A few weeks back we noted that Sarah Palin will be performing her one-woman show at the now-city-of-Dallas-run Majestic Theatre on November 10 on behalf of Austin-based Heroic Media, self-described as using “mass media advertising to help women facing unexpected pregnancies with hopeful alternatives through television commercials, billboards, and internet.”…
This just in from the Borders in Preston Royal: At 8:30 Tuesday morning, George W. Bush will make the very short drive from Daria Place and stop by to sign copies of his “untraditional” tome Decision Points, presently tops on Kayne West’s must-read list. Borders also sends these instructions for…
Inevitably, a slew of anecdotes make the rounds in the days following an election, most of which we’re unfortunately sworn to secrecy not to expose. However, we’ve been given the green light to share the experience of election judge Sue Ringle, who just told us about Troy Aikman’s appearance and…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Now that the voters have overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine, when, exactly, will retailers begin drenching the dry parts of Dallas? Because, see, Gary Huddleston, the man behind Keep the Dollars in Dallas, told Unfair…
At today’s Dallas Independent School District board briefing, trustees will yet again discuss that “comprehensive” bullying policy about which we wrote last month. Turns out, on the Dallas City Council’s meeting agenda for Wednesday is a related resolution sent to City Manager Mary Suhm last week, signed by, among others,…
Couple of weeks back Patrick spent the day hanging out with the Big Brothers watching the watchers at the American Society for Industrial Security confab at Dallas Convention Center. Turns out, some attendees were also given an all-access pass to the Dallas Police Department’s video surveillance operations center, located at…
After losing yet again to the Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman is prepared to let someone else attempt to turn the blue county back to red, telling us that he doesn’t expect to run for a third term in 2012. “I don’t want to say I’m definitely…
As I wrote last night, Dallas County’s new elections website is a marked improvement over versions past — from precinct maps to mail-ins breakdowns, it contains all the details a wonk could want. So, then. After the jump a few of the more relevant color-by-numbers, including looks at the Rick…
And speaking of the city of Dallas’s parks …No doubt you’ve forgotten all about the August 19 save the date sent by the city — an invite to this weekend’s first-ever Dallas Parks Stakeholders’ Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Hence, the just-sent reminder that follows, in which,…
Hadn’t thought of the former Dallas Mavericks center in years — certainly, not since his retirement from the National Basketball Association in 2005. Who knew the way-too-longtime Mav was running for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives? But, sure enough: “I have been fortunate in life to use…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first suggested selling Elgin B. Robertson Park in mid-May, in a document presented to the city council titled “FY 2010-11 Budget: Brainstorming Ideas.” Wrote Suhm and city staff, money raised from dispensing with the 257 acres on Lake Ray Hubbard — a parcel of land…
There’s a kid running around sucking the helium out of the red, white and blue centerpiece balloons here in the Palomar ballroom, and just like that, over the last hour or so, somebody’s let the air out of the party here.While the crowd’s still going hard for Boehner on the…
While the local GOP suffered its mood swings at the Hotel Palomar, Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Republican challenger in the Fighting’ 30th, Stephen Broden chose Frankie’s in Uptown as his Official Election Night Results-Watching Party Zone. That Unfair Park dispatched an ex-intern to cover the doings might give you an idea…
With The Ackermans now on stage at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing finally made her appearance about 45 mintues ago along with state Senator Royce West and a group of candidates, when she expressed her condolences to the Texas House candidates…
Watching the real news some nights has its advantages. Like this gift sure to keep on giving, for instance, which was wedged almost unnoticed at 10:23 in between awkward election-result wraps: WFAA-Channel 8 just ran Rebecca Lopez’s story about how city council member Carolyn Davis might well have interfered with…
It’s been a relatively quiet night at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, where Democratic candidates or officeholders have been hard to spot. Heck, even party chair Darlene Ewing has been in hiding all night. The slim pickings thus far have included state Rep. Helen Giddings, who we’re guessing…
With a monster show of force, and a little help from the weather, Dallas County Republicans have made their presence known tonight, bringing Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane to an absolute standstill pulling their Large Vehicles into the Hotel Palomar for their election night cash-bar bacchanal. We’ve heard from a…
It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market’s director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of…
My, my, but the county’s come a long way. Used to be, way back when, us media folks just got occasional updates as precincts’ results came in. No more: Now, as evidenced by the Craig Watkins-Danny Clancy count that just came in with 24 out of 737 precincts reporting, those…
I’m about to head over to the Palomar for the Republicans’ cash-bar shindig, while Sam’s pulling pay-as-you-go drinking duty at the AAC with the Dallas County Dems, and Ex-Intern Elliot’s eating free pizza with Stephen Broden in Uptown. But before the short pour on this long night (at least, for…
Knowing that winning Dallas County is vital in his uphill battle to unseat Governor Rick Perry, Democrat Bill White dropped by Reverchon Park Recreation Center this afternoon for a quick media appearance with U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson in a last-ditch effort to grab votes before the polls close. Not…
If you’ve spent the last few nights out and about watching Your Texas Rangers get thoroughly outplayed in the World Series by the Giants, perhaps tonight is a good time to stay home and drown your sorrows alone. But for those ready to shift gears and put on your political…
