Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Why is the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Construction cam still showing a photo from 9:36 a.m. … yesterday? Says Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall, via e-mail, “The link is down due to to wx,” by which I assume he means … weather?…
It was ’round midnight this morning when power was restored in our Northwest Dallas neighborhood, which had been illuminated throughout the stormy night by Dallas police cruiser spotlights; congregated neighbors said the officers were poking around for a possible prowler attempting to make the most of the blackout. On the…
Brian Stump, the Albritton Professor of Geological Sciences in SMU’s Dedman College and part of the team set to study the recent Cleburne quakes, wants you to calm the eff down. Seriously. It’s all right. Nothing to worry about. It’s nature, for God’s sakes. Right, Prof. Stump?The recent earthquakes that…
Last night, as the storm was turning out lights across town, Jeff Liles and Barry Kooda went down to the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. Jeff brought his video camera; Barry, his acoustic guitar and Loco Gringos’ “Texas Ranger Man.” Not quite sure who brought the thunder…
Back in March came word that the the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park was going to receive $16.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dough-re-mi, making the $43-million project by far the largest recipient of transportation stimulus money in Dallas County (where, all in, we’re getting about $35.5 million). Today,…
Just stumbled upon quite the shindig planned for July 4 out at Southfork Ranch — something called America’s Tea Party, which is being put on by the Dallas Tea Party folks (nawww) but features a cross-country list of speakers tentatively scheduled to rally the troops. Here’s the roll call thus…
Yet again, Clint Barlow went down to City Hall all dressed up, only to find out that, well, it wasn’t really necessary. That’s because it took “all of three minutes” for the Dallas City Council to approve the specific use permit for Trees, which the Dallas Plan Commission unanimously OK’d…
Yet again, Clint Barlow went down to City Hall all dressed up, only to find out that, well, it wasn’t really necessary. That’s because it took “all of three minutes” for the Dallas City Council to approve the specific use permit for Trees, which the City Plan Commission unanimously OK’d…
Four years ago, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice guest by the name of George Morgan filed for a habeas corpus proceeding, which the state asked the court to dismiss. Morgan didn’t take kindly to that, and in response to the state of Texas’s request, Morgan sent to Assistant Attorney…
My old pal Jamey Newberg just sent an out an e-mail with the craziest subject heading: “Texas drafts Ruben Sierra.” As in: “6th round: Ruben Sierra, CF-L, San Juan, Puerto Rico.” As in: “Yeah, that’s Ruben Sierra’s son.” And word is, he can play:Sierra is a super athletic baseball player…
At this late date you’re surely aware of the plight of 508 Park Avenue, the site of the makeshift studio in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded. The owners of the building are still fighting with the City Attorney’s Office over…
Dunno why I didn’t think of this sooner — burying a certain 1996 Jeep Cherokee of my acquaintance in a field somewhere, ditching it in a nearby river whose trees are in need of chopping down or just setting the sumbitch on fire. Why not? According to this Associated Press…
Never did get an official response from The LeMaster Group concerning last week’s news that Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s Liverpool FC lost a ton o’ debt-service dough despite making a pile of cash at the turnstile. Oh, well — the Guardian fills us in on the latest breaking news…
One week ago today, city officials were cautioning the council not to worry — Dallas ain’t about to spend $3 million to reduce 2,800 trees along the Trinity River to firewood just because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says so. But this isn’t just a Dallas issue: Friend of…
Sorry, Kurt Watkins, but your invite to tonight’s Dallas County Young Democrats shindig at Mayor Tom Leppert’s favorite Lower Greenville hot spot got spammed out — don’t take it personally, same thing happened to my mom earlier today. That half-hearted apology out of the way, the DCYD’s communications director does…
OK, so maybe that’s stretching it just a bit. But I feel like we should send Frank Librio, the city’s marketing and media relations director, just a little something in exchange for this photo of Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway from this morning’s grand opening…
I just got off the phone with Deborah Johnson, the senior veep of marketing at KERA, who was more than happy to answer any and all questions concerning its just-announced, fall-debuting music-only radio station, 91.7 on your FM dial. And, yes, that’s the very same frequency currently occupied by The…
Just received a press release from KERA-FM concerning its latest acquisition: 91.7 on your FM dial. So many questions, which we’ll get to shortly, but I wanted to offer the announcement in the meantime. The takeaway?KERA has yet to select a name for the new station. The programming on 91.7…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked where the city’s getting the $29 million needed to cover the costs of further Trinity River floodway study, which, as we noted last week, pushes back the construction of the Dallas Floodway for at least 10 months and the Trinity River toll road…
Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. — and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the ’08 scorecard: poor ol’ Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the…
Apparently, 482 Friends of Unfair Park (not to mention our old pal, noted author Zac Crain) keep up with Mark Cuban’s tweets, as earlier this morning he announced an “AMAZING” new HD scoreboard “coming this season” to an American Airlines Center near you, after which the Unfair Park inbox was…
The News is reporting that Norman Brinker died this morning while on vacation in Colorado Springs; he turned 78 last Wednesday. Brinker, of course, is the Colorado-born chairman emeritus of Brinker International — and the man who, in 1984, took Larry Lavine’s Chili’s concept public; what began as a bar…
