Just a few weeks after we pulled into the parking lot of the former AMC Grand off Northwest Highway and Stemmons, we get word this morning: The space, newly rechristened the AmStar 14, is about to open. Curtain goes up October 14, says the missive, at which point the one-time…
Today’s The Big Day (well, all right, a big day) for Dallas County Constables Ben Adamcik, Beth Villareal and Roy Williams and many of the deputy constables who say Dallas County is eliminating their jobs because some of them blew the whistle on Dallas County Precinct 1 Constable Derick Evans…
Thanks to my 8-year-old son’s intense but not at all unpleasant love affair with baseball, I’ve spent way too many evenings in recent days glued to the MLB Network watching Tampa Bay and/or Boston slug it out to see which team lands the American League wild-card spot. Because if the…
On this jam-packed city council Wednesday, we now come to the late-night specific use permits that Lowest Greenville Avenue bars Yucatan and Service Bar are asking for — the ones the City Plan Commission denied, based upon the planned development district ordinance passed by the city council in January. As…
Brantley’s been at Dallas City Hall for this morning’s flow control vote, which began with that promised pre-game protest by the students of Paul Quinn College, who stood throughout the entire discussion that ran close to two hours. (Save for one protester, who fainted during the discussion, prompting a five-minute…
When it came time for the city council to vote on the FY2011-12 budget moments ago, it wasn’t without a few bumps in the road. Several council members told City Manager Mary Suhm they weren’t at all thrilled with her plan to shuffle fire trucks with the intention of retiring…
When last we checked in on the nearly 8-year-old (!) case involving those Plano ISD students (and their parents, more to the point) suing the district over those “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” pencils and candy canes they weren’t allowed to distribute during winter-break parties, one of the…
The council may or may not vote on that ordinance involving the redirecting and recycling of solid waste today. It all depends where flow control falls on the action-packed agenda, which includes passing the budget (that should go smoothly) and debating Yucatan and Service Bar’s denied-at-CPC specific use permits (which…
A little while ago, the Dallas Police Department dispatched to media the drawing you see at right. It’s of a woman police believe to be in her 60s, but the department can’t be certain — because, at the moment, it doesn’t even know her name.Says Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, a…
For two years, during test runs and slow roll-outs to a fraction of its campuses, the Dallas Independent School District promised that its much-ballyhooed Parent Portal would be The Future of Education. This was how parents were going to get deeply, profoundly involved in their kids’ school lives, by using…
Anyone who’s even glanced Unfair Park in the last few months knows by now that City Manager Mary Suhm and Mary Nix, head of Sanitation Services, are hoping that the city council will vote tomorrow on a proposal that will force all solid-waste haulers to dump their trash at the…
If, say, during your lunch break this afternoon you were to dip between the Trinity River levees, you would see the trail Jason Roberts first promised back in June — the one that, when completed, will link Bishop Arts on one side of the river to the Katy Trail on…
First time I met Erykah Badu was in February ’96, at the old Grinders on Lowest Greenville, where she’d poured coffee just a few months earlier. It was a full year before her debut Baduizm was released; those Grammys were still in the distant horizon. It was her first interview,…
Could have sworn we just saw an Annual Urban Mobility Report from the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M — like, eight months ago. Maybe the Aggies couldn’t wait any longer to bring the good news: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington drivers no longer waste 48 hours behind the wheel annually, stuck on…
The George W. Bush Institute this morning unveiled its Global Report Card, which compares and contrasts 13,636 U.S. school districts with their in-state peers and national and international counterparts. Long story short: U.S. school districts, even those considered affluent, are squarely middle-of-the-pack’ers when it comes to math and reading scores…
If you didn’t know who Leisha Hailey was this morning, you probably will by the end of the day. She’s the latest celebrity taking to Twitter to call out Love Field-based Southwest Airlines, which removed her from a plane today — not because she’s considered a heavy-duty “safety risk” like…
No one likes watching other people’s home movies … unless they’re Super 8 reels from 1977, feature snatches of classic-rock mainstays (“Slow Ride,” “Stranglehold,” “Fool for the City,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” etc.) played on KZEW and contain some 20 minutes’ worth of random footage of dudes in GM muscle…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee kicked off its 1 p.m. meeting with a review of the LBJ Express project, with TxDOT and Trinity Infrastructure reps telling council members: “There is possibility you will receive complaints about noise” related to construction, but, hey, they’re moving as fast as they can…
I last spoke with Jerry Haynes a few weeks ago. He wasn’t feeling well — he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s a while back and had moved to Longview — but said he was in good spirits. We didn’t talk long; he said he’d call back later, but never did. Now…
While we wait for some return calls, and a council meeting, allow me to direct your attention to these two separate but quite related items. First off: A Friend of Unfair Park — and long-ago Thomas Jefferson High School classmate — points out that someone’s selling a copy of the…
Moments ago, Dallas Police spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse sent out a handful of over-the-weekend updates. Among them was this brief concerning an arrest made early Sunday morning:On 9/25/2011 at 1:45 a.m., Dallas Police Officers received information that a wanted individual was inside Club Aura located at 2912 McKinney Ave…
Speaking of Quality of Life …At the end of January, the council committee debuted a short film titled The Shopping Cart Menace!, which tallied up the number of abandoned carts in and around Vickery Meadow (spoiler alert: 40 espied during a 20-minute look-see) and demanded the council “pass an ordinance…
