Mayor Tom Leppert’s made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren’t terribly energy efficient. The city council’s Housing Committee will get the full details today at 2 p.m.,…
The Dallas County Community College District board meets tomorrow at 4 p.m. at 1601 S. Lamar Street, and the confab should be livelier than most. In our in-box this morning, we were among those who received an invite to “Stand in Solidarity for Carla Ranger,” the Dallas Independent School District…
Last week we showed you the three winners and three finalists chosen in the Re:Vision Dallas competition that called for folks to design a self-sustaining block on what’s not a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall. Turns out, that was but a sneak preview.Today, Urban Re:Vision — the folks behind…
It was shaping up to be a busy day at Dallas City Hall even before the Trinity River press conference was added into the mix yesterday; if nothing else, we should get some idea today where the city council stands on the proposed private parking lot booting ordinance, kicked to…
Earlier tonight, a few of us local media members found in our respective in-boxes a draft of remarks Mayor Tom Leppert is expected to deliver Monday during a 10 a.m. press conference in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall. He’s expected to announce that the city will “invest approximately…
Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists will turn one state’s trash into one man’s treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs — or polychlorinated biphenyls, a carcinogenic…
That’s Steve Kudlow above — otherwise known as “Lips,” frontman for Canadian metal band Anvil, subject of an eponymous rockumentary now showing at the Magnolia. Last night, on opening night, the band came to Dallas for what its members (Lips, drummer Robb Reiner, bassist Glenn Five) refer to as “The…
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Jim Truitt, Forest City’s vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday’s meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Building and the former Dallas National Bank Building, now The Joule. Forest…
Perhaps you have an idea how the city can cut, oh, $100 million in order to fix its busted-up budget. Or, just maybe, you’re really not terribly keen on the idea of City Manager Mary Suhm leaving 12 code enforcement positions unfilled in order to make up the ever-expanding deficit…
The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state — and fate — of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country’s biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There’s been much…
Blockbuster held is annual shareholders meeting yesterday, and the presentation was chock-a-block with sneak peeks at the Dallas company’s future — or, at the very least, its plans for the future. After the jump you’ll find the complete 31-page presentation offered to shareholders, who were also treated with the video-…
To keep this brief, here’s the takeaway from this morning’s New York Times profile of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who’s now “the unlikely new U.S. trade representative,” as the paper puts it. The gist of the story is this: Everybody likes Ron Kirk. Everybody. So far. Because, well, they…
Rick Ericson at The LeMaster Group forwards along the latest in a short line of Official Tom Hicks Media Releases — though, as you’re no doubt aware, this is by far the most interesting one yet. Because as the owner of the Texas Rangers told Randy Galloway yesterday, yup, he’s…
View Larger MapNoticed something interesting on the Landmark Commission Designation Committee’s agenda for today’s 5:45 p.m. confab: the re-initiation of historic designation proceedings for two downtown buildings, the Mercantile Continental Building on Commerce Street and the Dallas National Bank Building on Main Street (otherwise known as The Joule). That’s re-initiation…
It was quite the confab at Dallas City Hall on December 8, when Mayor Tom Leppert welcomed to a fourth-floor conference room about three dozen urban planners, architects and city officials who’d come downtown on a chilly morning to discuss turning a parking lot behind City Hall into a “self-sustaining…
Last year, Jesse Hyde wrote several stories for the Dallas Observer and Unfair Park about Farhat Chishty’s quest for justice for her son Haseeb, who, till last fall, had been one of 630 residents at Denton State School — where, in 2002, Haseeb was savagely beaten by a caregiver who…
Shortly after Judge Carter Thompson said to Jerry Lee Evans, “It’s the court’s hope that your next 23 years are happier than the past 23 years,” Dallas County’s latest DNA exoneree appeared, via satellite, on CNN’s Larry King Live. He was joined by Dallas County public defender Michelle Moore –…
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced from the front porch of a dilapidated manse held aloft by hundreds of helium-filled balloons. Such, of…
One week ago today, Dallas artist Chet Phillips (and I’m a big fan) was featured on Drawn!, a must-read for the illustration and cartooning fetishist. Specifically, Phillips’s latest project got the shout-out — a brilliantly assembled collection of 14 trading cards called World War Monkey: A Portrait Gallery of Military…
A Friend of Unfair Park wants to make sure we know that Ellis Short — co-founder of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, and a bigwig at locally based asset management company Kitano Capital — is no longer partial owner of the Premier League’s Sunderland club (otherwise known as The Black Cats)…
wee see – collection one from Rolyn Barthelman on Vimeo.During Record Store Day last month, I took the 5-year-old who lives in my house to the Good Records all-day shindig, where one Julie Doyle slipped us a Polyphonic treat: a sneak peek at something called Wee See, about which Mrs…
