Friend of the show Leslie Halleck’s adventures in urban chickening have not gone unnoticed, here or elsewhere. But till today I had no idea she’s actually featured in a well-received, just-published, just-landed-on-the-WSJ-best-seller-list tome on how the Great Recession’s frugaling up America — Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is…
True to his word, John Keaten, who’s handling PR duties for the just-released The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, sent over a few stats about Dallas-Fort Worth that didn’t make the massive doc — involving, specifically, income, education and health breakdowns “by race.” But before you go,…
If you have a few hours to spare, allow me to direct your attention to the Marion Butts Collection on the Dallas Public Library’s Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division website. I came across it by accident this morning and have spent the last hour or so browsing through the 1,800…
Here’s yet another good Friend of Unfair Park-suggested video — this one, a just-posted piece from the fine folks at You+Dallas in which several videographers (including newfound favorite Jun Kang) hop in the passenger seat of Dallas Police officer Jason Groom’s squad car for a downtown ride-along. Groom’s a good…
During my 90-minute FOX stopdown last night — still having a hard time getting around to Running Wilde, which is a decided fall-season disappointment — there were copious teases for the 9 p.m. news recap of the James Martin High School lip dub featuring everyone at the ginormous school. Alas,…
My dad was over this morning, and we got to talking about the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. One thing leads to another, and we’re watching the construction cam, which now tops the Calatrava cam on my must-watch list. Impressive. I called Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, to…
Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research Council. It’s a profoundly long look at the well-being of the country, three components specifically: How smart we are…
Clips from Josh Hamilton’s Interview with Dr. Robert Jeffress from First Dallas on Vimeo.Josh Hamilton, who is second, was First Baptist Dallas’s special guest speaker this weekend. The result is the Q&A above, in which the Rangers’ center fielder talks about getting this close to a title, how he got…
Our Danny Fulgencio accompanied me to Borders this morning; he got there early and stayed late, documenting the scene as some 2,400 folks — well, that’s what Dubya told Rush afterward — waited to meet and greet the X-President, who, by my stopwatch, could sign 17-20 copies of Decision Points…
On May 20, the City Plan Commission gave Bruce Heydarian the okee-doke to plant an enormous scrap yard on Singleton Boulevard and Pluto Street, not terribly far from the Trinity River. Only two commissioners voted against the plan, among them Michael Davis; the rest had no problem with giving Heydarian…
Patrick should be up shortly with more details from Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano’s 10:30 media meet-down on Lower Greenville, where the council members bowed their plans to give this stretch of street “a pedestrian- and family-friendly destination” makeover. But City Hall couldn’t wait any longer to share at least…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews David Letterman from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Late yesterday, Erik Clapp, the fellow slowly but surely archiving all of Bobbie Wygant’s chits and chats for KXAS-Channel 5, sent word that he’d just posted to his website golden-oldies featuring a cigar-smoking David Letterman and Jay Leno. Wrote Clapp, “Since it’s…
Guesstimations put the Borders crowd at 1,500-plus, all save for the VIPs still wrapped all the way ’round Preston Royal Shopping Center waiting for Dubya. He won’t be here till 9, and at present media is penned (even the late-arriving Jane McGarry) on the patio — and me without my…
On the other side’s a letter state Rep. Eric Johnson sent Governor Rick Perry yesterday, in which the District 100 representative asks Perry to apply for federal funds intended to “provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs.” That’s per the feds’ definition…
About an hour ago, Deputy Chief Craig Miller, commander of the Crimes Against Persons Division, held a press conference at Dallas PD HQ to discuss yesterday’s police shooting of 32-year-old Tony Menchaca. At the press conference, Miller outlined the day’s events and explained that Menchaca had just been released from…
If you can’t stop by 2010 Greenville Avenue tomorrow morning, round 10:30, don’t worry — Patrick Michels already has it down on his to-do list. We wouldn’t miss it for the world, not after the thousands of words we’ve virtually spilled in recent months chronicling council members Angela Hunt and…
Back in April we ran that Dirk Nowitzki film festival alluded to in the headline. Cute stuff, especially Dirk as The Dude. Tonight at the AAC, when Your Dallas Mavericks take on the Shaq-less Boston Celtics, debuts another addition to the filmography starring Dirk as Steve Martin as The Jerk…
The city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting just wrapped, with Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez updating the council on the status of streetcars. Read all about it. But in the middle of Gonzalez’s presentation, before questions, Linda Koop dropped this little infobomb: The city of Fort Worth, she said,…
This was just posted to You+Dallas: a video tour of some of the city’s landmarks, the well-known and the oft-overlooked, made using the photos of Justin Terveen. Some of the pictures will be very familiar to the longtime Friends of Unfair Park; others, less so. Enjoy with your eyes…
White Rock Lake celebrates its 100th birthday next year — why, matter of fact, here’s historian Watermelon Kid’s commemorative tee, offered “tongue-in-cheek,” of course. And the city’s got 100 days of events — from regattas and runs to festivals and fashion shows — planned to mark the occasion, beginning March…
A year ago the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles bowed the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, and only a few weeks it rolled out some proposed plates that include one for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Well, just this morning MyPlates sent word that it’s introducing two new Dallas…
Earlier this morning I came across this San Francisco TV report: “Texan to sing at BART station over World Series bet.” Said Texan is actually Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas, who made a bet with his BART counterpart that involved the loser going to the…
