The Lakewood Theater has been in the reunion business lately, hosting shindigs devoted to The Basement and the original KDGE-FM crew over the past few months. Next up, on October 9, is a get-together of some of the former denizens of the late, great Hot Klub, the old Dallas punk club whose sound was immortalized on the Live at The Hot Klub album on VVV Records. (I actually saw someone wearing a VVV shirt in front of The Green Spot over the weekend.) George Gimarc will MC, Mark “DJ Mr. Rid” Ridlen will spin between bands, and the Devices, Quad Pi, Telefones, Superman’s Girlfriend, Barry Kooda Combo, Big Guns, Fallen Idles, and the Assassins are all scheduled to play. Highly recommended.
Just now seeing this post. I don’t know what to say. Except that you should hate the game, not the player who plays that game.
You can read the filing for yourself, but Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages is suing District Attorney Craig Watkins because it claims his Fair Park Bail Bonds is in arrears to the company to the tune of about $16,000. Zac got the DA on the phone, and Watkins told him that he was unaware of the suit, that he would look it up, and that he hadn’t dealt with Southwestern Bell since about 2002. The suit alleges that the original promissory note was signed by Watkins in 2005.
Are you black? Are you single? Then BlackPeopleMeet.com and the Steve Harvey Morning Show want to help you get your groove on. (Do people still get their groove on? Is it clear that this promotion is not aimed at me?)
A FrontBurnervian raised the question to me about the Tollway going to 70 mph, and, frankly, I had forgotten that in 2000 the EPA had forced the NTTA to lower the speed limit by 5 miles to 60 mph. As best as I can tell from this report, the guys on the Tollway Authority seemed to have worked really hard to find other ways to meet emissions requirements, and the new electronic technology with the tollway entrances helped. (Reading the report, however, reminded me of the almost inhuman patience required to work with or for the government in any of its forms.)
1.In Dallas City Council news, while the current members are mostly accepting of the proposed cuts in services to address the city’s $190 million budget deficit, former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill was allegedly very accepting of kickbacks from minority contractors who got jobs based on the pressuring of developers.
2. Virgin America, the low-cost airline, is considering opening routes to Dallas and Austin. You may begin your “I’m flying Virgin” jokes in three, two, …
3. Frisco will fight its school district rating of “recognized,” because it thinks it deserves “exemplary.” This is because they deserve it. Even if they didn’t quite make it. Because it’s not fair. I mean, it’s Frisco.