I’ve spent the better part of the morning trying to find out some answers to the myriad questions raised by last night’s Channel 8 piece regarding the fate of Dallas Farmers Market. David Schechter points out: The city has said that the downtown was expected to lose $137,000 during FY2009-10…
Ran into my rabbi last Sunday — David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear — and asked him: “You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I’d like to post to Unfair Park.” He grinned and said sure — grinned,…
Moments ago, I heard some heroic music blaring from Schutze’s office. I walked in and found Jim inches from his computer screen, watching this video over and over and over again, as though it were a porn loop. It’s from Dallas City Hall, a just-posted teaser for the Margaret Hunt…
Brion RandallBased upon the handful of comments that just popped up on this 4-month-old Unfair Park item, some of his victims already know and have been celebrating the news: Brion Randall — the Plano man who, from 2004 through ’09, screwed some 30 folks out of around $6 million –…
I hope you don’t need a face-to-face with Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia or Karl Zavikovsky, head of the Office of Economic Development, any time soon. They won’t be around — instead they’ll be in Madrid, Valencia and Paris between October 2 and 10…
Odd confluence of sports and celebrities today.Like, for instance, this item outta the U.K.: Liverpool native and soccer-movie screenwriter Mike Jefferies has decided to take on Tom Hicks, who, as you’re no doubt aware, is still trying to keep hold of Liverpool FC. As Deadspin notes, Jefferies says he’s rounding…
Click to embiggen the chart that explains the reasons Dallasites hop on a bicycle.Above, that’s another page outta the Dallas Bike Plan online survey to which I referred earlier this week. This one answers the question: “What was the purpose of your last bicycle trip?” And while I’d like to…
Tim Gunn was up in Frisco last night, selling clothes (for Liz Claiborne and JCPenney) and books (Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work), at Stonebriar Centre Mall. From the sounds of our own Danny Fulgencio’s account, the best part of Project Runway made it work and…
I hopped on the city’s website this morning in search of something entirely unrelated when I noticed this: At the top of the page is a reminder that beginning tomorrow (geez, October already?) you’ll need a permit to hold a garage sale in the city of Dallas. Cost: $15. Reason:…
Courtesy Downwinders at RiskA couple weeks back we ran that Downwinders at Risk ad taking the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Governor Rick Perry to task for “conspiring” to keep out of sight TXI’s request to burn plastic trash and so-called “auto fluff” (such as “all the non-steel parts…
Dallas Independent School DistrictRound about this time yesterday, Michael Hinojosa thought he just might be leaving for Las Vegas.No doubt you’ve heard: Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s staying. Not because he wanted to; not necessarily. The entirety of the Clark County School District’s board, save for one trustee,…
Courtesy FOX BroadcastingKyle Killen and Eloise Mumford on the set of the pilot episode of Lone Star (back when it was known as Midland)Kyle Killen began yesterday in Covington, about 90 minutes southwest of Dallas. He was on the set of Lone Star, of course, his FOX series about the…
Let’s be honest: Even if you embiggen this you won’t be able to read the proposed downtown bike plan. It’s ginormous.Whilst, below, some of you debate who’s more dangerous — drivers or cyclists or bears, oh my — this just in from Dallas City Hall: The maps showing the proposed…
Late last week the folks, season-ticket holders at Gerald J. Ford Stadium, had an offer: two ducats to SMU-TCU, which, sadly, I had to decline. Still, I watched and cheered and drank and cheered — Dad’s a grad, after all. Besides, I knew a certain Friend of Unfair Park was…
Courtesy Todd Overman/Dallas Independent School DistrictJade Esquivel, a North Dallas High School teacher and 7-year DISD vet, with Laura Bush following her announcement this morningBy now, perhaps, you’ve heard: Laura Bush was at North Dallas High School this morning to debut the George W. Bush Institute’s first significant initiative, aimed…
Robert Benton, born in Oak Cliff and raised in University Park and, later, Waxahachie, began working with collaborator and friend David Newman on a screenplay about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1964. They wanted François Truffaut to direct their movie; they had, after all, written it for him. But,…
From the WUSS Facebook pageTony Hale, best known as Arrested Development’s Buster Bluth, has a small role as the band director in Clay Liford’s WUSSOnly yesterday we directed your attention to a handful of local filmmakers, musicians and writers looking for a little Kickstart. It didn’t take long for a…
Lewis Wickes HineSix-year-old Odell McDuffey, left, and 7-year-old Sam Stillman on a Dallas street corner in October 1913We first saw this photo of Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman selling newspapers on a downtown Dallas street corner in December 2008, when it showed up on Shorpy accompanied only by the original…
Last night, as expected, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board signed off on that $1.25-billion budget and 20-year financial plan, which eliminates 150 positions and some rail service, as trains will now run every 15 minutes instead of every 10. The good news-bad news details follow for those who follow such…
Click to embiggen the chart that answers the question: “What prevents you from cycling more often?”Hanna biked on over to City Hall for last week’s Dallas Bike Plan meeting, the second and final public forum before the formal unveiling of the draft plan to the council during Cyclesomatic 2010 next…
Last night, if-you-don’t-watch-my-show-we-kill-this-dog Kyle Killen wasn’t the only one waiting to see if more than 4.1 million viewers tuned in to the second episode of FOX’s Lone Star. As Dallas Film Commissioner Janis Burklund noted on her Facebook page shortly before the 8 p.m. kick-off, “Now we all hold our…
Casa Blanca Restaurant opened at Redbird Airport back in ’60 and was there all the way till the ’03 redo, at which point the doors shuttered and the city put out the call for bids. It took a while — five years — but in the summer of ’08 the…
