A Friend of Unfair Park just gave me the heads-up: The three winners of that so-called “Power Art” competition, intended to create some kind of artistic cover-all for the Oncor substation at the western foot of the Calatrava, were quietly posted to the CityDesign Studio’s website this week. Mazel tovs…
The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday — I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwaine Caraway. Only, don’t expect the presentation — which will be made by…
We’ve known since June 30 — days after FBI agents raided the homes and offices of John Wiley Price and Kathy Nealy, among others — that the feds had also paid a visit to Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood HQ. As Haynes and Boone’s Barry McNeil told The News: “The FBI…
Back in April 2010, the Dallas Opera finally announced it had found someone to run the show: Keith Cerny, who was tasked with, among other things, finding contributors to the opera’s endowment during the $10-million matching grant challenge that expires on Halloween of this year. He also told Patrick that…
I’ve tried several times this morning to reach Michael Northrup, the attorney repping a coalition of neighborhood associations at yesterday’s City Plan Commission meeting where Madison Partners’ bowling alley concept was voted down 6-5. I’ll keep trying and post his thoughts separately. But I did manage to talk to Bill…
Attorney and Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston posts semi-regular pieces to FrontBurner under the header Law Man Walking, in which the nature-trekker documents his strolls through the heretofore oft-overlooked slices o’ heaven that remain in and around the city limits. And when Bill’s not penning those, he’s contributing to…
Back in March we tried to get to the bottom of whether or not the city’s now-semi-regular warrant roundups actually work. To summarize: yes and no — yes, because “there’s a 33 percent increase of people paying their fines when we do these,” said Chief Deputy Marshal Paul Hansen; no,…
And here you thought the NFL lockout was over. Not hardly: As Peter King puts it this morning, yesterday’s Sure Thing turned into Sour Grapes rather quickly, with the players refusing to sign off on the owners’ done deal. Jerry Jones, in the SI.com piece, had no comment about the…
Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. … well, let’s just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax…
So much for cautious optimism: About an hour ago, the City Plan Commission voted 6-5 not to grant Madison Partners that specific use permit that would have paved the way for the six-lane bowling alley Jonathon Hetzel, Barcadia’s Brooke Humphries and other are hoping to open next to Good Records…
Speaking of old photos …Here’s one more stroll down Amnesia Lane courtesy the Dallas Police Department. A month after posting its old-car collection to Facebook, the department’s done uploaded a photo lineup of its chiefs, dating back to James Carter Arnold, who served as the chief in 1881. (Wonder if…
You probably forgot — I know I did — but late last year we ran this old photo of the downtown farmers market courtesy City Archivist John Slate, who’d told us about ’em last summer and about how the giant stack was being sent to the University of North Texas…
While we await some return phone calls and sift through some rather nutty legal docs, let’s take a closer look at this release the Texas Rangers’ John Blake sent out announcing some highlights from the upcoming homestand that begins tomorrow with games against the Jays. Because there are some interesting…
Still hard to believe, but back in May — or, five long months after the incident occurred — a gentleman by the name of Robert Tucker claimed in court docs that he’d been emotionally distressed and otherwise humiliated and “defamed” when Andy Dick yanked down his skirt and “forced his…
Twice last summer the Dallas Police Department warned it would enforce, on a limited basis, the once-litigated and gosh-how’d-we-ever-survive-without Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code, which spells out when the under-17’s can run amok on city streets during nighttime hours. Or, more to the point, when they can’t: not…
On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they’re looking for the “Handsome Guy” bandit who’s hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, when…
That’s what CNN’s reporting, anyhow — that Rick Perry, who called for that ”day of prayer and fasting” down in Houston on August 6 and has been the face of the franchise, could wind up on the sidelines during The Response at Reliant Stadium. That’s according to Eric Bearse, spokesman…
If you had $425,000-ish to drop on a new home, would you buy: a two-bed, two-bath ca. 1794 clapboard house in Providence, Rhode Island; a one-bedroom, two-bath log cabin in Cougar Gulch, Idaho (no doubt the setting of a more rustic Cougar Town spin-off); or this four-bedroom, two-bath midcentury modern…
The email said to meet at the Walnut Hill Recreation Center, corner of Midway and Walnut Hill, at 12:15 sharp. “Look for the Rolls-Royce.” (A borrowed 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, if you must know, and you must.) That, said the missive, is where I would find Robbie Van Winkle…
Rais Bhuiyan’s attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man’s petition for…
It was mighty big news last month when Dallas attorney Levi McCathern shot and killed that 880-pound, 14-foot-long alligator along the Trinity River down in Leon County — big enough that it made CNN, matter of fact. Said the proud lawyer for the Dallas Cowboys, “We got a lot of…
A few weeks ago I was talking to Office of Economic Development head honcho Karl Zavitkovsky about something unrelated when he mentioned the petition drive aimed at convincing Trader Joe’s to open a location at the Lake Highlands Town Center, where the city’s kicking in millions in extra TIF funding…
