A couple of weeks ago, we were discussing the future of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority — specifically, its plans to create a “connector loop line down St. Paul and up Federal to Olive,” in the words of MATA’s chief operating officer, John Landrum. MATA and Dallas Area Rapid Transit…
I know, I know — it’s a few weeks off. Still, write it down in your Trapper Keeper: Beginning at 5 p.m. that Tuesday, the Dallas Bar Association’s Public Forum Committee is holding a three-hour what’s-up-Dallas at the Belo Mansion featuring quite the foursome: Mayor Tom Leppert, University of North…
Once again, the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site provides us with a wealth of morning must-reads — chief among them, the 12-page objection filed yesterday in Fort Worth bankruptcy court by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Greg Abbott’s objection comes one day…
As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the 6-year-old who lives in my house leaned over and said, “I hope this is funny–not like Toy Story 3.” Now don’t misunderstand: He adored that movie. It’s just that whenever the subject comes up, the first word…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK once more finds on eBay a grainy remnant of Dallas past — this one looks like it was taken shortly after the completion of the Municipal Building. Says the Fort Worth-based seller, who wants $99.99 or best offer, the eight-by-10 is marked “Workers at Dallas…
Tonight Hal Sparks is at the Arlington Improv. But based upon this just-posted Twitpic (headline: “They sell weird books at the Kennedy Assassination museum in Dallas”) and the accompanying video, he’s at Dealey Plaza … right now, people, right now. I hope he runs into Robert Groden. Or gets a…
The Texas Department of State Health Services just sent word: Today it issued a “fish advisory” for the Trinity River — most of it, anyway, and most definitely the part that runs through Dallas. Why come the heads-up? “Laboratory testing of fish samples found elevated levels of dioxins and polychlorinated…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The Dallas Watersports Complex — which was scheduled to open on Fish Trap Lake in West Dallas by no later than September — has been drowned by MaryAnn Russ, head of the Dallas Housing Authority. She’ll revisit the subject later this year. Or next year. Or never…
For the second time in a month, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has canceled a concert due to slow ticket sales. But June’s cancellation was for a “community concert” featuring Jubilant Sykes — an astounding singer, but not exactly a household name. And it came with two weeks’ warning. But today’s…
What you see above is the new bike rack in front of Dude, Sweet Chocolate in the Bishop Arts District — which I mention because, as Bike Friendly Oak Cliff points out this morning, it’s made from 107-year-old streetcar rail. So it’s, ya know, art. Writes Jason Roberts in the…
From time to time, downtown-dwelling Friends of Unfair Park will ask: What’s up with the Continental Building? Not much, of late: Forest City, also behind the Merc overhaul, had been hoping to begin work in ’09, but last May Jim Truitt, Forest City’s vice president of residential development, told us…
In the four years since Farmers Branch has been trying to get that ordinance barring illegal immigrants from renting apartments to stick, the suburb’s racked up $3.4 million in legal fees. And so far, all it has to show for its efforts is, well, an enormous legal bill. But SMU…
Maybe you noticed — over under our Slideshow banner we just posted 14 more photos Justin Terveen took last night at Fair Park … from the roof of the Centennial Building, no less (daring!). Some are of the fireworks filling the sky above the Hall of State; others, of the…
Again, this is Candy Evans’s beat — why, just today she noted over on D’s DallasDirt that the former manse of Eleanor and Nicky Sheets is selling at half off the original asking price after it failed to move at an IRS auction in February. Nevertheless, this just in from…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, just sent word that the mayor has tapped the city’s “homeless czar,” Mike Rawlings, to head the Park and Rec board. (The board president position is, at present, vacant.) Nothing’s official till council OK’s the nomination upon its return in August –…
If I can sneak away this afternoon, I’m gonna cross Oak Lawn and visit Heritage Auction Galleries HQ — just so’s I can touch the hem of one Admiral James T. Kirk. The Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan costume worn by Bill Shatner, and since stored in the…
In advance of the Westboro Baptist Church’s planned return to Dallas Friday, the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with notices of counter-protests being planned. One Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the Facebook page for the Westboro Baptist Church “Welcoming” Committee – Dallas Chapter, where signs…
As promised, the great Justin Terveen is forthcoming with pictures from last night’s jam-packed Fair Park FourthFifth. He’ll need a little while to sort through his estimable stack of photos, but sends in advance this teaser — the Esplanade Fountain filled with park-goers. Reports Justin, when he got there, ’round…
Two years ago, John Crowder was playing basketball for God’s Academy in Grand Prairie and considered one of the top talents in Dallas-Fort Worth. He was 15. Crowder came to the area to escape life in his native Baltimore, where, he says in a 2008 video on The Dallas Morning…
A couple of weeks back we took at look at City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed cuts for the Dallas Public Library system — fewer workers at the branches, shorter hours downtown and more, meaning, of course, less. But libraries are in trouble nationwide, besieged by budget cuts and encroaching technology…
A few items of interest with which to belatedly kick off your work week (lucky):On Thursday we noted that Dallas Independent School Board trustee Carla Ranger has found a new obsession: banishing the minimum-grade policy that disallows teachers from handing out grades lower than 50. This morning, she continues her…
After the jump is a press release that just popped up in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy one Kevin Sullivan, ex-Mavs man and Bush man now doing the talking for Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, who’ll be danged if some auction — which they agreed to for reasons explained below…
