The News has a front-page piece this morning on the Snowball Express, which landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport yesterday, bringing with it 1,300 kids from all over the world who’ve lost a parent serving in the U.S. armed forces since 2001. Theirs is a busy itinerary: Southfork Ranch, a…
It’s been, what, seven months since last we saw John Bryant and Byron Pierce’s conceptual rendering for the planned minor-league ballpark on the banks of the Trinity River. Since then, especially recently, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered in the comments and via e-mail whatever became of that daydream,…
Our Danny Fulgencio trailed some of Your Texas Rangers — among them, Chris Davis, David Murphy, Ian Kinsler, Derek Holland and new hitting coach Clint Hurdle — as they made the rounds at Children’s Medical Center, a holiday tradition amongst athletes spreading cheer to young patients in need. He brought…
I missed the name of the gentleman, clad in a dark suit and tie (that’s him at the top right of the screengrab), who, about an hour ago, pleaded with the Dallas City Council to vote against designating Northern Hills as a conservation district. The City Plan Commission OK’d the…
After the jump is an e-mail I received this morning from a Friend of Unfair Park, who received it this morning via a neighborhood crime watch mailing list. It concerns a carjacking in the parking lot of the Albertsons at McKinney and Lemmon Avenues. Though the e-mail says the incident…
The Dallas Morning News’s circulation is way down — by 30 percent since 2007 — which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a “special report,” Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the…
Boxing promoter Bob Arum should be in Arlington some time ’round about, oh, now, as he and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s manager, Richard Schaefer, and HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg visit with Jerry Jones to see what he’s willing to part with in order to bring the Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it’s giving Dallas $25 million in grant money — more than in previous years. Why the bump? Says here that’s because Dallas, along with Boston and Philadelphia, has been promoted to a “Tier 1” city — “the highest-risk tier for terrorist…
Didn’t intend to follow-up Monday’s item about Dallas Farmers Market landing an anchor for Shed No. 2 with news about the shed’s lack of an electrical inspection and certificate of occupancy; just worked out that way. Instead, I’d intended to follow with a brief chat with Janel Leatherman, the market’s…
I didn’t find out John Lennon had been killed till the morning of December 9, 1980 — it was all we talked about on the bus ride to Alex W. Spence Middle School as we listened to Double Fantasy blaring from a classmate’s enormo jambox. One of our teachers –…
Patricia Viramontes has long been one of Dallas Independent School District’s more controversial figures, dating back to at least September 2007, when district officials concluded that, yes, maybe the DISD’s executive director of instructional technology services shouldn’t be reporting to her husband after all, nepotism policies being what they are…
In late August, Kim spoke with Phillip Dennis, head of the Dallas Tea Party, about his aspirations for the group. This is what he told her:I believe in what we’re doing. I believe in this movement. I think this really is the beginning of the second revolution of America. It’s…
So says list-lovin’ Forbes in its round-up of The Best (And Worst) Teams of the Decade, assembled using franchises’ win-loss record during the ’00s, playoff appearances, titles won and the value of the franchise (which, in the Mavs’ case, has more than doubled since Mark Cuban bought the team in…
‘Bout a week ago over on DC9, Pete posted some new Christmas carols from the likes of Dorrough, THe BAcksliders and A Bird A Sparrow, which, yet again, prompted me to dust off my copies of the long-out-of-print Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum (released in ’95) and 2000’s Electric…
We last spoke with Maria Munoz-Blanco, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, about the Majestic Theatre in mid-May — just as Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group was opting not to renew its contract to manage the 89-year-old city landmark, given a $1 million loss since taking it over…
When last we heard, plans to redo the old LTV Tower at 1600 Pacific Avenue were indefinitely put on hold when developer Curtis Lockey filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a few months ago. But City Hall was determined not to give up on the project, some of which was…
When last we looked at the city of Dallas’s crime stats on November 13, there was just one number on the rise: homicides, up from 134 at the end of October 2008 to 141 at the end of October ’09. But when Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle presents the latest…
It was all I could do Saturday night to keep my eyes off the EnormoDome’s big screen during UT-Nebraska; it takes more willpower than trying to stop smoking. So perhaps this is just Jerry Jones’s way of acknowledging the obvious: Broadcasting & Cable reports this morning that folks attending the…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed this morning wondering what a Ticket-Dallas Morning News content-sharing deal, announced this morning, actually means. After all, Jean-Jacques Taylor, Rick Gosselin, Todd Archer, Evan Grant and other sportswriters already appear on the station regularly. What’s new about this particular arrangement? I’ve e-mailed Jeff…
Earlier this afternoon, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Morgan Lyons sent word that the U.S. Department of Transportation is giving DART $5.3 million to fund something called an Integrated Corridor Management system. The feds have been messing around with this for years in an effort to unclog heavily congested freeways; Dallas…
Back to Dallas Farmers Market Shed No. 2 for just a moment. While doing some follow-up phone-calling this morning after posting the item about Pecan Lodge Catering, I found out that the city-owned building, which cost $3.2 million to redo before its quiet reopening at the end of 2008, never…
We’re probably a long ways off from finding out if TNT and Warner Bros. TV plan on shooting their small-screen Dallas remake in Dallas. Which hasn’t stopped me from leaving messages all morning for Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, to see if she knows what’s what on…
