WRR Gets House Porn
It happened rather suddenly today — our director of marketing, the fabulous Mary Poe, asked me to fill in for Tim Rogers (as if my Choos could even tap his Cole-Haan’s) over at One Arts Plaza where the D empire is co-broadcasting with WRR the first week of every month. I arrived at the sleek WRR One Arts “studio” to see Adriana Bate sitting on a Barcelona chair and — broadcasting! I did radio so long ago it was the technological dark ages — we had to be in soundproofed rooms with giant earmuff headsets. Over at One Arts, people wandered in and out and I wondered, are we actually on the air? Don’t we have to whisper? Seems not — the mikes are so powerful they probably picked up the sound of my brain cells dying. In any case, it was SO MUCH FUN! Not only did I get to talk about people buying and selling Dallas dirt — oh yes, we were talking about Daria Place big time. I delighted in the guests — particularly Kevin Moriarty, artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center. Kevin was describing the uber coolness we will experience when the new Wyly Theatre is complete — it will pull creative talents from everywhere like a magnet. The seats, he said, will be movable. They can appear. Or disappear. The audience can sit in a traditional auditorium or move to the stage. Seating can also be surrounding the stage, like at a sports event. Architect Rem Koolhaas, a genius with glass, has designed a glass enclosed stage that will be visible to all then can dissappear in a snap — Star Trek images came to mind, “Beam me up Scotty!” Kevin said Mr. Koolhaus told him he was designing a theater machine for Dallas — “and you,” said Koolhaas, “will make great art in it!”
Update: An earlier version of this post, and my interview on WRR, contained information that I had been given from a knowledgeable source who told me one reason why the Bushes bought their new home on Daria Place was that their neighbor, Tom Hicks, had agreed to give them access to his helipad. A spokesperson for Mr. Hicks tells me he does not have a helipad on his property. While Mr. Hicks occasionally obtains a day permit to land a helicopter on his land, I’m now told there was never any official discussion about letting the President and Mrs. Bush “borrow the landing space”.
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