Slowly but surely Flickr fills up with images of the Traveling Man who strides through Deep Ellum. Here, for now, are two of our current favorites; after the jump, a rare nighttime shot of his seated counterpart. Co-creator Brandon Oldenburg told our Patrick Michels not long ago he hopes the…

View Larger MapThere’s space for lease on Knox Street — nice location too, right between the Apple store and Wild About Harry’s. Until, oh, today, of course, that was the Current Energy location. But according to a press release we received this afternoon, Joe Harberg’s done pulled the plug on…

Tomorrow morning, the Dallas City Attorney’s Office will present yet another version of its ordinance that would allow for the demolition of buildings in historically designated districts. Surely you know what this is all about — we’ve been down this road since, oh, August 4, 2008, when the the city…

Back in May, when the Dallas City Council was starting to tackle the city’s $190-million budget deficit, then-council member Mitchell Rasansky made it clear he was very unhappy with the city’s having spent $18,000 on fiberglass peaches scheduled to be installed at Dallas Farmers Market as part of a public…

Didn’t wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well — wouldn’t have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it…

The city’s planning quite the one-two punch for next week: The Woodall Rodgers Park breaks ground Monday, followed on Tuesday by the convention center hotel’s dirt-fly ceremony. The latter, per our invite to the wingding at 800 Young Street at 4:30 p.m. sharp, is a “momentous occasion in Dallas’ history”;…

Have yet to make it to Dallas County District Court to read the lawsuits pitting Gilbert Aranza, the franchisee operating as Base Holdings who opened and rather suddenly shuttered the Chili’s in the American Airlines Center, against Center Operating Company, which runs the arena. But I did spend a little…

In September 2004, the Dallas City Council gave Dr Pepper an exclusive beverage vending contract — meaning that at any city of Dallas venue, you had to be a Pepper or else till at last the fall of ’09, since Dr Pepper was paying good money for the exclusive access…

Spent the better part of an hour Sunday having a patient Mac salesman walk me through the pros and pros of ditching my PC; spent the better part of an hour Monday having Mac-using friends congratulate me on my flirtation (finally!) while also pointing me toward less expensive online options…

Another day, another Forbes list on which Dallas scores a good — this time, as the very bestest U.S. city “in which to take home a paycheck.” A whole bunch of numbers were crunched — everything from average salary to cost of living to “economists’ predictions for the future state…

As it turns out, the very day we were wondering what it would cost to move a Hilton Hotels regional HQ to Dallas from Farmers Branch, assistant city manager A.C. Gonzalez was sending that very info to the city council’s Economic Development Committee. Here’s the full memo — and, sorry,…

A Friend of Unfair Park sends the grim news: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Darryn D. Andrews of Dallas was killed in Afghanistan on Friday. The U.S. Department of Defense last night sent out yet another of its matter-of-fact media releases short on details, save for where and how the 34-year-old…

On her blog yesterday, Angela Hunt outlined, very simply, the proposed budget cuts she and 10 of her fellow Dallas City Council members sent to City Manager Mary Suhm. It’s something Hunt’s been working on since late July, if you’ll recall — back when she offered up $457,374 in suggested…

Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and writer-director of Office Space, stopped by Unfair Park HQ two weeks ago to talk about that 1999 film’s more-or-less follow-up Extract, which opened yesterday. (Our review is here.) Before our chat in my office, Patrick Michels presented the former Anson Funderburgh bassist…

Speaking of Victory Park …A Friend of Unfair Park sent word a little while ago that I really needed to check out the Dallas Urban Lab Web site. For those new to the concept, it’s a program down at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, where, for…

As of today, the Chili’s in the American Airlines Center is no more. And, yes, you’ll say, But of course, just like all the other restaurants that have shuttered in Victory Plaza. Only, this tale is a bit more complicated: The doors closed one last time just last night, but…