New stadium. New station. Same starters. Lots of reasons to be excited about the Dallas Cowboys in 2009. Jonestown Coliseum will be the world’s coolest sports venue. The team has moved to a 100,000-watt flagship radio station—KRLD-105.3 FM The Fan—insuring that night games can be heard outside of downtown. Terrell…
“Off Course,” by Jim Schutze, April 23 till it’s gone Building reservoirs to feed Dallas’ growth is Texas’ version of paving paradise to put up a parking lot. Jim R. from Sachse, via dallasobserver.com That reservoir has been planned for decades. Dallas is going to need that water to prosper…
Screen cred: Buzz couldn’t help but wince a bit when we got the advance DVD copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve the status of…
It’s another in a long line of sales pitches for Mayor Tom Leppert as he hawks his vision for a convention center hotel. Tonight the promoter-in-chief is going mano a mano against those who support a referendum for a city charter amendment that would put the kibosh on his proposed…
In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she’d mostly cobbled together part-time jobs—waitressing, teaching Spanish, coaching high school speech. Olson was looking at nanny listings on Craigslist.org when she came…
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he’s not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I’m…
Ron Steinhart, chairman of Enough is Enough, at the group’s press conference not only talked about the negative personal attacks aimed at Mayor Tom Leppert, but he also referred to “inaccurate and misleading statements” from the anti-hotel campaign. Yet when he spoke with the Observer in late March for today’s…
Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales has a lengthy “Web exclusive” about the post-presidency of George W. Bush — specifically, how he’s looking to “reshape his legacy,” both alone and with the assist of former White House colleagues. From Bush’s March 17 speech in Calgary, Sales offers this highlight:The…
Back in January, Clear Channel laid off 1,800 employees, several of whom were good Friends of Unfair Park and most of whom worked in ad sales. Today comes news that the San Antonio-based conglomerate has laid off more folks in a second round of budget-cutting — and gone even deeper…
For as long as I can recall, El Rincon Tapatio Tres sat at the corner of Knight Street and Maple Avenue. Clearly, that’s about to change…
On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece headlined “The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund,” which detailed how Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd. — described in the story as “a Bermuda-chartered fund run from Plano and Dallas by the Perot family” — saw its assets dwindle from…
The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I’ll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you’re in need of a full schedule — the official Web site’s still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks…
Just hours after releasing its first radio ad, featuring Roger Staubach, the Enough is Enough’ers unleashed their first TV spot. Dunno how effective it’ll be, though I do know of at least one 5-year-old who thinks it’s a riot.Enough is Enough Convention Center Hotel TV Ad from Dallas Observer on…
At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, two men drove a few blocks in a bulldozer to the Walgreens on 1306 N Beckley Avenue. They backed it up, and then rammed the ‘dozer into a side wall, sending hundreds of goods flying off the shelves and creating a cloud of dust. See…
The American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report this morning — and, sorry, Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton counties, but when it comes to smog, the report card still reads “F.” Indeed, notes the report, while many cities around the country have seen their ozone levels…
On second thought, forget The Alamo. And the San Antonio Spurs. What began as a competitive series that some of us skeptics thought the Spurs would win in seven games magically morphed into a hockey power play. Afforded basically a 5-on-2 advantage, the Mavericks ultimately skated past old, slow, buried…
Yesterday, I noted how the city of Dallas spent $3.2 million in order to lure but a single new tenant to Shed 2. Last night, this laundry list of excellent ideas landed in our suggestion box. I’ve forwarded them along to Janel Leatherman, the market’s administrator, and to Frank Poe,…
As we mentioned yesterday, tomorrow’s cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park features Mayor Tom Leppert. One of the more fascinating interviews we grabbed while researching the piece was with former city council member Donna Halstead, who since 1998 has been president of the Dallas Citizens Council. She…
I like the title of the first Enough is Enough radio ad: “Really.” Oh, really? Really. Anyway. As we’ve noted before, Roger Staubach’s part of this pro-hotel group, and his is the voice heard at the end of the 60-second spot. But before you get to Captain Comeback’s pitch, there’s…
There’s a minicamp at Valley Ranch this weekend, only three months before training camp in San Antonio and a mere 139 days until the Dallas Cowboys kick off their 2009 NFL season against the Buccaneers in Tampa. No better time to look into my crystal football and predict the team’s opening-day…
I don’t know — stripped of Rage Against the Machine, the latest R.I.P. Dallas ad doesn’t have the, ya know, punch. Still, though, I’d be interested to hear how the pro-hotel group came up with its second choice: Cincinnati-born Christian artist Nicole C. Mullen’s “I Have a Dream,” off her…
We’ve received a lot of feedback thus far regarding yesterday’s item in which we revealed Jerry Allen’s thoughts concerning Mayor Tom Leppert, the convention center hotel and the Trinity River toll road. The most buzz, and rightfully so, came from the statement he gave us after he was asked about…
