A man of his word, Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager J.D. Freeman did in fact call back with some news concerning programming changes at the San Antonio-based conglomerate’s Dallas properties. As mentioned earlier, two KDMX-FM (Mix 102.9) on-air personalities were part of the mass layoffs today: midday host Lisa Thomas…
First, on this Inauguration Day afternoon, a mention of drink specials in honor not only of our new president, but the former one who will make Dallas his home, oh, any day now. A few days back, Simon McDonald at The Libertine Bar forwarded us a handful of welcome-home signs,…
Since some of Office Space was filmed in Las Colinas, and since writer-director Mike Judge once called Garland home, and since the movie still gets me to make the occasional “O” face, this good news courtesy the fine folks from Fantastic Fest down Austin way: There’s gonna be an Office…
From the monolithic high-definition screens at Victory Park this morning, Rick Warren prayed; Aretha Franklin belted out “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” from beneath a killer hat; and Joe Biden became VP. The crowd of locals — a few hundred gathered in the sunshine at one end of the square,…
We’ve tried all morning to get Dallas Clear Channel execs on the phone all morning to discuss layoffs there, which began at 7:30 this morning as expected (and our condolences to the departed, who include someone near and dear to Unfair Park). No luck so far — and I don’t…
As mentioned last week, Dallas’s T.D. Jakes did indeed deliver the pre-inaugural sermon from the St. John’s Episcopal Church pulpit. The pool report contains the entirety of his sermon, delivered in front of 200 invited guests. Jakes, captured here by Patrick Michels at the Dallas premiere of Seven Pounds, quoted…
I would not recommend reading SMU’s Daily Mustang for your inauguration coverage. The university sent “a group of SMU communications and journalism students” to D.C. to cover the inauguration. Said last week’s media release, “They will have an up-close view of the Presidential Inauguration.” Um. Um. This is the most…
The Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Committee opted to skip this morning’s inauguration and actually hold a meeting, maybe because the committee has plenty on its plate — including, after months of debate and discussion, the installation of streaming-video signs in downtown. There’s another biggie on the table too: using…
Yesterday was the deadline for “interested parties” to send to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas briefs concerning the Dallas Independent School District board of trustee’s vote to extend their term limits from three to four years. Carla Ranger, of course, is the only trustee against the extension,…
Last night from the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in D.C., site of the Texas State Society’s 2009 Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball, a good Friend of Unfair Park sent the following message: “The Texas ball is not only a celebration of a new president, but a display…
Tony Romo loves to win. But does he really hate to lose? After his playoff pratfalls, late-season hiccups and post-game “The sun’ll come out tomorrow” bullshit press conferences, I think it’s a legitimate question. Romo regressed dramatically this season. In ball security. In practice habits. In decision-making. And, mostly, in leadership…
Marching bands, splashy floats, horses, vintage cars and patriotic mascots filled Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for this morning’s parade outside Fair Park. Parade-watchers lined the streets, crowding the barricades and watching from atop houses and parked cars. With shouts of “Yes We Can” sounding from all directions, today was…
Hundreds gathered at Highland Park United Methodist Church this morning to celebrate the life of Dallas real estate tycoon Trammell Crow, who died in his sleep last week at a family farm in East Texas. The church’s sanctuary was full nearly an hour before the 11 a.m. service, forcing others…
A traffic heads-up for tomorrow: Unless you’re planning on protesting George W. Bush’s move to the ‘229, you may want to avoid Mockingbird Lane at N. Central Expressway between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. That’s when Code Pink of Greater Dallas is planning on celebrating Inauguration Day by…
Let’s don’t call Laura Miller and her parade plans just yet, but the Mavericks may have found something. A luxury they haven’t enjoyed since, oh, forever. Or at least since Roy Tarpley. A mobile, athletic big man. It was – who else? – Dirk Nowitizki’s calm, fadeaway 18-footer that beat the…
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, the first full-time executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King’s chief of staff, is in Dallas tonight to speak at the Belo Mansion as part of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Fourth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Arrested…
From yesterday’s Journal Times in Racine, Wisconsin, this is precisely the kind of whatever-dude Tony Romo quote that drives even his staunchest defenders absolutely nuts:”If I’m never going to win the Super Bowl, I’ll be content in life. I’ll be disappointed because that’s what I wanted to do. At that…
A Dallas-based company called WQN now sells software called WebSafety, which runs $10 a month and shuts down a cell phone when a driver is, um, driving. The software uses GPS technology, and, after the driver hits a certain speed, the software disables the phone. Which parents love, since it’ll…
You buyin’ it? The Cowboys’ changes, I mean. Pacman Jones is gone and looks like Tank Johnson won’t be asked back and there are even serious organizational discussions concerning Terrell Owens. And last Friday, of course, the Cowboys announced the firing of defensive coordinator Brian Stewart. Are these the first…
Yesterday, while exiting Walnut Hill Lane off northbound N. Central Expressway, I spotted this nattily dressed gentleman blowing his horn for spare change. Had the chance to visit during a red light, during which I discovered that his name’s “J.D.,” he’s a Dallas native and Franklin D. Roosevelt High School…
A good Friend of Unfair Park, up in D.C. for Barack Obama’s inauguration, was on Capitol Hill this a.m. to pick up her tickets for tomorrow. Alas, all did not go as planned:Hundreds of people are standing outside capitol offices to get tickets. Many were turned away from congressional offices…
That headline’s intended with all due respect — because, see, the new director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the SMU campus will be Bourbon County, Kentucky, native Alan Lowe, currently exec director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on the University of Tennessee…
