Didn’t intend to end the day with three (or four, if you will) auto-related items, but that’s how we roll:First, this breaking news courtesy KTVT-Channel 11: Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, now President Obama’s trade representative, was injured in a car wreck in Grand Prairie this morning. No word on…
On Christmas Eve we bid farewell to the Pate Museum of Transportation just outside of Fort Worth, the first museum I can recall my classic-car-rebuilding, auto-parts-selling father taking me to when I was a boy. A good Friend of Unfair Park — and a very good friend of the Pate…
A good Friend of Unfair Park, through a friend of a friend of a friend, just shot us this extraordinary video captured early yesterday morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Took place at the north toll plaza, which served as a launching ramp for one drunk driver trying to exit…
We’re clearly big fans of UTD’s Greg Metz — not for nothing did we once bestow upon him our Best Visual Artist award. In doing so, we claimed that “his art carries energy and a bit of controversy,” which so happened to include a certain work done in a certain…
Yup — says so right here. The Maple Ave. location, that is. Elliott’s has been there since ’84, 37 years after Jerre and Kathleen Elliott turned an old house on Maple into a hardware-etc. institution. Says The News story, the family-owned-and-operated establishment just down the street from Unfair Park HQ…
OK, so by now we’re all clear on one thing: The Business Council for the Arts’ downloadable downtown tour was always intended to be focused on one thing and one thing only: public art. That, says Greg Brown, program director for the Dallas Center for Architecture, “was the way it…
Took a few days, but last night I finally got a call back from John Weis, head of investor relations at Kansas City-based Entertainment Properties Trust, which owns the building that has, since May 1995, housed the AMC Grand 24. On Thursday, AMC said it’s outta there by no later…
This, if I am not mistaken, is the very National Public Radio story that introduced me to Jubilant Sykes, the classically trained baritone who crossed over to pop long before Renée Fleming released her controversial new Dark Hope. Sykes, who’s performed at venues as varied as Carnegie Hall and the…
For those who missed it: Yesterday, in the comments of the Downtown Dallas 360 update, Brother Bill Holston wondered if there was a “walking tour” brochure for those interested in touring downtown architecture. A little later in the day, Business Council for the Arts’s CEO Katherine Wagner chimed in with…
Well, so much for the Lily Pad opening today in Main Street Garden.Rudy notes that Park and Rec has sent word that someone kicked in the park eatery’s bathroom door last night, which means that certificate of occupancy will have to be put on hold till repairs are made. Which…
I called over to the Dallas County Commissioners Court a few minutes ago to get an update on clean-up efforts at the Records Building, which flooded last night following a water main break. Good thing I called too: Peggy Lundy in County Judge Jim Foster’s office said she’s just about…
Turner Courts, Dallas Housing Authority’s 58-year-old public housing project on Bexar Street, has long been on the city’s to-do list. Just a few months ago, the city council’s Housing Committee took yet another long, hard look at Turner Courts in the hopes of using 2006 Proposition 8 Bond money just…
So says Charity Navigator today in a press release announcing The Most Charity-Conscious Cities in America — we’re right there at No. 3 on the highest-rated-cities list, so barely behind No. 1 Pittsburgh and No. 2 Houston (Houston). So, to all those who give till it hurts, a hearty mazel…
It’s been a long while since MIG posted any new Downtown Dallas 360 updates — trust me, I look at the Web site, oh, once a week as MIG begins wrapping up the doc due to the city council by no later than August. But on Friday morning the planners…
Like I said last Thursday, the Texas Education Agency would probably prefer it if the Dallas Independent School District held off on announcing school ratings based on TAKS scores till, ya know, July 30, when the TEA officially releases its 2010 Accountability Ratings. But school’s out in a few days,…
Back on March 22 we told you about Michael Riddle, the former senior employment manager at defense contractor DynCorp International’s Fort Worth outpost who claimed in court docs he was fired last September for being a whistleblower. Specifically, Riddle alleged in Dallas federal court papers that DynCorp took millions from…
I tried to retrieve something from Dallas County’s Web site this morning only to discover that, sorry, it ain’t responding. Two seconds later, I found this Associated Press story explaining why not: The county’s Records Buildings is underwater — at least, the basement is following a downtown water main break…
This morning in the Sports Business Journal, Daniel Kaplan recounts the wild doings in the Fort Worth courtroom where, at the end of last week, the Texas Rangers, their creditors and Major League Baseball squared off in Round One of the Chapter 11 Showdown. Unless you were in the courtroom,…
It’s too late to bid on the photo above — it’s a couple days past closing time. But good news for those of who don’t tire of these detours into Dallas’s ancient history: No one bought this picture (going for a lousy $24.99) of a grocery I’d never heard of…
Yesterday — which is to say, shortly before The Dallas Morning News ran this press release fromprofile of Tom Hicks — Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directed our attention to the Facebook page Liverpool FC Is Being Bled Dry – You Can Do Something About It. There I found, among…
Upon hearing the news of Dennis Hopper’s death from prostate cancer at the age of 74 this afternoon, I dug up a 1990 Daily Texan interview I did with the writer-director-actor upon his return to the USA Film Festival, where he was being feted as its Master Screen Artist. He…
In July of last year, and again last January, we mentioned SMU’s partnering with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image — a device otherwise known as “Panoptes,” short for “Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce…
