At several points last night I was distracted from election results by the video you see above, sent again and again and again by Friends of Unfair Park amazed and astonished at its content. As you will see, Debbie Georgatos emerges not necessarily as the front-runner in the race to…
It’s all over but the drinking: Mike Rawlings, who will wind up with around 41 percent of the vote, and David Kunkle, who will claim around 32 percent, will face off June 18 in the runoff to see who will become the next mayor of Dallas. But truth told, Kunkle…
It was awful hard to hear Scott Griggs over the phone from the watch party that turned into a victory party. But with all but four out of 56 precincts reporting in from District 3, Griggs has ousted incumbent Dave Neumann — 2,654 to 2,003, giving Griggs 57 percent of…
If you care at all about the latest vote counts in the Dallas mayoral and council races, you’re either refreshing the DalCo Elections site or at a candidate’s watch party. So this’ll be the last update till the final numbers are in — and we know for sure whether it’s…
Back when we covered the ’07 mayoral election we had a small army of writers out and about, because who doesn’t like drinking at a watch party and calling it “work.” Now, with Merten gone and Schutze on vacation and Patrick Michels covering a small-town race for a cover story,…
The county just posted its early-voting numbers, and it’s Mike Rawlings with the early lead — and quite the lead at that. Of the 29,688 votes cast during early voting, the ex-Pizza Hut CEO got 42.75 percent of ’em — which translates to 12,693 votes, for those bad at math…
Sam says it below, “The budget is easily the biggest issue.” In the race for Dallas mayor, he means, which comes to its thrilling (?) conclusion, though probably not, beginning at 7 tonight, when we’ll reconvene here for The World’s Loneliest Watch Party. If he’s right, if it all comes…
Kosse, down in Limestone County, is known as the “Little Town With a Big Heart” — and as the birthplace of Bob Wills, who was born to John Tompkins Wills (“a hard-drinking sharecropper-fiddler”) and wife Emmaline on March 6, 1905. Thirty years after that, Brunswick Record Corporation’s Don Law –…
Speaking of tomorrow’s to-do list …It’s true — Sam Merten doesn’t live here anymore. He up and split a couple of weeks back, all on his own. He can now be found wandering the countryside playing the role of George Armstrong Custer in Civil War re-enactments; he recently wrote from…
Not surprisingly, all four of Dallas’s mayoral candidates have Facebook fan pages, some (David Kunkle) more active than others (Edward Okpa). But what, if anything, do Facebook numbers mean? Are they indicators of electoral momentum or of quick-thumbed interns? A Chicago-based social media guru says Facebook numbers, when viewed in…
I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer’s Club, which, as you’re surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from homophobe to AIDS sufferer…
Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season’s TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season’s Brinker International Forum Series, also at the ATTPAC and set to commence November 3 at the Winspear with…
Yesterday we took a look at the latest version of the Dallas Independent School District’s budget reduction plan, as necessitated by the state Legislature’s decision to gut public education in the wake of its $27-billion (give or take) shortfall. After the board briefing, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went in front of…
If you’ve been evicted without a heads-up in the last two years or so, Dallas County would like to apologize. This morning, County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey did so in person at the County Administration Building, where they announced the findings of a…
This hasn’t been a good week for 1717 Main Street: First, TM Advertising announced it’s moving out and heading to Victory Park, which didn’t faze Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crawford. And then, this morning, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Metropolitan Real Estate, which bought the downtown high-rise,…
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Carnegie Hall this week as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest. The piece performed: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, the LBJ commission that world-premiered in Dallas on September 18,…
Ron Springs was pronounced dead yesterday. After dying on Oct. 12, 2007. I wrote about Springs’ sad plight in a March 2010 Observer cover story. But you already knew his tale. Former Cowboys’ running back who became a national poster boy — along with Everson Walls — for warm-n-fuzzy feelgoods…
From the looks of the video on the other side, I’m surprised the whole audience at Trees didn’t sue following Andy Dick’s “performance” on December 19. But, no, it’s just the one guy: Robert Tucker, who says he didn’t much appreciate it when the former star of NewsRadio “forced his…
On the afternoon of October 12, 2007, former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs went into a Medical City of Dallas operating room for what he and his family believed would be a simple surgery — the removal of a cyst from his left forearm. But as Richie noted in…
So. Funny thing. A couple of weeks back, while writing about 508 Park Ave. and Robert Johnson’s 100th, I pulled down a few blues histories-of to dig a little deeper. Among the stacks: Elijah Wald’s essential Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, published in 2004,…
Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Many good Friends of Unfair Park have forwarded me the clip you see above, which District 103’s state rep, Rafael Anchía, posted to YouTube last night. In it, the Haynes and Boone attorney and former Dallas ISD school board trustee argues against the passage of Carrollton state Rep. Burt Solomons’s…
