On January 14, KERA will broadcast, statewide, a GOP gubernatorial debate beginning at 7 p.m.; it will take place at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton. As you can see from The Texas Debates home page, Rick Perry and Kay…
No doubt you’ll hear plenty more about the city’s billion-dollar lawsuit between now and the spring or summer of 2010, when the Supreme Court of Texas rules on whether the city is immune from rescue workers’ claims stemming from a 1979 referendum concerning pay raises and two subsequent lawsuits now…
Not long ago, I was re-reading Michael Phillips’s White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas 1841-2001 and came upon the section dealing with the demolition of 1,000 homes in the early ’90s. Most, wrote Phillips, were in predominantly African-American parts of Dallas; said Mattie Nash, on the city council…
For five years, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has operated its Welcome Home a Hero program, which has brought thousands out to the airport to welcome home soldiers on leave or just passing through. And though it’s been well-covered — here’s the ABC World News piece from ’07 — till I…
If you like a Santa Rampage or a Santa Ride, don’t forgot: You’ll love an Unsilent Night, which makes its downtown Dallas bow tomorrow night. The NYC and SF events, among others, took place over the weekend; for those wondering what’s in store, some highlights. Also, after the jump, a…
When last we spoke with Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong, about sales reps overseeing editors, he mentioned that A.H. Belo was hiring a handful of investigative reporters. At which point we wondered: Did that include replacing Dave Levinthal, who hopped off the Dallas City Hall beat in July to…
Dozens of Santas crawled the downtown pubs Saturday night, taking over watering holes from Victory Park through the West End and Main Street and out to Expo Park. Along the way, they staged a pillow fight, sang Christmas carols and hula-hooped on the sidewalks. Most in this year’s Dallas Santa…
Okay, I’m technically on vacation. But I know the drill. When a dude predicts the Cowboys will lose 45-10 and is flat dead ass wrong, he needs to show up to take his Season’s Beatings. Right? So here I am, take your best shot. FYI, I like my crow with…
Citadel Broadcasting owns 224 radio stations across the U.S. — three in Texas, all in Dallas-Fort Worth. They’re not unfamiliar brand names: the historic WBAP-AM (News/Talk 820) and KSCS-FM (96.3), which, for a good long while in the 1990s, was the top station in the DFW and, like, WBAP, remains…
Clearly if at first you don’t succeed, you try, and try, and try and try again.In its endless effort to find something to name for César Chávez, the city has, as evidenced by the photo here, clearly set its eyes upon the short bit of Central Expressway that runs through…
Bumped into Ticket program director Jeff Catlin last night, and maybe it was the spiked eggnog and rolled mistletoe talking, but somehow I ended up hosting a post-Cowboys-post-game holiday musical spectacular-spectacular that should commence at half past midnightish on 1310 AM tonight. I imagine it’ll be a cross between my…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston just returned from a tour of the North Texas Food Bank’s operations in advance of a KERA-FM (90.1) commentary he’s writing for broadcast next week. He sends word:Their goal is 20 million meals by year’s end. Remember that one dollar means four meals…
I know what you’re thinking: The year is almost over, and I need more Schutze! More Schutze you say? Me too, which is why I took a look back at his columns from ’09 and picked my 10 faves for your reconsideration and, well, appreciation. For those who don’t remember…
My favorite cease-the-grease spot remains the North Texas Grease Abatement Council’s 10-minute short film starring Chad, the poor sumbitch whose bath-time plans are foiled by clogged pipes. (Perry the Pipe’s cartoon is a distant second.) But during the holidays, Dallas Water Utilities has stepped up its effort to reach Spanish-speakers;…
For more than a year, Smokey Joe Barton’s been trying to kill the Bowl Championship Series — most recently, of course, with H.R. 390: College Football Playoff Act of 2009, which would …… prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season…
John Carlen does not rank among Hollywood’s best-known screenwriters; though he’d been working in the business since 1978, when he served as a technical adviser on Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time, his most famous script was for Nic Cage’s critically savaged directoral debut Sonny starring James Franco. Which is why, perhaps,…
There was a time, a looong time ago, when the Flaming Lips played Dallas so often I thought Wayne Coyne was a local. But local Lips performances are hard to come by these days; hence, Pete’s 3:20 in the a.m. post about the band’s long-rumored, now “likely” outdoor performance at…
Speaking of best-of film lists …A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Irish Times piece, in which critic Donald Clarke lists his Top 20 Films of the Noughties. And right there, at No. 20, is Shane Carruth’s masterful mindfuck Primer, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Drama…
Last month, Unify South Dallas — a relatively new coalition of community “grassroots organizations and nonprofits,” in the words of The Rev. Gerald Britt Jr., vice president of public policy at Central Dallas Ministries — asked Mayor Tom Leppert to address just hat kind of economic redevelopment folks living near…
This morning’s Los Angeles Times visits Arlington to the story of Malek Hadi, an Iraqi who lost all of his right leg, some of his left leg and several of his fingers in September 2006. At the time the explosive shattered his Humvee outside of Baghdad, Hadi was employed by…
We kicked off yesterday by previewing Dallas’s “billion-dollar” case before the Supreme Court of Texas: City of Dallas v . Kenneth Albert, a 13-year-old consolidated suit involving hundreds of firefighters demanding thousands in back pay. The city says it’s immune from being sued; the attorneys on the other side, of…
A few days ago, Brad Oldham sent over a Traveling Man cuff bracelet — based, of course, upon the sculpture series he and Brandon Oldenburg created for the Deep Ellum Green Line stops — which he’s selling through his StackNWear site. I called to thank him and see if, well,…
