Last we heard from Jack E. Jett, he was jumping off that sinking ship known as Rational Radio, which has since gone Internets-only. But today he sends word: The man’s got himself a proper radio job that will keep him occupied every weeknight from 6 to 8 p.m. beginning Monday…
A few weeks ago we mentioned some fairly significant changes at The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Today comes word of two more items of note. One: Mayor Tom and wife Laura are now the honorary chairs for the event, which is scheduled for April…
Beats me. You’ll have to ask Phillip Jones, head of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau. I’m trying. I’ve left a few messages for Jones, who, last we saw of him, said those convention planners in town last week were “pleasantly surprised” by Dallas. But, as many of you have…
Earlier this morning, a picture you might have espied on FrontBurner a little while ago showed up in the Unfair Park in-box with the subject header, “Dallas City Hall for sale – a steal for 900k.” At about 9:45 a.m. I spoke with the guy whose number is on the…
Over the weekend, I took the boy down to the former First National Bank tower to see what was going bye-bye January 29, when the building’s owner lock the doors at 1401 Elm Street till someone else is willing to take over the 52-story monolith that was, upon its completion…
Though I and some crafty old-timers think it’s a bad move, Wade Philllips will be back as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Yawn. The bar for Cowboys’ football has been lowered further than I expected. Once upon a time this proud franchise – America’s Team, anyone? – measured success…
Yesterday, of course, was the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service; hence, Emmitt Smith and family’s visit to Congo Street, where they joined Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP. But SMU has actually deemed this MLK Week 2010, with a kick-off King Celebration scheduled for noon today at the Hughes-Trigg Commons…
Three years ago (danged near to the day), I lamented the fact that the Fair Park Band Shell — recipient of a $1.3-million makeover in 2000 — remains The Best Concert Venue in Dallas That Nobody Ever Uses. Plenty of folks had valid reasons why not: Fair Park executive general…
Yesterday, American Airlines announced that it’s keeping up with the Deltas, Uniteds and Continentals by jacking up checked-bag fees another $5: from $20 to $25 for the first piece of luggage, from $30 to $35 for the second. To which The Consumerist responded late yesterday with this:If you want to…
While combing through the recent campaign finance reports filings due Friday, we took notice of the one turned in by former Republican Judge David Kelton, who lost his robe in 2006 to Carlos Cortez, switched parties and is now battling Dale Tillery and Baltasar Cruz in the Democratic primary for…
Where’s Greggo? Well, if you got some radio skills, thick skin and a little desire he could be sitting right next to you. How’s that you ask? Think American Idol, spiced with sports. And instead of a trip to Hollywood you win a microphone alongside le Hammer. Starting today through Feb. 1,…
First KERA wasn’t sure it would let Debra Medina participate in its Republican gubernatorial debate on the University of North Texas campus, which was held last week. Then, it extended an invite after all, and Medina did all right, all right. Then, Belo said, so sorry, but it wasn’t gonna…
While we await the Supreme Court of Texas’s ruling in the city’s so-called billion-dollar case later this year, let’s consider another city of Dallas case going before the court at 9 a.m. sharp tomorrow: City of Dallas. v. VSC, LLC. The court will hear oral arguments in the years-old suit…
This isn’t exactly the hardest-hitting interview in the history of ever — in fact, I only post DCVB boss Phillip Jones’s brief Q&A (as in: one fawning and rambling question, one answer) conducted during last week’s Professional Convention Management Association convention and just posted so I’ve got good reason to…
Since June 2008, Brent Brown and his bcWORKSHOP have been rebuilding a handful of century-old single-family homes that line Congo Street, in the Jubilee Park neighborhood near Fair Park. Their award-winning efforts — which began with construction of the so-called Holding House, a temporary residence for families displaced by the…
Back in 1998, 38,016 voters OK’d Proposition 11 — otherwise known as the $246 million that was supposed to get the Trinity River Corridor Project up and running, like I need to tell you. Anyway. Three million of that money was supposed to go toward something called the Loop 12…
You think the current Dallas Cowboys are bumming today? Consider the plight of a former player, Dwayne Goodrich. You remember Goodrich. Couple years back he speeds through an accident scene on I-35 and kills two Good Samaritans. Ring a bell? Well, the good news for Goodrich is that in October…
Jose Esobedo can’t have artificial turf in his front yard. But Harlan Crow’s apparently free to plant the synethetic stuff in the heretofore barren median between the Crow Holdings campus and Unfair Park HQ on Maple Avenue. Forever Lawn of North Texas is installing the stuff this very moment, as…
Last week we put the biscuit in the basket with this rare look back at the Dallas Texans, our first pro hockey team. Which is why Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends this latest look back at yet another beloved golden oldie on the auction block: the Dallas Tornado, three…
Our pal Allison V. Smith has a rather nice photo in this morning’s Los Angeles Times: a portrait of Thomas W. Stephenson Jr., whose Rave Motion Pictures is on the fast-track to becoming the fifth-largest movie-theater chain in the U.S. once Rave’s acquisition of 35 theaters from Sumner Redstone’s National…
No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates — our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council’s Economic Development Committee’s…
10. Does this feel like 1991 to anyone else? An empowering playoff win, followed by an embarrassing blowout playoff road loss, leading to disappointment but not necessarily discouragement? That year it was Detroit, 38-6. This year it is Minnesota, 34-3. In ’92 the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. In ’10 …..
