Gail Sachson, vice chair of the city’s Cultural Affairs Commission, would love to see more public art installations grace the streets of downtown. Bob Allen, owner of the West End Pub, wants the city to make it easier for small businesses to get established downtown. Mark Stephens, vice president of…
With Humble Billy Hayes no longer the Dallas Mavericks’ voice at American Airlines Center, the team has whittled 175 candidates down to its Top 10 finalists. You waste time voting for Dancing With The Stars, might as well cast a vote for something that actually matters: 1. Rodney Blue 2. Doug Branch…
Speaking of Kirk Cameron …First Baptist Dallas has posted the Growing Pains star’s request for you to show up downtown on October 25. And you’re invited to bring a friend, co-worker or family member who’s going to hell. Shouldn’t be too hard, right? Maybe he’ll even sign your copy of…
Meet Keith Garvin. Or maybe you already know his work from, oh, Good Morning America and ABC World News Now. At this moment, he’s an anchor and reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., but before that he spent a good long while reporting and back-up anchoring for ABC…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who knows of my affection for old Dallas photos, sends word of this rare gem for sale on eBay: a portrait — or, perhaps, a self-portrait — of Charles Erwin Arnold. If you’re unfamiliar with the name (or the nickname, “Painter of the Lens”), perhaps…
Light sculpture artist Leni Schwendinger and her team spent Monday evening downtown, programming the seasonal color schemes on the first of her installations on the site that, come November 5, will be the new Main Street Garden. The first of her SpectraScape structures is more or less complete: a pair…
Since I’m usually on 105.3 The Fan as part of the Dallas Cowboys pre-game show, I no longer get to partake in Fox NFL Sunday. My reaction: Praise Allah. Because after seeing this video and learning that this “The King and Us” series is now a weekly staple, I’m embarrassed for Curt,…
The city’s Commission on Productivity and Innovation, born from the ashes of the alluringly named Privatization Technical Subcommittee, was created to advise the Dallas City Council and the city manager how to make City Hall run more efficiently. Guess it’s done its job: Per the addendum for tomorrow’s meeting, the…
Before they were looking for a “Pretty-Handsome Harvard/Yale Type” to stand next to Billy Zane; now, “fit” will do. Seems Twentieth Century Fox had some trouble finding extras with whom they could fill the offices of Sterling Law: Two episodes into shooting the six-eps-ordered The Deep End for ABC, the…
Seems strange timing to bemoan the Dallas Cowboys’ receiving corps in the wake of Miles Austin’s record-setting day, but let’s face it – the trade for Roy Williams a year ago has been a gigantic flop. My first reaction to news that the Cowboys had acquired Williams and a 7th-round pick in 2010…
Don’t really get U2 so I’m not live on the scene in Arlington, but one of my faithful Sportatorium readers sends word (and the above photo) from Cowboys Stadium that U2’s monstrosity of a stage wouldn’t exactly fit under JumboJerry so it had to be, um, moved to one of the end…
After holding court around the fairgrounds on Sunday, Oprah turned out for her show’s taping this morning in her Stetson, boots and blue jeans, dropping “y’all’s” and oozing countrified charm for hundreds of devoted fans.The crowd filled the area before the Chevrolet Main Stage at the State Fair of Texas…
In a dark alleyway beside the Oak Cliff Bicycle Company the crowd counts down in unison: “Three … two … one … GO!” And they’re off: two cyclists pedal with such fury their legs melt into a blur reminiscent of old Warner Bros. cartoons. The bikes shake; the crowd cheers…
The AT&T Performing Arts Center kicked off its grand opening week with a dedication ceremony this morning that was long on speeches about just what it will mean for Dallas.AT&TPAC President and C.E.O. Mark Nerenhausen focused on the vibrant new setting for staging shows (finally, a venue fit for Billy…
A couple of weeks back we mentioned The Future of Downtown Dallas Forum scheduled for today at the Dallas Convention Center — 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., for those with nothing better to do (like, um, work? U2?). Anyway, like we said back then, it’s being hosted by the Berkeley-based…
We just received the following press release from City Hall for an event taking place at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow:Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Cowboy Tight End #80 Martellus Bennett and former Los Angeles Raider Tim Brown will announce the Second Annual Passport to Health Diabetes Awareness campaign.I stopped reading after that…
First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday — maybe a copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about … let’s see … Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I…
Over on DC9 I had a few things to say about the extraordinary Wilco show Friday night at the Palladium. But for some the highlights weren’t necessary musical in nature: About halfway through the set, Jeff Tweedy traded his shirt (an H&M long-sleeved button-down) with one fellow who, from the…
It featured overtime. It was won by underachievers. Do you exhale in relief? Or boast with satisfaction? Glass-half full guys say a win is a win is a win. That Tony Romo found his smile and Miles Austin at just the right time. That 3-2 is heck of a lot…
Last week, the National Complete Streets Coalition announced that more than 100 cities across the U.S. have adopted at least some of its policies, with Lansing, Michigan and Rockville, Maryland, among the latest to seize the idea that the streets don’t belong just to cars. (Ah, yes. Here we go.)…
Amazing the things you learn from city council briefings. Like this: Oncor has a Web site that allows you to report street-light outages by address or pole numbers. It’s been operational since August, but the council’s Quality of Life Committee is getting a briefing on the subject today. The Web…
So, Dallas-based 7-Eleven wants to keep its yellow bananas from going brown, which’ll surely mean a little extra green at the cash register. Notes USA Today today, the chain will unroll some plastic wrap at 27 Dallas-area locations by way of a test run; Fresh Del Monte Produce says the…
