Yesterday, of course, was the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service; hence, Emmitt Smith and family’s visit to Congo Street, where they joined Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP. But SMU has actually deemed this MLK Week 2010, with a kick-off King Celebration scheduled for noon today at the Hughes-Trigg Commons…
Three years ago (danged near to the day), I lamented the fact that the Fair Park Band Shell — recipient of a $1.3-million makeover in 2000 — remains The Best Concert Venue in Dallas That Nobody Ever Uses. Plenty of folks had valid reasons why not: Fair Park executive general…
Yesterday, American Airlines announced that it’s keeping up with the Deltas, Uniteds and Continentals by jacking up checked-bag fees another $5: from $20 to $25 for the first piece of luggage, from $30 to $35 for the second. To which The Consumerist responded late yesterday with this:If you want to…
First KERA wasn’t sure it would let Debra Medina participate in its Republican gubernatorial debate on the University of North Texas campus, which was held last week. Then, it extended an invite after all, and Medina did all right, all right. Then, Belo said, so sorry, but it wasn’t gonna…
While we await the Supreme Court of Texas’s ruling in the city’s so-called billion-dollar case later this year, let’s consider another city of Dallas case going before the court at 9 a.m. sharp tomorrow: City of Dallas. v. VSC, LLC. The court will hear oral arguments in the years-old suit…
This isn’t exactly the hardest-hitting interview in the history of ever — in fact, I only post DCVB boss Phillip Jones’s brief Q&A (as in: one fawning and rambling question, one answer) conducted during last week’s Professional Convention Management Association convention and just posted so I’ve got good reason to…
Since June 2008, Brent Brown and his bcWORKSHOP have been rebuilding a handful of century-old single-family homes that line Congo Street, in the Jubilee Park neighborhood near Fair Park. Their award-winning efforts — which began with construction of the so-called Holding House, a temporary residence for families displaced by the…
Back in 1998, 38,016 voters OK’d Proposition 11 — otherwise known as the $246 million that was supposed to get the Trinity River Corridor Project up and running, like I need to tell you. Anyway. Three million of that money was supposed to go toward something called the Loop 12…
Jose Esobedo can’t have artificial turf in his front yard. But Harlan Crow’s apparently free to plant the synethetic stuff in the heretofore barren median between the Crow Holdings campus and Unfair Park HQ on Maple Avenue. Forever Lawn of North Texas is installing the stuff this very moment, as…
Last week we put the biscuit in the basket with this rare look back at the Dallas Texans, our first pro hockey team. Which is why Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends this latest look back at yet another beloved golden oldie on the auction block: the Dallas Tornado, three…
Our pal Allison V. Smith has a rather nice photo in this morning’s Los Angeles Times: a portrait of Thomas W. Stephenson Jr., whose Rave Motion Pictures is on the fast-track to becoming the fifth-largest movie-theater chain in the U.S. once Rave’s acquisition of 35 theaters from Sumner Redstone’s National…
No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates — our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council’s Economic Development Committee’s…
Hard to believe — we’re only seven months away from our first look at next fiscal year’s budget. Which is why, on Wednesday, the city council’s holding a FY 2010-2011 budget workshop, during which City Manager Mary Suhm will provide the council with a win-some-lose-some revenue outlook that suggests further…
No need to mourn the demise of Elm Place, set to shutter for good on January 29 — not when someone’s already figured out what to do with the former First National Bank of Dallas, among George Dahl’s myriad local icons. That someone: Colliers International, which is handling the sale…
Like I said, we’re a wee bit shorthanded at the moment, and I couldn’t find anyone willing to spend a damp afternoon at the Omni construction site with Mayor Tom Leppert and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios. Which doesn’t mean we can’t share this group photo provided by Chris Heinbaugh; Merten’s…
Even though tickets go on sale Tuesday, there’s been no official announcement concerning the famous faces suiting up for the 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which will take place February 12 at the Dallas Convention Center during the three-day Jam Session to be held in advance of the February 14…
Turns out, reports of Michael Faulkner’s death were highly exaggerated. Special Agent Mark White, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas spokesman, tells Unfair Park today that the Southlake resident — who was among the 19 indicted by a federal grand jury last week for a “massive cybercrime conspiracy” — was…
In recent weeks, whenever we’ve attempted to get information out of the Dallas Independent School District concerning its plans for the Adamson High School expansion, we’ve been met with the same response: Can’t comment due to ongoing negotiations with property owners. DISD board president Adam Medrano did speak to Unfair…
Back in June, Wired directed our attention to SMU’s efforts to create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image — otherwise known as “Panoptes,” which stands for “Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce a Thin Electro-optic Sensor.” The camera’s being developed on behalf…
As promised (um … Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten ’83 classic anthem “Dallas,” written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake,…
Elm Place’s closure, announced this morning, comes as no surprise: A section of George Dahl’s 52-story office tower, at Elm and Akard Streets, fell into foreclosure in the early part of ’09, and the former First National Bank of Dallas and Bank of America building been shedding tenants for years…
More than two years ago, Kevin Colquitt filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which he alleges “the makers of stents approved to treat digestive tract cancers had illegally marketed them for years to treat blocked blood vessels in other parts of the body,” as The New York Times…
