Email Author Robert Wilonsky

2010 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

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  For Your New Year's Eve Listening Pleasure: When Sinatra Did It His Way at Reunion Arena

  published Dec 31, 2010

  I know just where my folks were on October 24, 1987 -- sitting in the fifth row for Frank Sinatra's concert at Reunion Arena, as Mom boasted only this morning. And so we wrap this year with a sound tr... More >>

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  City Hall Wants You to Know: It's Got that Whole Cabbie Strike Thing Covered Tonight

  published Dec 31, 2010

  Not sure how much longer I'm here today -- still need to head out and stock up on celebratory shotgun shells and kegs of Natural Ice, and I'm guessing most of you are in the same solar-powered water t... More >>

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  One Way the NBC-Comcast Merger Could Change the Way KXAS-Channel 5 Makes News

  published Dec 31, 2010

  Everything I've learned about the more-n-likely-to-happen Kabletown ... pardon, Comcast-NBC merger I've learned from 30 Rock. Well, OK, not everything: This morning's New York Times alters our attenti... More >>

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  For a Few Days, At Least, An Austin Judge Delays Vote on Harold Simmons's License to Bury 36 States' Nuclear Waste in West Texas

  published Dec 31, 2010

  For those following along, it seemed all but inevitable that Gov. Rick Perry's appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission would sign off next Tuesday on Harold Si... More >>

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  For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Ryan Adams Wants You To Shut the Eff Up and Listen

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Couldn't sleep a few cold nights ago and spent a few wee small hours looking for something to listen to -- something, ya know, just right. One things leads to another leads to another, and next thing ... More >>

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  Rest in Peace, Tom Vandergriff

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Victor Vandergriff tells the Star-Telegram: His father, former Arlington mayor Tom Vandergriff, died at 3 p.m. today at the age of 84. Longtime locals are well familiar with Vandergriff's myriad contr... More >>

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  No Surprises: This Holiday Weekend, DPD to Make Drunk Drivers Offer They Can't Refuse

  published Dec 30, 2010

  If it's a major holiday likely to involve a drink or two or 12, it's time for ... you guessed it: the Dallas Police Department's No-Refusal DWI Initiative! Let's not waste time recapping the what-the-... More >>

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  Harvey Lacey Wants to Rebuild the (Third) World One Bale of Recycled Plastic at a Time

  published Dec 30, 2010

  For the last few weeks, Brother Bill Holston's been on me to write about longtime Friend of Unfair Park Harvey Lacey's save-the-world project -- which, till Tuesday morning, wasn't completely clear to... More >>

• Crime & Punishment & News & Notes

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Some grim news with which to close out the year, almost ...The day after Christmas, Bradley Eyo was found shot to death on Barnes Bridge Road near Lake Ray Hubbard. But Dallas homicide detective and G... More >>

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  With City Staff's Support, XTO To Take Its Gas Drilling Permit Fight to City Hall in Two Weeks

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Patrick Michels is really our expert on the subject of XTO Energy's application for a specific use permit to drill at Hensely Field in far west Oak Cliff, which the City Plan Commission denied back in... More >>

• The Results of Landmark Commission's Courtesy Review of 508 Park Avenue Are In

  published Dec 30, 2010

  While everyone's looking back at 2010, let's glance ahead at the first meeting of the Landmark Commission in the new year, which takes place Tuesday. There you'll find the results of that so-called "c... More >>

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  Beer and Tools and a 4 X 4 Camaro

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Eric Clapp's the Fort Worth filmmaker who curates the Bobbie Wygant Archive, which has given us much to look at in recent months. But he's also the producer of director Coleman Anderson's short film 4... More >>

• A Barking Dog Wants to Take a Big Ol' Bite Out of That Lower Greenville Avenue Ordinance

  published Dec 30, 2010

  From the sound of Andrea's December 16 liveblog from the City Plan Commission, not to mention the myriad other sit-downs Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano have had with Lower Greenville Avenue stakehold... More >>

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  Inside "New" Highland Park Village Theater

  published Dec 29, 2010

  I took the boy to the Highland Park Village Barber Shop this morning, following a particularly cruel trick played on him yesterday at Superchops. Afterward, we came downstairs and ran into original Fe... More >>

• As Virgin America Deflowers DFW, A Few Questions, Such As: What's Nextr And Howr

  published Dec 29, 2010

  At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But me... More >>

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  Still Angry CNG Cabs Get to Cut Line at Love Field, Indie Taxis Staying Home New Year's Eve

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Back in March we were alerted to a cabbie strike out at Love Field Airport, when the members of the Association of Taxicab Operators protested the city's eventual vote that allowed compressed natural ... More >>

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  Dallas Theater Center's Kevin Moriarty Ain't Going Anywhere. At Least Not For a While.

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Back in June '07, the Dallas Theater Center introduced its sixth artistic director -- some dude named Kevin Moriarty, who was, at the time, a theater teacher at Brown University and the summer-season-... More >>

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  Dallas Attorneys Take on Apple, App-Makers in California Federal Court Over Privacy Issues

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Today's Washington Post offers this heads-up: Last week in U.S. District Court in California, Greenville Avenue-based personal-injury attorney Majed Nachawati and West End-dwelling personal-injury att... More >>

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  Serita Agnew Tells GMA She Isn't Buying What Pastor Sandy McGriff Is SellingStealing

  published Dec 29, 2010

  No doubt you've heard the tale of Sandy McGriff, the 52-year-old Church of the Living God pastor -- and a former prostitute with more than 12 aliases, according to the Dallas Police Department -- who ... More >>

• No, Ron Kirk Will Not Change Seats With You

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Flipped over to the Kennedy Center Honors late in the show, just as a certain Arts Magnet grad was foo-fighting over Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed."  And first thing I saw was former Dallas ... More >>

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  Some Trower Power, As We Dig Up Yet Another Komplete KZEW Koncert From Early 1975

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Hell of a time to get (re)obsessed with KZEW concerts -- only, what, 35 years after the factr But when a Friend of Unfair Park sent me chasing after the Peter Frampton show, look what I found instead ... More >>

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  Hopes and Dreams for Dallas in the New Year. First Up: Cookin' Up the Arts District.

  published Dec 28, 2010

  "In Dallas, sometimes we don't look back," says Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District. "It's aiways important to be looking in one's rear-view mi... More >>

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  Bite It, Big Apple

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Again, something with which to occupy your time while we wait on return calls ...This time, it's a New York Post piece that ran a couple of days back from a local scribe of note who writes that no way... More >>

• The Slow Drip of TABC's Beer and Wine Permits

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Last week the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent over that press release listing the two new retailers given permits to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of Dallas. This morning, after ... More >>

• So You Were Looking for Peter Frampton's 1975 January Sound Studios Sessions, Were Your

  published Dec 28, 2010

  While we await some call-backs for items forthcoming ...Last night, in the comments of Monday's KZEW item, someone asked (yet again) if anyone out there had a copy of Peter Frampton's January Sound St... More >>