Well, just because I keep Major League Baseball’s press-release page up-and-at-’em at all times, and I just noticed this: MLB commish Bud Selig was just presented the first-ever Taylor’s Award — so named for Plano West Senior High School baseball star Taylor Hooton, whose suicide in July 2003, at the…
We’re still waiting for Preservation Dallas’s list of endangered properties — that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preservation Achievement Awards, which will be doled out May 21 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and which…
Back in March, you may recall, the University of North Texas told 38 faculty members at the school’s current Dallas campus that, so sorry, but if they want to work at UNT’s new standalone Dallas campus — scheduled to open in 110 days — they’d have to reapply … for…
Had a long talk with Greg Meyer last night. He’s the guy who owns 645,000 shares of Blockbuster — more than any exec at Blockbuster, save for CEO Jim Keyes, whose stock comes with the title, and more than anyone on the board of directors. He’s the former managing director…
A Friend of Unfair Park now living in NYC directs our attention to The Daily Beast’s compendium of The Most Corrupt States (which several TDB readers are taking issue with, since Illinois comes in way down at No. 47). And, after factoring in such things as the number of corrupt…
According to the Dallas Police Department, 78 officers have been killed since the department’s inception in 1881; the first to die was C.O. Brewer on May 24, 1892. Each year, the DPD pays tribute to its fallen dead during Police Memorial Day ceremonies, which took place today at noon at…
It’s very possible, if not downright likely, that at any second now word will come down that Major League Baseball has seized ownership of the Texas Rangers in order to wrap up the sale of the team to Chuck Greenberg — after which time the creditors will announce that, whoops,…
I just went over to the Dallas Independent School District’s Web site to look for something relating to tomorrow’s school board briefing when I found this: the proposed 2010-2011 budget. I asked DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander if this is the first time the district has posted its would-be budget in…
Tonight, Sotheby’s is selling this untitled 1961 painting by Mark Rothko during its Contemporary Art Evening Auction; it’s expected to sell for between $18 million and $25 million — pocket change. But, according to Bloomberg, it’s also the subject of a lawsuit filed last week in Dallas County District Court…
Two months ago we directed your attention to the fact that the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the city of Dallas had hired, at the cost of $375,000, Baltimore-based Toole Design Group to revamp the antiquated Dallas Bike Plan. Toole has developed bicycle master plans for 16 cities,…
On April 1 the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced the five finalists for the $2 million 2010 Broad Prize, which goes to urban schools that have made the “greatest progress in America in raising student achievement,” and the Dallas Independent School District was not among them. This, despite the…
Your First-Place Texas Rangers take on the one-game-back Oakland Athletics tonight at the Ballpark in Arlington — first pitch in, oh, 15 minutes. After the game, you can switch it on over to CBS for the Late Show with David Letterman, where perfect-gamer Dallas Braden’s throwing out the Top 10…
If your afternoon plans involve heading out to Mountain Creek Lake, and a trip across the toll bridge, you may want to check ahead. According to the Dallas Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Dive Recovery Team was out training at Mountain Creek Lake this afternoon when it…
That’s what promoter Bob Arum suggests to Sports Illustrated today: Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring November 13, and right now, says Arum, “I have reserved the date and both the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and MGM Grand in Las Vegas are available. The cable systems and the satellite providers…
On Friday, when I directed your attention to the rare Dallas movies being screened on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s Web site, I forwarded one in particular to Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy: Report to Dallas, made during the 1950s by the Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission. I thought maybe he’d…
Fret not: We’re running dangerously low on Lewis Wickes Hine photos, taken in Dallas in October 1913 as part of his federally commissioned child-labor abuse series, not yet published on Unfair Park. And I know I said last week’s update on Massachusetts historian Joe Manning’s efforts to find the relatives…
Last night a disturbing e-mail from Dallas police arrived in the Unfair Park in-box: “For your 9:00 news, everything remains the same at the landfill. The searching will cease for the night here shortly and will continue in the morning.” It was the first note we’d received about someone missing…
Yesterday — a full week before networks officially begin unveiling their fall-season lineups to advertisers — NBC said, yup, it’s picking up Jerry Bruckheimer’s Chase. Which comes as a surprise to exactly no one: Bruckheimer’s a franchise-maker, and NBC no doubt hopes his cat-and-mouse procedural about U.S. Marshals runnin’ down…
SMU sends word that David Meltzer, the university’s anthropology chair, is among the 255 members of the National Academy Science not amused at all with those who’ve been trying to dismiss climate change as a … what did D’s Trey Garrison call it? Oh, right: “Man-Made Climate Change Hoax.” To…
While Andrea was having an inexplicably good time at City Hall — where, apparently, it’s open bar during committee meetings now — I was been reading the Brookings Institution’s The State of Metropolitan America report released yesterday. It’s been getting lot of attention, for the most part, because the Associated…
Several weeks ago we directed your attention to plans that would turn IndustrialRiverfront Boulevard into a so-called “complete street.” Two days later, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff called bullshit and said, why, it was no such thing at all. In advance of this evening’s Riverfront Blvd. Public Information Workshop at City…
So say these 29 pages that’ll be reviewed this afternoon by the council’s Quality of Life Committee. In short, city staff says code compliance is faced with three significant challenges: Some parts of the city are more troublesome than others; some have “more complex nuisance issues” than others (including “open…
