So, about that local TV news rumor to which I alluded below … Earlier today we got a call that Troy Dungan, the longtime WFAA-Channel 8 weatherman who stepped down in July 2007 after 31 years on the air, has been seen loitering around the KTVT-Channel 11 studios in recent…
While we await a call back concerning a Local TV News Rumor that may be a big nothin’, here’s a confirmed little something: KXAS-Channel 5’s getting a new sports reporter. Actually, says Susan Tully, news director at KXAS, Rontina McCann is “the quintessential I-touch-all-the-product person,” meaning that when McCann starts…
By way of a Super Bowl XLV preview, The New York Times’s Sports section features a front-page piece on the Allen Eagles’ $60-million football stadium, to which The Wall Street Journal has already given its stamp of approval. Greg Bishop talks to Allen athletic director Steve Williams about all the…
A few weeks back we took a look at the back-and-forth between The Dallas Morning News and Parkland Memorial Hospital, which, in recent months, has been the subject of numerous investigative pieces detailing patients put at risk and “needlessly harmed,” in the words of News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman…
High on the top of my list of favorite downtown buildings is the old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay. But the building, built in ’30, has gone unused for decades. That changes immediately: On the other side is the official announcement from Downtown Dallas Inc., in…
Jim’s on vacation this week. So I’ll use that opportunity to highlight a short film starring his boy Will, the Woodrow Wildcat presently residing in Los Angeles, where, between acting jobs, he’s busking on Venice Beach, in Santa Monica and in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. I…
KDMX-FM (102.9, The Mix) hasn’t been on my radar since … well … um, ever? Till about 24 minutes ago I didn’t even know its format. Oh, I see: “Variety From The 90’s ‘Til Now,” meaning Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat … and…
Driving home from the Kessler Theater Friday night, I was reminded yet again of how drab and shabby the Commerce Street bridge over the Trinity River looks in the dark, what with more than a dozen of the old streetlights inoperable since who can remember when. I made a note…
Speaking of the Standing Wave …Yesterday, a fellow named David Morring sent me the following note, which accompanied a link to the video you see above:I saw your recent post in your blog. Myself and several other whitewater paddlers have been following this project and in fact received permission to…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent me today’s Paste piece on Big Bucks Burnett’s Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum. So let me note: Pete posted the details concerning the Official Grand Opening on DC9 yesterday. Takes place Valentine’s Day, with The O’s and the Tom Tom Club in…
On Tuesday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me an e-mail with the subject header: “European Crossroads demolished.” He included a link to friend of the show Scott Dorn’s Flickr set, where Scott had written that “the small shopping community was demolished for new development In Janaury 2011.”And so, on…
Upping their total contribution to the under-construction Perot Museum of Nature & Science to $25 million, Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones celebrated today in a high-rise room full of their closest philanthropic friends. Two exhibition halls — one, for traveling exhibits and another for earth science — will be named for…
Not that I’m endorsing cheating, but I would have zeeeeroooo problem with an AshleyMadison.com commercial during Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium February 6. But, somehow, Fox does? The ad, which has been rejected because Fox’s standards and practices have deemed it unacceptable for air, isn’t offensive or anything racier than a hot…
This morning’s Denver Post details the relationship between our West Village and Denver’s Larimer Square, its sister shopping center — a love affair that began 12 years ago, turns out, when Denver developers came to Dallas and hired Urban Partners’ David Levine (Director of Vision and Vibe, best title ever)…
The rumor’s been circulating for days that John Rhadigan would replace ousted-in-October Josh Lewin as the teevee play-by-play man for the Texas Rangers, pairing him with analyst Tom Grieve. The team just made it official in a release that follows in full. But long story short: Chuck Greenberg and Nolan…
… but half the site didn’t load this morning. Instead, I kept getting the message, “Sorry you are experiencing a delay. Please try your request again.” And it won’t verify my subscriber account — now I have to call just so I can read that story about how “Carrollton councilman…
Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard’s Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper’s yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital — two heretofore “sacred cows” in Dallas. Wrote Beelman, both institutions received nothing…
What you see at left is but a bit of a photo currently up for grabs on eBay at the low, low price (for now) of $39. It was taken in 1890 at the intersection of McKinney and Harwood, and the photo IDs the manse only as “Maroney’s House,” per…
Verizon announced yesterday that beginning next month, it too will offer service via the iPhone — thus ending iPhone users’ long national nightmare known as AT&T exclusivity. Jon Stewart’s so excited by the news he used some seven minutes at the top of last night’s Daily Show to celebrate the…
Take a moment and peruse the apps listed at CivicApps, a competition launched by the city of Portland last year for which cash prizes were handed out in such categories as Most Useful, Best Use of Data and Most Original. Portland’s hardly the only city using apps to make city…
First thing this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to a chat, with photos, currently taking place over at the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum, where posters are trying to decide of this new venue in the old Boardroom spot: permanent or temporary? One DFWUF’er said wrote…
Don’t get defensive. That’s just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America’s Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six “key indicators of literacy,” including the newspaper…
