Late Tuesday I got an email from Jonathon Hetzel of Madison Partners, which is trying to roll out that bowling alley on Lowest Greenville that once more goes in front of the City Plan Commission tomorrow. He noted the myriad comments accompanying yesterday’s item and said perhaps he could lend…
Front page of the morning’s paper has a pay-walled story about the Dallas Independent School District’s decision to “quietly” halt construction on a handful of schools due to receive ’08-bond money redos — quietly, as in, “During budget talks this spring, school leaders quietly decided to halt renovations and repairs…
OK, Honest Tea. You win. You too, Kat Kirsch, sender of press releases. Because for the past way too long to admit, we’ve been riveted to the tea company’s livestream from Akard and Main, where that unmanned kiosk’s been set up to see if people will leave a dollar, as…
On the other side is the announcement just in from the city of Dallas’s Public Art Coordinator Kendall Ferguson, who’s looking for someone with public-art experience to craft a “White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture.” Budget’s plenty big: $272,000, which would buy a ton of Dallas Farmers Market peaches (not…
This just in from the Texas Rangers’ John Blake: Beginning Friday, when the club opens a seven-game home stand against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Rangers will introduce “a series of new safety initiatives” that will pave the way for raised railings following the July 7 death of 39-year-old Brownwood…
Late on July 3 Dallas Police sent word that two men had shot to death an Oak Cliff convenience store owner … over two boxes of onions. As Byron Harris noted a day later, Quick Check Grocery’s Jin Ha was beloved by folks living near the store at Illinois Avenue…
No doubt you’ve heard of plans to plant a six-lane bowling alley-slash-bar next to Good Records on Lowest Greenville. It was on the City Plan Commission’s agenda two weeks ago, at the same time the CPC replatted Valley View Center to make way for its inevitable demolition. Problem was, neighborhood…
Tomorrow, the steady stream of stories about Rais Bhuiyan’s attempt to save Mark Stroman — the man who shot Bhuiyan in the face and killed two other men in the days following September 11, 2001 — will more than likely come to an end. Tomorrow the former stonecutter and white…
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on September 15, 2001, while working in southeast Dallas local convenience store; and Vasudev Patel, an Indian Hindu…
The Dallas Independent School District, currently without a superintendent, is now without a chief academic officer — and only 13 months after Ivonne Durant was bumped up from Northwest Learning Community supervisor to that particular title under then-Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. DISD just posted to its Facebook page her adios, given…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to read the entirety of the flier handed out yesterday at the “Justice for John” rally, so I’ve scanned it and put the whole thing after the jump — where you’ll also find the envelope given out shortly before Michael Eric Dyson began…
A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Central Market following February’s Chapter 11 filing. I was reminded of this…
Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy directs our attention to this University of California Berkeley look-see at the resiliency of the major metros in the U.S. And by “resiliency,” researchers are referring to a dozen indicators (among them: economic diversification, business environment, civic infrastructure, voter participation, the number of resident living in poverty)…
Nolan Ryan has been hospitalized for chest pains in the past: In 2000, he underwent emergency double-bypass surgery, then returned to the hospital in October of that year following another scare. This, say the Texas Rangers in a statement just sent to media, is what may have landed the team’s…
Yesterday’s “Justice for John” event at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of “John! John! John!” before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defense…
Fans of the Dallas garage-rock scene of the 1960s speak with reverence of a few tracks, among them Mouse and the Traps’s “Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice,” the Five Americans’ “I See the Light,” the The Esquires’ “Come On, Come On” (which had all but been forgotten when I…
Dallas City Council remains on vacation till August (well, not everyone), but City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff remain at work needing to trim $20 million more out of the FY2011-12 budget to balance that sucker. Hence the memos sent to the council and mayor last night: One deals…
Seeing as how C.J. Ramone’s in town tonight, I’d hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password’s “gle-gle.blogspot.com,” if you’re so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in a…
Says here the the Forest Theater was built in ’47; my father, who grew up a few blocks over on Park Row, recalls how, in the mid-’50s, Shearith Israel used the movie theater for High Holiday services when they were finishing out the synagogue’s present-day location on Walnut Hill. But…
Per the Dallas Police Department, the hold-up you see above was captured three nights ago and just two blocks from Unfair Park headquarters, along the 2700 block of Welborn near Oak Lawn and Maple. You know the drill by now: DPD needs help ID’ing the driver of the car seen…
For those faithful few following the dramatic twists and turns in the Love Field concessions bidding process, you may recall that proposals were due Wednesday, following yet another extension given in June when prospective vendors had questions and concerns in need of answerin’. Well … at the beginning of this…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to GQ’s round-up of The 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, and if there’s one bit of good news, it’s this: Austin and Houston are just a wee bit fuglier, coming at No. 18 and No. 21, respectively, on a list where Dallas…
