Seems like forever ago we were getting our first look at the then-£300-million Stanley Park stadium Tom Hicks was promising to build for his, um, beloved Liverpool FC; ah, the good ol’ days — January 2008, before the cracks gave way to the complete cave-in. Back then, though, Hicks gave…
A Friend of Unfair Park gave me the heads-up: Tune into C-SPAN2 right now, where Mayor Mike Rawlings has the floor for the next several hours. Which is right: Per the agenda for the United States Conference of Mayors’ 80th Winter Meeting, the Dallas mayor is leading the chitchat about…
Till this morning, I’d never seen this 2-year-old Dallas-n-Arlington ad made by Victory Park-based TM Advertising as part of its Texas Tourism package; never had reason. (The Arts District! Souffles! The Dallas Cowboys!) But this morning we get word: The Texas Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism has opted…
Tomorrow morning Mayor Mike, City Manager Mary Suhm and the city council will chit and chat about what they hope to get done by year’s end. Nothing much — just things like, “Improve Dallas’ standing among safest large cities (1M population) from 7th to 5th.” And: “Further develop affordable housing…
The council’s Economic Development Committee kicked off its morning meeting by taking up the Texas Horse Park, which came up $14 million short in private funds but remains high on the city’s to-do list. Hence, as we’ve noted in recent days, Park and Rec and the city manager’s hope that…
Speaking of this morning’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee …When he’s done talking about sinking $750,000 in city funds into growing small business, Office of Economic Development honcho Karl Zavitkovsky will ask the council for $7.5 million in TIF money for The Collective, a proposed $48.3-million mixed-use development…
This is the week Barrett-Jackson auctions off the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field. Me, I’ve got my eye on this sweet ’75 Pacer. But the rest of the car world — or, at least, the 1,200, give or take, who…
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins was mighty proud of himself on February 1, 2011: While everyone else ’round town was bundling up and staying in thanks to the cabin-fever-inducing ice storm, Dallas County remained open for business. (No doubt Jenkins pressed ahead with commissioners court that morning to cut down…
A few weeks ago I spoke with Chris Bishop, otherwise known as the man behind the great website Garage Hangover, which recalls obscure ’60s garage-rock bands so you don’t have to. After a few visits in recent months, I wondered: What fuels his interest, especially given the amount of Dallas…
Last year, you may recall, Brent Brown’s bcWORKSHOP spent the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service by posting ’round town those cutouts intended to raise awareness about how to end homelessness; but in the end, the city didn’t take kindly to their presence, threatening to remove them for being…
A little later than promised, here’s the 44-page Texas Horse Park briefing the city council’s Economic Development Committee will review tomorrow morning. We’ll follow along as Paul Dyer, head of Park and Rec, attempts to convince the council to spend $12 million in ’06 bond funds to build out Phase…
Jason Roberts broke the news yesterday: Israel “Dallas” Torres, 32 years old and an experienced cyclist, was hit by a car Saturday afternoon while riding on the Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct. He was just beginning a 40-mile ride, a daily occurrence, when he was struck: “The impact threw him into the…
The ad you see above, done for German bank ING DiBa, started running two weeks ago and has been online for a month. In it, as you can see, Your Favorite Dallas Maverick walks into a butcher shop and has a nibble of wurst. Says the woman with the meat:…
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 sputters since…
Shortly after the clock struck just past midnight Sunday, Erykah Badu, behind the wheel of a matte black Stingray, led a funeral procession down Main Street — not far, mind you, just from Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard to the front door of PM Nightlife Lounge at The Joule,…
It’s been close to two years since Greg Davis, WRR’s longtime general manager, left the city-owned classical-music radio station — and, remember, he didn’t quit, he retired. But tonight, buried in the stack of docs prepared for next week’s council committee meetings, we find this bit of breaking news: The…
Technically I could have filed this under “Today’s History Lesson,” since most of you who even recall the Texas Horse Park likely considered it a thing of the past. After all it’s been around since the mid-1990s and was included in the $246-million capital bond program for the Trinity River…
Couple of days back I noted that Corinne Hill, the interim director of the Dallas Public Library system since July 2010, is slated to give a talk about “Re-imagining the Public Library in a Post-Recession Economy” when the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting comes to town next week. But she…
This morning a few Friends of Unfair Park asked: Is WrestleMania really coming to Cowboys Stadium? Um … I dunno? Kinda looked like it, maybe: Several popular wrestling websites, including this one, keep saying that WWE’s signature event, which is closing in on its 30th anniversary, is scheduled to take…
While awaiting some return calls I was browsing through Vimeo when I came across this freshly posted — and quite lovely — short about the late, great Metro Diner on Gaston. Owner Wayne Adams locked the door for the last (and damned near the first) time at 2 p.m. April…
For years Flashdancer Cabaret — the topless joint that sits on E. Randol Mill just across the freeway from Cowboys Stadium and the Ballpark in Arlington, or so I’ve been told — has been at odds with the city and state, which have tried their best to shutter the joint…
Late Thursday afternoon, and only because interim super Alan King had a flight to catch, the Dallas Independent School District trustees finally got around to discussing the 2012-13 budget and consolidating — which is to say, closing — those 11 campuses in order to save a guesstimated $11.5 million next…
