Dallas mayors former and current were in D.C. over the weekend for the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual winter meeting: Tom Leppert, to once more make Dallas’s case for stimulus dough-re-mi; Ron Kirk, to calm mayors’ fears concerning his unpopular position on free trade. Leppert, like every other in mayor…
It wasn’t that I got 20 minutes of solid face time on KFWD Channel 52 Friday night. It wasn’t that I got to tour Channel 8’s spiffy HD studios in Victory Park and take a spin in Dale Hansen’s chair. (Psst, it really is unplugged!) And it wasn’t that I out-yelled…
Taken yesterday on my way to work. Seemed better suited for today…
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post are reporting today that as early as next week, Clear Channel Communications will “begin implementing a massive restructuring plan that seeks to cut $400 million in costs at the company.” Both stories say the layoffs are to begin on Tuesday; says…
Two days before Christmas, while addressing the controversy surrounding President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren deliver the inaugural invocation, John McWhorter wrote in The New Republic, “Suppose Obama had invited black megastar preacher T.D. Jakes instead.” Turns out, Obama has given Jakes a speaking slot on Inauguration Day…
Translating live improv comedy to the page is tough, so for a companion to our cover story this week about Mark Orvik, a comedian who’s fighting a life-threatening illness with humor, check out these videos of the troupe’s on-stage shenanigans. And hey, amidst waves of layoffs and foreclosures, we could…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio’s Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won’t make a comeback in February — don’t believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that,…
The top story in today’s Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Brian J. Smith, a young actor we’ve been writing about (OK, gushing over) since he wowed critics…
Dave Moore on FrontBurner wonders why “North Texas always seems to get its snout into” a big national news story — like, say, the tale of the US Airways plane that took a dip in the Hudson River yesterday. Actually, there’s a pretty good explanation in the Herald Democrat up…
Makes you wonder why the Stars haven’t been on The Ticket all along…
Wrote the real-estatin’ Friend of Unfair Park who alerted us to the news of Circuit City’s imminent demise today, “Getting ugly out there.” Indeed: Just two months after Circuit City included its N. Central Expressway and Meadow Road location as one the 155 “underperforming” stores being shuttered, the chain today…
Speaking of Fort Worth, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted its class of 2009 last night with a wingding on E. Exchange Ave., and among those taking their bows were Tommy Lee Jones and the great Barry Corbin, who actually has a place in Fort Worth. Said Jones, a…
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee’s moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he’s been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell’s release, which follows in…
Might be a pre-emptive strike in advance of losing the Dallas Cowboys. Might be a further stock-piling of assets aimed at extending its dynasty another 15 years. Either way, 1310 AM The Ticket just announced it will be the radio home of your Dallas Stars for the next five years starting in 2009-10. Good on…
Tuned into KTCK-AM (1310) this a.m. for its “big station announcement,” which, all things considered, was relatively enormous after all: The station is “the new radio flagship home for Dallas Stars hockey for the next five seasons,” said morning-show co-host Craig Miller. The deal starts next season and runs through…
I know, I know — we have a music blog. But on this frigid morning, I wanted to direct your attention to this download, warm and well-meaning, courtesy National Public Radio, songwriter Christian Kiefer and a singer named Will Johnson. It’s a song called “Someone to Wake,” the final installment…
Four straight losses. Four spots dropped in the standings. A four-game, East Coast road trip looming that ends at Detroit and Boston. Mark Cuban even lost his request for Denver’s J.R. Smith to be disciplined by the league for throwing an elbow at Antoine Wright. In short, not a good…
After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205. If…
As we mentioned a while back, District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin appeared to be the heir apparent to Mitchell Rasansky with a long list of notable supporters and a strong résumé. And as the 5 p.m. deadline approaches for candidates and committees to file their finance reports, Margolin’s…
On her Web site, the District 14 council member offers her thoughts on yesterday’s Dallas City Council meeting, where, among other things, the council voted for the “high crime apartment ordinance,” voted against the creation of a Little Forest Hills Conservation District and put on hold a vote concerning the…
Deadspin, with some help from The Smoking Gun, just posted an item in which it breaks down Michael Irvin’s Monday-evening almost-carjacking and finds his story, well, a bit sketchy. As in: “Irvin didn’t report the incident until the following day, more than 24 hours after Monday’s supposed confrontation. And he…
On Tuesday, Governor Rick Perry told the Associated Press he seriously doubted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was going to challenge him come 2010. Because, look, “there’s plenty of time for the senator to think that it’s not in her best interest, Texas’ best interest or the country’s best interest to…
