Articles for June, 2011
A Short Documentary About the Living Plaza at City Hall
Maybe you’ve already seen this elsewhere. Now see it here.
Living Plaza – Dallas, TX from Aaron Garcia on Vimeo.
Something for Mavericks Fans To Listen To
Here is an audio montage prepared by Grubes for The Ticket’s BaD Radio program. Listen to it now.
Gives me chills.
Here’s What it Looks Like When Your Dallas Mavericks Beat the Miami Heat
Check out last night’s photos from Frankie’s Sports Bar mid-win.
Don’t Call Southwest Airlines a Discount Carrier, Ctd.
An e-mail from a FrontBurnervian reminded me that I’d forgotten to emphasize a significant point in yesterday’s post. While Southwest Airline’s fares certainly remain competitive on nearly all its routes, what the Wall Street Journal piece was really remarking on was that the days are over in which Southwest can be called a cheaper-than-a-bus-ticket, lower-priced-by-two-touchdowns discount carrier. (”Downright frumpy, flying middle managers to Kansas City on bargain fares,” as a new Economist article puts it.) It’s the way that many of us still think of Southwest, though the numbers show that’s no longer what it is.
It’s been many moons since I spent enough time in Europe to take advantage of easyJet or RyanAir, with their truly dirt-cheap flights. I’d forgotten that no airlines in the U.S. really offer services like that. Not that I’m eager to book a flight on which I might well end up having to pay to use the toilet. It’s just nice to have options.
However, we’re forgetting an even earlier phase in Southwest’s history. Check out this ad from about 1971, which brags about the airline’s “executive class service,” “first-class leg room,” and “free cocktails for everyone.” Those were the days, right?
Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend: June 3-5
Oh hey, weekend. I won’t keep you waiting with an amusing* story about my life/ten minute walk from the parking garage this time. Only because the one I want to tell would set off a firestorm of Google alerts. So I’ll just be obnoxiously mysterious about it instead.
Friday
The beginning of the month is always the best time to hit the various museums, with or without kiddos. Admission is free or cheap, and there are all sorts of special activities. And since today is the first Friday of June, that means a trek to Fort Worth is in order. Tonight’s First Fridays at the Modern program brings back the jazz musicians of St. Frinatra and offers a chance to view the family drama/thriller/tragedy Incendies, which Jason told you to go see last week. Do what the man says. Also, the Teresita Fernandez exhibit closes on June 19, so you should check that out too.
Catching Up With FrontRow
Liz will surely be around to give you the full weekend rundown, but here’s an update on what has been going on on FrontRow this week:
There’s some good theater out there, including WaterTower’s Shooting Star and Ochre House’s macabre comedy The Butcher. The Fort Worth Opera Festival is still in full swing. Verdi’s Il Trovatore closes tonight. Handel’s Julius Caesar does Baroque opera justice. And don’t miss Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox.
We also have your gallery openings covered, but of what’s already open, check out the offerings at Conduit (more on their current shows next week), as well as Marty Walker, The Mac, and The Reading Room (by the way, Joyce-lovers keep your eyes open for The Reading Room’s Bloomsday celebration June 16). Oh, and Vicente at the Meadows is rather nice as well.
But if you were me, I’d say spend the next few hot days locked in a movie theater. X-Men: First Class, Paris in Midnight, and The Tree of Life are all well worth your time.
That is all.
Go Mavs.
Missing Helicopter Found at NW Dallas Hotel
A guy from Colleyville has this helicopter, and decides to sell it to a company in Pennsylvania. He hires a guy named “Shane” to drive it to Pennsylvania, but Shane disappears with the helicopter. The helicopter is later found at a hotel in the 2100 block of Northwest Highway, near Loop 12, in Dallas, and is towed to an impound lot.
Maybe I’m missing something, but don’t helicopters go up in the air and fly? I’m no aviation expert, but wouldn’t one (albeit with a few fuel stops) fly to Pennsylvania? And wouldn’t it be faster?
Law Man Walking: Nature Treks With Bill Holston
It’s time for another walk in the woods with our friend Bill Holston. Lace ‘em up and jump. In today’s installment, we learn that Dallas used to look much different than it does today.
Dallas Is 10th-Most Dangerous City for Pedestrians
Between 2000 and 2009, says here, 47,700 pedestrians were killed by cars. The Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth metro area was the 10th-most dangerous place to walk. Let’s be careful out there.
Your Miami Heat Memes Go Here
I’ll start you off. Not sure where it originated from, other than the center of my heart. More more more in the comments, please.
The 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas 2011 is Coming
That’s right. It’s back. Nominations start on Monday. Start thinking of your most dazzling friends. (Feel free to use this as an excuse to scout for pretty ladies over the weekend, too.)
Leading Off (6/3/11)
Sigh. Yeah, you know the score of last night’s game. The big problem? This. Hold me. *
Desoto Kid Raps His Way Into Your Heart. Or something. Anyway, meet Bentley Green. He’s already been on Ellen. He has many videos of his rap songs, but this one is the most salient right now. I suggest we all learn the words by Sunday.
Least Surprising Theft Ever. Seriously – anyone else see this one coming?
Some Federal Workers Make More than Perry. Gov. Rick Perry made $150,000 in 2009. According to a study commissioned by Sen. Tom Coburn, more than 3,000 federal employees in Texas made more than that in 2009. But does this mean the engineers, doctors and other specialists who made this list are overpaid, Perry is underpaid, or that some jobs are harder and require more certifiable book learnin’ then being governor?
MFFL. Beat the Heat. I See You, Big German. Etc. How will you contain yourself until Sunday? What did you think of that stupid pose Dwyane Wade made in front of the Mavs bench, right before they ate his metaphorical lunch? Yeah. Me, too.
*Now, here comes some how the sausage is made stuff, but sometimes we write all or part of these late the night before. And I wrote this during the fourth quarter, when things looked dire. I was gonna change it, but then I thought, “No. I shan’t.” Not because I’m lazy, but because holy crap, that game, right? And, well, obviously me writing of my premature sadness turned the course of the game. You can thank me in the comments.
KXT Hires New Program Director
Yes, I did air my issue with KXT 91.7 a few months ago, but not long after, it improved, by all accounts. There were a few head-scratchers at times, but overall, the station started finding its way back from its vacillation from what it said its mission was in the beginning, and what it briefly became.
When I wrote about my complaint back in January, one of the things you saw in comments was a variation on the same theme: “Why can’t they be more like KGSR in Austin?” Today, the station announced that it hired a program director – Mark Abuzzahab, who was music director at KSGR, natch.
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