A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that Fairfield Residential LLC — which has offices in San Diego and Grand Prairie — filed for Chapter 11 reorganization yesterday in the District of Delaware, with the first hearing scheduled for tomorrow. Says the notice posted today on Fairfield’s Web site, it…
Today’s meeting of the city council’s Transportation & Environment Committee, scheduled for a 2 p.m. kickoff at Dallas City Hall, should be an exciting one, for a change. That’s because, as we noted Friday, the committee will discuss not only making it easier to start up a community garden, but…
On Wednesday, Dallas welcomed some 1,500 children from all over the world who’ve lost a parent serving in the U.S. armed forces since 2001; two days later, on ABC World News, Charlie Gibson devoted the final few minutes of the broadcast to the Dallas-based Snowball Express. Worth a look-see.Speaking of,…
Apparently we have a stack of photos from yesterday’s running of the White Rock Marathon forthcoming; till then, then, this is, for obvious reasons, an early front-runner for kosher fan favorite (speaking of, Happy Hanukkah!). And speaking of White Rock, more or less, users of Dallas’s trails network might want…
That’s probably what Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council are wondering this morning, because, on Friday, Dallas First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans sent to council a memo warning them that The Dallas Morning News would “against present an article this upcoming weekend critical of an aspect of…
Speaking of things Jim’s written about …Maybe you read his cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park two months back — you know, the one about how City Hall says it likes community gardens but, um, not really? Right. That one.Anyway. On Monday afternoon the city council’s Transportation…
Update: As soon as I posted the item that was originally in this space, Leobardo Trevino returned Unfair Park’s many phone calls. Which is why I’ve rewritten the item to reflect our conversation.According to developer Leobardo Trevino, from this point forward, the old LTV Tower at 1600 Pacific Avenue has…
A Friend of Unfair Park just found and forwarded along this video of Don Meredith singing SMU’s school song, “Varsity.” It was made back in October, when the university finally retired Dandy Don’s No. 17; it was posted a couple of weeks ago. Regardless, I think this is what they…
A very giddy Friend of Unfair Park sends word that, for the first time, downtown Dallas will experience one of composer Phil Kline’s famous “unsilent nights,” a Manhattan ritual since 1992. After the jump is a video New York magazine made during last year’s boombox parade through NYC, but for…
Business Resources Corp., a new locally based historical documents preservation company formed out of the merger of two others, isn’t happy with the way Dallas County went about hiring a Virgina company earlier this spring — so much so that on Wednesday, it filed suit against the county in Dallas…
Tron Legacy won’t be in theaters till December 17, 2010. But courtesy N. Lamar Street-based Green Grass Studios and its Mavs promo piece, we don’t have to wait to see what that sequel to the ’82 classic might look like if it took place in front of the American Airlines…
Too bad we still don’t do our Ask An American Airlines Spokesman bit. Could come in handy on a day like today, which we begin, thanks to one good Friend of Unfair Park, with Dallas consultant Dave Koss’s lengthy tale of an AA flight attendant’s bizarre response to a first-class…
Maybe you saw this morning’s piece about the drop in sales tax collected by the city of Dallas — down 5.8 percent from October ’08 to October ’09. Problem is, Mary Suhm says in today’s memo sent to the mayor and city council, the story didn’t take into account the…
If you’re just dying to see how Dallas looked as Los Angeles’s stand-in, your wait is over: ABC just sent word that the Fox-produced The Deep End — known to the Friends of Unfair Park as that hour-long legal dramedy starring Billy Zane — will make its bow January 21…
Says this top-rated eBay-er, the photo above comes from The Dallas Morning News newsroom — dunno who it is, dunno when it was taken. I’ve asked Schutze, who started at the rival Dallas Times Herald ’round the time this appears to have been snapped, but he can’t say for sure…
On Tuesday, HKS’s Bryan Trubey, an Outstanding Alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, paid a visit to his alma mater to discuss, for the most part, how he and his team designed Cowboys Stadium. And, awful nice of ’em, TAMU has posted the entirety of his presentation; architecture nerds…
A couple of weeks ago we noticed that the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees was considering a new “Superintendent Evaluation Instrument,” which broke down the criteria into three separate categories: “student achievement,” “sound financial management” and “stakeholder satisfaction.” For the purposes of this particular report card, percentages were…
NCR, the same company responsible for those SD-card kiosks Blockbuster recently debuted at a couple of local locations, sent word this morning that it acquired DVDPlay, which has about 1,300 DVD-rental kiosks scattered about the U.S. and Canada. Said the note, NCR’s going to rebrand the stations with the Blockbuster…
Last I looked, Steve Mauldin’s still listed on the KTVT-Channel 11 Web site as president and general manager of that station — and its KTXA-Channel 21 sibling too. But not according to Variety: Says the Hollywood trade in a just-posted piece, Maudlin’s off to Los Angeles to take over KCBS…
Speaking of missives sent from the U.S. Attorney’s Office …A press release just landed in the in-box concerning the tale of one Tommy Eugene Barber, a 32-year-old Dallas man who today pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to two counts of securities fraud. And what did Barber…
Much obliged to Tim Rogers and Uncle Barky for the reminder: Earlier this week WFAA-Channel 8 yanked A Charlie Brown Christmas to run Good Morning Texas After Dark, which, as Ed describes it, is “basically is a collection of mini-infomercials sharing space with actual non-paid program content.” Which isn’t the…
Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Ruff, a bio-medical engineer, interned last year at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal child pornography charge, which will result in at least a few years in federal prison, lifetime supervision and up to a $250,000 fine should the court accept his…
