Chris McGuinness called a little while ago, and he’s decided to set up a tent in the Dodie’s Seafood Cafe parking lot after all. There’s even going to be live music courtesy the Donavan Foy Band; downbeat’s at 7 p.m. sharp. Because danged if the longtime Lower Greenville restaurant owner’s…
Maybe you heard: On Saturday, Tufani, a 19-year-old female gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, got out of her holding area at the 2-acre Jake L. Hamon Gorilla Conservation Research Center. It was nothing as dramatic as the Jabari rampage in ’04, which prompted PETA to demand the U.S. Department of…
Speaking of crime stats …City Hall sends word this morning that City Auditor Craig Kinton’s look-see into how the Dallas Police Department handles its cash turned up a crime: “Approximately $17,000 was misappropriated by a DPD employee between Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 and FY 2008.” The report doesn’t name names,…
We’ll have more on this later today, when Uplift Education’s Rosemary Perlmeter has a moment to talk. But for months, we’d been hearing that the Science Place Building 2 — otherwise known as the space housing the Planetarium — might be getting a new tenant. And, sure enough, there it…
As you no doubt recall, the state of Texas has been trying for years to find a way to make its so-called “pole tax” stick. The first time around, a judge slapped down the $5-per-gentleman’s-club-customer fee — which was earmarked for sexual assault prevention programs — as unconstitutional; last year’s…
This morning the city council’s Public Safety Committee will take a longer, harder look at the 2009 crime stats. At most meetings, they’re just tallied up and dropped into the chart you see up above. But this morning council members will be briefed on the rise and fall of crimes…
About an hour ago, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster summoned a few members of the media, including Sam, to the commissioners court in order to discuss Danny Defenbaugh’s investigation into the alleged misdeeds of Constable Jaime Cortes. Sam will be along shortly with his notes from his interview with Foster,…
From time to time, I’ve checked in with Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty to see how his Superman musical’s coming. But so far, we’ve yet to speak with his It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman collaborator, playwright and TV scribe and Marvel comics author…
So, let’s see … Larry King now wants Kevin Smith to come on his show to talk about getting booted off a Southwest flight Saturday. Smith would rather go on Jon Stewart with a row of Southwest seats to prove, yeah, he can fit just fine, thanks. Meanwhile, the locally…
For the first time in 18 years, Dodie’s Seafood Cafe on Lower Greenville won’t be having its annual Fat Tuesday outdoor live-music shindig beneath a rented tent set up in the parking lot. The reason: The city of Dallas’s Office of Special Events has warned owner Chris McGuinness that a…
This week, city officials — both the council and the Park and Rec board — will be briefed on progress at the 5.2-acre Woodall Rodgers Deck park. But it’s more than just an informational heads-up: Park and Rec still has to find someone to landscape the park and built out…
Actually, it’s the “Stemmons Corridor-Southwest Medical District Plan,” which has been simmering since 2008 as officials from UT Southwestern, Love Field, Crow Holdings, Parkland and so forth worked with area residents to hash out the (transit-oriented) development details. Nothing’s final yet — that’s a few months-plus off — but tomorrow,…
This is how it looked as workers transformed Cowboys Stadium from a football field to a basketball court for yesterday’s casual pick-up game. Alas, as there is no soundtrack, this suggestion: I see my old rock-and-roll frienemy, Knack frontman Doug Fieger, has died after a protracted battle with cancer, sad…
Ran into some acquaintances Sunday afternoon and into the evening who were still without electricity following Thursday’s snowstorm; several of them packed up the kids and were forced to take refuge in Plano hotels, since Dallas was all booked-up for the All-Star festivities. Angela Hunt posted several items yesterday, back…
A Friend of Unfair Park intimately familiar with the doings at Southwest Airlines says, yeah, today was hell at the Love Field-based airline, but Monday’s sure to be worse as SWA attempts to overcome the PR nightmare caused when director Kevin Smith got kicked off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight yesterday. The…
It’s been exactly two months since Unfair Park broke the news that the Dallas Independent School District had purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street with the intention of razing Charles Bulger’s nearly century-old structure to build tennis courts, most likely, for the new-and-improved Adamson High School…
Every now and then I check in on Hurst’s Jessica Peters to see how her Elliott Smith doc is coming. It would appear her film about the singer-songwriter, who lived here from the time he was 5 to 13, remains a work-in-progress. Fingers crossed she gets it done sooner than…
The great George Gimarc sends word: “I was playing around with a new scanner and decided to test it on some old slides. Here’s some pix of the Statler Hilton under construction in September of ’54 and May of 1955. Thought you might enjoy.” Why, George, whatever gave you that…
No doubt you had one eye on the radar and the other on the doings outside your window late yesterday, so maybe you missed an interview with DowntownDallas president John Crawford about the need to “drill down” into the subject of downtown parking. Crawford, though, didn’t really speak in specifics…
First thing yesterday, I buried a reference to The Basketball Jones’s first video from NBA All-Star Weekend. The kid liked it far more than I — he’s a sucker for wacky. Here’s the second installment, a marked improvement.TBJ Does Dallas: Where Winter Happens from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo…
Jane McGarry, who’s been at KXAS-Channel 5 since 1982 and was named our Best Local Anchor in ’01 (really?), is out at 10 p.m. beginning tonight. Meredith Land will be named her permanent replacement. KXAS news director Susan Tully just sent The Official Word:Jane McGarry will co-anchor NBC 5 News…
From the looks of this sneak peek at a presentation Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, is giving the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee on Tuesday, that $3 mil earmarked for the so-called Loop 12 Gateway will most likely wind up being spent on Trinity River Audubon…
