Been a while since we’ve had much to say here about the big re-do out at Mineral Wells’ Baker Hotel — the 82-year-old wellness resort that, fingers crossed, is soon to be resurrected by a team including Jeff Trigger, who led the Stoneleigh makeover here in Dallas.But the occasion of…
I’d been all ready to settle in for a lengthy City Plan Commission meeting this afternoon, conditioned by months of long waits before commissioners got to talking about the things I’d come for — old favorites like gas drilling or food trucks — but today they took each of those…
Today, of course, as we mentioned over the weekend, marks a fair-sized milestone in the city’s rich and storied tradition of urban plan unveilings, with a two-part ceremonial drop of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan. In keeping with the public-private partnership-ness of the whole thing, the good folks at MIG,…
A month ago, Robert offered a lamentation for what’s become of this Borders in Preston Royal, where the kids books had been replaced by board games, the music section was two CD bins, and an entire wall had succumbed to an especially invasive strain of Decision Points. Today, though, along…
Regular Unfair Park contributor and not-so-long-ago photo intern Danny Fulgencio was passing through the town of Bowie last weekend, on his way back from a shoot, when he spotted some smoke on the horizon.When he pulled closer, he found a few of the town’s volunteer fire fighters tending to a…
A week ago, we mentioned that Denton lawyer Evan Stone (not to be confused with, you know, Evan Stone) had run afoul of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Citizen in his case against hundreds of anonymous folks — known only by their IP addresses — for illegally downloading the…
Seems like just yesterday the City Plan Commission took up XTO Energy’s second application for a specific use permit for gas drilling on city land — this time along Camp Wisdom Road near Joe Pool Lake — and quickly put off its decision for three months.But that was November, and…
If you were happy enough to see last week’s nasty weather keep the unruly Super Bowl crowds out of town — or safely contained in their hotel rooms — for a few extra days, well, you probably don’t own a restaurant. Or maybe you own a restaurant inside a hotel.Either…
Far as we know, the storied North Dallas breakfast spot humbly named Mecca doesn’t really serve 20-pound cinnamon rolls. Not yet, anyway. Update: They were closed last night when I called, but as Dawn points out in the comments below, Mecca DOES have these 20-pound rolls. Read on after the…
Down at Dallas County Commissioners Court this morning, where the fire marshals were out to keep the overflow crowd at bay, County Commissioner Marine Dickey’s move to keep Bruce Sherbet running county elections — under a two-year consultant’s contract — opened the door to a half-hour airing of the grievances…
Dallas’s greatest invitation to eat way too much food, and zero meat, is back again for a third year, coming up at Spiral Diner’s third anniversary celebration in Oak Cliff on Sunday, February 20. Spiral tweeted the news late last month, and I reached Sara Tomerlin this afternoon to confirm…
Our first mention of Denton lawyer Evan Stone and his court fight against porn pirates (recall: not that Evan Stone, though we heard he was in town this weekend) centered on his case representing Germany’s Mick Haig Productions, and their Cassavetes-esque family drama, Der Gute Önkel. Four months later, that…
But for the name of the party at Samuel Lynne Galleries last night — the Super Soiree — you almost wouldn’t know this was Super Bowl weekend. Tough to get away with a name like that any other time. But amid an otherwise empty Design District, there was the valet…
Not much chance you’d run into an ET camera crew, an Entourage cast member or Cee Lo at Samuel Lynne Galleries last night. But, then you also wouldn’t walk out of the place smelling like Axe.The gallery hosted its $600-a-head Super Bowl Eve “Super Soiree” in the otherwise empty Design…
List the things you might expect to see in the front row at a show by The Fray, and a fistfight would probably be one of the last things you’d come up with — lower, even, than a “Presented by KXT…” banner. But there it was last night, two songs…
Time to take off your cheesehead and pack up your terrible towel—you’d look foolish trying to get them through security before you board the plane for home. Wedged into that little airline seat between two big dudes spilling over your armrests, you’re alone now with your memories—the big game, the…
Be Our Guests We’re Getting the Hell Out Anyway On behalf of the Host Committee For Pimping Out the Super Bowl, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Dallas. It seems as though we have been waiting forever for you (and your debit cards) to get here. That’s…
Speaking of drinking …Across an icy stretch of Young Street from City Hall this morning, an intimate media bunch huddled up at the Bud Light Hotel to hear about the biggest danger on the roads this week — worse than the weather, worse than slow-rolling cabbies: the drunks. Charlie Cloud,…
Almost as soon as Gasland nabbed one of this year’s Academy Award nominations for best documentary, industry groups rushed out with a fresh wave of criticisms of the film and director Josh Fox’s argument that natural gas drilling is spreading new health risks across the country. I reached Fox by…
All day Monday, Super Bowl XLV Press Row at the Sheraton downtown was filling up, as the best and the brightest out-of-town media checked in, grabbed their credentials and settled down with a bag of Cheetos at their Dallas bureau-for-a-week. Earlier in the afternoon, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano treated…
While that box of files might’ve stolen their thunder this morning, at least 200 sign-toting cabbies were back at Dallas City Hall this morning, marching ’round the reflecting pool to yet again complain about the preferential treatment given compressed natural gas-powered cabs at Love Field, where the city allows them…
If you thought you’d heard the last from the City Council on gas drilling for a while, well, think again.Originally, the council was going to approve, without much, if any, discussion tomorrow a resolution by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport board relating to the gas drilling on the property. The…
