Dallas Stars President Jim Lites says: No, this was not his idea. He wants to be clear about that. Interim team president Tony Tavares was already working on a plan to lower Stars ticket prices, Lites tells Unfair Park. But, of course, he could do no such thing — not…
What you see at right is the artwork currently decorating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim’s website: side-by-side pics of Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson, both of whom are now Angels. The now-former Cardinal’s deal is for 10 years and worth between $250 and $260 million, and is said to…
I asked Schutze yesterday: “You know what tomorrow is?” His response: “Um, Thursday?” Well, yes, that — and the 20th anniversary of the death of the Dallas Times Herald, which was bought by The Dallas Morning News on December 8, 1991, for $55 million, and then shuttered after 103 years…
Yesterday’s massive drop-off at the Earle Cabell is but a pit stop. Sooner than later, more than likely, it will head back to Oakland, where, in July 2009, former UCLA basketball great Ed O’Bannon filed the shot heard ’round the sports world: the antitrust suit alleging that the NCAA steals…
Rudy got to this before I could, but no matter: What you see above was made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which had a dinner this week to which I am sure Schutze’s invite was lost in the mail. Long story short: Dallas is kickin’ ass. We have “attitude.” We’re…
Speaking of SMU …It has officially been invited to join the Big East, and is only too happy to accept. In a conference call with media, commissioner John Marinatto just intro’d the Hilltop to the ranks of the conference, along with the University of Central Florida and the University of…
That structure you see at left is called a Pallet House, made out of … aw, you cheated. Anyway: It was initially built in Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens as part of a sustainability confab, and on Friday it’ll find its way to the SMU campus, perhaps as future housing for…
If you want to be there when the Dallas County Commissioners Court votes on the new boundaries for the county, you’d best reshuffle your schedule: For whatever reason, the county has opted to call a special meeting for Monday at 8 a.m. during which the commissioners will vote to approve…
Moments ago, the National Center for Education Statistics released its so-called Nation’s Report Card, wherein the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences rank fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 21 urban districts using math and reading scores. And for the first time ever the Dallas…
I hear jingle bells: Freddie King’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning’s heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year’s entry in the Early Influence category; damn right. His newly penned Hall bio lists the myriad reasons — for starters, “His…
Even if the name Perry Nichols escapes you, and it likely does, the work does not. The Woodrow grad’s art surrounds us even now, some two decades after his death — at the Inwood and Lakewood theaters, in the lobby of The Dallas Morning News, at the Dallas Museum of…
At present, the Hall of State in Fair Park is closed to the public whilst it breaks down the “Texas!” exhibit that went up in time for, and lingered well after, the State Fair of Texas and attracted some 120,000 visitors during its run. But when it reopens at the…
Yesterday the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation sent word: The deck park would be receiving its first trees this morning, at ’round 10:30. I was told that despite the cold temperatures, the timing was good: “This season is the preferred time to plant because leaves are gone so the trees will…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will go behind closed doors to meet with city attorneys about a host of legal issues staring down City Hall, among them: a long-going federal wrongful arrest suit about to get even more expensive (council will vote next week to pay Brown & Hofmeister an…
David Abbey is the principal of Kingswood Park Public School in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, considered a suburb of Sydney. Kingswood Park has its familiar issues — a “socio-economic disadvantage” in large part because of a dwindling student body, “a significant Aboriginal population” and many of its students hailing…
One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, ’07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it’s time for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price to go…
At this very moment, the Dallas independent School District’s Citizens Budget Review Commission — assembled in March to bring fresh eyes to a district budget in need of gutting, thanks in large part to Gov. Rick Perry and the state Legislature — is meeting to discuss two proposals on the…
Back in June, Schutze laid out his case against the under-construction City Performance Hall in the Arts District, which is set to open in September 2012 and serve as a home for six tiers’ worth of small- to mid-sized arts orgs in need of fancier digs. Today the council’s newly…
She had a first name: Eva. But you’d never know it. The myriad mentions of “the first regularly commissioned woman police officer in the United States,” as she was referred to in the January-June 1913 edition of Municipal Works, only refer to her as “Mrs. J.J. Farley.” As in: Dallas…
A couple of months back the council’s Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas’s workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the “wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?” Said the briefing, reiterating a familiar catchphrase uttered in recent years, the city’s…
Schutze’s must-read of the winter has finally arrived: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dallas Floodway Environmental Assessment, in which we finally get a good look at the city and HNTB’s $30 million in proposed fixes for the Trinity River’s levees. Not sure when Jim will turn in his report;…
Far as lower-tier bowl games go, the second-ever TicketCity Bowl — to be played January 2 at 11 a.m. at the Cotton Bowl — is about as intriguing as it gets: The University of Houston (so, so, so close — a one-loss team, thanks to Southern Miss over the weekend)…
