As promised last week, here’s the latest “virtual fly-through” of the Woodall Rodgers deck park — which was playing on a screen outside yesterday’s press conference announcing Chase’s $3-million donation for The Promenade. Our thanks to Kristen Gray and Joanna Singleton at The Park for shooting it our way. They…

After the jump you’ll find the entirety of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-2011 season schedule — including everything from Marvin Hamlisch’s debut as pops conductor in August to the Classical Series’ bow in early September to Liza Minnelli in October to the Masters of Film Music series sked. The list…

I saw early this morning that Michael Lindenberger was teasing potentially big news for Dallas via U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood pending announcement concerning FY2011 budget expenditures. Which I thought odd, given that the budget, already posted online, said Dallas was simply getting $86 million in Section 5309 New Starts…

Tomorrow, the city council will take a long, hard look at how federal community development block grants are spent — or, in this case, not. According to the briefing document, there are 109  already approved projects and programs still sitting on $7 million in federal money that was supposed to…

So sorry. As you can clearly see below, naming rights for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park won’t be going to 7-Eleven or Ray Hunt or Southwest or American Airlines. Syd Nancy, though, was spot-on: Chase is spending $3 million for the crescent-moon-shaped, 15-foot-wide Promenade that will span the length of…

Below you’ll find the lawsuit an architectural firm and a construction company filed today against Tom Hicks, Steiner + Associated and pretty much everyone in the upper management at the Texas Rangers over the so-very-dead Glorypark development, which was to devour 75 acres next to the Ballpark in Arlington. According…

RTKL — the architecture firm hired by Hicks Holdings, Steiner + Associates and myriad other companies to develop the dead-since-’08 Glorypark development next to the Ballpark in Arlington — just sued pretty much everyone associated with the project. And when I say “just,” I mean: The commercial dispute and fraud…

Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sends word this morning: Max Kalhammer, the city’s new bike coordinator, is looking for folks to help the city rewrite the outdated Dallas Bike Plan, which hasn’t been touched since 1985, more or less. As Kalhammer told Kim in December, the ultimate goal of…

Trying (but, so far, failing) to get down to Dallas City Hall this morning for the Economic Development Committee meeting this morning; so many interesting items on the agenda. We’ve covered some, but not all — like, for instance, this review of the city’s public-private partnership program that allows for…

The Dallas City Council gets a glimpse at the future on Wednesday, when it’ll be briefed on the Fair Park aquarium redo and the new slogan that’s supposed to soothe the public during Love Field’s extreme airport makeover.As you’re no doubt aware, the aquarium, due to be rebranded the Children’s…

I think we’ll make this a regular feature at the end of the working week — a little rock-and-roll-and somethin-somethin to get you through the weekend. Feel free to offer your suggestions as you stumble across the homegrown during your travels, but this week we go all the way back…

John McCall, the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League who last week took the Dallas Independent School District to court over the imminent demolition of the Oak Cliff Christian Church, sends word: Per the agreement with DISD attorneys, he did receive the financial documents concerning the district’s…

Only time my dad ever wanted to attend a comic-book convention was when he heard Adam West was signing photos. And this was, oh, two years ago maybe? Batman returns Saturday and Sunday to the Dallas Comic Con at the Richardson Civic Center, where he’ll be joined by some dude…

Dallas city council member Ron Natinsky says, sure, he was “a little PO’d” to read last night that he was being portrayed as the bad guy in the city’s legal dust-up with the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park. Because, see, Natinsky’s a train guy — has “1,200…

Speaking of downtown Dallas …One of the many interesting items on the city council’s Economic Development Committee agenda for Monday is an update on the Downtown Dallas 360 plan, about which we’ve written a few times in advance of its June due date. The 48-page briefing doc is more or…

That headline is a more or less a direct quote from a lawsuit filed in Denton County District Court this week, in which the former Dallas Cowboys fullback and Skoal pitchman accuses a friend and former teammate of being a bad investor and a lousy pal. According to the suit,…

This morning, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the photo at right — quite the bargain on eBay, especially since it’s got Hall of Famer Hank Stram’s signature and remains at the low, low price of $9.95 thus far. I then forwarded it to my old friend and Stevie…

Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons sent word this afternoon: The transit agency and the Trinity Railway Express are getting $7.2 million in federal funds to double-track the rail line between the West Irving and CentrePort/DFW Airport stations. This isn’t from the high-speed rail pot, but from the Federal…