If you were downtown over the weekend, you couldn’t miss it: Dallas was overrun with cheerleaders in town for the National Cheerleaders Association’s All-Star National Championship at the Dallas Convention Center. It’s an annual affair a team from suburban Chicago always attends — but they ain’t coming back next year,…
It was all hugs and kisses in Judge Martin Hoffman’s courtroom at the George Allen today — but only because before the city and the Museum of the American Railroad faced off over the museum’s request for a temporary restraining order, the judge agreed to marry 20-year-old Aime Cruz and…
I just returned from today’s showdown between the city of Dallas and the Museum of the American Railroad in Judge Martin Hoffman’s courtroom. But before I get to that contentious item, first here’s a statement that just landed in the Unfair Park mailbag from Mayor Tom Leppert concerning the sudden…
Craig Holcomb, exec director of Friends of Fair Park, finally called back a little while ago — and, well, he’s awful sorry about that foul-up last week. But maybe he and Daniel Huerta, the executive general manager at Fair Park, can make things all better with this tease: They’re hoping…
Frank Poe, the city’s Convention & Event Services Director, is outta here. According to various reports, the man in charge of the Dallas Convention Center is taking a job with the Georgia World Congress Center Authority in Atlanta, where he’ll assume the title of executive director. According to the Atlanta…
Yesterday a good Friend of Unfair Park who fought to keep Adamson High School away from the Dallas Independent School District’s wrecking ball suggested it was time we take a closer look at the 107-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark. The school was given…
There’s a story in today’s New York Times about banks’ aggressive efforts to keep customers paying overdraft fees. That’s because, come July 1 banks will have to get their customers to opt in to the service that covers purchases made using a debit card when there isn’t enough money in…
So, you want to know if Avila’s opened, per Judge Ken Molberg’s order last Friday that Ricardo Avila restore the Maple Avenue restaurant by no later than yesterday morning. The short answer: Nope. Not even close. I went by this morning and was greeted by a new sign that replaced…
When Dallas Area Rapid Transit completes the Green Line by year’s end, it anticipates making dozens of changes to its bus service, among them: discontinuing service to the Bachman Lake area, shifting downtown pick-up points and on and on and on. In short, it’s a serious overhaul intended to reduce…
Back in May, we directed your attention to the legal woes of Henry Robinson, a former Love Field security guard who claimed in Dallas federal court that The Beat-97.9 host Rickey Smiley cost him his job when he went questioned his heterosexuality. The whole thing stemmed from an incident at…
Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer, organizers of last weekend’s Modern Ruin show inside the shell of the former Washington Mutual box on Greenville Ave. slated for razing, send word: The event has caught the attention of American Public Media’s Marketplace producers. Matter of fact, Christina spoke with host Kai Ryssdal…
So, ’round 3ish tomorrow, expect the latest update in the case of the City of Dallas v. the Museum of the American Railroad. At 2:30 p.m. tomorrow a hearing been scheduled in Associate Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson courtroom, during which city attorneys and lawyers representing the museum will face off…
If ABC’s axed the shot-in-Dallas The Deep End, well, that comes as no surprise — it was all but inevitable given its low ratings and the critical drubbing. But there’s been no official word, only this Saturday story that says Thursday night’s episode will be the last ever aired unless…
A little while ago, Rudy Bush posted an item about a new push to allow beer and wine sales citywide, thus eliminating the so-called “dry” parts of town in which booze can’t be sold for off-site consumption. Big news, to be sure, but also old news: I called Gary Huddleston,…
On his way into the office this morning, downtown dweller Patrick Michels stopped by the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he espied crews with cranes in the process of removing the final piece of a signature sculpture, Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky. But fear not: One of the most photographed…
Lord knows how many times I’ve driven over Turtle Creek on Lemmon Avenue: Hundreds? Thousands? Katrillions? Never really wondered what it looked like beneath Lemmon. But you know who did? Our old pal Justin Terveen, who’s clearly working on his Bodies of Water series…
Schutze wrote the other day that Oak Cliff gets stuff done despite Dallas City Hall. Which is fine, until City Hall does get involved: The Friends of Oak Cliff Parks have been out and about in recent weeks warning groups, such as the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and the…
Still no word on what will “ROCK” Fair Park — though White Rock Marathon chairman Phil Baker swears his organization isn’t up and leaving Victory Park as the starting point and finish line for this year’s race. Yes, the marathon board did meet Thursday, but Baker says, nope, not it…
I’m not much of a Grateful Dead fan, if I may end the week with an understatement; I pretty much start and finish with American Beauty, depending on the hour and the herb, though the missus was once known a long while ago to follow a tour or two. Lord…
That banner you see on the old Showcase Chevrolet dealership on LBJ Freeway, near the Dallas North Tollway intersection, just went up this week. I can’t tell you the asking price, but I do know this: When Apartment Realty Advisors sold the property the first go-round in November 2006, it…
Carolyn Beck, the director of Communications and Governmental Relations at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, sends word: The Fort Worth outpost of the TABC is shutting down today and reopening on Tuesday in Arlington at 2225 E. Randol Mill Road. Also getting adiosed immediately: the Dallas Licensing Division on Stemmons…
“Heartbreaking.” “Painful.” That is how Anita Avila describes the fight over the restaurant on Maple Avenue she and her husband opened in January 1986. In the end, she says, all she wants is for the restaurant to reopen with her once more running the operation, as she’d done before her…
