Just saw this posted on Downtown Dallas’s blog:Downtown Dallas Inc. has completed negotiations with four Downtown liquor and convenience stores to prohibit the sale of “high alcohol content beer and wine” to the homeless. Alcohol related crime was reduced 27% in the City Center in the first quarter 2010. We…
Big breaking news in the world of paleontology today: Back in ’06, Lance Hall, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Society, was out doing what he digs most — rootin’ around for fossils. On this particular day, he was in Mansfield, west of Joe Pool Lake, when he espied something…
Dunno how I missed this, but in the Sunday New York Times there was a piece about FOX’s The Good Guys, which, if I’m not mistaken, is shooting at a certain landmark hotel just down the street from Unfair Park HQ today. Ah, and The Times story was written by…
Every time some local blog posts that In-N-Out’s coming for sure this time swear to God not lying you’ll see, the Unfair Park in-box fills up with missives from the hopeful and the haters who wonder, yet again, for reals? Pretty sure this latest go-round started with a post on…
Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-’11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS — quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the attendant kaboodle,…
Seriously.Update: Here’s Mary Suhm’s more formal announcement to the city council and mayor, via a memo given them this morning:Chief Brown Memo April 28 2010…
The council just wrapped up its discussion of those concession contracts at Love Field — but there will be no vote on them today. The council — which is taking awfully personally the suggestion that it’s not being very transparent — has opted to revisit the subject in June after…
[Update at 3:47 p.m.: Dallas County Commissioners Court administrator Darryl Martin says he did indeed spend most of the afternoon meeting with Red Frog and Michael Cramer, who told me about an hour ago that it was all systems go. Maybe, maybe not, says Martin: “It appears they still have…
Meant to point this out last week, when I first saw the story on Salon. But now it’s made its way to the U.K. — this story of the little train that could … run on cow fat, that is, all the way from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth every…
Still haven’t heard from City Attorney Tom Perkins concerning the legal above-boardness of those no-bid concession contracts at Love Field Airport, which the council will vote on tomorrow. But outta nowhere a a little while ago, yet another e-mail popped up in the in-box from Dallas City Hall spokesman Frank…
The staff was all tied up today and couldn’t make it to the Earle Cabell for Terri Hodge’s sentencing. But the guilty-plea-taking ex-state represenative got a year in federal prison, because U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn didn’t really buy her story that, look, it was all a tax-return…
Oh .. and there’s a Twitter account too. I found them all completely by accident — I was looking for something else about an hour ago, then came across his new Web site, where, yesterday, he (or, ya know) announced the launch of his Facebook page, where the mayor promises…
Just one week ago, Noah Jeppson sent us those photos of that suddenly barren corner of Elm and North Harwood, where Lincoln Properties said it had to remove trees severely damaged by contractors working for New York-based Fuel Outdoor, responsible for that Nike ad. A few hours later, Lincoln’s Laurie…
The filmmakers responsible for the doc about East Dallas fixture Robert Crawford, better known simply as Bob, send word: Days before His Name Is Bob’s debut during the USA Film Festival on Friday at 7 p.m., they’ve set up a new Web site filled with myriad photos, video clips and…
So tomorrow’s shaping up to be a very interesting Dallas City Council meeting: As Rudy Bush wrote yesterday, the mayor’s mighty unhappy with the no-bid concession contracts being doled out to Dallas Love Field Joint Venture and Hudson Retail at Love Field Airport, which council members have been behind for…
Back in February, we directed your attention to forthcoming route changes being proposed by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which is looking to delete “costly duplications,” especially as the Green Line’s grown. From DART docs:For a number of years, DART service planning efforts have emphasized development of a fully integrated bus…
[Update at 8 p.m.: I just texted Michael Cramer to see if he was still in the hearing. He replied, just now, “Yes, judge is ruling now. Event is on. We have to stage parking elsewhere though.” More to come when he can call.Update at 8:51 p.m.: Cramer says that…
… it must be true. Via Burnt Orange Report, here’s some video of Gov. Hairspray and the noted stand-up comic at a town-hall rally in Tyler over the weekend, where Beck and Perry were married by state Rep. Leo Berman. The AP suggests the title of Texan was just, ya…
When last we heard — on March 29, if you’re into specifics — the fountain at Main Street Garden downtown wouldn’t be running but two hours a day (11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day). And how wow is that? But, look, that’s all Park and Rec can afford right…
The Official Press Release isn’t due from Dallas Theater Center for about another hour or so, but why wait when Playbill’s already got a sneak peek at the cast list for DTC’s forthcoming (re)production of It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman, which opens June 18 at…
Update: Mike Bacsik was fired by station management Tuesday afternoon.This just in from KTCK-AM — you know, The Ticket: Mike Bacsik, the former footnote in baseball history who became Norm Hitzges’s producer-slash-co-host and weekend show host, has been suspended by the station. Why come? Well, for tweeting nine little words…
Daniel’s on top of the Dallas Independent School District’s efforts to pay pennies on the dollar to Jubilee Park residents and businesses in order to make way for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary School building. He hopes, before the day’s out, to get some kind of response — any kind…
