You remember Chad Lacerte, right? He’s the man behind the Dallas Watersports Complex, which had the full support of the Dallas City Council was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority sunk it, claiming it wasn’t in the best interests of the residents of West…
First thing my dad said to me this morning: “Don Meredith died.” Sure enough. An awful sad day. Dad, a Mustang grad, found out from one his closest friends — Don Woodward, an All-American swimmer on the Hilltop and Meredith’s next-door neighbor when they attended SMU. Turn out the lights…
On Friday we sneak-peeked that proposed $2-million economic development grant proposal intended to “support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Before Wednesday’s vote, the council’s Economic Development Committee is slated to take up the subject in mere moments; here’s the PowerPoint prepared in advance of their chitchat, which you…
Chapter 31, Section 31-35 of the Dallas City Code already provides definitions for coercion (“… to approach or speak to a person in such a manner as would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person is being threatened …”) and solicitation (“… to ask, beg, solicit, or plead,…
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…
Last month we listened in as Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing played Memorial Auditorium in downtown Dallas on November 29, 1972. This morning, we go back four years earlier — to when Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton came through town on Cream’s farewell tour, hitting Memorial on…
The memo, just in from Dallas City Hall, speaks for itself. Meters or private lots only. Well, hell, read it for yourself. Weekend listening tomorrow morning. Me, I’d start with this.Parking at City Hall Memo…
Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth filmmaker who tends to Bobbie Wygant’s archives, was sure he had in the stack o’ tapes an old interview with Leslie Nielsen, which we had planned to post earlier this week. Alas, he dug and dug but came up empty-handed. But Erik more than makes…
Speaking of historic landmarks …For more than a year, the Dallas Independent School District has been fighting the Landmark Commission to keep Adamson High School from being designated as a city landmark — so much so that in September ’09, the board passed a resolution that said, in part, “any…
Back in August we discovered that at long last, 508 Park Avenue — the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded — had a savior: next-door neighbor First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. But almost four months later, the church has yet to seal the…
On the other side is the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, in which the Texas Rangers detail ” a series of significant improvements in the video, technology, and audio systems at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the 2011 season.” (None of which involve Cliff Lee.) The…
So much for North Oak Cliff not needing City Hall …On Monday, the council’s Economic Development Committee will discuss an “economic development grant proposal to support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Which is kinda vague till you look at the corresponding item (No. 57, to be exact) on…
I’ll say it again: Having lived in the Love Field flight path for most of my 42 years, what noise? But some of you probably don’t feel the same way — like, for instance, those who’ve called or written Angela Hunt to complain about the uptick in rumble in recent…
No doubt you’re well aware by now that Love Field Airport is undergoing its so-called modernization program. But Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport wants to make sure you’re well aware of the fact it too is about to undergo, oh, seven years’ worth of renovations beginning in 2011. Which is why…
A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us: Mayor Tom Leppert is on today’s episode of National Public Radio’s Tell Me More, along with Utah Governor Gary Herbert. The subject: How Utah and Dallas are leading the economic recovery, per that Brookings Institution report to which we directed your attention yesterday.Listen…
We already know where Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger stands on extending DISD trustees’ terms from three years to four. (She’s very against it.) But moments ago, as the board finally got ’round to discussing the subject, District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall made her case against extending the…
Two months ago, Zynga, makers of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, snapped up Dallas-based Bonfire Studios — one of many such acquisitions in recent months. This morning it held a telephone press conference to announce it’s bought yet another locally based game-maker: Paul and David Bettner’s Newtoy, otherwise known as the…
A couple of weeks back we noticed that The Dallas Morning News would begin offering very special “subscriber content”on December 14, the same date the paper intended to launch its new iPhone and iPad apps. Publisher Jim Moroney wouldn’t offer any further details about DallasNews.com’s banner announcement — “we are…
Moment after a Dallas court date that cleared the way for the sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures, attorneys representing Tom Hicks called it an “extraordinary swindle” and vowed to “apply all of their legal energies toward securing at least $1.6 billion in damages they expect will…
A couple of months back, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples was in Arlington introducing Texas Department of Agriculture’s “Get the Hog Outta Texas” campaign, intended to rid the state of our feral hog population. Said Staples, “Wild, feral hogs are causing tremendous damage across the landscape of Texas.” And so…
… you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian National Team midfielder Oscar…
Vaya con Dios: This morning we received a photo and a press announcement: “Godless Ads Go on Fort Worth Buses December 1.” The image was of a bus with a large exterior banner ad that read “Millions of Americans are Good Without God.” That’s true. Of course, it’s equally true…
