Bobbie Wygant’s 2011 Coming Soon Film Reel from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Our pal Erik Clapp, keeper of the Bobbie Wygant Archive, just sent this most watchable teaser featuring little look-sees at classic interviews he’s in the process of restoring before posting to the site. Good Lord, that’s an estimable roster of…
As The Buggles famously sang in 1979, video, in fact, killed the radio star. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram continues to share content with Dallas’ Only Daily and slice positions and send talented writers out into the cold in 2011, it’s apparent that the Internet is choking out newspapers. My first…
I’ll leave it to Schutze, who’s covered this subject at great length, to explain precisely how Larry and Ted Hamilton wound up including more affordable-housing units in their Atmos Complex project downtown. Perhaps Jim will do so as early as tomorrow morning, when, I see here, the Downtown Connection Tax…
Let me get this outta the way once and for all: I’m short(ish). Bald(ing). And, since I don’t adopt you guys’ system of surrendering to middle age but rather I try to combat it, I’m also douche(y). Yes, I work for a free newspaper and my radio station is No…
Those two women above, of course, are Faith Hill and Chrissie Hynde, the latter of whom was my first rock-and-roll crush. That was taken yesterday at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, where, tonight at 9 p.m., the former Audrey Perry and the Great Pretender will perform in front of…
While I was writing the DART item below, about 29 Friends of Unfair Park forwarded along the freshest of hot-off-the-press tweets from Sports Illustrated’s Peter King:I’m telling you: I-30 between Dallas + Fort Worth is a plow-less, snow-windswept moonscape. This is officially a debacle.At this very moment, King and Mike…
10. The House of Blues put on a pretty nifty show, but $30 for valet parking? I was as gouged as I was cold. 9. After gorging on sausage, blackened catfish, brisket, fajitas, beans-n-rice and then repeating the process, I will not be eating today. 8. I’ve never even met…
Tomorrow morning, Justin Terveen’s promised us a close-up of the Margaret Hunt Hill’s promised light-er-up from his perch on the Continental Avenue Bridge. But, well, we’ve got an awful good view of the Calatrava from Unfair Park HQ, and our Eric Garcia climbed up to the roof to get a…
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)…
