If nothing else, the debate over the daytime curfew sure did get more than a few kiddos active in city politics. The Dallas City Council just got through hearing from a parade of folks opposed to the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. curfew, about which Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle…
I didn’t know till I looked at the Dallas City Council’s addenda for this week that for the last couple of months, the city’s been the proud owner of the Delux Inn on Stemmons Freeway. (The expenditure was approved last September, for $3.18 million in 1998 bond money.) Alas, don’t…
Late into last night, there erupted at the bottom of Schutze’s Tuesday post — concerning the Dallas Independent School District board’s threat to needlessly gut the magnets and learning centers — a discussion about “commitments and covenants.” Those are what the district adopted in ’03 to get out from under…
About a year ago, the North Texas Tollway Authority announced that it had chosen a new “trailblazer” design for its signs — that’s one of them at right, matter of fact, in a photo taken over the weekend by friend of the show Justin Cozart. But till Justin mentioned it…
Clearly, 2009 is The Year of Bonnie and Clyde. Seventy-five years after their deaths by ambush, you’ve got two new books on shelves at this very moment: former Star-Telegram books editor Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Schneider’s Bonnie and Clyde:…
This weekend, Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries holds yet another of its dino-bone and space-rock sales, a fairly regular occurrence over there. But this one got the attention of National Public Radio: All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel can’t understand why someone will likely pay more than $50,000…
In fast-food news, this note out of Denver: A burger chain called Smashburger announced today that it’s expanding from one Texas location (a corporate-owned joint in Houston) to 75 locations in the coming five years, including 10 just-announced franchises in East Texas. A little digging on the burger chain’s site…
The Austin American-Statesman reports this afternoon that the state Senate has given its unanimous OK to new-and-improved legislation that revamps the contentious “pole tax” imposed upon, ya know, gentleman’s establishments a couple of years back. The original legislation, which imposed a $5-per-customer charge, wasn’t a big hit with topless bar…
Seems we missed this rather significant media release yesterday — significant, that is, if you’re a Texas Ex in need of, oh, I dunno, a PINK University of Texas Bling T-Shirt or a Longhorn Pet Sweater right pronto. Because after opening outposts in Houston and San Antonio, the University of…
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Airlines pocketed $278 million in bag fees last year, putting it at the top of the list of airlines making extra scratch by charging to lose your luggage. But Dallas-based Southwest Airlines insists it still won’t go there: Southwest CEO Gary Kelly…
Phillip Jones, president of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, and some tourism-toutin’ pals went on Chilean television to sell Dallas. The result? Magic and chaos…
The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning issued this joint media release, along with the National Football League, announcing venue selections for “16 key events” that’ll be associated with Super Bowl XLV. Dallas and Fort Worth each get five; Arlington, four (including, ahem, the game); Irving, two…
Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller’s BlackBerry. The city contended that Miller’s BlackBerry was her own, not paid for by taxpayers, and, therefore, not subject to state open…
This morning, the Toronto Star finds an economics prof who specializes in moneyball tomes to speculate that Your Dallas Stars may well wind up in Chapter 11. Because, after all, it was but one month ago that Tom Hicks willingly defaulted on $525 million in loans related to the Texas…
Observer theater critic and Theater Jones’ing Elaine Liner passes along this photo, taken yesterday at the school where I spent a thousand Saturdays playing soccer as a kid. But, c’mon, that is how you pronounce it, no?…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, KERA’s working on an enormo Trinity River project with pieces for radio, TV and Internets. Today, we got a sneak peek at a major slice of the pie, which includes everything from an interactive timeline to video testimony, as KERA’s Meg Fullwood…
As of this afternoon, we’ve got 50-plus good reasons why we run comments on Unfair Park. They’re affixed to Jim’s Friday-evening item concerning the potential fate of DISD’s magnet schools and learning centers. Jim and I marveled throughout the weekend at the quantity and quality of the comments, many of…
In October 2007, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the issue of a proposed passenger facility charge for folks flying out of Love Field. The reason? The council was looking for ways to fund the capital improvements as part of the Love Field Modernization Program, and,…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this morning this bit of “sad news from East Dallas”: The Tipperary Inn on Live Oak Street will be no more after Saturday. Writes owner Tim Russi in a message sent to the Friends of the Tipperary Inn yesterday:It is with heavy heart…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this item from Jalopnik, with the caveat, that, look, it may not be real, but at least it’s real interesting. Fair enough. The road-and-tracking blog reports that it received an e-mail from a Dallas cabbie offering his services — guy by the name…
Late last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission went to Dallas federal court to accuse 62-year-old Harmut Theodor Rose and 47-year-old James Patrick Reedy of swindling about 300 folks out of at least $10 million. According to the complaint, from August 2003 to August ’05, Rose and Reedy ran a…
The Dallas City Council gets back to business today with three committee confabs, chief among them the Quality of Life hoedown where they’re poring over the Code Compliance Accountability Report Card — so “modeled after a 3rd grade report card” and lettered A through F to provide “the reader a…
