When I called earlier this afternoon, no one in the City Attorney’s Office had yet seen the freshly minted copy of Judge Elizabeth Lang-Miers’s opinion in which the 5th District Court of Appeals tossed out attorney Andy Siegel’s writ of mandamus filed on July 2. So, at the moment, no…
Back in March, you may recall, cab drivers at Love Field were none too pleased with the city council’s decision to give compressed natural gas-powered taxis front-o’-the-line privileges at the airport. A month later, the Association of Taxicab Operators went to federal court to block the city from implanting the…
This morning, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas’s senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Clifford, left a comment in Monday’s item concerning the church’s pending purchase of 508 Park Avenue, the beleaguered downtown site in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and, legend has it, Charlie Parker once recorded. Clifford’s office…
Somewhere under a pile of books in the office is a copy of Park Cities author Kim Gatlin’s Good Christian Bitches, which I may finally have to read based upon this Deadline Hollywood exclusive: Darren Star — creator and exec producer of, among others, Sex and the City and Melrose…
Many thanks to the several Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded along Austin American-Statesman PolitiFact Texas’s editor W. Gardner Selby’s list of Texas Influencers — which consists of the 50 most-powerful Democrats and Republicans in the state.Not all are presently working in Texas — like, oh, former Dallas Mayor Ron…
Alas, Rudy beat me to it in pointing out that someone at Dallas City Hall posted to the city’s official Facebook page this morning two pics taken from the very tippy-top of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. But Rudy opted for the view of the city (I can see my…
I know where Andrea’ll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD’s calling a “Sexual Assault Awareness…
Soon as I stumbled across that News & Tech piece noting that The Dallas Morning News is set to begin charging for staff-generated online content, I asked the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, if that was true. At 9:02 this morning, he responded via e-mail. This is what he…
The Texas Rangers are out of Chapter 11 and Tom Hicks’s hands, but that website devoted to the prepackaged bankruptcy remains alive and well weeks later. New filings are being added to Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site every day, including two docs detailing how well the team’s doing –…
It’s no secret the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are “facing some financial challenges,” as AT&TPAC chair Howard Hallam told Unfair Park a few weeks ago, following the resignation of president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen. Not long after Nerenhausen turned in his adios so too did…
Below, two Friends of Unfair Park wonder if the shuttering of the Angelika Film Center in Houston yesterday is a sneak preview of bad news heading for the Dallas and Plano locations. Good question. So I asked Ellen Cotter, Angelika’s Manhattan-based chief operating officer — who’s in Houston at this…
At this very moment, the City Attorney’s Office is awaiting a verdict in the 4-year-old case of City of Dallas v. TCI West End, involving the demolition of the MKT Freight Station in the West End in ’06. The trial lasted two weeks, and word is both sides put on…
I just sent an e-mail to Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney. I asked him one simple question: Is the paper about to start charging for some online content? Because that’s what a report from something called News & Tech says this afternoon:The Morning News’ strategy will include…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: What’s with all the bulldozering at Malcolm X Boulevard at Interstate 30? Well, I responded, if I’m not mistaken that’s the site of Larry James and Central Dallas Ministries’ “center of hope,” which we mentioned back in March — that 3.6-acre multimillion-dollar development paid…
A few minutes ago I spoke with LIG Assets Inc.’s founder Jeff Love, who says, why, at this very moment he’s “writing an offer” on the former Statler Hilton, which, we discovered Friday, Love wants to buy and rehab. “The owners should have it today,” he says. “Now, I don’t…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park “The Big Guy” directed our attention to a Jalopnik item in which a security guard for Dallas Auto Auction is seen treating someone else’s Corvette ZR1 like it’s his very own hundred-thousand-dollar Hot Wheel. For whatever reason, said security guard not only recorded his burnout…
On the other side is the now-famous(ish) CNBC piece from June, in which Julia Boorstin asks Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes: “Will you file for bankruptcy?” — to which he responds with a smile and an elusive answer about how this has been a rumor for the last 18 months and…
This morning, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert talks to something called The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about why Dallas “is on a roll.” It reads, in part, like a Mayor Tom best-of — part personal history (“I was raised by a single mother in Arizona”), part success story (“Later, I left to…
On the other side is this week’s packet of memos sent to the city council and Mayor Tom Leppert last night, a little later than usual. It’s a hefty stack, in large part because some council members had questions about Elgin B. Robertson Park, which Suhm has proposed selling to…
Earlier today, a Friend of Unfair Park sent the most curious heads-up: Something called LIG Assets Inc., a real-estate and oil-and-gas company fronted by an investor named Jeff Love, says it’s going to rehab the Statler Hilton Hotel across from Main Street Garden. Love says on the LIG site that…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends a note: The You Tube’r known as “cringevenom,” who has an unusually large collection of vintage Dallas broadcast-TV and cable-access videos, has returned to the virtual airwaves with a series of recent postings — all of which feel like lost Saturday Night Live sketches…
Willis Winters, assistant director of the city’s Park and Recreation Department, says, with a laugh, that it took him all of 30 days to write his forthcoming Fair Park history. He signed the contract with Arcadia Publishing in March, under the assumption that it wanted the book in time for…
