I swear — swearswearswear — this is our last item about Fair Park. At least, for today — I’m headed over to the George Allen, so. But, seriously, I highly recommend attending Park and Rec board meetings, mostly because Park and Rec’s the only city entity I’m aware of that…
While we’re on the subject of Fair Park (and when are we not this week?), I’ll assume you missed this when we first mentioned it on Christmas Eve: Fair Park’s getting a car museum. Or, to be more precise, the Texas Museum of Automotive History. Just this morning, matter of…
Speaking of courthouse filings, our sister paper in Houston and KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate down thataways, bring news of a lawsuit filed here by a 25-year-old Chevron petroleum engineer who claims he was assaulted on New Year’s Eve at the Magnolia Hotel downtown.According to the suit, Ivan Pinney of The…
Now we know where we’ll be at 4 p.m. today: at the George Allen Court House — specifically, in Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson’s courtroom. The judge will consider a temporary restraining order filed moments ago by the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, which, of course, is trying to keep the…
Because I can’t go two days without posting something by the great Justin Terveen, his latest: a shot of Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Pearl Station. Actually, Justin explains, it’s three shots in one: “Two were stitched, while the remaining shot was blended in to create the static effect within the…
Back in October, we spoke with Daniel Iacofano, the “I” in MIG, Inc., which the city hired to develop the latest downtown master plan known as Downtown Dallas 360. Though the study isn’t due till June, a Friend of Unfair Park points out that on his thoughtful, hell-raising, attention-getting blog…
On August 11, 2008, Mark and Patty Lovvorn wanted nothing more than to tear down their massive house on Nonesuch Road, the famous manse designed by Roscoe DeWitt for Stanley Marcus in the 1930s. “Energy inefficiency” was the reason offered in the couple’s letter to the Texas Historic Commission, which…
Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease that’s seconds away from killing his kids. Extraordinary Measures is also a heartwarming tale about a disgruntled doc (Harrison Ford) who throws in with a biotech startup fronted by…well, a…
Shortly before the end of the year, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes told me that the Dallas-based videotailer is a “football team that’s rebuilding. At first, the press is all over you. They’re gonna hammer you, tell you you’re dead, you’ll never be as good as you were. Meanwhile, you’re slowly…
Seriously — the city wants to know. Needs to know. Right now. So it claims, anyhow, which is why the city’s official Web site-bulletin board now features a heads-up for three “community meetings” during which city officials will hear from you (and maybe you, but not you) about what you’re…
Just last month we mentioned the city’s proposal for regulating neighborhood farmers markets — another bright idea from what Jim likes to call the Municipal Ministry of Food Production. For those who need some catchin’-up, the city wants to make sure the smaller markets, like those at Celebration and at…
When J.D. Freeman called with the news about Lex & Terry, he dropped this bomb: Jack E. Jett will not be allowed on CNN 1190 beginning Monday, which we had announced yesterday. The reason, according to Freeman: something Jack said in the item posted Tuesday evening. Which was? So glad…
Longtime listeners of KEGL-FM (97.1) will notice something different tomorrow: Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes, otherwise known as Lex & Terry, will no longer hold down the morning-drive slot. That’s the word from Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager, who tells Unfair Park that nighttime host Cindy Scull will take over…
As mentioned Monday, the city had one of its attorneys — in this case, Charles Estee, joined by one of the state’s lawyers — down in Austin yesterday presenting oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Texas in a long-running case involving towed cars that were seized by the Dallas…
Speaking of Fair Park, yesterday, in our item about how the city’s cutting deals to get folks to Fair Park, general manager Daniel Huerta said, “We locals take Fair Park for granted.” Preservation Dallas wants to do something about it: I just visited their site and noticed that on Saturday,…
So, back to that question of: Why did the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau not put Fair Park on the convention planners’ to-see list last week? Yesterday afternoon, I spoke with DCVB CEO Phillip Jones, who had plenty to say on the subject. But, long story short, this was a…
The Weitzman Group delivered its 20th Annual Shopping Center Survey and Forecast yesterday, and, as expected, the news was grim for developers and retailers: Last year saw a steep decline in construction starts and occupancy rates, and 2010 looks to be no better at all — unless, oh, you’re a…
Last we heard from Jack E. Jett, he was jumping off that sinking ship known as Rational Radio, which has since gone Internets-only. But today he sends word: The man’s got himself a proper radio job that will keep him occupied every weeknight from 6 to 8 p.m. beginning Monday…
A few weeks ago we mentioned some fairly significant changes at The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Today comes word of two more items of note. One: Mayor Tom and wife Laura are now the honorary chairs for the event, which is scheduled for April…
Beats me. You’ll have to ask Phillip Jones, head of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau. I’m trying. I’ve left a few messages for Jones, who, last we saw of him, said those convention planners in town last week were “pleasantly surprised” by Dallas. But, as many of you have…
Earlier this morning, a picture you might have espied on FrontBurner a little while ago showed up in the Unfair Park in-box with the subject header, “Dallas City Hall for sale – a steal for 900k.” At about 9:45 a.m. I spoke with the guy whose number is on the…
Over the weekend, I took the boy down to the former First National Bank tower to see what was going bye-bye January 29, when the building’s owner lock the doors at 1401 Elm Street till someone else is willing to take over the 52-story monolith that was, upon its completion…
