Good Friend of Unfair Park Mark Roberts sent word last night: The full schedule for this weekend’s Rockers vs. Mods shindig is up and running — from the Belmont Hotel to Trees to the Dubliner, with myriad rest stops in between. And, yes, our Danny Hurley will be riding shotgun…

One of the projects most threatened by Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s sales-tax receipt shortfall, announced yesterday, is the second downtown light-rail alignment — the so-called D2 that’s been under consideration since at last the fall of 2007 and which, in January 2008, the Dallas City Council demanded move forward despite…

Maybe this slipped your schedule: They’re taping America’s Got Talent at the Music Hall at Fair Park this week — tomorrow and Friday, twice daily. I only remembered because I happened to see Nick Cannon’s tweet of moments ago (“Catch me spinning tonight in Dallas at the Aura Lounge! It’s…

According to Symantec, Dallas does rank fairly high on the list of American cities “under the greatest threat from cybercrime” — 22 out of the top 50, which makes us the Adam Lambert to Seattle’s Rihanna. There’s one significant reason Dallas doesn’t rank higher: We’re not so connected to the…

Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors met this afternoon to discuss the ramifications of a significant decline in sales tax receipts. Originally, DART had budgeted for $387.8 million; the numbers, according to the transit agency, are presently looking $15 to $20 million short of that. That’s significant because, according…

Like we said last month, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has till August 15 to find a buyer for the 94-year-old Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street. If it can’t, then the Dallas Independent School District will introduce the building to the wrecking ball shortly after that to…

The CNN headline, just posted, says it all: “Census Bureau: Dallas posts biggest population gain.” That’s based on July 1, 2009, population estimates released today, which say that Dallas and Houston gained about 140,000 people each from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2009. (Actually, if you look at the…

I’ve left messages for attorneys Van Shaw (in depositions) and Dan Hagood (in a meeting), so instead we’ll have to go with the Associated Press’s account of yesterday’s court-ordered mediation session between Bob and Jane Cull and Perry Homes’ reps. No doubt you recall: On March 1 we broke the…

Daniel will be along shortly to recap the morning’s doings at Kroger on Mockingbird, where Progress Dallas kicked off the petition drive to flood the dry parts of town with beer and wine. But some of the Friends have asked: Where’s the map showing the dry parts of Dallas? And…

Yesterday I got word that the Dallas City Attorney’s Office and the Museum of the American Railroad were in the midst of hashing out an agreement that would allow the museum to stay at Fair Park till August 1, 2011 — a full year later than the city’s been demanding…

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent us a few photos this morning in a missive headlined: “UFO Over SMU?” Our Friend writes, “We have noticed this round black UFO flying low over SMU the past few days from our office at Lovers and Central. Think any Friends might know…

Earlier this month, we got all we (thought we) needed out of the DowntownDallas annual luncheon at the Sheraton — that new logo, which, no kidding, is starting to grow on me. But I went over to the DSpotters’ Web site this morning to look for something else and found…

The wireless world’s in Las Vegas at this very moment for the CTIA confab — where, just this morning, a former Radio Shack boss (David Edmondson) and ex-Sprint president (Ron LeMay) announced the creation of eRecyclingCorps. Which is, put simply: “The company will help carriers buy back used handsets from…

I’ve been meaning to get to this for hours and was otherwise occupied — drinking, of course, in anticipation of tomorrow’s big day. Schutze’s bestest bud, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall, sent to us media types a press release announcing that the city’s Office of Economic Development Web site…

I’ve been trying to find out for days when Progress Dallas was going to kick off its petition drive — you know, the one that would ultimately lead to Dallas getting rid of its those “dry” parts of town. Turns out, all I needed to do was call Sarah Dodd,…

Looks like the city of Dallas and the Museum of the American Railroad may not lay track to a trial after all, as both parties appear to have agreed that, sure, fine, OK all ready, the museum can move to Frisco by August 1, 2011. Guess it was that second…

I was looking at the meeting agenda for tomorrow’s Dallas Area Rapid Transit board meeting and noticed a couple of items of interest on the planning committee sneak peak, chief among them: If DART wants to get folks from member cities to the Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium come February,…

So says Intuit, maker of Turbo Tax, which this morning released a list of “this year’s biggest tax procrastinators.” For the second year in a row, Dallas comes in at No. 9 on the wait list — which, incidentally, is topped by Houston, so there. And Austin comes in at…

Over the weekend, Newsweek and ProPublica co-published a piece that says, in short: The $6 billion the U.S. government has spent since ’02 training the Afghan police force has gone to waste, and the entire program — which has involved “buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defense contractors to…