A Friend of Unfair Park e-mails with some literary doings courtesy a familiar face: KTVT-Channel 11 chief meteorologist Kristine Kahanek has a kiddies’ book forthcoming titled Katie and the Magic Umbrella: A Stormy Adventure. The book’s due in stores on Monday, and from the publisher’s description, the 44-pager aimed at…
Daniel Rodrigue Colin Ross, some folks think you’re just a “sincere kook.” I just knew we weren’t done with Colin Ross just yet. Surely, you recall our favorite X-Man — said he could get his mind to make a sound using eyebeams … or something? Anyway, last week The Skeptics’…
The “new and improved” White Rock Lake spillway, which the council will likely vote to fund today Two more items of interest before the city council today, including agenda item No. 56: spending $16,748,070 to fix the White Rock Lake spillway, which was damaged during the storms of March 2006…
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report titled Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007 American Community Survey, in which it lists the cities with the highest median income and the lowest poverty rate. And, as you’ve no doubt guessed from the headline, Plano comes out on top…
At present, the proposed Main Street Garden downtown is but a fenced-off patch of dirt and rubble — very sexy scenery for folks to whom Forest City’s trying to sell apartments in the newly constructed Element, some of which faces the Municipal Building and the abandoned Statler Hotel. Plans for…
Over at the Sportatorium this a.m., Richie has news concerning a certain ex-Ticket host who’s got himself a new gig he’s sure to like, which, I know, wasn’t the question. Only, what is an “R.J. Choppy,” and how much does it cost? Alas, in other sporting news, Tony Romo finally…
Harold Simmons Harold Simmons spent about $3 million on that Barack Obama attack ad, and Politico.com’s making sure he’s getting his money’s worth. Because moments ago, Ben Smith posted the second missive Obama’s counsel, Robert Bauer, sent to the Department of Justice in which Bauer demands an investigation into the…
By now, you’re no doubt aware of my insatiable and irrational interest in Oliver Stone’s W, which opens in October. So imagine my delight, then, to come across this item from late last week: extensive making-of footage from Lionsgate provided by Access Hollywood in which, for the first time, we…
Sam Merten snapped this photo yesterday in front of Chapman Motors, located at 4312 Ross Avenue near the Peak Street intersection. Said the Friend of Unfair Park who tipped us to its existence: “The whole Ross Avenue renaming controversy seemed a little, ya know, abstract until I saw the sign.”…
How many dollars are currently in your wallet, Don Hill? No wonder you can’t pay Ray Jackson, then. Don Hill’s tried all kind of ways to get out from under the feds’ indictments in the City Hall low-income-housing bribery and extortion case, including last month’s claim that federal prosecutors are…
Two notes this a.m. concerning the Texas delegation’s afterthought treatment at the Democratic National Convention. First, from KERA-FM (90.1) via Capital News Connection, this report in which Dallas City Plan Commissioner and Cesar Chavez Tollway fan Neil Emmons explains why the Texans are stuck 45 minutes away from the convention…
Dallas Power & Light At this very moment, Commercial Property News is hosting the Dallas-Fort Worth Property Opportunities Conference at the Westin Galleria Dallas. So it’s no coincidence that CPN is on top of the shindig, reporting this morning about this morning’s keynote address, which was delivered by Ted Hamilton…
A troubling lead from this morning’s back-to-school report on KERA-FM (90.1): “About 30,000 students were no-shows in classrooms in the Dallas school district yesterday, the first day of the new school year.” And one mother of an H. Grady Spruce High School junior told B.J. Austin that her daughter, who’s…
Caption-writing contest time, if you don’t mind. Lance doesn’t. He’s tough. Every year, The Washingtonian surveys some 1,700 top aides on Capitol Hill — “the administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs” — for its Best & Worst of Congress issue. And, turns out, U.S. Senator…
Big Rig Jig Parking a big rig in a Dallas neighborhood’s against the law — gets you a $25 ticket and, more than likely, a tow to a city pound — unless it’s being loaded or unloaded. Only, seems some folks are finding more and more commercial vehicles and one-and-a-half-tonners…
Big, big science news this morning: Neanderthals weren’t as dumb as they looked. It’s in all the U.K. papers today, as one member of the team that made the discovery that stupidity was not the Neanderthals’ cause of extinction hails from the University of Exeter; the discovery also turns up…
On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama’s campaign is busying itself with the handiwork of Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who, as we noted yesterday, financed an ad linking the Democratic presidential candidate with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers. As Time noted late this afternoon,…
The Marcus House, as it looked during construction in 1938 On this slow news day, more blasts from the past — only, this is history heretofore unwritten. Two weeks ago, Unfair Park broke the news that Marc and Patty Lovvorn were going to tear down the house Stanley Marcus built…
The star of the June 1944 Woodrow Wilson Senior Class production of And Came the Spring, in which he played Jeffrey Hartman If you know Nicky de Larios — Woodrow Wilson High School, Class of ’44 — please let the former cheerleader know I have her yearbook. Seems to be…
It’s been mentioned a couple of times on FrontBurner, including today: Folks wake up in the morning, only to find their car or SUV is missing all four wheels. The D boys have mentioned a few locations — Preston Hollow, University Park, Abrams Road and Northwest Highway, Lovers Lane and…
Not much about this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s Commission on Productivity and Innovation seems out of the ordinary — save for the tiny note at the end of the agenda concerning a new item being introduced at meeting’s end. It’s but three simple words: “Property Tax Holiday.” Which seemed…
The above photo was taken at 10:49 this morning, from the City of Dallas’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Construction Web cam. We peek at it every so often; Schutze can spend hours on the thing, eyes glued and slightly glazed. (At least, I think that’s what he’s looking at.) Only,…
