas school district yesterday, the first day of the new school year.” And one mother of an H. Grady Spruce High School junior told B.J. Austin that her daughter, who’s…
Caption-writing contest time, if you don’t mind. Lance doesn’t. He’s tough. Every year, The Washingtonian surveys some 1,700 top aides on Capitol Hill — “the administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs” — for its Best & Worst of Congress issue. And, turns out, U.S. Senator…
