We were all tied up yesterday and couldn’t make it out to the unveiling of the new model for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park — a marked improvement over its bare-bones predecessor. Nevertheless, Joanna Singleton was kind enough to send over this photo of the model, which you’re more than…
So insists the Texas Jewboy and former gubernatorial candidate in a piece penned for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, the headline of which is “Why Democrats Should Blame Themselves for the Tea Party.” Friedman, who lost to his bid to become the Democratic nominee for agriculture commissioner last month, writes of…
Forthcoming before the day’s out: my interview with Kyle Rote Jr.But before that, a soccer legend overseas — Steve McManaman, who spent most of his storied career playing for Liverpool FC before his controversial departure for Real Madrid — has spoken out about the amount of dough-re-mi Tom Hicks wants…
So says this video made by the city of Dallas — which, as Patrick Michels pointed out a few weeks back, has stepped up its efforts to wipe out graffiti. Catchy, sure, though I look forward to the video aimed at those engaged in “Satanic/Hate” graffiti…
Moments ago, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its report Worst Governors, which claims to serve up “in-depth analyses of 11 elected officials who have pushed their states’ best interests aside in favor of their supporters, families, political parties and bank accounts.” And, yes, Rick Perry’s among…
Last week, while looking for something entirely unrelated on PACER, I stumbled across a federal lawsuit filed by Dr. Matilda Saenz, who, for the last five years, has been the vice president of instruction at Mountain View College. One week ago today I asked Dallas County Community College District reps…
Frank Librio, in the Public Information Office at Dallas City Hall, just forwarded along the following memo sent today to the members of the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee:…
Back in December I directed your attention to The Tobolowsky Files, a podcast during which a certain Kimball High School and SMU grad offers a serialized account of his life story. The “final” episode of the first “season” ran a couple of weeks ago; in it, Stephen talks about coming…
I see Clusterflock lifted one of Danny Hurley’s picture from our Festival of Balloons slide show — can’t imagine why they chose this one. Oh, yes I can: “Dirk Nowitzki’s balloon nose looks like male balloon genitalia. Thank you for providing tonight’s nightmare.” Poor Dirk. First this. Then this. Now…
It began as an art installation-slash-political statement at the clusterfudged intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street in Oak Cliff: the Better Block project, which thumbed its nose at Dallas’s antiquated City Code. And it was a great deal of fun for all involved — those…
After yesterday’s dust-up over the weekend removal of trees at Elm and North Harwood Streets, a few downtown-dwelling Friends of Unfair Park are a bit skittish. Hence, the myriad what-the-what e-mails we’ve received over the past hour asking about the removal of eight elm trees on Main Street between Pearl…
Still waiting on The Official Online Trailer for FOX’s The Good Guys, which’ll be shooting ’round town till July. But one week after we brought you the 45-second clip airing on the network, a Friend of Unfair Park sends word that a second, shorter and altogether different teaser has found…
When I first began posting those Lewis Hine photos of Dallas child workers, taken in the fall of 1913, I pointed your direction toward the work of Massachusetts historian Joe Manning, who runs the Lewis Hine Project and has spent the better part of the last several years trying to…
Mark it down: 2 p.m. tomorrow, George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building. That’s when the Fifth Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments for case No. 05-09-01170-CV — otherwise known as In the Matter of the Marriage of J.B. and H.B., otherwise known as the Dallas gay divorce case. No…
Dr. W.A. Criswell Speaks of a New Sanctuary for First Baptist Dallas from First Dallas on Vimeo.It was back in November we first learned of First Baptist Dallas’s plans to remake downtown in its own image. A few hours ago, First Baptist posted the video above, a virtual fly-through of…
Just left a message for Kyle Rote Jr. congratulating him on his pending induction into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, which was announced quietly last week but is making the rounds today. Suffice it to say, he was my childhood hero — a native son (of a local…
So, regarding those missing trees at Elm and North Harwood:They’ll be back. Don’t know exactly when. But, says Lincoln Properties’ Laurie Garcia, who manages that corner lot at Elm and Harwood for the Boston-based owners, they’re planting new ones “as soon as possible.” And that corner, she insists, will be…
It must be follow-up Monday — because, in a moment, a peek at the new-and-improved corner of Elm and Harwood. But first, regarding Sunday’s heads-up about 7-Eleven’s getting into the beer biz, earlier today 7-Eleven spokesperson Margaret Chabris sent along The Official Press Release, which follows after the jump. She…
Saturday morning we directed your attention to plans to turn IndustrialRiverfront Boulevard into a “complete street,” as it’s being presented to the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee tomorrow. But as a Friend of Unfair Park pointed out moments ago, at least one group thinks the city’s being disingenuous,…
If it feels like City Hall’s been debating the issue of how to tear down blighted properties within historic districts since forever, well, it’s only been … what … almost two years now? Which doesn’t mean the City Attorney’s Office is prepared to give up: At noon today city staff,…
This is what this corner of Elm and N. Harwood Streets looked like before this weekend. Per the heads-up on the Dallas Metropolis forum, this is what it looks like now. Dwyane Wade, apparently, needed the space. Reminds Noah Jeppson, who took the photos and let us run this one…
Maybe you’ve seen the latest issue of Newsweek on newsstands — that cover’s hard to miss. It’s kind of the all-Texas issue, matter of fact, with Evan Smith contributing this piece about the hubbub over the high-school social-studies curriculum and Daniel Gross’s essay about how “the Texas turnaround may help…
