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2010 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

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  Love This Love Field Mini-Doc That Looks at Airport's Past and Animates Its Future

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Last night, at the suggestion of a Friend of Unfair Park, I went over to the Love Field Modernization Program website to watch a nearly seven-minute-long look at the what was and what will be at the c... More >>

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  Man Who Killed Himself After Unsuccessful N. Dallas Bank Robbery Was DPD Officer's Brother

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What's up with all the police carsr I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Po... More >>

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  If You Didn't Save Your Old LaBella & Rody Cassettes, Well, Today's Your Lucky Day

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Into the wee small hours of Christmas Morning I cued up some Freddie King from January Sound in March '75 -- "Hideaway," to be specific. At which point a caller rang up The Ticket request line with so... More >>

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  Speeding Through Dallas's 2010

  published Dec 27, 2010

  I'm a sucker for the locally shot time-lapse video -- I blame it on way too much Koyaanisqatsi as a kid. Hence, this offering: You+Dallas's time-lapse best-of, a highlight reel rolled into a whole 90 ... More >>

• Putting the "Green" in Green Line, as Feds Give DART a Surprise Belated Christmas Gift

  published Dec 27, 2010

  A little while ago, the Federal Transit Authority announced that it's advancing around $182 million in New Starts grants to a handful of transit projects already under construction -- and among the sh... More >>

• Speaking of Cleaning Up for the Super Bowl ...

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Down below is that heads-up about the city's plans for giving the city a proper pre-Super Bowl scrub-down -- which, turns out, also merits a mention in the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee's ... More >>

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  Carlos, Among 2010's Most Acclaimed Films, Finally Makes Dallas Debut at Texas Theatre

  published Dec 27, 2010

  I've spent the better part of the last two weeks catching up on films I've missed in recent months (thanks, Unfair Park!), and high on the can't-believe-I-missed list is Olivier Assayas's made-for-Fre... More >>

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  Having a SodaBlast! The City Is Not Screwing Around When It Comes to Graffiti Removal.

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Had a very long, very off-the-record chat with don't-call-him-Graffiti-Czar John Barr late last week, during which he dropped the hint that this week, the city would roll out some new tech aimed at po... More >>

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  Blockbuster Bankruptcy Suit Asks: What Did Carl Icahn Know and When Did He Know Itr

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Blockbuster's slouching toward bankruptcy was easily one of the biggest local business stories of the year; from giant to joke, how the mighty had fallen. But since its Chapter 11 filing early on the ... More >>

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  Dallas-FW, Briefly a Top-Five Contender in $1.5-Mil Food Bank Challenge, Is Falling Fast

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to "like" Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide --... More >>

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  A Christmas Miracle: On Eight Track Museum's Opening Day, Big Bucks Lives Up To His Name

  published Dec 26, 2010

  By the time we arrived at the Eight Track Museum, James "Big Bucks" Burnett's tribute to myriad dead media, some 60 or 70 folks had already come and gone, each one gladly forking over the suggested $1... More >>

• Made a Playlist, Now Checkin' it Twice: By Request, Last Night's Christmas Music Show

  published Dec 25, 2010

  Many thanks to the many folks who tuned in and called in during last night's late-night Christmas-music spectacular, which gets a replay on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) beginning, why, right this very m... More >>

• That's Quite the Noel on Newell

  published Dec 24, 2010

  There were a handful of Christmas-light-viewing suggestions in the Unfair Park in-box this morning -- and how in the wide, wide world of sports did I miss the round-the-corner extravaganza on 11565 Cr... More >>

• Celebrating the Long and "Pretty Impressive" Career of Texas Legend Nancy Lieberman

  published Dec 24, 2010

  It was quite the big deal back in '80, when the Dallas Diamonds of the fledgling Women's Professional Basketball League signed Old Dominion star and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Lieberman to her firs... More >>

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  Tarrant County Judge Delays Release of Surfing Star's Autopsy Till "News Frenzy" Dissipates

  published Dec 24, 2010

  On November 2, as you'll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons's body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothin... More >>

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  Request Lines Now Open For Tomorrow Night's Kosher Christmas Music Show on The Ticket

  published Dec 23, 2010

  If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you've heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I'm yet again hosting a Christmas-music show. Which reminds me of this Darlene Love, um, standa... More >>

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  Sure, Simmons May Bury Nuclear Waste in West Texas. But It Has To Get There Somehow.

  published Dec 23, 2010

  We've noted a couple of times in recent days that Gov. Rick Perry's appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission are but days away from closing comment on Harold Sim... More >>

• Texas Trib Documented Dallas PD, Humane Society's Cockfighting Bust Last Weekend

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The... More >>

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  For Christmas I Got You a Copy of Guy Cahoon's 1933 Sketches of Dallas. Only 300 Ever Made.

  published Dec 23, 2010

  A long while back I'd promised to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a few images from Guy F. Cahoon's Sketches of Dallas, a very limited-run book published by the locally based Authors Press in 19... More >>

• Canadians Tell Plano Oil and Gas Company To Stay Out of Their Territory, Ehr

  published Dec 23, 2010

  The feller in that holiday photo is one Matt Nerbonne, president and CEO of Tycoon Energy HQ'd in Plano. Don't know much about him, except what I learned this morning: Folks in the Canadian province o... More >>

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  Now You Too Can Make the Best Dessert in Dallas: Society Bakery's S'mores Cupcakes!

  published Dec 23, 2010

  In our best-of issue we bestowed upon Society Bakery the honor of Best Cupcake. I've found at least one more person, amongst the multitudes, who would agree: Mia Robertson, who penned this "Dear Bon A... More >>

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  Smokestack Lightning: Since Texas Won't Regulate Emissions, E.P.A. Will Handle Permits

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Surely you're aware of the ongoing battle between the Environmental Protection Agency and Governor Rick Perry over the state's enforcement (cough) of the Clean Air Act. Long story short: The governor ... More >>

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  A Beautiful (and Wordless) Short Film About a Boy and a Girl and Dallas at Christmastime

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Speaking of short films set in downtown Dallas ...About a month ago we were treated to quite the glorious double bill: local filmmaker Jun Kang's You+Dallas dreamlike tour Uptown's Greenwood Cemetery ... More >>

• Two-Time Oscar-Winner Once Made Nutty Short Film About Dallas Sanitation Worker

  published Dec 22, 2010

  I was looking for something completely, entirely, absolutely unrelated on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image's website this afternoon when I came across this recent addition to its back catalog: a ... More >>

• Plan Commissioner Davis on Lower Greenville Plan and Why He's Against Waiving Fees

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Andrea, as you'll no doubt recall, spent most of last Thursday in the City Plan Commission meeting, waiting for them to get 'round to the Lower Greenville Planned Development District discussion. Duri... More >>