Speaking of tomorrow’s to-do list …It’s true — Sam Merten doesn’t live here anymore. He up and split a couple of weeks back, all on his own. He can now be found wandering the countryside playing the role of George Armstrong Custer in Civil War re-enactments; he recently wrote from…
Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Back in June of last year we took a look at the state of Denton’s Golden Triangle Mall, which, at the time, had fallen into foreclosure and was being put up for auction. Like Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall and Valley View, it’s seen better times. But per a piece on…
I called John Crawford, president of Downtown Dallas Inc., on Monday morning, about something — can’t remember, not important. But in between my leaving a message and his calling back, I received a press release: TM Advertising, which moved from Irving into the Comerica Bank Tower at 1717 Main Street…
Two years ago I posted a lengthy excerpt from the 1962 book The Prairie’s Yield – Forces Shaping Dallas Architecture from 1840 to 1962, published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Among its authors was Hal Box, who, at the time, was…
While I was sad to see my old partner Newy Scruggs leave 105.3 The Fan last week, I’m thrilled to have another familiar voice on board. Back in April 2010 — in the wake of Chris Arnold’s departure from K104 — I wrote that radio was volatile and that you…
While we await some return phone calls: Twice today I’ve had occasion to dial up various local projects’ construction webcams, including our old favorite the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge — and this was before Mary Suhm acknowledged that, yup, you can cross that October opening off your to-do list, making…
Haven’t yet had a chance to check out the work of WFAA’s new morning-show co-host, New York transplant Ron Corning, but several Friends of Unfair Park direct our attention to this clip in which he makes a cameo, courtesy Alexa Conomos’s Mayfest gaffe. Turns out, Corning tweeted the clip this…
One week after turning the front of Dallas City Hall into the Living Plaza, Jason Roberts — who’ll sleep when he’s dead — sends word of yet another project: the 72-Hour Challenge to turn a stretch of Ross Avenue downtown into a complete street. There are some details on the…
A couple of weeks back we talked to Realtor Newt Walker about Cali-based Robert Yu’s decision to put the old Dallas High School, more commonly known as Crozier Tech, on the market after all these years. Said Walker, “Time cures a lot of things,” referring to Yu’s long-held grudge against…
That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns’s Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within,…
Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns — who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine — died early this morning at Baylor of a heart attack.For those who didn’t know the Hillcrest grad, there was…
It was a Wednesday afternoon, so I traded my neighbor’s vintage Fender Telecaster for an eight ball and locked myself in the hallway bathroom. I pulled out the dirty mirror from underneath the sink and chopped up some lines that spelled out the word “WINNING.” This was an important night…
Perhaps you’ve heard: President Obama didn’t issue an Easter proclamation, and that has some folks in a tizzy (which I believe is some kind of religious headgear?). Anyway. First Baptist Church of Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, who is now a FOX News regular, went on FOX & Friends this morning to…
A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who’s leaving Kabletown’s Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous graduate of Thomas Jefferson…
If you’re headed down to Earth Day Dallas, which begins right about now in downtown and runs through tomorrow, you’re invited to check out the mammoth map of the Trinity River Corridor Project that’ll be on display between Booker T. and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Above, that’s just a…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The Moody Foundation is putting $20 million toward giving the great Moody Coliseum an extreme makeover, as evidenced by the conceptuals provided by SMU (more follow after the jump). But that’s but half of what the Hilltop needs to fund the project, expected to run closer to…
In our cover story about the mayoral race, perhaps you read the section about council member Ron Natinsky and noticed a glossing over of sorts when it came to his public comments during the contentious 2007 Trinity River toll road referendum. As is often the case, space constraints kept us…
KERA’s teevee side sends word: In order to “remain fiscally responsible and to move the organization forward in an ever-changing media landscape,” the public broadcaster has canceled the Friday-night version of Krys Boyd’s chat show Think, which also features the great Jerome Weeks. It is also laying off six employees,…
While writing all those items about the old Dallas High School (or Crozier Tech) at the beginning of 2010, and long after, I heard, time and again, the same thing: The owner will never, ever sell. Those with whom I spoke — city officials, preservationists, even those who worked for…
Below, unhappy Friend of Unfair Park Ben notes in the comments that the Dallas Wave (formerly known as the Standing Wave) is off-limits — meaning, you can wave adios to that May 7 dedication ceremony that’s been on the books since last fall. Willis Winters, second-in-command at Park and Rec,…
What you see above is a 47-second sneak peek at a sneak peek of a film Wired.com shot at the Hilton Anatole during the installation of Reuben Margolin’s “kinetic sculpture” Nebula, which was hung at Harlan Crow’s hotel back in October. Reason I mention it: Wired shot about 100 hours’…
