Back in June, Provident Realty spokesperson Marie Fahey told Unfair Park that, look, the developer wasn’t quite sure when it was gonna get around to building that European crossroads at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway, site of the long-delayed Glen at Preston Hollow mixed-use development. The company, she said, was…

Former Unfair Park-er Alexa Schirtzinger sure dug her some nature, if you recall. So it’s not surprising she shows up in the latest issue of Audubon talking up the Trinity River Audubon Center. But she also tells the tale of how a teacher at Rufus C. Burleson Elementary School on…

Patrick Michels was out at Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome this morning, where workers were scheduled to erect Tom Landry. Pardon … Tom Landry’s statue. But they were running a wee bit behind schedule, Patrick had to return to the office so he could film my interview with C-3PO, so this is…

Curious to see which council member wants what program reinstated to City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2009-2010 budget, which the council will vote on one week from tomorrow? Then you’re in luck: Tomorrow, the council will discuss during its briefing session their budget amendments, which call for reinstating everything from…

Back in July we noted that current Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo and former News photographer Richard Pruitt collaborated on a side project due on coffee tables in November: a tome titled Top Dogs and Their Pets, proceeds from which toward rescuing, rehabbing and re-housing abused puppies. This week…

The official press release arrived early this morning, along with the official newspaper: The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is now the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Or both, per the Web site.) Nobody’s saying how much AT&T’s spending on the naming rights, only that the package includes “cutting edge…

So, you say you wanna meet Drew Barrymore — have ever since E.T. or maybe since she gave Dave Letterman a birthday surprise? Well, this week you get your chance: She’s doing a meet-and-greet at Urban Outfitters in Mockingbird Station on Wednesday. But, of course, it’s first come, first served,…

We can’t find Jim this morning — sure hope he’s not down at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site! Or out taking photos après le deluge, as is his wont. Especially since our old pal Justin Terveen was out and about over the weekend, trying to cross the Trinity…

Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation & Environment Committee will take up taxis — specifically, whether or not to cut cab companies a few big breaks in the middle of an economic downturn that’s turned smack into oncoming business. According to briefing documents, calls to the airport are way down:…

Newspapers ’round the country are filled this morning with obituaries, such as this one from The Washington Post, mourning Norman Borlaug, who died Saturday at the age of 95 at his Dallas home. All the obituaries more or less read the same: father of the “Green Revolution,” Nobel laureate, the…

Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Fair Park …I was looking for something entirely unrelated on YouTube when I came across this vintage footage posted by DART a couple of weeks ago. Says the description of the footage that was kindly provided by one Johnnie J. Myers:Fair Park saw…

You know why it seems like Angela Hunt’s always on Unfair Park? Because she’s the only council member with a regularly updated Web site to which she posts items of significance to Dallas residents. Hey, Carolyn Davis gets herself a blog, we’ll post the hell out of it; same for…

I only ask because the Dallas Zoological Society, which is now operating the Dallas Zoo, is auctioning off a date with Mayor Tom as part of its Zoo to Do 2009 Gone Wild! fund-raising event, which runs through September 30 — so act now! Let’s see what you get for…

Far as I knew, Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley were still hosting the Today show — apparently not. Nope, says this NBC press release, a couple of gentlemen named Matt Lauer (who I thought hosted HBO’s entertainment news segment) and Al Roker will bring the show to Arlington next week,…

Speaking of the City Plan Commission …By all accounts, the 3-year-long battle over designating Northern Hills a conservation district’s about to come to an end. (Whassup, Disney streets?) Sources say that 80 percent of the residents in the 61-house neighborhood nestled between Highland Park and the Knox-Henderson shopping district have…

Speaking of vacant downtown buildings … When Mayor Tom Leppert unveiled his list of Central Business District buildings that needed to be brought up to code or else, preservationists fretted that he had his sights set on razing, oh, the Statler Hilton or 508 Park Avenue, for starters. It made…

Eleven months ago, Mayor Tom Leppert gathered the media beneath 1604 Main Street to detail his plan for dealing with 36 vacant buildings downtown. We’ve spilled plenty of virtual ink documenting the doings with two of the more high-profile properties, but this week comes news that a handful of smaller…