We’ve known all along that the city’s upping myriad fees to cover some of the $190-million budget shortfall in the budget that’ll get passed today by the city council and take effect October 1. But the best look yet at what’s to come is spelled out in Addendum Item No…
Rudy Bush has the story: The College Football Hall of Fame is indeed picking up and leaving South Bend, Indiana … for Atlanta! But, but, but. “We would not be pursuing this unless we had a good sense from our conversations that success was possible,” the mayor said in April…
Some time today, the Dallas City Council will approve City Manager Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget. And as a sort of preview, District 14 rep Angela Hunt last night posted a flashback to last year’s budget vote, when she warned on September 24, 2008, that “this budget is overly optimistic …..
Friend of the show Danny Bollinger, the Mavs man responsible for yesterday’s photo of Jason “Dorf” Terry in the team’s alternate unis, also brings us a significantly more high-def look at the American Airlines Center’s new scoreboards than our earlier sneak peek. And if this doesn’t do it for you,…
Back in April, you may recall, the Dallas Independent School District started auctioning off items former district secretary Gloria Orapello bought with her DISD-issued credit card. So, then, I was on Lone Star Auctions yesterday and noticed that DISD’s selling off a whole bunch of stuff, most of which clearly…
Much thanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve sent along the Associated Press’s EXCLUSIVE! report concerning the degree to which the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission investigates, um, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Because, sure, it’s one thing to discipline a few agents in a highly publicized raid-gone-wrong. But…
A Friend of Unfair Park, who I’m pretty sure works for North Texas Public Broadcasting, sends word: KXT-FM (91.7), the all-music sibling of KERA-FM (90.1) set to get its rocks off November 9, now has two tees up for grabs, each available for the pledge price of $60 if you…
Beginning Thursday through Sunday, Nina Kotova will sit in with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as the acclaimed Russian cellist makes her Texas Instruments Classical Series bow. Hers is a particularly special debut in Dallas, as the occasional University of Texas at Austin visiting artist, former Charlie Rose guest and one-time…
Steven Phillips served 24 years in prison after having been convicted in 1982 of sexual assault and robbery — a crime for which he was exonerated in 2008, after DNA evidence revealed he was not, in fact, the perpetrator. As the Associated Press noted earlier this month, the Dallas resident…
Speaking of economic development and TIF districts …This morning, the council’s committee will also discuss the Butler project first mentioned here, oh, ’bout a year ago: “460 luxury apartment homes, retail space and a five-story structured parking garage for residents and retail customers” that are planned for the Dallas Medical…
We mentioned this a month ago (and well before that): Forest City’s plans to redevelop the 300,000-square foot Continental Building on Commerce Street have stalled, so the city has made considerable concessions to get it back on track in order to “maintain Downtown momentum” and “strengthen redevelopment efforts surrounding Main…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards grim news concerning a local soldier killed while on deployment: The Department of Defense reports today that 22-year-old Matthew Courtois, a senior airman from Lucas in Collin County, died yesterday at the Abdullah Al Mubarak Airbase in Kuwait. But how he died remains a…
Sam dropped on my desk a memo sent Friday from Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan to the mayor and council members, in which she’s inviting them down to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site on Thursday for a private whassup with Santiago Calatrava, who will “discuss the architectural aspects…
In the end, Jordin Sparks had way more time with the microphone than a certain former president at Cowboys Stadium, where, this morning, George and Laura Bush were among those on-hand to unveil the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s educational outreach initiative called Service Learning Adventures in North…
While I finish up an item from this morning’s edutainment event out at Cowboys Stadium, feast your eyes on the new Dallas Mavericks alternate uni, debuted this morning at a press conference (though the color choice dates back to Jason Kidd’s first go-round). Says owner Mark Cuban, “Our fans have…
Speaking of the Trinity River Corridor Project …. On Tuesday, the Dallas City Council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will more or less get an update on the entirety of the project — good timing too, of course, given that Santiago Calatava will be in town by week’s end for…
George W. and Laura Bush are scheduled to speak at 11 this morning at Cowboys Stadium — who knows, maybe the ex-president slept over? Of course, Arlington school kids won’t be out there for the announcement concerning the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s historic service-learning program, about which…
So, there’s this interesting item on the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda for Tuesday (and the council’s addendum for Wednesday): The Trinity Trust is giving the city a five-year, $2 million grant that makes possible something called the Dallas Urban Design Studio. It will actually create three…
Every few weeks, it seems, it gets a whole more expensive to tear down Reunion Arena, which, as many Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, now looks like the world’s largest, grooviest coffee table. (It has joined Traveling Man as locals’ latest favorite photo op.) Originally, council approved paying…
View Larger MapThis morning, Steve Brown mentioned that more than 250 local commercial properties are up for foreclosure next month, including “several vacant tracts of land in Oak Cliff along Davis Street, Kings Highway and Stevens Forest Drive.” But Brown didn’t mention which properties — or who had plans to…
For those who missed Part One of Mort Meyerson’s 20-minute doc, made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the concert hall that bears his name, it’s right here. You might want to watch that before you view Part Two, in which things get Curb Your Enthusiasm tense during the construction…
I have some hazy memory of my slightly older cousin going to SMU in March 1977 to see Genesis, then touring behind A Trick Of The TailWind & Wuthering, the band’s second album with Phil Collins as lead singer. My cousin — who, earlier today, threatened a libel suit if…
