Andrea Grimes, seeking a warm, cozy place in which to curl up before moving south for the winter, is currently at City Hall for those specific use permit yays or nays. Her report, ever-updating, begins here and continues after the jump. 3:56 p.m.: Property owner Billy McCloud is talking. Something…
Let me be the first to insert a ball-gag on those “Bill Parcells deserves all the credit” stories that have already started making the rounds as the Dallas Cowboys’ success gets further examined by the national media. I’ll give him this: Parcells saw something in Tony Romo. (Just like Joe…
As I have lost all interest in Bravo’s reality-TV buffet — even with one sorta-local left on Project Runway — I post this item with lethargic disinterest: When Make Me a Supermodel debuts on January 10, there will be a local girl amongst the 24 contestants whose names were released…
The Texas Freedom Network sends word that, at this very moment, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research in Austin is discussing and considering a request from the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas for a certificate of authority to grant degrees in Texas. And…
If I may direct your attention to our musically inclined sibling DC9 at Night, Darryl Smyers has a terrific interview with one of my earliest rock and roll idols: Jerry Dirkx, founding member of such local bands as Teenage Queers and the legendary Telefones, whose 1980 VVV release Vibration Change…
Courtesy Michael Davis, Dallas Progress-ive and Dallas City Plan Commissioner, comes word that the former Hard Rock Cafe’s now for lease — since that sale never went through. Earlier this year, the former McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1910, was the subject of a vicious fight over historic designation…
David Gordon Green, as he probably looked when he was at Richardson High — high, get it? Been meaning to post this for a week: Making the Interwebs rounds is an extended, NSWF sneak peek at next year’s Pineapple Express, the stoners-on-the-run comedy written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg…
Edson Sherwood Brown, an associate professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, says he’s come up with a new cure for those cocaine cravings: quetiapine. Whassat? Well, it’s better known by its brand name, Seroquel, and it since its Federal Drug Administration approval a decade ago, it’s been sold…
Efisio Farris, owner of Arcodoro & Pomodoro Ristoranti Italiani on Routh Street, receives a nice shout-out today in The New York Times in its round-up of cookbooks actually worth a damn. Anne Mendelson reviews Farris’ recently published Sweet Myrtle and Bitter Honey: The Mediterranean Flavors of Sardinia, and gives it…
And a note to all those Deep Ellumites heading to City Hall today, to once again support their favorite drinking establishments during what’s turned out to be a laborious specific use permit process: Don’t rush. There are 85 agenda items today, and those dealing with the permits for The Amsterdam…
Beginning January 1, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute will begin eyeballing the city’s eyewitness identification procedures. That’s if the city council today gives its blessing to the study, which it will. After all it’s not costing the city a penny — the Urban…
I’ve written about illegal drugs here and there, and I’ve been inside a few prisons for those stories and others. And along the way I’ve met more than a few individuals serving inordinate amounts of time for piddly drug offenses — specifically, crack cocaine offenses. It’s hard to argue that…
Yes, but that wasn’t the question. Do you like your new gig, Greg Hill? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But it’s not The Ticket’s Greg, but rather this one, now appearing on the newly tweaked ESPN Radio. Don’t get me wrong, any move that yanks Stephen A. Smith and his faux…
A press release we just received from the U.S. Attorney’s Office sounds like a movie pitch. As in: “[Manuel] Alvarez worked at Neiman Marcus as a store loss prevention specialist. In 2004, Alvarez met an accomplice and they agreed to sell jewelry on Ebay and split the proceeds. Alvarez would…
Texas may suck at a lot of things relating to children — worst in teen birth rate, most uninsured kids in the nation, million-dollar high school football stadiums — but at least we feed our children. So says the Center for Public Policy Priorities, usually the bearer of gloom and…
Erkyah Badu has a new single, “Honey.” And she has about four new nicknames, as evidenced by this just-released clip about the making of the song and her new 18-track album Nu AmErykah, the double-disc, each-sold-separately collection Universal Motown’s prepping for a February 26, 2008, release. As Badu tells Billboard:…
This morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park shipped our way Noted Regional Comedian Dave Little’s ode to the Trinity River toll road. Dave debuted the song over the weekend, at the aforementioned Amanda Newman birthday shindig at Club Dada on Saturday, then went into the studio Sunday to record…
One more reason why Wade Phillips is the best Cowboys coach ever. So, I’m trying to bang out my review of Charlie Wilson’s War, and it just occurred to me that the belly dancer looked awfully familiar — because she’s, like, Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips’ daughter. Yup, that’s…
Fred Holston Andrea Grimes, uncharacteristically shy this a.m., doesn’t feel terribly comfy touting her radio appearance today, so I will: The Girl on Top will join the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary Darling and D’s Zac Crain at noon today on KERA-FM (90.1)’s Think. Their subject: ” 2007 – The Pop…
Frank Campagna’s murals used to adorn the Gypsy Tea Room. Now, they’re at the House of Blues. You can’t help but see Frank Campagna all over this town. His rock-and-roll artwork celebrates musicians from Dallas and afar. The Deep Ellum Tunnel (R.I.P.) is a Campagna baby, and he’s painted for…
Jerry’s on Henderson — well, it used to be. Avi Adelman, who I think Schutze mentioned a few weeks ago, has the highlights of and lowdown on the planned redevelopment of the former Carnival grocery site on Henderson Avenue and Rowena Street, down to the conceptual site plan (nice pool…
Cantina Laredo in Terminal D at DFW — not bad at all, certainly better than the Reata Grill outpost The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, originally known as the Village People, today released its annual Airport Food Review — and, like me, it found the Cousin’s Bar-B-Q in Terminal B…
