Among the films most likely to be jam-packed at next month’s South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin: David Modigliani’s doc Crawford, which purports to answer the question: “What happens to the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas, when George W. Bush moves to town?” The trailer, posted yesterday,…
Native Dallasite Amy Phelan, who, according to this month’s W, “who looks more Legally Blonde than West Chelsea power player” The February issue of W features a profile of former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Amy Phelan, who, last April, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim…
This morning, the Texas Department of Transportation is scheduled to give the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee an update on the realignment of S.M. Wright Freeway; it’s but one of four fascinating items on the committee’s agenda, which also includes discussing NTTA environmental impact statements concerning the Trinity…
Roger and Marc Andres would like to discuss their proposal for 1800 Henderson Avenue with you, if you have 45 minutes. Roger and Marc Andres have taken their proposal for 1800 Henderson Avenue — otherwise known as the site of the empty Carnival grocery store — to the YouTubes, where…
The Wilson Building, included on our Friend Peter’s virtual tour of Dallas On Thursday, after I posted the item about the collection of historic Dallas postcards, a Friend of Unfair Park sent us a link to an interactive Google map of Dallas he made in his spare time. It provides…
Where the fake cattle roam: the view from what remains of Little Mexico In last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we looked at some homeowners on McKinnon Street who are being bullied by Uptown developer Harwood International. Gary Scott, an attorney acting as a middle man for Harwood, was…
I didn’t get to see much of the Super Bowl yesterday — the missus put me to work. Apparently, Tony Romo and I now have something in common; he didn’t see much of the Big Game yesterday either, apparently. Only, my chores didn’t include carrying around Jessica Simpson’s mutt. Also,…
Sorry, but why are there “plenty” of tickets left for Spike Lee’s lecture Saturday on the University of Texas at Arlington campus? I mean, Martin Sheen’s great and all — really, heart-attack stories from the making of Apocalypse Now are worth the price of admission, and word is Josiah Bartlet’s…
Alphonso Jackson has many friends — including, apparently, legendary songwriter and producer Kenny Gamble More Alphonso Jackson news — and this time, it involves allegations that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary retaliated against the Philadelphia Housing Authority for failing to give a buddy of Jackson’s a $2-million…
A. H. Belo Corporation, the newspaper-biz spin-off of Belo Corp., is expected to make its bow as a publicly traded company at week’s end — and while Robert Decherd’s thrilled with The Dallas Morning News’ “new” parent company, others ain’t as convinced. Comes word today that Standard & Poor’s Rating…
New York Giants Two things come to mind after watching one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history: It’s satisfying that Bill Belicheat and the Patriots can put a sock in their undefeated, best-ever bravado. And didja catch the head coach’s chicken shit escape with two seconds remaining? What…
KPHO-TV The scene from this morning’s shooting in Arizona involving two Dallas firefighters. Phoenix media outlets are reporting that two Dallas firefighters — 28-year-old Charles Whittaker and 34-year-old Reggie Cueington — were shot early this morning, as they walked from a bar in Peoria, Arizona, to their nearby hotel. Says…
Doctors this morning are receiving, courtesy the American Medical Association’s Morning Rounds news wrap-up, an extensive briefing about the smoking cessation drug Chantix — known around here, of course, as the drug Carter Albrecht’s friends and family blame, in part, for his violent behavior the night he was killed last…
The anti-Rove: Before you go callin’ the Reverend Andrew Weaver a hippie, well, he kinda ain’t. Wednesday’s New York Times piece about the last-ditch effort to stop President Bush from putting his think tank on the SMU campus prompted plenty of follow-ups — from The Dallas Morning News to the…
Gordon Bellamy Among the paid obituaries in The Dallas Morning News today was the notice that Gordon Bellamy died Tuesday in New York. The 70-year-old Bellamy, a Dallas native and graduate of Crozier Tech, was a respected animator in the motion picture business; among his credits were such films as…
Editor’s note: At 5:23 p.m., Chris Heinbaugh shot us the following e-mail: “The Mayor is returning Sunday and will not be attending the Super Bowl game.” But he’s still in Arizona for the festivities. Carry on. In late December, Mayor Tom Leppert created friction between himself and the Dallas city…
At around 11 a.m. yesterday, Dallas police were called to the 2100 block of Hickory Street. Why? Funny I should ask. From the Daily Crime Report, quickly becoming the day’s must-read missive, this assault: “SUSP HIT COMPL IN THE BACK WITH CHICKEN LEG, COMPL FELT OFFENDED.” Or, as we call…
Maybe we should just use this season to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this storied Rangers team. Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t Your Texas Rangers at least be faking like they give a damn about the upcoming season? Using last year’s “You Could Use Some Baseball” slogan again this…
It’s probably a safe bet that former president and CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, Alphonso Jackson, wishes he’d never given that April 2006 speech in Dallas, during which he said, “If you have a problem with the president,” you won’t get a contract with the U.S. Housing and Urban…
Lone Star Funds’ chairman John Grayken ain’t happy today. It doesn’t appear Dallas-based Lone Star Funds will ever forget its trip to South Korea. Today a court there ruled that the Harwood Street-based investment firm, once the largest foreign investor in South Korea, owes $27 million in that case involving…
Josh Howard’s Cribs segment was on MTV last night — the Mav showed off his Cantoni, his Vitamin Water, his “lazy river” pool, his tricked-up ’73 Chevy Impala and what appears to be the world’s largest collection of caps. And his degree from Wake Forest, because “I’m an educated black…
Last night on KTVT-Channel 11, Jay Gormley broke the news that SMU’s drug-and-drink task force, formed last in the wake of three students’ deaths, has finally come up with its recommendations for dealing with abuse issues on campus. Turns out, the task force that the Daily Campus’ editorial board considered…
