Some interesting items on the Dallas Park and Recreation Board’s meeting agenda today, chief among them: Today’s the day the board gets a detailed look at the Samuell Trust, just two months after the Texas Attorney General’s Office hashed out an agreement with the city that “imposes management practice modifications,…

As Patrick M. pointed out Friday, the finalists in the 24 Hour Video Race are scheduled to screen tonight at the Angelika Film Center on Mockingbird Station. Show starts at 6, and for those in need here’s the full rundown. Alas, several worthy contenders didn’t make the cut, and you’ll…

As mentioned yesterday, Dallas Area Rapid Transit president and exec director Gary Thomas testified today in front of a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee hearing concerning Federal Transit Administration grants and oversight. For those who might have missed it — and I’ll assume that’s every single one…

Organizers of last night’s “Story of the Statler” presentation at the Dallas Center for Architecture expected, oh, maybe 30 or 40 folks to show for architect Marcel Quimby’s talk about the historic, neglected hotel on Commerce Street. But it was standing-room-only — 150 and then some, among them Mayor Tom…

Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because “it would be too big for a simple quick response,” wrote city of Dallas emergency management director…

We didn’t get the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals press release till way late in the afternoon yesterday, but on Tuesday, PETA member Shari Pearson took off her top, whipped out the body paint and crawled into a cage in downtown Fort Worth to protest Ringling Bros. and…

Almost immediately after Schutze posted his wrap-up from the Monday-morning press conference at Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom Leppert drove his Chevy to the levees, a Friend of Unfair Park pointed our attention to Page 18 of the Trinity River Corridor Project briefing the city council will cover this…

Two items from the community bulletin board, beginning with the more pressing item of business: how to spend the Fourth of July. Last year, a few Unfair Park’ers actually went to the Fair Park Fourth — as did one, ahem, “PDiddy,” who noted in our wrap-up that the fireworks were…

Since last we checked in on efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, my old friend Jeff Liles — a “consultant” on the project — has been hard at work parading folks in and out of the old joint for some stripped-down performances, a lovely bonus. I’ve given…

Saturday afternoon, I picked up the boy from a schoolmate’s house that sits across Pinocchio Drive from the mid-century modern masterpiece that, I discovered later, belongs to graphic designer Carlos Cardoza. Normally I’d never knock on a stranger’s door to inquire about the doings within — then again, most houses…

Tomorrow, Dallas Area Rapid Transit president and exec director Gary Thomas will be in Washington, D.C., to talk — what else? — transportation. Specifically, he’s been invited to appear before a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee, chaired by Chris Dodd, to address the Federal Transit Administration’s so-called…

So said Dallas city council member Dave Neumann, chair of the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, at today’s Trinity River levees press conference at City Hall about which Jim wrote earlier today. Last night, we provided a draft of Mayor Tom Leppert’s remarks, from which he seldom strayed; here,…

Friend of the show Danny Hurley grabbed what I imagine to be one of the more disturbing images from the A-Kon 20 shindig held over the weekend at the downtown Dallas Sheraton Hotel.  Observer enjoyer Cyndi Hearne captured one of the funniest. Caption contest, obviously. Winner gets a copy of…

We’ll leave behind the conceptual constructs for a moment and focus instead on Dallas’s old buildings, always a favorite topic of mine. Because on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., Preservation Dallas will dole out it annual Achievement Awards to old buildings made brand-new by their respective caretakers. And the…

Many Friends of Unfair Park have questions concerning Re:Vision Dallas — which we’ve been mentioning for months, but, sure, the release of the conceptual renderings of three potential downtown buildings has gotten folks’ attention. So I called John Greenan — executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, which is…