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 Simmons’s license application to bury 36 states’ nuclear waste out in West Texas. The commission — consisting of six…
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 I know it’s June 17, 2005, and we’re back at the Gypsy Tea…
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 contributions made during his 26 years (!) in office, chief among them his convincing Bob Short to bring the Washington…
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-whats. Release the release!The No-Refusal Initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 31, 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 me, as it were. But earlier this week, Harvey, who lives up in Wylie, sent me a handful…
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 Garland police discovered during their investigation that Eyo, whose friends have made him this tribute,…
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 late October. But since Patrick’s out of pocket at the moment, I’ll direct your…
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 “courtesy review” First Presbyterian Church of Dallas asked for in advance of its decision to purchase 508…
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 X 4 Camaro, the tale of a local father and son who, with the aid…
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 stakeholders in recent months, the council members’ Planned Development District ordinance has a lot of support, even if it…
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 Fearing’s manager Justin Beam, one of the Twomey Concepts-uals behind the cinema, which shuttered in August ’09 for…
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 mere weeks after Sir Richard Branson’s airline made its Willie Nelson-serenaded DFW bow, BusinessWeek wonders: Will it fly?Branson…
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 gas-powered taxis to hop to the front of the line at Love Field. The ATO eventually took…
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-runner at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York. As he told our Elaine Liner upon his arrival:…
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 attorney Jeremy Wilson filed a class-action suit in which three locals, among others, claim that Apple and the makers of some iPhone apps are invading their…
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 was spotted breaking into congregant Serita Agnew’s house on Christmas Eve and is accused of…
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 Mayor Ron Kirk, now the United States Trade Representative. Clearly, it still pays to be the…
Hell of a time to get (re)obsessed with KZEW concerts — only, what, 35 years after the fact? But when a Friend of Unfair Park sent me chasing after the Peter Frampton show, look what I found instead last night — Robin Trower at the Travis Street Electric Company on…
“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 mirror and, at the same time, keep your eye on the road.”Lill, who kept the wrecking ball away from…
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, no how would he move to New York City, even…
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 seeing this Channel 5 story about how the newly wet are missing out on year-end champagne sales,…
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 Studios sessions from ’75. “I wanna know where the GOLD at,” writes one Friend of Unfair Park…
