Must be a legal matter Friday, a legal matter from now on. Because next up on the docket is that suit against Dallas County we’ve told you about a couple of times before — the one involving that $17.5 million contract with a Virginia-based company called GTSI, which the commissioners…
The great George Gimarc has been extremely generous with his estimable collection of goodies — so much so he’s agreed to partner with Unfair Park on a North Texas Food Bank fund-raiser a la Danny Hurley’s Mods vs Rockers book we auctioned off at Christmas. More details to come next…
The legal wrangling over the fate of Avila’s on Maple Avenue will continue this afternoon at the George Allen Courts Building: Judge Ken Molberg has ordered Ricardo Avila appear in his courtroom at 1:30 p.m. To many, Ricardo’s the public face of the beloved 25-year-old Mexican restaurant; he’s also the…
Back in July 2007, the tale of Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer Susan Craig merited but a few sentences in the regional roundup. The story then: “Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said Officer Susan Craig falsely claimed that a rider she arrested Monday had kicked her in the head…
Thus far I’ve seen a ton of conceptual renderings of the downtown Omni — or, as it’s still referred to on the city’s Web site, the Dallas Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. And, last week, we saw how it looks whilst under construction. But not till today had I seen it…
It’s been almost three years since we first told you the sordid story of Anand Jon Alexander, the one-time designer to the stars who came to town promising women, many of them under-age, modeling jobs right before he sexually assaulted them. Women would come forward telling the exact same story…
I’ve been trying to keep up with the dramatic doings at Avila’s on Maple Avenue via SideDish for the past week, which hasn’t been easy — especially following today’s item concerning the beloved restaurant’s shuttering as family friends and members and other concerned parties weigh in with conflicting accounts. And…
By which I mean: D.B. Sweeney, who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in John Sayles’s 1988 adaptation of Eliot Asinof’s book Eight Men Out, and Leonard, Texas, a tiny town up in Fannin County. So happens that just as we were writing about all the TV shows shooting around town, locally…
This morning, yours truly and a few other well-known media cheapskates were at NorthPark Center for the 9 a.m. opening bell of the annual Billy Reid 75-percent-off warehouse sale, which we’d thought was no mas following Reid’s decision exactly one year ago today to shutter the corporate office on Canton…
As Pete mentioned a few weeks back, Roky Erickson’s got a brand-new album forthcoming — True Love Cast Out All Evil, due in April and featuring as his backing band Okkervil River. Hard to keep track of Roky’s comebacks at this late date, but this one appears ready to stick…
As promised, John McCall Jr., the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and its current attorney, just sent word concerning the fate of the Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street. Long story short: The Dallas Independent School District has agreed to allow the preservationists to put…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park, and a proud Woodrow Wilson Wildcat from way back, sends word: Junius Heights has been included on the list of Best Old House Neighborhoods 2010. Specifically, it’s been selected as a Best Place for Families. My favorite bit: “Junius Heights is home to…
In the comments below, there are myriad mentions made of the Texxas Jam. Which, really, is all the reason I need to post this from the ’78 show, released on VHS in ’89 but unavailable since. Except on YouTube, where the summer of 1978 will live forever. Now me and…
I’ve spent the better part of the last hour trying to figure out what in the wide, wide world of sports this means. Alas, there’s not a Fair Park or Park and Rec higher-up available to talk — never have so many taken so many meetings at the exact same…
As mentioned below, the North Central Texas Council of Governments is indeed “seeking clarification” from the U.S. Department of Transportation concerning today’s announcement that Dallas is getting $23 million to fund the downtown streetcar project. NCTCOG wants to know if Fort Worth is supposed to be getting a piece of…
Sooner than expected, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced the 51 projects across the country to receive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds. And there are two Dallas projects about to get very stimulated: the $1.3 billion construction of the North Texas Tollway Authority’s State Highway 161 (which will get…
I drove by the now-shuttered Popolos Cafe in Preston Royal on the way home last night — hated to see it go a couple of weeks back, when it lost its lease due to the landlord’s raising the rent. Used to go there all the time: It was close to…
I called council member and Economic Development Committee chair Ron Natinsky late last week about the downtown parking study agenda item, which the council didn’t get around to discussing yesterday. (An hour was spent instead on talking about how to create a revolving fund from which to make loans to…
More than a few Friends have wondered in recent days why Angela Hunt, Pauline Medrano and the City Attorney’s Office are, as we first reported, currently drafting an ordinance to shut down improperly permitted Lower Greenville bars masquerading as restaurants. In the words of Friend of Unfair Park “Sanguine” on…
There are but four performances of Mozart’s opera left at the Winspear Opera House: February 18, 20, 26 and 28. And to get you to at least one of them, the Dallas Opera just posted this clip from the production. Well, if it’s good enough for Gary Cogill …..
Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported in a subscription-only story that last fall, Your Texas Rangers violated baseball’s collective-bargaining agreement by failing to pay $39.55 million into a deferred compensation fund. That happened sometime before October, and, according to Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Michael Weiner in yesterday’s…
Seems not so long ago that then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund were staging a press conference in the Dallas City Hall Flag Room begging the producers of the (ill-fated) big-screen Dallas to “Shoot JR Here.” They brought with them T-shirts and bumper stickers, and…
