Email Author Robert Wilonsky

2012 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

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  It's Kinda Like If Woody Allen Made a Short Film in Dallas About Time Travel and Nerds

  published Feb 14, 2012

  I've long been a fan of the great Jun Kang, who's responsible for some of YouPlusDallas's best offerings. This one is no exception. Justin Ransom, who helped shoot the short you see above, kindly drop... More >>

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  A Season (Or So) After Getting Booted From Rangers' Booth, Lewin's Now a Voice of the Mets

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Just dialed into Josh & Elf on The Fan (or, as they're billing it this a.m., "Two Jews and the Flu") to see if there'd be any mention of this morning's news out of New York, where Josh Lewin's bee... More >>

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  Mayor Mike Rawlings Gives Dallas ISD Board, Central Staffers a Lesson In Marketing 101

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Edwin Flores said it a couple of weeks back: The Dallas Independent School District has a communications problem. Which is one way of putting it -- the nice way of putting it. And so, following months... More >>

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  Poor David: Club Owner Sure Would Like to Get Lee Harvey Oswald's Tombstone Returned

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Spent the better part of the morning virtually touring Historic Auto Attractions in Roscoe, Illinois, where, per Roadside America's rave, "the fireplace mantle on which President Truman signed the ord... More >>

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  Addison's New Water Tower Is Also a Power Plant and An Art Project!

  published Feb 13, 2012

  A Friend of Unfair Park dispatches this look at Addison's new water tower, which is presently making the rounds on Reddit. And, yes, those are wind turbines on top -- 10 total, each eight feet tall, t... More >>

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  LINC'd In, Or: Next Up, Trying to Really Connect Downtown Dallas with the Trinity River

  published Feb 13, 2012

  If you've got time this afternoon you may want to dial up the meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, which will hear from Dallas CityDesign Studio second-in-command David Whitley abo... More >>

• The New Yorker's Amazing Tale, Beautifully Told, of How Dallas Wiens Got His New Face

  published Feb 13, 2012

  The latest issue of The New Yorker features the extraordinary telling of a tale with which you're perhaps quite familiar by now: how doctors gave a man from Fort Worth, Dallas Wiens, a new face. Alas,... More >>

• City Auditor Says Dallas Fire-Rescue Isn't Inspecting Buildings The Way It Ought To

  published Feb 13, 2012

  Below is an audit just dispatched by City Hall, which says that for various reasons Dallas Fire-Rescue isn't giving some buildings the proper once-over. Among the reasons why not: The forms they use e... More >>

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  Once More, With Feeling, Questions at City Hall About How to Make Better Use of Fair Park

  published Feb 13, 2012

  We've had this conversation before. And before that. And before that. Why oh why oh why is Fair Park -- "our jewel," in the words of Dwaine Caraway -- so underutilized, so unlovedrDaniel Huerta, Fair ... More >>

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  It's Going to Be Harder to Park Near Lower Greenville Come St. Patrick's Day

  published Feb 13, 2012

  It's gettin' close to the most wonderful time of the year for the Barking Dog -- St. Patrick's Day, which is about a month away. Over the weekend, Avi Adelman posted to his website the city and Dallas... More >>

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  Dallas PD: Still No Racial Profiling Here

  published Feb 13, 2012

  It's that time of the year -- time for the Dallas Police Department to release its annual by-the-numbers breakdown of traffic stops officers made in 2011. Chief  David Brown himself will go to Ci... More >>

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  Before Vote to Help Uplift Sell Less Expensive Bonds, City Council to Get Schooled on Charters

  published Feb 12, 2012

  Below is the charter school briefing the city council was promised last week, but only after the heated discussion punctuated by Mayor Mike Rawlings's fiery call to expand charters -- because, as he s... More >>

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  Teasing Looks at Films About Texas Stadium's Demise, Shepard Fairey's West Dallas Makeover

  published Feb 11, 2012

  Fair warning: Combined, the footage above and below doesn't even add up to two minutes. But I've been meaning to post the former since a few days ago, when South by Southwest first made it available -... More >>

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  What Does Mayor Mike, City's "Plan For Growth in Southern Dallas" Consist Ofr Everything.

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Turns out there's nothing at all random about the day the city chose to debut its Seeds of Change website devoted to Southern Dallas. It comes just three days before Mayor Mike Rawlings unveils his so... More >>

• Wherein We Answer the Question: Whatever Became of Downtown's Man and Pegasusr

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Spent the latter half of the afternoon tracking down a mystery for a Friend of Unfair Park, who wondered whatever became of Man and Pegasus, Carl Milles's 1949 sculpture -- one of six, actually. For a... More >>

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  Why Does Big Bucks Burnett Need Big Bucks to Buy Back His Letter from Pete Townshendr

  published Feb 10, 2012

  A few days back James "Big Bucks" Burnett, proprietor of the world's only Eight Track Museum (for now ...), sent out a mass email asking for help scaring up a few bucks for a letter presently being so... More >>

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  City Says It Hasn't Turned Its Back on Southern Dallas. And Now It Has the Website to Prove It.

  published Feb 10, 2012

  And just the other day I was grousing that Dallas City Hall's yet to plant those long-promised Seeds of Change. But moments ago city spokesman Frank Librio sent word: that "coming soon" is "right now"... More >>

• Vote For These Local "Precedents of the Past" And Score Preservation Dallas $10,000

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Speaking of vacant buildings ...Emily Simon at downtown-based ARCHITEXAS directs our attention to a competition being sponsored by Dwell magazine wherein folks are being asked to vote for their favori... More >>

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  How the City Deals With Its Surplus Properties, And Why It Doesn't Raze Empty Buildings

  published Feb 10, 2012

  This morning I got that list of the city's surplus properties I asked for yesterday -- and it's not a long one, consisting of just four "improved properties" (meaning, they have buildings on them) and... More >>

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  Gas Drilling Activists Send Council's Task Force a Letter and Their Top Five "Proposed Rules"

  published Feb 10, 2012

  When first formed back in June, the city council-appointed Gas Drilling Task Force had hoped to turn into council by November its list of recommendations for an ordinance regulating drilling in the ci... More >>

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  Over Dinner at a Fort Worth Olive Garden, Michelle Obama Heard All About Oak Cliff

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Maybe you saw KXAS-Channel 5 last night -- why, yes, that was Jason Roberts and wife Andrea seated next to First Lady Michelle Obama at a Fort Worth Olive Garden last night. But, but ... how'd the wou... More >>

• Alan Todd May -- Once a Fugitive, Always a Con Man -- Gets 20 Years For Ripping Off Investors

  published Feb 09, 2012

  For the past three decades -- on and off, but mostly on -- there was no swindle too small-time for Alan Todd May. Credit card abuse, theft, check fraud -- however he could make an easy, sleazy buck, ... More >>

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  Residence Evil: DISD Trustees Can't Decide Which Employees Should Actually Live in Dallas

  published Feb 09, 2012

  Container Store co-founder Garrett Boone and the Star Employee Commission told the Dallas ISD trustees last month that the HR department was ... how did they put it ... well, let's just go with comple... More >>

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  Tagged, City Hall. You're It!

  published Feb 09, 2012

  Can't say for sure how long the former fire station on Walnut Hill Lane near Marsh has looked like this, only because I haven't taken Walnut Hill to work since Monday, when it did not look like this. ... More >>

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  The Hopes and Dreams of Downtown Dallas In One 32-Page Annual Report

  published Feb 09, 2012

  The video you seesaw above till it was unceremoniously yanked this afternoon was made by Michael Marco on behalf of Tracy Locke on behalf of Downtown Dallas Inc., which had intended to show downtown's... More >>