At Wednesday’s meeting of the Dallas City Council, Pauline Medrano and Angela Hunt will ask their colleagues to do downtown denizens a solid and expand the parking-lot booting ordinance immediately. No doubt you recall: After months of back-and-forthing with parking-lot owners, the council finally decided last August that lot operators…
So says the latest issue of Men’s Health, which surveys the nation’s 100 largest “Drunkest Cities” based upon how many die annually from booze-soaked livers and alcohol-fueled car crashes, the reported binge-drinking rates (yes, but reported by whom?), the number of under-the-influence arrests reported by police and the severity of…
Yes, yes it is Sportsy Thursday. So, then, from arena football to actual football …Late last night I was futzing around on eBay looking for something related to something else I’m working on when I came across this odd collectible: the contract allowing the Dallas Cowboys to hold their very…
Looks like it’s Sportsy Thursday ’round here. So, then, from puck to ball …Back in December we broke the news that the Dallas Desperados were on the comeback trail, along with the rest of an Arena Football League sidelined during the ’09 season. Turns out, the team that’s scheduled to…
It took a while, but Lisa LeMaster just sent a statement addressing The Hockey News’s report that Tom Hicks, fresh off closing a deal to sell the Texas Rangers, is also looking for someone to either invest in the team or take the Dallas Stars off his hands altogether. In…
So reports The New York Post, which says one Shawn Corey Carter filed a $3.7 million suit in New York on Wednesday concerning a hotel he was trying to get off the ground in Chelsea. The two defendants are Highland Capital Management and NexBank, both HQ’d here and both of…
I just returned from an out-of-the-office interview to find in the in-box the logo for next year’s Super Bowl in Arlington. I asked Super Bowl XLV communications director Tony Fay who designed this. He responded: the National Football League. Coulda sworn Jerry did it…
Tom Hicks has twice denied reports that he’s selling the Dallas Stars — in May of last year, when he first acknowledged that he was considering putting the Texas Rangers on the market, then again in October, when a report surfaced in the Globe and Main that lenders wanted him…
Way back in ’97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope — a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI — and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, which doles out green to groups cleaning up the air in…
And so we return to the sad story of the old Dallas High School downtown, a historic landmark bought for $6.1 million by California real estate investor Robert Yu in 1998 and vacant ever since. The timing’s right. I’ve just spoken with people close to the owner. I’ve gotten my…
Back in December, Business Resources Corp. filed suit against Dallas County claiming officials hired Virginia-based GTSI to preserve county docs (birth records, death certificates, etc.) at a cost of $17.5 million over seven years — even though the county didn’t take bids on the contract and GTSI doesn’t do the…
Rudy Bush directs our attention back to the musings of Patrick “Car Free” Kennedy, whose “perfectly happy workout” we interrupted on Monday when Kim returned from Dallas City Hall with the news that Ron Natinsky, head of the Economic Development Committee, wanted to make sure the new downtown Dallas plan…
The in-box is filling up with NBA All-Star Weekend party announcements — no actual invites, though, which is just as well, as that’s the weekend I’m planning a spiritual retreat or a lost weekend of drinking, either/or. The most recent: a three-day “epic extravaganza” spread out at the Ghostbar and…
I’ve asked Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons if he wants to rethink this idea:Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is inviting its customers to show off their love connection this Valentines and “give us a kiss” by e-mailing a photo of themselves and a loved one kissing onboard a…
Perhaps you recall the recent tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald, who, late last month, robbed a bank at East R.L. Thornton Freeway and Grand Avenue — and left a baby in the backseat, not to mention ID in the parking lot. It merited a brief mention in the…
For the second time in a little over two years, Movie Gallery — the parent company of Hollywood Video, which still has a couple of locations left locally but not for long — filed for bankruptcy this morning and plans to shutter 805 “poorly performing” stores out of 2,415. It’s…
The story’s circulating this morning that Terri Hodge is this close to pleading guilty in her involvement in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case and is stepping down from the Texas House of Representatives. Unfair Park has been unable to reach anyone in the U.S. Attorney’s Office handling the…
Word out of Major League Baseball HQ is that yesterday’s meeting among the creditors concerned about Tom Hicks’s deal to sell the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan yielded little of note. In short: “no deal killer,” says here, which means the $530-$570 million transaction is still on…
When last we linked to one of Brother Bill Holston’s KERA-FM essays, he was giving gratitude for the things he takes for granted in the days before Thanksgiving. This morning, the attorney and good Friend of Unfair Park is honoring his heroes, among them two familiar names seldom recognized on…
Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a…
An old friend stopped by Keller’s Cactus Jack’s on Lemmon Avenue and discovered that the longtime burger joint is closing this week; SaturdayFriday’s the last day after 28 years, so stop on by and say hi or bye, says Jon Keller. After that, he’s leasing the property to a California-based…
Rumor ’round town is that another TV show’s setting up production offices in Dallas — this one, from the man responsible for everything from Armageddon and Top Gun to the C.S.I. franchise, among his myriad hit teevee shows. And, yes, that’s one Jerry Bruckheinmer, the man who once told me…
