You’ve probably noticed — it’s been a long while since it significantly rained ’round these parts, which is why the National Weather Service has issued an elevated fire conditions warning for most of North Texas, including Dallas. The NWS also warns: “Drought has rapidly expanded across North and Central Texas…
Back in August we sneak-peeked the Dallas Independent School District’s new-n-improved school menus, which offer a few more healthier alternatives than in recent years. But the district has long said this is just the beginning of the beginning, pointing to the passage of the $4.5-billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of…
Michael Lacey is the executive editor of Village Voice Media. And he is not one to hold his pen when he feels injustice has been done. Hence, his e-mail in which he demands to know:Where are the First Amendment’s establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers…
Meant to get to this a few days ago, when a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to Walmart’s Fighting Hunger Together website. Long story short: Walmart, in conjunction with the Food Research and Action Center, is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide. But it’s handing out…
Several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we directed your attention to National Public Radio’s piece on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, which aired on Morning Edition as a way of showcasing the blue city in a red state. A couple of minutes in, a certain Observer…
In case you missed it, here’s the entirety of last night’s 60 Minutes segment about the Dallas Cowboys’ owner and general manager. The takeaway: Jerry Jones thinks he’s “smarter” now as GM than he was when he bought the team. Oh, really? Really. On the other side, a bonus “overtime”…
Before it takes off on its holiday break, the city council will, on Wednesday, take a look at the three themes consultant Gensler is proposing for the new-n-improved Love Field Airport’s terminals. Gensler, which has experience from Jackson Hole to JFK International, lays out its case for each in this…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent some mugshots of a man named James Huffer Jr., who was arrested in the wee small hours of this morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway — till he took off in a DPD squad car, which he drove to and…
After the death of Lauren Huddleston in October, when a cyclist crashed into the jogger along the Katy Trail, and a car-and-cyclist collision two weeks later, council member Angela Hunt wrote that she’d met with city staff and Friends of the Katy Trial to “address trail safety for all users.”…
And speaking of Chris Frantz …Happy Almost Anniversary! And where were you on December 11, 1978? The Palladium, perhaps? (The original, that is to say — near Abrams and Northwest Highway. You know, the Agora.) Lucky you — that was the night the Talking Heads played Dallas for the very…
When Patrick recounted his trip to the Lakewood last week for that sneak preview of Thaddeus Matula’s Pony Excess, the 30th of ESPN’s 30 for 30 docs, he also posted the trailer for the film about the events leading to SMU’s receiving the NCAA’s death penalty on February 25, 1987…
Yesterday, in the comments to the item about the city’s new-and-improved panhandlingsolicitation ordinance, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Syd Nancy wondered: “Will this affect the JFK Conspiracy Guy who sells stuff down by the Depository?” Syd’s referring to Robert Groden, who’s currently involved in a legal tussle with the city…
Yesterday in Dallas County District Court, attorney Andy Siegel — who, from the very beginning, has contested the citywide off-premise sale of beer and wine — filed an amended version of his November complaint. It reads much the same (he says city called election without enough valid signatures to do…
Back in June, you may recall, downtown oil man (coughnotreallycough) Alan Todd May was caught in San Francisco, to which he’d fled following a filing by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that said his Prosper Oil & Gas but little more than a front he used to steal, oh,…
I did indeed take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Texas last night for its official re-opening, where Mayor Tom declared that the Oak Cliff movie house is “just as important” to the cultural life of Dallas as the Wyly or Winspear or Meyerson, how ’bout that…
In case you missed it, over on DC9 earlier this week I posted my interview with Chris Frantz, the Talking Head whose Tom Tom Club will release a live album on Big Bucks Burnett’s eight-track-only Cloud 8 imprint early next year. Frantz and wife Tina Weymouth will attend the release,…
Back in March 2009, the Office of the City Auditor released that damning report about the state of the Dallas Municipal Court. To which Angela Hunt, chair of the council’s Judiciary Committee (for now), responds with this update, which says, long story short: “Over the last year and a half,…
Ex-Channel 5-and-8’er Scott Pelley has, from the looks of it, been in and out of town this year working on his Jerry Jones profile airing Sunday on 60 Minutes. The sneak peek above provided by CBS offers a good look at the “agony” of defeat (after defeat after defeat) endured…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who once directed our rapt attention to this Miss Dallas, was kind enough to send along this for-sale photo on the eBay: burlesque dancer (maybe) Lettie Mae Etier, photographed by long-ago local Paul Mahoney, who, according to the Handbook of Texas Online, “had discovered several…
If you need me this evening I’ll be at the Texas Theatre for the ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially marks the re-opening of the Oak Cliff landmark. Scissors come out at 5, and it should be an intriguing shindig: Not only will Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Delia Jasso be…
We are 59 days from kickoff of Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, and The Great Prostitution Invasion of ’11 only feels like a long way off. But, no — time to party plan. And yesterday, this invite arrived to a three-night-stravaganza at Fair Park starting February 3 called, simply, XLV…
On Monday we sneak-peeked the ordinance creating those so-called Solicitation-Free Zones in downtown, Deep Ellum, Uptown and Victory; yesterday, with little to say other than “yay,” the council approved the revision to the City Code, adding to the existing law a $500 fine for panhandlers and extending its enforcement hours…
