In the annals of local meteorological-teevee history, Mike Burger never achieved the renown of, say, a Harold Taft. Or Troy Dungan. Or David Finfrock. Or Rebecca Miller, even. Still. He’s had two swims through Dallas — first in 1989, when he went to work at KDFW-Channel 4 (a stint that…
Moments ago, Angela Hunt posted to her blog her thoughts on yesterday’s Love Field concessions vote — which, she says, needed to be voted on yesterday rather than dragged on another week, as some council members had wanted during the hours-long debate. The reason: A delay “would not bring greater…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: North Central patrol officer are currently pursuing a stolen Chevy pickup that was taken in a carjacking. That is all the information we have at this time. We will not know anything else until the pursuit ends. KDFW-Channel 4, of course, has…
The only person more obsessed with the fate of downtown-based Blockbuster than I is Fast Company’s Austin Carr, who’s spent the last two days posting an extended Q&A with the company’s head of digital strategy, Kevin Lewis. Yesterday’s interview was the more provocative of the two parts: Lewis went after…
This afternoon, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio forwarded a memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to Mayor Tom Leppert and the council last night, in which Suhm broke some news: She found an extra $1.8 million with which to fund the city’s rec centers, whose hours she’s proposing to drastically…
Speaking of library branches …Let’s return for a moment to the subject of vacant city buildings, chief among them the branches that have been replaced by new-and-improveds (like, say, boarded-up Walnut Hill and that canvas Casa View). Because when last we spoke with City Manager Mary Suhm about the subject…
An intriguing invite just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box: On November 6, the Park and Rec Board is hosting a daylong summit at the Fair Park Music Hall, during which Mayor Tom will deliver a keynote before the limited-to-500-attendees go in their separate directions to learn how to become…
Late last night, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that this morning Mayor Tom Leppert would be inviting media to the City Hall Flag Room to announce that Comerica will be “adopting” the North Oak Cliff Branch Library with “a large donation.” Said the note, “It will be in…
Late last night, after a long day sluggin’ it out with the council (Carolyn Davis especially) over those Love Field concessions contracts, Mayor Tom Leppert sent out a conciliatory congratulations e-blast with the subject header “Love Field decision will benefit Dallas.” The decision, for those who missed it: The city…
We’ve all been hearing for months that upon Dallas Independent School District students’ return to school next week, they’d find among their lunchtime offerings considerably healthier dishes than the slim pickings of yore. But with first bell but days away, and not much time before that ol’ game of “Bring…
‘Round 3 on Monday afternoon, the day after crews coated the hothothothot stainless-steel playground at Main Street Garden, Andrea was supposed meet Park and Rec officials to see if they were satisfied with the cool-down offered by the spray-on. She waited an hour, had a tea at the Lily Pad,…
Following up the Poor People’s March on City Hall in June, activist John Fullinwider (seen above “as” Mayor Tom) and his band of bikini’d protesters took their fight to save the city’s swimming pools to 1500 Marilla at noon sharp today, as promised. Alas, this time ’round no council members…
My old pal Tearlach Hutcheson just called to say the Studio Movie Grill has decided to shutter its first location, the original Addison outpost on Belt Line Road. Matter of fact, after 12 years in operation, it’s closing tomorrow night — right after the last reel of the last screening…
The great Dave Levinthal decamped from the City Hall beat in the spring of ’09 for the Center for Responsive Politics, where we find this item of some local interest: Emmitt Smith, freshly minted Pro Football Hall of Famer, is also a generous federal-campaign contributor — the only one among…
Countless times, Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander has said: The district has no plans to raze W.H. Adamson High School, due for an expansion sooner than later. But the district also doesn’t want the historic Oak Cliff school designated as a city landmark — which, after tonight’s meeting…
Patrick Michels will be Our Man at City Hall today, liveblogging the portion of today’s council briefing having to do with Love Field concessions (hey, he asked). But there is something else of interest on the agenda today: Storm Communication Improvements, referring, of course, to how Oncor gets out to…
I spoke yesterday with a high-ranking City Hall monitor who says that based upon the feedback council members are getting at their budget town halls, a tax hike “actually might happen,” since a 1-cent increase would go a long way toward sparing proposed cuts to rec centers and, just maybe,…
E arlier this afternoon, Dallas Symphony Orchestra president Doug Adams told Dallas Morning News classical music critic Scott Cantrell why he’s leaving within the next 30 days: “I’ve been trapped in a real estate deal I can’t get out of,” said Adams referring to a home in Denver, where his…
My wife and the 7-year-old who lives in our house happened to be downtown close to 12 sharp and stopped by Thanksgiving Tower for Project Bandaloop’s noontime show, which went off a little earlier than originally announced; hence they missed the whole thing, then opted not to stand in a…
Based on Friend of Unfair Park PeterK’s morning e-mail, I tracked down a copy of Dave Zirin’s Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love. Peter hadn’t seen the book but wondered whether Tom Hicks makes a cameo. It’s much more than that: Chapter 15 is titled “‘What’s…
Turns out our own Patrick Michels is a bit, well, obsessed with the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells — as in, “I haven’t broken in there … yet.” He was just out there a couple of weeks back, matter of fact, just to see the place. Which is why, after…
Now that we’ve identified and solved downtown’s parking problems, here’s the second doc posted to the Downtown Dallas 360 site yesterday — the 48-page August 2010 Steering Committee Presentation, which breaks down downtown into five areas in need of some TLC: the Main Street District, Farmers Market, South Arts District,…
