Karl Zavitkovsky just called to discuss 1400 Main Street, which I mentioned earlier — and which is actually not going before the council tomorrow. Instead, says the director of the City of Dallas Office of Economic Development, developer Brian Foster and the City Center Tax Increment Financing District board need…

Back in October, we mentioned that local car man David McDavid was suing Turner Broadcasting Systems for $450 million, claiming that way back in 2003, TBS screwed him over plenty big. Because, see, McDavid thought he’d all but closed a deal with TBS to buy the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers,…

View Larger Map What you see above is 1400 Main Street, directly across from the Davis Building and next door to City Tavern. Right now, it’s but 11,000 square feet of nada, a 1954-built building on the tax rolls for some $2 million that isn’t generating a cent in tax…

My little brother used to have the LeRoy Neiman poster at right hanging above his bed. Last I saw of the thing, it was gathering dust in the folks’ garage, but I remember that mess of a race like it was yesterday — temps well above 100, the narrow track…

During Friday’s RE:Vision Dallas design charrette at City Hall — where Mayor Tom Leppert introduced the parking lot some folks hope to turn into a sustainable, self-contained community — organizers screened a nine-minute “photodocumentary” in which residents talk about the city that isn’t and the city that could be. And…

If, that is, you happen to be a kid in the neighborhood with a hot chocolate stand. From CNN yesterday. And speaking of Dallas and national TV, here’s Andrea Grimes’ beloved Fuel City on Nightline last night. And speaking of Dallas the Bushes, the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog this morning…

View Larger Map Earlier this year, ’round about the time it started getting hot, two folks living in our Northwest Dallas neighborhood hipped us to Tierra Caliente Rodeo — for two different reasons. One person thought the so-called “urban rodeo” and taqueria at 9615 Overlake Drive, near the old European…

Nancy Nichols serves up the bad news: Tio’s Tortas on Lemmon Avenue is closed. Which is devastating news for those of us who frequented the joint, oh, once a week — used to, anyway, till we realized we were probably enjoying Tio’s tortas a little too much. (And, look, the…

After the jump, a photo taken Sunday evening at the intersection of Merrell Road and Cromwell Drive in Northwest Dallas — perfect for those in need of a Christmas card at this late date. –Robert Wilonsky…

For weeks, the United States Conference of Mayors has been touting its Main Street Economic Recovery Plan, which would, if enacted, involve putting federal funds into local projects. To that end, mayors from all across the country provided the Conference with a wish list of project they’d like the feds…

What you see above is an early cover sketch for the Criterion Collection Bottle Rocket DVD about which we’ve written, oh, just a little in recent weeks. Like all of the artwork featured on the disc and throughout its accompanying booklet, it was done by Ian Dingman, and it measures…

Every now and then this week — till Wednesday at least — we’ll highlight some items on the Dallas City Council’s agenda, which runs more than 2,300 pages once you tally up the final agenda and final addendum items. Feels a bit like a year-end best-of, as the council takes…

Seven months ago, the word “streetcar” started showing up on Unfair Park — seems Jim’s plenty keen on the idea, along with other trolley-touters who look to yesterday’s transportation option as tomorrow’s development generator. Which is why, as the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee discusses the second downtown…

Bad news this afternoon from Kurt Kleinmann, whose Pegasus Theatre has been coloring its stage productions a distinctly retro shade of gray since 1986: There will be no new “In Living Black and White” production next month at the Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, where, last December, Kleinmann opened…

A Friend of Unfair Park who works — sorry, make that worked — for Electronic Data Systems in Plano sends this missive:Amazing how the DMN or any of the local news outlets has not reported the fact EDS has laid off 8,000 to 10,000 people this week. I was one…

A Friend of Unfair Park and M.O.T. forwards us this link to tomorrow’s big auction at the VFW Hall on S. Smith Street, off Walton Walker. Looks like Randall Hill Auctions, based in La Coste, is selling off some 1,000 pieces of World War II memorabilia — including, oh, pistols…

Those local Starbucks targeted for shuttering over the summer are still open — dunno for how long, though, as the Seattle-based coffeeteria stages the closings in waves. (“Could be any time,” says one Lower Greenville barista.) And, more bad news, as it looks like Starbucks won’t rake in the big…