Brian Harkin The best thing about dining at Victory Plaza is no longer. Sommelier Rudy Mikula has evacuated Nove Italiano for Consilient Restaurants pastures. There he will serve as wine and beverage director at Hibiscus and consult for other venues in the Consilient stable. Mikula, formerly of Loews Anatole Hotel’s…
Trammell Crow Company’s getting much grief today for a $10-million tax break it’s receiving to build a $90-mil hotel-and-condo project. It sounds so familiar, only, it’s not in Dallas (this time), but outside Atlanta — on Jekyll Island, a Georgia state park that contains some of the hottest property in…
No, seriously — if you need anyone on the council for any reason during the next couple of days, good luck getting hold of ’em, because they’re having their annual retreat far, far away from the city limits. According to a missive Mayor Tom filed with the City Secretary’s Office…
At this very moment, the family in control — for now — of Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal is huddled up at the Boston Hilton, trying to figure out if it’s worth selling their crown jewel to Rupert Murdoch for, like, $1.2 billion. The Bancroft family…
Filter has a Q&A this morning with The Greatest of All Dallas-Born Actors, Stephen Tobolowsky. And while the man’s nothing short of The Greatest of All Interview Subjects, he does recount here one tale I’ve never heard before — about the time he reunited his old Kimball High School band…
NBA ref and alleged game-fixer Tim Donaghy, who, we’re pretty sure, is somehow related to Jack Donaghy. We just don’t know how yet. John Walters of NBC Sports reminds us this morning that in 2001, Mark Cuban said of NBA referee Ed Rush, who’s also the league’s Director of Officiating:…
Look out — they’re “chasing after the young Mexicans pouring into the area”! And by they, of course, I mean the local media outlets about which AdWeek writes this morning, as it dissects the ultra-competitive Spanish-language radio stations, television stations and newspapers in Dallas-Fort Worth vying for the Hispanic audience’s…
The amazing thing is, Bobby Patterson still wears this jacket on stage — like, 35 or so years after this photo was taken. Well, I was going to post an MP3 of Bobby Patterson’s “Quiet! Do Not Disturb” in advance of his show tomorrow night at the Sons of Hermann…
If you’re moping about working late on a Friday or having to squeeze into that bikini you’ve outgrown or finding your boyfriend in a closet with your best friend, this will either give you refreshing perspective or make you feel like an utter loser not worthy of taking up space…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Kris Youmans has just notified us that he’s booked “a pretty short-notice show” featuring Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues Band for August 17 at the Granada Theater. And while that’s special enough to merit mention, it turns out Chan Marshall was going to be…
Lest you think grieving over the deaths of the Gypsy Tea Room and Trees and other Deep Ellum venues is mere hipster posing, let us offer you the following video. It arrives courtesy our new art director, Alex Flores (aka “Warhol Reject”), who captured Tiger Army’s Nick 13 last weekend…
My shameless procrastinating ways have caught up to me at last. When I went into the Old Town Borders Books & Music a few weeks ago to reserve my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I was told I could do so, but with no guarantee that I’d…
Bravo Abacus’ Tré Wilcox was more than a little happy at winning the first Elimination Challenge on this season’s Top Chef. Dang, dang, dang. I knew I should have acted quicker. But, turns out, tomorrow’s cooking class at the Dallas Farmers Market is all sold out. Why, well, that’s no…
Mary Frank New construction like this home in Midway Hollow has put the neighborhood on Preservation Dallas’ Most Endangered list. We’ve been hearing for weeks that Preservation Dallas has finally chosen a replacement for former executive director Dwayne Jones, who left for the Galveston Historical Foundation late last year. And…
Guess it was a slow news day on the Today show, um, today, as the NBC morning show threw a tap-water taste test pitting H20 from Dallas against agua from such towns as Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. (KXAS-Channel 5 was responsible for sending…
Andy Uhler stopped by Unfair Park HQ yesterday to talk Deep Ellum, for a KUT-FM (90.5) piece that’ll air on Austin’s National Public Radio outlet a week from today. And after he asked me what I thought they ought to do with the neighborhood, he told me what he’d discovered…
Dennis G. McLaughlin III, chairman and CEO of Earth Biofuels, is under siege from investors who want their dough-re-mi back. We were going to stop writing for a little while about Earth Biofuels, the Knox Street-based alterna-energy company that, on the surface, appears to have been running out of gas…
We hope some of you were able to catch the excellent Centro-matic show at the Granada last Friday (if you didn’t, Jesse Hughey’s take on the shindig can be found here). It was the following night, however, that saw the band really letting loose, playing a private wedding party at…
Last week, we reported that Washington, D.C. based Future of Music Coalition was going after San Antonio-based Clear Channel, insisting in documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission that three months after agreeing to play unsigned bands as part of a payola settlement, the media giant was again engaging in…
Now there’s a place for your Loving Tex-Mex with Limburger recipe collection. Dallas has a new food and wine magazine: Culinary Concierge Dallas/Fort Worth, a Web-based magazine, plus a four-color dead-tree quarterly, founded by New Orleans cookbook author and food stylist Kendall Gensler in 2000. Culinary Concierge bills itself as…
Here’s a lead that makes you want to keep on reading: Troy Aikman may not be happy about it, but the State of Texas has made his address and social security number available via the Internet. It comes from this story published today, which says that a fraud-prevention expert has…
KTVT-Channel 11 Why can’t a gun-keepin’, kiddie-porn-collectin’ tenant just be left alone, y’all? A Web site called Northeast Intelligence Network has a few more details on an odd story today in The Dallas Morning News about a maintenance man calling authorities after finding a large cache of weapons in an…
