Pick-Up Poker, Inc. is a Dallas-based company incorporated last December that plans on leasing players “furnished poker rooms … at very inexpensive rates” (a dollar per every 15 minutes) and on “a pseudo-nonprofit basis,” whatever that means. At least, that’s what Pick-Up Poker says in its lawsuit against the state…
The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that LBJ Development Partners will be responsible for the so-called New LBJ Freeway — which, as we pointed out in September, will feature among its renovations six managed toll lanes sunk smack in the middle. TxDOT spokesman Tony Hartzel, the former Dallas…
On Monday, Schutze mentioned Mayor Tom’s town hall meeting tonight at Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along the poster for tonight’s event, where you can also pick up a half-sleeve tee, 2008-’09 “Hands Across America” headbands and official bootlegs from Tianjin…
Did not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s call to arms — meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks’ worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortly after that, on…
Making music for video games wasn’t something Stephen Rippy set out to do. It is not, for instance, why he attended the University of Texas in the early 1990s—far from it, actually. He’d moved from Spring, 20 miles from downtown Houston, to Austin in order to study visual art; at…
Perhaps you read Schutze’s column “Democratic County Judge Jim Foster May be the Latest Target in the Inland Port Battle” in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. An excerpt, for those who did not:Foster took a tough stance against [state Sen. Royce] West and [Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley]…
I know, I’m asking for it. But Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander just sent over a few photos of George and Laura Bush making “a surprise visit this morning to their neighborhood school, Dallas ISD’s John J. Pershing Elementary,” where he hung out for more than an hour…
Kenneth Hughes said Good Morning, America this morning, because, well, that’s what happens to guys from Garland whose wife and daughter hire a hitman to off dear ol’ Dad. Says Hughes, sure, he could believe his 31-year-old daughter would want to kill him. But his 56-year-old wife? “No way.” Why…
That’s the council member’s assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday’s news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated “unacceptable” 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project…
Late last night, ’round 11:45, I was finishing some work and decided to check out Quake Live, id’s browser version of its 13-year-old first-person shoot-’em-up franchise. Local company aside, I used to dig Quake back in June of ’96. Took but a second to register, but, as you can see,…
A friend of Unfair Park looking to own a summer home (for no more than a few thou, cheapskate) sends word that she’s camping out this weekend at the Hyatt Regency. That’s because a few hundred foreclosed properties are being auctioned off starting Saturday, and our Friend’s itching to snag…
The INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report is out today, and Dallas-Fort Worth is up one spot from last year’s list: We’re now No. 4 on the most-congested list, behind only Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. (Though do keep this in mind, as the media release reminds: “Coincidentally,…
It was the last question of the night: “What do you think of the mayor’s concept for taking over the Dallas Independent School District?” The audience, consisting of only a few folks scattered throughout the W.T. White High School auditorium last night, let out a collective giggle. DISD Superintendent Michael…
That’s Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s plan, anyway: Folks who bring an “operational, unloaded firearm” (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card — from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such sponsors as 97.9 THE BEAT…
Barack Obama nominated Ron Kirk as U.S. trade representative a week before Christmas. A month after that, Obama was sworn in as president. A month after that, the former Dallas mayor’s still waiting for his hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, which still doesn’t have Kirk pencilled in on…
Mesquite-based id Software’s but moments away from unleashing its browser-based Quake Live, and in advance of that momentous open-beta occasion, John Carmack talks to MTV Multiplayer today about everything happening at id these days (everything except Quake Live, which’ll be covered in tomorrow’s chat with the bossman). Chief among the…
For those who missed the small announcement on their Web site, the good folks behind Art Conspiracy sent a reminder last night that they turned over a $20,000 check to 10-year-old nonprofit Preservation LINK, which uses “arts, culture and technology” as teaching tools for 9- to 16-year-olds attending schools in…
Been meaning to mention this for a few days, but friend of the show Justin Cozart recently grabbed a few scenes (ah, Crozier Tech) from Robocop to offer up a history of New Detroit, by which, of course, we mean Dallas circa 1986. Which reminds me: There’s an even larger…
The Associated Press reports this morning that a man has been arrested in the death of Marlon Alfaro, the 23-year-old from Irving who was beaten and run over in a Lower Greenville Avenue club’s parking lot on January 25. Dallas police and a certain Barking Dog had speculated in a…
Ernst & Young this morning has released its US 2009 Lodging Report, which, turns out, has nothing to do with a certain high-end gentleman’s establishment. Instead, sadly, it’s just a lengthy status report on the state of the hotel business in 17 major U.S. cities, Dallas chief among ’em. And…
Randy Clower’s short film Freaks of Dallas has made the local film-fest rounds — AFI Dallas and Dallas Video Fest, in other words, even KERA-Channel 13 in ’07. But director Randy Clower today posted his 10-minute animated film about the late local “hippie scene,” so if you’ve never seen (or,…
An old client of mine happened to know one of the friends of the MayhewShe reffered them to me, said they’d be in town Sunday You get lots of calls but lo and behold they showed up at the house and it looked ot me like poor Mr M was all…
