One of our sister papers, the Seattle Weekly, has news today concerning my favoritest Dallas Maverick ever: James Donaldson. Turns out, the well-traveled baller with the bad knees — who started with the Seattle SuperSonics before joining the Mavs in 1985 for a seven-season stint that included a trip to…
So, looks like the Dallas Independent School District’s Board of Trustees meeting tomorrow — a specially called get-together, as they don’t normally meet in July — should be an especially interesting one. Because only a few hours after we posted the item about Joyce Foreman’s displeasure over the Booker T…
Patrick “Buzz” Williams called it yesterday: “Someone needs to put some music with Angela Hunt’s videos,” meaning the footage she shot of the swaying elephants at the Africam Safari Zoo in Mexico. And, sure enough, someone’s done scored the video. –Robert Wilonsky…
A remarkable statistic, courtesy the Military Officers Association of America today: “More than 700,000 children have seen a parent deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and three out of every five Active Duty, Reservists and National Guard members deployed to a warzone have family responsibilities.” And war is hell on those…
Edward Hopper’s Hotel Room Just as the city is about to get into the hotel bidness, this news: Dallas saw a 3.8 percent drop in hotel occupancy rates from May 2007 to May ’08. Among the so-called “key markets” in the country referenced in this report, Dallas’s drop was the…
Jenny For the Friends who might have missed the news — and, really, don’t know how that’s possible — there will be a “Save Jenny” rally on Sunday, from 1 to 2 p.m., in front of the Dallas Zoo next to the the giant giraffe. Organizers — and, of course,…
As Pete’s taking the day off to recover from the Dallas Observer Music Awards — and back in my day, we got an hour, tops — thought I’d sneak this musical note by the goalkeeper. Because — surprise, surprise — it’s a New Year notice, yet another in advance of…
Shoulda heard the Granada crowd go wild for Burton Gilliam last night, as he presented a handful of Dallas Observer Music Awards to a grateful nation. We’ve tried for years to get the actor — who, as a fanatical heckler reminded the crowd, first appeared in Paper Moon before co-starring…
If you live between Lemmon Avenue, Kings Road, Maple Avenue, the Denton Drive cut-off and Inwood Road, the city has a favor to ask you. Like, could you please, pretty please, stay inside tomorrow night — say, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.? Swell. Nothing big –…
President Bush was in Houston last week raising dough for Pete Olson. Took a few days, but a video making the rounds today, courtesy Miya Shay of Houston’s ABC affiliate KTRK-Channel 13 and the likes of the Houston Chronicle and The Huffington Post, features remarks about the economy the president…
One of dozens of photos Angela Hunt took during her trip to Mexico, where the elephants are rocking — though, not in a good way. Joyce Poole has spent most of her life documenting the behavior of elephants; she has, as National Geographic put it, decoded their language. Which is…
Dunno about you, but I need a little palate cleanser. And it’s times like these I turn to Jessica Simpson. Weepy, ranty, adult-language video after the jump, from her weekend performance at the Country Thunder USA hoedown in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, where she debuted “You’re My Sunday,” written for and…
After saying the arrested talk show host would likely return today, David Henry, general manager at KLLI-FM (Live 105.3), has changed his tune. Why? Dunno. He just called Unfair Park to say “we are going to keep Russ off the air for the time being.” Which means, once more, Live…
Over on her blog, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member Joyce Foreman directs our attention to the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board. Among the items on the agenda: a reopening of the August 25, 2005, discussion concerning proposed names for new and existing…
Russ Martin, courtesy the Southlake PD David Henry, general manager at KLLI-FM (Live 105.3), tells Unfair Park that Russ Martin will be on the air today. As scheduled. At 3 p.m. Like every other day. Except yesterday, when the station ran a best-of — since, as you’re no doubt aware,…
Tom Kemper Tom Kemper, founder of Dolphin Blue and chair of the Sustainable Dallas board, gets quite the national shout-out in the latest issue of Entrepreneur. The piece celebrates his decision in 1994 to troll the local landfills — with 350 50-gallon garbage bags — for recyclables, which no one…
In today’s legal news, Electronic Data Systems Corp. shareholders want more than the $13.2 billion Hewlett-Packard Co. offered the Plano-based company on May 12. And they’re prepared to go to court in Collin County to delay the special shareholder meeting set for July 31, when EDS investors are supposed to…
At around 10:20 this morning — sorry, trying to be more specific here — the Parkland Board of Managers will finally thumbs-up their plan for a new Parkland Memorial Hospital, across Harry Hines Boulevard from the old one, as pictured above. The morning paper has a few details, but the…
Funny thing. So, yesterday I e-mailed Richard Bitner, because I’d just read this U.S. News & World Report Q&A about his involvement in the “subprime debacle.” Bitner lives in Dallas and, a decade ago, began snapping up subprime loans; eventually, he turned it into quite the profitable business called Kellner…
As Richie’s out of town, here’s the latest on the Russ Martin arrest. The Dallas Morning News’ Web site, in a story about a protective order issued against the Live 105.3 FM show host, offers only the Southlake Police Department’s media advisory, which doesn’t go into any detail at all…
Notes Angela Hunt: “This is a picture from Africam Safari. It’s critical to note that the elephants can’t get to the lush trees behind them — there is a fence (you can see the wire fence if you squint).” In tomorrow’s Dallas Morning News, you will find this story about…
Julie Bologna Every couple of days, seems like, another comment gets added to the March 7 item about Rebecca Miller’s getting released from KXAS-Channel 5, where she’s since been replaced by no-not-that-Jennifer Lopez. Why, just last week Sharon Joyce of Dallas wrote, “Rebecca has it all — thorough and easily…
