Here, to start your morning, a few highlights from today’s 858-page council agenda, which we’ll begin with a shout-out to Brad Kirby. Surely you remember him? Back in January, Kirby went down to Dallas City Hall to tell the horseshoe about his stolen dogs. He proposed an ordinance that would…
As I mentioned Monday morning, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board met this afternoon to begin mapping out in earnest the coming 20 years set to be set back by the looming sales tax receipt shortfall. Morgan Lyons, DART spokesman, just sent a recap of the bad news announced by the…
Sadly, we were unable to attend D-Spotting Downtown Dallas’s Membership Forum wingding this afternoon at Union Station. So I asked Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, if he could provide the mayor’s remarks: “The State of Downtown Address.” And so he did, along with the official release from…
The 6-year-old who live in my house and I try to spend at least a little bit of each Saturday exploring different parts of the city, which is how, among other things, he’s ended up collecting pieces of what’s left of Little Baghdad, taking pictures of spray-painted cattle before hiking…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: What in the wide, wide world of sports is up with this job listing on the Texas Workforce Commission’s Web site:Experienced Journalist / Reporter(s) with work experience in the greater Dallas – Fort Worth market. Prefer 10 or more years experience in journalism, both…
Friend of Unfair Park Kyle Rains was kind enough to send us this photo he took of the great Burton Gilliam last night at the Woodrow Wilson High School Senior Dinner, which was held at the Lakewood Theater. The co-star of, among others, Blazing Saddles, Back to the Future III,…
The Texas Film Commission just sent word that tomorrow at 3 p.m., Mayor Tom Leppert and Governor Rick Perry will be joined by 20th Century Fox TV execs at Dallas City Hall to announce “additional television series coming to the Dallas area.” Which begs the question: In addition to The…
Three things, among many, overheard at last night’s private Elvis Costello show at the House of Blues: 1) “I’m not familiar with Elvis Costello, but it beats staying in my hotel room.” 2) “There’s a lot of money in power transmission couplings.” And, 3) “You guys really need a convention…
A Friend of Unfair Park just sent some terrible news: Jupiter Lanes, that beloved old alley off Jupiter and Garland and home to the tremendous Hangin’ Tens Beach Bar, is closing on June 3. I’ve left a message for majority owner Chuck Lande, but an employee there confirms the 52-year-old…
Whilst Daniel and Sam wrap up some end-o’-day items, let’s direct our attention to the follow-up videos that follow, all which I found on Vimeo today. It’s quite the hodgepodge.But let’s begin with Jim Moroney, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, talking about the state of the media business to…
OK, so the Lily Pad eatery in Main Street Garden wasn’t open Saturday for the Homegrown shindig as originally hoped for. Not to worry, says Kourtny Garrett, senior vice president of marketing for DowntownDallas: She tells Unfair Park this morning that Doug Brown — the acclaimed chef behind Beyond the…
Moments ago, John Blake, exec veep of communication for Your Texas Rangers, sent word that there is, at long last, a plan in place that will finally give Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express control of the team. And, yes, it does involve “a voluntary, ‘prepackaged,’ court-supervised process…
Greg Meyer, you’ll recall, is the former managing director of DVDXpress waging a proxy war for a seat at the Blockbuster board in advance of its shareholders meeting downtown next month. CEO Jim Keyes has already said no way no how does he want Meyer on the board, no matter…
The Girl on Top has asked to liveblog this afternoon’s meeting of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, given that the staff’s now overrun with downtown dwellers and a topic of conversation is the Central City Long Range Transit Planning (though why we’re concerned with transpo issues in…
I’ve got just a few nits to pick (naturally) with the (first annual?) Homegrown Music and Art Festival held yesterday at Main Street Garden, but they’re for another time and another place. I prefer instead what an old friend of mine said with great sincerity and a big grin four…
I mentioned this one in passing one Sunday morning in early March, but with this week’s super-duper-deeeeeluxe reissue of Exile on Main St. I figured it was worth a revisit. Besides, you never know when it’ll disappear again — and by “it” I refer to the soundboard sorta-kinda soundtrack to…
Allow me to clean out the been-meaning-to-get-to folder …This morning I made mention of Jerry Jones walking out of the Marriott Marquis in New York City last night with two Sports Business Journal awards: Sports Exec of the Year and Sports Facility of the Year. Which is relevant to this…
After the jump is a DPD-provided video in which at least two men are seen trying to kick their way out of the front door at the golf shop at the city-owned Tenison Park Golf Course on Samuell Boulevard. Turns out, they actually broke into the place on May 9,…
Surely you’re aware that down in Austin at this very moment, the State Board of Education is getting ready to vote on changes to the social studies curriculum taught in public schools. And if a few members of the SBOE get their way (S’up, Cynthia Dunbar? How’s it hangin’, Don…
I envy John Slate most days — after all, as the city archivist it’s his job to dig deep into Dallas’s history, where I am but mere enthusiast and dilettante. It was Slate who last week found something once thought lost to the dustbin of history: that animated 1970 feature…
Speaking of the city’s $131.1-million shortfall …That very subject came up last night at the first DISD Budget Town Hall Meeting held at Walnut Hill Elementary, where school district staffers, principals and board members far outnumbered parents. (There were, maybe, 10 people in the audience not employed by the district.)…
A couple of times in recent days we’ve linked to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s list of maybe-coulds offered as fund-raising suggestions to a cash-strapped city council that just doesn’t wanna raise taxes. But have you really studied the document? Like, say, the part about how Suhm thinks City Hall…
