Ron Chapman Well, today was the big day that KTYS-FM (96.7) — the so-called “Texas Twister” in Citadel Broadcasting Corp.’s inventory — switched formats, ditching its new-country format for … music my mom will love, love, love. (At least, she loved this stuff back when it was known as KVIL’s…
Brian Harkin Matt Kadane, left, and brother Bubba Saturday night at the Granada I see over on DC9 that Pete’s posted quite the rave for Saturday night’s triple-header at the Granada: The Theater Fire, Matt and Bubba Kadane and Centro-matic. To which I’d only add that it was a bit…
Sam Merten Willa you sign these? Mike Modano and the missus in Frisco Saturday, during that celeb charity baseball thing. Temperatures hovering around 100 degrees and the slight chance of rain were likely causes for the lackluster attendance at Saturday night’s Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game. But it didn’t stop…
Among the myriad chuckles from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times piece on the making of W, Oliver Stone’s biopic concerning once and future Dallas resident George W. Bush, was this note: Major League Baseball refused to cooperate with the production. Don’t know how that will effect references to the Texas Rangers,…
Back to the grindstone. Ok, so where were we? First, a review of my week-long sabbatical: Dad’s house: Painted. Guadalupe River: Cold. Hootie & The Blowfish: Eh. As for sports, I’m playing catch-up today. The thing that has first struck me is that the Mavs nabbed a nice player with…
From today’s Boston Globe, a suggestion: “Want to get rich? Move to Texas.” And while that didn’t work out for some of us — alas, perhaps that’s the problem with being born here — the paper notes that, courtesy a Salary.com report, “Plano topped a list of the best American…
Vail, where it’ll be 75 degrees today. Dallas real estate developer Mark Masinter, a founding partner of Open Realty Advisors on McKinnon Street (which reps the likes of Bob’s Steak & Chop House, Fireside Pies and Billy Reid), is already fairly beloved in Vail, Colorado, where he’s been a frequent…
Seems some folks aren’t terribly pleased with the Dallas Zoo’s plans to move Jenny, the joint’s recently single African elephant, to the 617-acre Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico, as was announced last week. A Friend of Unfair Park this morning sends word of Margaret Morin’s Concerned Citizens for Jenny,…
Or: Thanks, but no Danks. Clearly, the folks at Fast Company are not Texas Rangers die-hards; certainly they weren’t among those who cast their votes in this April poll pitting Rangers general manager Jon Daniels against his Minnesota Twins counterpart, Bill Smith, for the title of “worst GM.” (Daniels won…
Yesterday, we found the Jesus in a slab of granite stored out near Mesquite. (And, yes, The Jesus in a Slab of Granite is an excellent band name and/or flavor of ice cream.) But we end the week that was with this, courtesy a good Friend who dropped this off…
Alexander Flores Much like an Obama rally, this afternoon’s town hall meeting in Deep Ellum was all about change. And what we all were waiting for was a sneak peek at some of that change, perhaps in the form of, oh, maybe what Beck Ventures is planning to do in…
A friendly note to the Billingsley Company: If you’re going to create a Dallas Arts District promo to better sell spots in the lovely One Arts Plaza, next time maybe go with some music created by someone educated at Arts Magnet, which is prominently featured in the short. Because, really,…
On its Web site moments ago, AT&T posted the news that it’s moving its HQ from San Antonio to Dallas. Why come? “To gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the world,” notes the announcement, “and to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human resources needed as…
Breaking news today, just as the mayor’s Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting is about to get underway at the Sons of Hermann Hall: Merit Drive-based Beck Ventures has done gone and bought up some 10 acres worth of property in Deep Ellum. Which means, what, Deep Ellum’s about to go…
Esther Weisbrod, with the inspiration for her paper on “The War Over the Trinity.” Almost a year ago to the day, Angela Hunt dropped off 90,000 signatures at City Hall, triggering the Trinity River toll road referendum. And it felt like old times last night as former council members Sandy…
Or, another entry in the ongoing Unfair Park series “Local Sports Venue Help-Wanted Ad.” Texas Stadium has but one season left till it becomes Irving’s Reunion Arena. Which doesn’t mean it’s not too late to work for Mister Jerry: Says here the joint’s looking for someone to work as the…
After the jump, from Sting Dallas on the Dallas Parkway, a glimpse into the future. –Robert Wilonsky…
As we noted a couple weeks back, with Cindy Chaffin’s help we’re going to try to stream this afternoon’s Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting at the Sons — because, right, aren’t some folks working at 2 p.m. on a Friday? Still, for those in attendance, should be quite the throwdown:…
Santiago Calatrava Don’t know if you noticed, but this week in Jerusalem they done inaugurated the opening of a new bridge — a Santiago Calatrava bridge, matter of fact. And this morning, a writer for Israel Opinion channels his inner Schutze and proclaims, “It is difficult to recall a case…
No doubt, Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast puts it best concerning yesterday’s late news out of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office that 38-year-old Patrick Waller will, next Thursday, become the 19th Dallas County man freed from prison since 2001 following a DNA test. Notes Henson, “This one blows…
A magazine that loves lists almost as much as Chris Arnold, Forbes is now ranking the best cities for recent college grads — though by “recent,” I think it just means “people in their 20s.” The magazine gathered a whole bunch of numbers — including starting salaries courtesy these folks…
Yesterday, during a three-way with Mayors Bill White of Houston and Hardberger of San Antonio during the 2008 State Bar Annual Meeting in Houston, Tom Leppert said a good hunk of the state’s education problems stems from the way the legislature doles out its dollars. Notes the Houston Chronicle, “Leppert…
