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Lights All Night - Fair Park - 12/29/12 & 12/30/12

Lights All Night Fair Park Saturday, December 29 & Sunday, December 30 I remember when they were called raves -- not that I was ever old enough to attend one, but I remember when these types of electronic music fests were known as such. There was even a whole film subgenre in the '90s that document ... More >>

If You're Attending Lights All Night This Weekend, Be Prepared For the Party to End Early

This year, Lights All Night has expanded to three nights, and is taking over Fair Park, a city-owned venue. On Sunday, the organizers sent out a press release (view below) alerting attendees that there is a curfew. Saturday and Sunday night's shows will end at midnight, and Monday's NYE show will en ... More >>

Lights All Night

Saturday, December 29 & Monday, December 31, in Fair Park

The Six Best Concerts In DFW This Weekend, December 27-30

The Marked Men Thursday, December 27, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, $5 One of Denton's all-time best punk bands, the Marked Men, are playing at Rubber Gloves with the equally formidable Bad Sports, who are in the process of recording a new album. Since their conception in the early aughts, the ... More >>

You Will Soon Be Able to Surf In Fair Park

Here's what we know so far: Fair Park, in an effort to not be a waste of space 11 months of the year, is opening an amusement park. It's called Summer Adventures, despite the fact that it will open next spring. It will have the $11 million, 500-foot Top of Texas Tower. We didn't know until today th ... More >>

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Lights All Night Moves to Fair Park, Expands to Three Nights

Our report from Lights All Night 2011 illustrated a few security and logistical issues at the Dallas Convention Center, so it's probably smart that this year's NYE electronic music festival is moving to the roomier confines of Fair Park. It's also adding an extra day to the schedule, so it will now ... More >>

Listen to Radio Traffic From Tuesday's Police Shooting

It's raw and unedited, but here's a recording of radio traffic on the scene of Tuesday's shooting near Fair Park. It was posted to YouTube by Fire Scene Audio, an operation that apparently records traffic around the country. In the process now of listening to the whole thing. I'll mark interesting ... More >>

The Best Thing To Do with Fair Not-Really-A-Park Is Tear That Mother Down

Dwaine Caraway Knows What Killed Fair Park: 'The Ugliest Roof in America'

Why is Fair Park so deserted? It's a question that has baffled city officials forever, but so far no one has come up with a plan to draw people to the 277 acre fairgrounds in months that don't start with "O." It's a puzzle no longer, because council member Dwaine Caraway, in a lengthy tangent durin ... More >>

You Are Not The Father

Train Museum CEO Says Rolling Stock Will Leave Fair Park For Frisco in Late April

Via.LaPrelle says the Big Boy's move in April has prompted calls from all over the world.​Got a call this morning from Bob LaPrelle, president and CEO of the Museum of the American Railroad, which, as you're well aware by now, is due to roll out of Fair Park to its new digs in Frisco. I'd left him ... More >>

What Some Locals Want in a "Complete Street." (Hint: More Lights, Trees and Buried Utilities.)

​Speaking of "complete streets" ...For many months now City Hall's been trying to wrap its head around the Complete Streets concept in the hopes of finishing up a street-design manual and implementation how-to's by year's end. Which is why, beginning last fall, Sustainable Development began worksh ... More >>

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

​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 unloved?Daniel Huerta, Fair Park's exec general manager, and Park and Rec head Paul Dyer, actually came to the Quality of Lif ... More >>

Shake. Rattle. Roller Derby.

The Top 10 Awesome Things to Do This Week

The Observer is out today and it's jam-packed with juicy events -- enough to keep you moving all week long! Here are some highlights for must-do activities: Thursday, January 26 What To Wear: This free happy hour fashion show's got everything from snacks and cocktails to giveaways and celebrity hos ... More >>

Since You Gotta Spend Money to Make It, City Looks Outside For Help Growing Small Biz

​Far as Dallas City Hall's concerned, it's hard out there for a small start-up, which is why it's spent years loaning and granting money to businesses via, say, the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and the Southern Dallas Development Corporation, both of which have suffered their share of sputter ... More >>

The Big Texas Beer Fest is Coming to Fair Park, and Sounds Like it Just Might Work

​Remember when a husband-and-wife team planned a beer festival in Fair Park and everyone was all excited about it but then it got canceled and everyone, aside from a few told-ya-so-sayers, was bummed? Well, once again, a husband-and-wife team is organizing a beer festival in Fair Park. And, wi ... More >>

You Don't Have to Climb a Mountain to Dream

Brian Regan Proves Clean Can Be Funny

Mothers, Drugs and Need

Suhm: Bond Package Is "Absolutely Critical Stuff." Some on Council Have Their Own Ideas.

​City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, again and again, by way of introduction: Today's presentation on the 2012 bond program is very, very, very, very preliminary. There will be many more meetings, including February confabs in every district. The numbers are rough, very rough -- guesstima ... More >>

Kwanzaa, Minus the Feds

City, State Fair to Replace Fair Park Livestock Arena With Fancy "Mini-Convention Center"

Click here to see more of Good, Fulton & Farrell's renderings for the new Fair Park Livestock Center.​The reason I called Park and Rec's second-in-command Willis Winters the other day wasn't about downtown parks. Rather, I was curious about an $869,465 item on the Park Board's agenda for today ... More >>

Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Fair Park As Part of Energy Dept.'s "EV Project"

​The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report's due in 2015, and Dallas is among the 18 citi ... More >>

Drink for Cheap and Watch Top Chef: Texas With City of Ate Tonight at La Grange

​Later tonight, City of Ate will host the third installment of our Top Chef: Texas watching party, and the event continues to get more enticing. La Grange is extending happy hour all night, with $3 wells, domestics and drafts so you can get your drink on nice and cheap. And the taco bar is ope ... More >>

See Them Pearly Whites

Old School Shootout

Live, From Reunion Arena, It's R.E.M. on MTV

Over on Unfair Park a little while ago I said my piece about R.E.M.'s unexpected farewell, conveyed via the band's website, and directed your attention to the band's 1986 stopover at the Fair Park Band Shell -- a must-have on this or any other day. I also reminded Pete about the '95 show at Reunion ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: An Appetite For GNR at Fair Park in '87 and '91

At Fair Park, Via.​I was always told: I shoulda been there the night Guns N' Roses opened for The Cult at the Bronco Bowl September 13, 1987. (Look -- pictures!) Axl Rose even said so upon the band's return to Dallas a mere three months later: "It's good to be back here in Dallas again. I think th ... More >>

After This Morning, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science Is $1 Million Richer

The sixth graders do their thing.​This morning at the Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park, a group of very small people in oversized white lab coats were intently pulverizing strawberries in plastic bags. "Smash your strawberry into as fine a mess as you can," urged their instructor, a con ... More >>

The Other Side of Dallas' Electric Daisy Carnival Story

Some 22,000 people enjoyed the second Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park without incident, but one death and several health scares marred the event.

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Railroad Museum at Fair Park Now Says It Has Money to Begin Building Frisco Site

Says the museum, the Sante Fe Tower that's been at Fair Park since '96 "will be the most challenging structure to move due to its excessive height."​There hasn't been much action in the city's case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which city attorneys took to court at the ... More >>

They're On A Roll

Taking a Spin Around the Texas Museum of Automotive History Parked at Fair Park

Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

So, Matthew Morrison, Tony Romo and Erin Andrews Walk Into a Dinner Party ...

WireImage​No doubt you were too busy to attend last night's Super Bowl shindigs. So once more into the breach -- or WireImage, which has invites to all the best parties. Like, once more, the private Audi Forum dinner party at the Rachofsky House, where Glee's Matthew Morrison found himself amongst ... More >>

Enter Sandman

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Party, Party: Fair Park Will Be Very Busy During Super Bowl Week (and Other Invites)

​A couple of weeks back we passed on our invite to the concerts in the Cotton Bowl during Super Bowl week. But this morning, the Unfair Park in-box offered other options, among them: Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed will be taking over Centennial Hall at Fair Park on February 2 for the Aces & An ... More >>

Fair Park Holiday, a Festival of Lights

Photos by Justin Terveen​We tried to get into Fair Park yesterday for The Big Doings and realized rather quickly we should have ditched the car elsewhere and taken the Green Line. During almost all of Saturday there was traffic for miles (30 was backed up like it was the last day of the State Fair ... More >>

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