The Dallas Video Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center — we’ll sneak peek a few offerings as it unspools over the coming days. But I did want to mention one highlight, titled Dig Deep, as it’s probably the festival offering most likely to connect with locals. After…
Last week, as you no doubt recall, Sheila Hill’s attorney, Victor Vital, requested a new trial or evidentiary hearing based upon possible jury misconduct preceding all those guilty verdicts in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial. Now we know how U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn will proceed — by…
Last week, Willis Winters wasn’t too sure — the Park and Rec Department’s assistant director had hoped to get Main Street Garden open by November 13, but, well, you saw the soggy pictures. But, clearly, the mud pit has been Kaboomed: After I noticed the opening dates mentioned on the…
Some time this morning, we should have the full copy of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s so-called “use of force” report concerning the raid on the Rainbow Lounge in late June. Till then, TABC spokesperson Carolyn Beck offers this morning a lengthy summary, in which TABC Agent Chris Aller –…
I’ve had today’s date circled on my calendar since October 7: This was to be the day Bob’s Steak & Chop House went on the auction block. And ever since this morning, when we got word that there was at least one heretofore unmentioned notable interested in taking Bob Sambol’s…
Like we said Friday, once upon a time the city had hoped to turn the Continental Bridge into a streetcar-pedestrian park mash-up — that conceptual rendering you see above didn’t come outta nowhere. But one anonymous $10-million donation later, and, as Jim noted upon his return from City Hall yesterday,…
God knows the city’s been talking about it since forever — you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year’s Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain’t-right, but, whatever…
Dallas-based 7-Eleven’s had a few proprietary wines on shelves for some time, among them Sonoma Crest and Thousand Oaks, but today comes word that the convenience store’s actually in the private-label business thanks to a partnership with its Japanese sibling, Seven-Eleven Japan. And, whoa, Yosemite Road is quite the bargain:…
Speaking of great books about Dallas architecture …On Monday, shortly after I mentioned that the Dallas Historical Society has reissuing Dallas Rediscovered on its to-do list, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that the American Institute of Architects-Dallas is planning on updating The American Institute of Architects Guide to…
On Tuesday morning, Belo Corp. released its third-quarter financials (“total revenue decreased 17.7 percent”), then followed up its press release with a conference call with analysts. During the chat, Michael Meltz of J.P. Morgan asked Dunia Shive, the president and CEO of WFAA-Channel 8’s parent company, if there was “any…
This morning, The New York Times’ editorial page insists the tale of Ernestina Mondragon, the first of 39 drivers ticketed by Dallas police for not speaking English to speak up, is merely a symptom of a larger issue: “how local police departments should deal with recent immigrants.” (And, no, the…
This’ll most likely be our one and only item about the race for the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees — because, judging by the early-voting numbers, well, not too many folks seem to be all that interested. Take the hotly contested District 1 race, for instance: Incumbent Edwin…
Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District and grant money …I was poking around the briefing agenda for this week’s meeting of the board of trustees and noticed this intriguing item: NASA — yes, that NASA, not this NASA — is giving the DISD, via the Foundation for Community Empowerment,…
Yesterday, just after Angela Hunt posted her lengthy essay titled “Ethics Reform at City Hall,” Jim wrote that “we can thank council members Hunt, Ann Margolin and Linda Koop for adding the only real teeth in this poor gum-smacker.” So happens that on Monday, Margolin also weighed on the subject…
When A.H. Belo Corporation released its third-quarter financials on Friday, included high in the press release was this note: “As part of the Company’s ongoing efforts to realign its business and reduce expenses, The Dallas Morning News will close the packaging facility as it consolidates production operations into a single…
Perhaps you recall Lee Hancock’s multiple-part series in The Dallas Morning News in 2006 concerning The Battle for 4949 Swiss; a riveting read for those in need of a refresher. On Friday, the local story goes national: ABC’s 20/20 has prepped a piece on Mary Ellen Bendtsen and asks, as…
Speaking of the Trinity River …Bad news for those expecting to fish the river this week for cash and prizes: We got word from Dallas City Hall late last night that the Trinity Commons Foundation has canceled the Carpe Diem Classic Fishing Tournament and Fun River Paddle, which was on…
The city wasn’t kidding around about fast-tracking the Trinity Standing Wave whitewater-maker: Less than two months after the $3-million project resurfaced in a Trinity River Corridor Project Committee presentation, the city council’s gearing up to award the construction contract. That’ll happen on November 9, according to this morning’s sneak peak…
This is Anfield, devoted to all things Liverpool FC, posted today a rather lengthy laundry list of all the things Tom Hicks has done wrong, far as Reds fans are concerned, since he bought the club with George Gillett more than two years ago. The sum-up — headlined “Hicks &…
You are aware that are there elections tomorrow, right? Probably not, unless you’re in a district of the Dallas Independent School District with a seat on the board of trustees that’s ripe for the takin’. (What constitutional amendments?) Hence Bruce Sherbet’s prediction that no more than 3 percent of Dallas…
A few weeks ago, a good Friend of Unfair Park asked to borrow my copy of Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925. Needed it for a research project. Half-Price didn’t have a copy; dunno ’bout the library. But, sure, I said. Go ahead; just don’t lose it…
On Friday, Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, mentioned to Unfair Park that The Real Estate Council had hired St. Louis-based housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar to evaluate the potential for development along the DART Green Line in Fair Park-South Dallas and the section of the…
