Everything I’ve learned about the more-n-likely-to-happen Kabletown … pardon, Comcast-NBC merger I’ve learned from 30 Rock. Well, OK, not everything: This morning’s New York Times alters our attention to a December 23 letter Comcast’s veep of Regulatory and State Legislative Affairs sent to the Federal Communications Commission that suggests the…
For the last eight months, I’ve lived within earshot of La Grange, this year’s Observer winner for Best Bar 2010, and have come to know owners Rob and Stephanie Schumacher through the drunkest of times and the soberest of times. Their foray into revitalizing their historic Deep Ellum block, along…
While everyone’s looking back at 2010, let’s glance ahead at the first meeting of the Landmark Commission in the new year, which takes place Tuesday. There you’ll find the results of that so-called “courtesy review” First Presbyterian Church of Dallas asked for in advance of its decision to purchase 508…
There may have been an Observer staff meeting this year during which Jason Roberts’s name wasn’t brought up. Maybe one. The rest of the time, we were either talking about Jason Roberts or talking about how we should probably write about Jason Roberts, except that we were over-covering Jason Roberts,…
I took the boy to the Highland Park Village Barber Shop this morning, following a particularly cruel trick played on him yesterday at Superchops. Afterward, we came downstairs and ran into original Fearing’s manager Justin Beam, one of the Twomey Concepts-uals behind the cinema, which shuttered in August ’09 for…
“In Dallas, sometimes we don’t look back,” says Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District. “It’s aiways important to be looking in one’s rear-view mirror and, at the same time, keep your eye on the road.”Lill, who kept the wrecking ball away from…
Last week the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent over that press release listing the two new retailers given permits to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of Dallas. This morning, after seeing this Channel 5 story about how the newly wet are missing out on year-end champagne sales,…
Into the wee small hours of Christmas Morning I cued up some Freddie King from January Sound in March ’75 — “Hideaway,” to be specific. At which point a caller rang up The Ticket request line with some (rather slurred but very happy) news: The Zewkeeper in charge of the…
By the time we arrived at the Eight Track Museum, James “Big Bucks” Burnett’s tribute to myriad dead media, some 60 or 70 folks had already come and gone, each one gladly forking over the suggested $10 donation per person needed to keep the doors open. At 4 on Christmas…
If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you’ve heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I’m yet again hosting a Christmas-music show. Which reminds me of this Darlene Love, um, standard? At last, an excuse for collecting far too many Christmas odds and sods lo these last few…
I’ve yet to step foot into the Natural Grocers that recently opened in a smallish section of the old Preston Forest Whole Foods, but my wife has and says it’s “a cross between Sprouts and Roy’s.” As in: There’s very little produce, all the meats are frozen, and there are…
Ladies and gents, you may have noticed: We have a new commenting system. Sure, we’re going to miss the hell out of Captcha’s bizarre word combinations, and that hypnotic voice to soothe you with phrases like “booger humans” or “gladly tectonic.” Today, we’ve got something we think is more interesting:…
I said it was coming, and sure enough, it’s here: the new Unfair Park comments courtesy Disqus, which promises “a higher quality of conversations” (we’ll see about that). I know, I know — and just when you’d gotten used to Captcha, which has provided the Friends of Unfair Park with…
The Trinity Trust this morning sends further details concerning the grand opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which, as we’ve noted before, is scheduled for October 14-16. For those who like to plan ahead, expect parties and street fairs; the three honorary event chairs — Ron Kirk, Laura Miller…
Speaking of fine art …Tuesday morning, our editorial assistant got the phone call. The voice on the other end of the line whispered: Someone has just brought to Consignment Heaven dozens of pieces taken out of the old Dallas Times Herald, including publishers’ portraits and exec-office furniture. Elizabeth passed on…
Michael Lacey is the executive editor of Village Voice Media. And he is not one to hold his pen when he feels injustice has been done. Hence, his e-mail in which he demands to know:Where are the First Amendment’s establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers…
Several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we directed your attention to National Public Radio’s piece on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, which aired on Morning Edition as a way of showcasing the blue city in a red state. A couple of minutes in, a certain Observer…
I did indeed take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Texas last night for its official re-opening, where Mayor Tom declared that the Oak Cliff movie house is “just as important” to the cultural life of Dallas as the Wyly or Winspear or Meyerson, how ’bout that…
In case you missed it, over on DC9 earlier this week I posted my interview with Chris Frantz, the Talking Head whose Tom Tom Club will release a live album on Big Bucks Burnett’s eight-track-only Cloud 8 imprint early next year. Frantz and wife Tina Weymouth will attend the release,…
Richie hinted at this earlier, but the Texas Rangers just made it official: Beginning next season, Eric Nadel and Dave Barnett will be heard on ESPN’s local radio affiliate, which I believe is located at 103.3 on your FM dial. The official release follows, but note: Some games will actually…
For the first time since 1995, Texas Rangers’ games next season will not be on KRLD 1080 AM as, according to a team source, the franchise will announce – perhaps as soon as this afternoon – that it has agreed to a contract with 103.3 FM ESPN. This year the…
No doubt you’re well aware by now that Love Field Airport is undergoing its so-called modernization program. But Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport wants to make sure you’re well aware of the fact it too is about to undergo, oh, seven years’ worth of renovations beginning in 2011. Which is why…
