I spent way too much time this afternoon on this Web site devoted to the 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car — which, if you haven’t figured it out by now, was a Cadillac Eldorado. But that’s only because I spent way too much time inside a 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace…
It’s a complaint that’s been made repeatedly since the AT&T Performing Arts Center made its October bow: The buildings are beautiful, but the spaces in between — “a Cobb salad of unrelated elements,” in the words of the late, great David Dillon — leave something to be desired. To that…
Last week I noted that a fairly significant wakeboard event — scheduled to be held at the long-in-the-works Dallas Watersports Complex on Fish Trap Lake — had to find a new home, after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled a Sybil and told Chad Lacerte thanks but no thanks after giving…
Based on a demand for injunctive relief just filed in Fort Worth bankruptcy court, it looks like Chuck Greenberg’s just about had it with Tom Hicks, Hicks Sports Group and the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners. Best I can tell based upon my limited legal experience, most of which comes from…
If you’ve ever dreamed of working long hours for no pay and don’t want to go into journalism, then gather ’round …NBC’s Chase, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starts shooting in and around Dallas tomorrow, and while it would appear Cache Casting has wrapped its extra look-sees for now, the company…
When I spoke to City Manager Mary Suhm on Friday, she reminded: As she works to cutgut $131.1 million from the FY2010-2011 budget that’s due to council next month, the numbers change “every day.” Why, she said, at the end of last week “we got a good sales tax check…
Last night was The Big Night — Jerry Jones (and Rich Dalrymple, the Dallas Cowboys’ director of public relations) took his turn on HBO’s Entourage, where Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold tried to sell Jeruh and other NFL team owners on letting him broker the next round of TV rights. That…
In May 2009, Highland Park High School grad Wendy Kopp’s Teach for America — which gives recent college grads a five-week crash course in teaching before dropping them in low-income urban and rural schools — sent close to 100 rookies to Dallas. DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa celebrated their arrival in…
Back in May I directed your attention to what remains my favorite Stones live comp, much of which comes from two Tarrant County Convention Center shows on June 24, 1972. Here’s its exiled companion, which, till recently, I’d only heard in bits and pieces, and maybe with good reason –…
One week ago, as you no doubt recall, attorney Andy Siegel filed a writ of mandamus in which he claimed, among other things, that the organization formerly known as Progress Dallas did not garner enough legit signatures to trigger a local option election concerning the off-premise sale of beer and…
DC9 in SPACE: Robert Jones from Dallas Observer on Vimeo.So much to get to before closing out this wet work week, including Elliot’s recap of his day with the Westboro Baptist Church-folk and some legal matters concerning the wet-dry election. But first …Only a few folks have been cast in…
So tweets New York Post baseball columnist Joel Sherman. To which MSNBC adds this concerning the pick-up of the Seattle Mariners pitcher:There is no report yet as to who those others may be. Given Texas’ financial issues, it’s possible that they could be veterans in salary offsets or it could…
Elliot Kaiser and Danny Hurley are out covering the Westboro Baptist Church’s protests today, and Danny sends back two quickie photos from the first stop at the Dallas Holocaust Museum downtown, where some two dozen members of the Phelps clan were greeted by what Danny guesstimates were 75 counter-protesters. They’re…
“Painful. Painful, painful, painful, painful.”That’s what City Manager Mary Suhm said when I asked her earlier today how it’s going as she works to gut the budget before council’s return next month.”Painful.”As I noted below, I wanted to talk to Suhm about some e-mails I received this morning dealing with…
One week ago today I received an e-mail from a “large stockholder” in Blockbuster — a gentleman high on the movie-studio food chain, as a matter of fact. He copied me on a missive he sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he asked what in the wide,…
When I was on the phone with city archivist John Slate yesterday, talking about his Historic Dallas Parks book, I asked him about something else he’d mentioned in May — the city’s recent acquisition of “several hundred vintage images of the Dallas Farmers Market — really, really cool ones that…
This morning, there were several e-mails in the Unfair Park in-box concerning City Manager Mary Suhm’s latest suggestions for cuttinggutting the budget of the Dallas Public Library system. Two I’ll need to set aside till Suhm calls back (she’s in meetings all morning). But others direct our attention to a…
Spent a little time Thursday talking to city officials about the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority’s $5-mil loop through downtown. And, almost always, our conversations ended with the person on the other end saying, “You really need to talk to Keith Manoy,” referring to the city’s senior transportation planner and a…
As I mentioned in January — upon the publication of Historic Dallas Hotels and its accompanying postcard set and Park and Rec historian Sally Rodriguez’s White Rock Lake — Arcadia Publishing has long done a bang-up job documenting Dallas’s history. To that estimable collection add another title: Historic Dallas Parks,…
Whilst combing through the Internets for an Unfair Park item, I just came across this job posting: “Host Ticket Top 10 (Full-time) Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket.” No kidding? I called Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, to see what the what — like, did Chris House get fired?…
Update at 4:47 p.m.: The City Attorney’s Office just sent a statement concerning Robert Groden’s lawsuit and his efforts to sell his magazines and DVDs at Dealey Plaza. It’s in full on the other side, but here’s an excerpt:Robert Groden has no written agreement or permit from the City to…
Morgan Lyons, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s spokesman, and Jay Kline, DART’s streetcar liaison with the city, were kind enough to forward along this map of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority’s “0.65-mile urban streetcar track extension,” just announced as the $4.9-million recipient of a federal Urban Connector Grant.As DART submitted the…
