A long while ago I made mention of a forthcoming doc about St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church’s efforts in cleaning up and rebuilding Jubilee Park near Fair Park. Then I forgot all about it, till a Friend of Unfair Park sent along this reminder: The 30-minute feature has…
Forthcoming, my very early-morning chat with Mayor Tom Leppert, during which we touched on, among other things, his call for a citywide fake-weed ban, the now-sidelined Dallas Watersports Complex and the fallout from Monday night’s surprise announcement concerning Cliff Manor. But during the interview, I asked the mayor about concerns…
From the September 3, 2004, issue of the Dallas Business Journal, in a story headlined “Projects afoot for South Lamar area” about developer Jack Matthews’s plans for the area around his South Side on Lamar:A 70-room boutique hotel, long Part of Matthews’ vision for the area, is also moving forward…
Late this evening I was poking around the City Secretary’s site to sneak-peek the council’s doings upon its return to work Monday. At which point I noticed that when the Public Safety Committee reconvenes at noon, City Attorney Tom Perkins and Dallas Police Deputy Chief Patricia Paulhill will brief the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission just sent word: In New York federal court today it filed a 78-page complaint charging Sam and Charles Wyly with violating federal securities laws over the last 13 years, during which the SEC alleges the Dallas brothers pocketed more than $550 million in “undisclosed gains.”…
Richie asked Schutze yesterday what he should ask Mayor Tom Leppert, who appeared Wednesday on the sports programme he hosts with one Greg Williams afternoons on 105.3 The Fan. Schutze’s suggestion — something to do with airport contracts at DFW International. Needless to say, that did not happen.Instead, Richie and…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: What the what does Anna Fermanova’s husband do, anyhow? Good question — especially since Fermanova’s attorney, Scott Palmer, says those three high-priced, high-powered scopes she was caught taking to Russia were for a friend of her husband’s so he could get his big-game…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Seven locals, ranging in age from 23 to 60, are accused of setting three fires that caused close to $1 million in total property damage in order to collect a few thousand from the Dallas chapter of the American Red Cross. The…
Update: Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, responds, briefly, to some questions I had for him this morning. They follow after the jump.This morning a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to None Zip Zero, a Web site created by opponents of Dallas Housing Authority’s efforts to…
About five weeks back, the Dallas Police Department warned the under-17s to stay inside after 11 p.m., lest they face a trip to DPD HQ and a call to the folks. Tonight: the sequel! This just in from Sgt. Warren C. Mitchell: The Dallas Police Department will be conducting another…
After the jump you’ll find the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but short story shorter: KTXA will broadcast 15 Dallas Stars regular-season games each season for the next four beginning, well, this season. Most, incidentally, will be Saturday-night games — and all will be in high-def,…
On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley’s “first professional recording?!” The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University of Texas at Dallas prof…
On Tuesday, I asked several city officials one very simple question: Just how effective are these “warrant roundups”? Because, as we noted, bright and early Sunday morning the Dallas City Marshal’s Office will hit the streets yet again to go after scofflaws with unpaid citations, threatening everything from putting a…
On the other side, some light morning reading you won’t find on the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site — eight of the myriad objections to the sale of Your Texas Rangers, which is set to go to the highest bidder on Wednesday. They were all filed yesterday in Fort…
FU NIMBY: Hey, Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, here’s a little unsolicited advice on how to win hearts and minds as you go about your work of sheltering the homeless: If you’re going to flip your fellow citizens the bird, try not to make them sit through…
But five long days ago I directed your attention to Led Zeppelin’s May 18, 1973, stopover at Memorial Auditorium — one, apparently, in a series of Zep-Does-Dallas posts. And while we’ve time-traveled to The Summer of ’69 once or twice before to revisit the band’s appearance at the Texas International…
The Unfair Park in-box has been overflowing in recent days with invites to and reminders for the Red Bull Art of Can exhibition opening Saturday at the Galleria. (Which is? “More than 50 unique pieces — a wide variety of art made from recycled cans, digital media, paint and more.”…
I mentioned this in passing Sunday: The Arizona Daily Star discovered, or so it thought, that Southwest Airlines’s attorneys snuck into its contract of carriage a new definition of “act of God” should you find yourself delayed: “mechanical difficulties.” To which the Love Field-based airline responded that those two words…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office: From the summer of ’05 till December ’08, five locals were running out of three Northwest Dallas houses an “elaborate marijuana growing operation” that was eventually busted up by the Drug Enforcement Agency. They had three houses — one each on…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations just sent word of that a handful of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center in on Mansfield Road in Arlington in recent days have sparked an investigation involving the Arlington Police Department and the FBI. Says the release, on Sunday someone set its playground…
In September 2009 James Bradberry, the owner of the San Francisco Rose, announced the creation of the Greenville Avenue Restaurant Association, which puts on the now-annual Taste of Greenville Avenue event scheduled for October. Which is not the point of this piece: Yesterday Unfair Park received a missive from Bradberry…
This morning the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest look at employment and unemployment figures for Your Major Metropolitan Areas, and when they put the June ’09 numbers next to the June ’10 numbers, look at who comes out on top: “The largest over-the-year increases in employment occurred…
