Before the auction, an update of sorts: This afternoon I got an e-mail from Michael Roach, the FOX Broadcasting publicist charged with publicizing The Good Guys. I’d sent him a note Saturday about the fate of the show, which, as we noted yesterday, is in some dispute. To which he…
Yesterday ’round 3ish, the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I stumbled into the recently reopened Millennium in Deep Ellum, a couple of doors down from Lula B’s. And as he sat on the antique exerbike parked outside, a horde of nattily attired cyclists pedaled past, headed down Elm…
Local law enforcement agencies have scheduled two press conferences this week — one at the Jack Evans this morning, another at the Kroger on Mockingbird at Greenville Wednesday. Long story short: DPD wants to get the word out two programs coming down your chimney at this, the most wonderful time…
We can look at CQ Press’s just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way — based upon the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports that include “the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft,…
Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, sends word this morning likely to be hailed as good news for riders of the Trinity Railway Express: Starting December 6, the fare zone boundary is moving two miles west — from the West Irving Station in Dallas County to the CentrePort/DFW…
On January 10 of this year The Dallas Morning News ran a lengthy obituary for Hugh E. Prather Jr.: “one of the last surviving icons of the early 20th-century Dallas real estate industry, a former civic leader and a longtime Highland Park resident,” wrote Steve Brown. Hugh Jr., who died…
Spent some of yesterday trying to get the answer to that question, following a note from a good Friend of Unfair Park with ties to the show that said it looks like Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford won’t be bustin’ punks as Dallas PD detectives for a second season. But…
Earlier this afternoon, Dallas Police Department spokesman Warren Mitchell sent word: Shortly before 7 this morning, security guards at Fountain Place downtown called 911 after espying what considered “a threatening note” affixed to a scooter in the underground parking garage. Mitchell’s narrative suggests that at least one person at Fountain…
Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he’s still — still — writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and…
Perhaps you’ve heard: One week ago today, a real estate holdings company controlled by Stan Kroenke — owner of the St. Louis Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche and husband of Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton — purchased the moonscape at Walnut Hill Lane and N. Central Expressway, about which we’ve…
It was but one week ago today that James “Big Bucks” Burnett announced he was, at long last, opening his Eight Track Museum on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum on Christmas Day, but of course. At the same time he announced his new eight-track label: Cloud 8, which will release…
Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don’t wanna be scanned. And they don’t wanna be gate-raped. That’s the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole, which you can…
Back when we HQ’d downtown in the old KLIF building on Commerce, plenty of old-timers made note of the fact that, why, just across the street, matter of fact, was the old Cellar — the Dallas outpost of the Fort Worth mainstay that opened in ’59 and birthed most of…
Speaking of City Archivist John Slate and the Dallas Farmers Market …Maybe you remember: Back in May Slate told us the city had recently gotten its hands on “several hundred vintage images of the Dallas Farmers Market — really, really cool ones that show what an active place it was.”…
Word o’ the day today on the Urban Dictionary: “gate rape.” As in: “The TSA airport screening procedure.” Perhaps some students in Cle Elum, Washington, will find it on their chalkboard this morning, following their teacher’s recent pass through DFW International Airport. Please turn to Page B1 of this morning’s…
[Update at 10:23 a.m.: The judge’s office sends word that Ron Slovacek was found guilty on all three counts of the superseding indictment — counts 10, 12 and 19, to be specific. More details to come.]The staff’s all tied up at present, which means no one’s able to head down…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park found this old newspaper cutout here. It’s an ad from the October 4, 1911, issue of the Dallas Times Herald, and, as you can see, it promises quite the something special — then, certainly, and now most definitely. Our Friend, a history buff…
This arrived in the in-box mere moments ago: an invitation to The Formal Unveiling of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan, the first holiday party of the season. After all, you paid for the plan (close to a million, once you factor in the late-addition parking study), so you might as…
On the other side is the announcement from Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor, which is about to scoot to Victory Park. Long story short: Cumulus Media is moving its four local radio stations, including The Ticket and KLIF, into 20,248 square feet of empty next door to the American Airlines Center…
On Sunday we took a look at the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, just as they were getting their finishing touches following some issues with a contractor that tried to cut corners. At which point Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, told us the…
It’s been no secret that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra could use a little classical gas right now, following a season that left the DSO with what some guesstimated to be a seven-figure deficit, a few high-profile last-minute cancellations and chief operating officer Paul Stewart taking the president’s baton from the…
Yesterday I joked: Since the city can’t find anyone to take over Dallas Farmers Market, maybe Tom Spicer and I would just go ahead and take the keys. But Spicer — the man behind Spiceman’s FM 1410 on Fitzhugh, beloved seller of produce to chefs professional and amateur alike, and…
