I spent most of Saturday at the Dallas Convention Center — ostensibly for the Dallas Auto Show, but it turned into an afternoon spent touring the former Memorial Auditorium, where they were holding Wheel of Fortune auditions, and Pioneer Park Cemetery. The boy and I left both places with a…
A couple of items before I return this urgent phone call …Got a brief missive yesterday from KXAS-Channel 5 anchor Jane McGarry: “Hi Robert! Just wanted you to know I’m putting up a Fanpage tomorrow at noon and would love to have you as a fan! I need all I…
Back in August 2007 we directed your attention to a doc-in-progress about Robert Crawford — or, right, Bob as he’s known in East Dallas and ’round downtown. (Schutze knows him as “Bob with the keyboard.”) Looks like the movie about the New Hampshire native and “spiritual savant” is finally finished:…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons called back to answer some questions raised by the minutes from last month’s meeting — as in, is DART looking to lease or sell properties adjacent to some of its light-rail stations? Says Lyons, DART’s really hoping to sign long-term leases — specifically,…
It was but one week ago that National Public Radio aired that godawful segment pitting Dallas against Fort Worth for “cultural supremacy.” And, fine, maybe Wade Goodwyn and John Burnett were just goofing around, but many Friends of Unfair Park were not amused — and neither was Maria Muñoz-Blanco, director…
Oak Cliff’s gotten the Jim Schutze Bump, as evidenced by the teaser for today’s episode of Think on KERA-90.1 FM:TopicThe Oak Cliff RenaissanceGuestJason Roberts, Mariana Griggs & Amy CowanDescriptionIs Dallas’ “next big thing” south of the Trinity? Our guests this hour think so. With a nod to Jim Schutze’s recent…
On Friday, at the bottom of his item about Roscoe Betz’s latest legal victory over Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Jim mentioned another ongoing “saga” — former DART board member John C. Tatum’s breach-of-contract suit filed against the transit agency, which Tatum claims balked on its deal to sell him a…
Maybe you missed it Saturday, when I pointed your direction to First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans’s memo warning the council that, sorry, but storm debris cleanup would take till April 10, not March 15 as originally guesstimated. (He blamed it on “residents [continuing] to set out additional limbs and…
That’s Art Acevedo, by the way, among the six finalists named by City Manager Mary Suhm today to replace outgoing Dallas police chief David Kunkle, who’s so outta here next month. Acevedo’s probably the best-known among the candidates: Not only does he hail from the capital city, where he’s only…
This morning I left a message for Joey Zapata, head of code compliance, to ask how the city handles city-owned buildings that fall out of compliance. Like this one, for instance: This is the former Fire Station No. 35 on on Walnut Hill Lane near Marsh, a circa-1953 structure replaced…
Just a few things I’ve collected during the course of a day that would have been better spent in bed …I see here that Bruegger’s Bakery and Café is expanding this year into the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Never had a Bruegger’s, but says here it’s nothing more than “an average…
For about 10 minutes an hour ago, the city’s Web site was working — time enough to let me access the briefings for this afternoon’s meeting of the Transportation and Environment Committee, where you’ll find Schutze ’round 2 today. The site’s down yet again (which Frank Librio didn’t know till…
Angela Hunt’s Web site is having similar issues to the city’s — the Internet, clearly, is having a case of the Mondays, as we’re also having our own server issues. Nonetheless, I asked her to send her account from last night’s fund-raiser at the Double-Wide, held to help those workers…
Back in June ’06, we recounted the tale of local Mr. Olpympia Phil Busch, who sued Pat Robertson in Dallas federal court over a weight-loss shake sold via The 700 Club. Long story, but Busch, who also sued Jon Stewart in ’06, was mad because he claimed Robertson was using…
A Friend of Unfair Park just sent word: “E-mails to City Hall are all bouncing back as invalid emails.” OK, I figure, maybe the system’s crashed. Then I go over to the city of Dallas’s official Web site to sneak peek the community gardens and Central Expressway landscaping briefings scheduled…
A couple of items to get you through a gloomy Sunday morning …While we’re on the subject of rebuilding the block of Lower Greenville destroyed by an electrical fire at Terilli’s Tuesday morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park regifts the above photo he received this week: “Luke Zaby and…
Last night, District 14 rep Angela Hunt posted the latest update concerning the fate of the 2800 block of Lower Greenville that disappeared in a cloud of smoke Tuesday morning, due to an electrical fire at Terilli’s. Yes, she writes, one of the building’s owners, Jon duPerier, has vowed to…
Yesterday City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the council a financial forecast report in advance of Monday’s meeting of the Budget, Finance & Audit Committee. Through December, FY 2009-10 has been a mixed bag of bad news-good news, as in: “General Fund revenues are projected to be $8,559,000 below budget…
I’ve had this sitting on my desk for as long as I can remember — a photo of a bunch of local all-stars taken so long ago it might as well have been made during another lifetime. So, yes, let’s see, from left: Rhett Miller, Peter Schmidt, Clark Vogeler (ageless,…
The Dallas Police Department sends word: It’s looking for the men who broke into the Redeemed Christian Church at 2636 Walnut Hill Lane two weeks ago and stole what looks like a truckload of electronics — flat-screen TVs, keyboards, speakers, you name it. According to the DPD, the “church has…
It’s been a few months since last we discussed the fate of 508 Park Avenue. So, then, an update — offered, really, because earlier today I noticed that on April 20, Todd Rundgren’s playing Trees. And it’s more than just another best-of-and-rest-of tour: Runt will be performing “his interpretations of…
Over on her Web site, council member Angela Hunt has compiled a list offering the myriad ways folks can help the some 100 employees who lost their jobs when Terilli’s, Mick’s, Hurricane Grill and Greenville Bar & Grill burned to the ground Tuesday morning. And, yes, that does include the…
