It’s gettin’ close to the most wonderful time of the year for the Barking Dog — St. Patrick’s Day, which is about a month away. Over the weekend, Avi Adelman posted to his website the city and Dallas PD’s freshly minted map of street closures planned for Lower Greenville on…
It’s that time of the year — time for the Dallas Police Department to release its annual by-the-numbers breakdown of traffic stops officers made in 2011. Chief David Brown himself will go to City Hall today to present the council’s Public Safety Committee with the 2011 Dallas Police Department Traffic…
Below is the charter school briefing the city council was promised last week, but only after the heated discussion punctuated by Mayor Mike Rawlings’s fiery call to expand charters — because, as he said, “freedom is choice, choice creates excellence, and excellence graduates kids.” The purpose of the briefing, of…
Fair warning: Combined, the footage above and below doesn’t even add up to two minutes. But I’ve been meaning to post the former since a few days ago, when South by Southwest first made it available — the trailer for actor-turned-director Jonny Mars’s America’s Parking Lot, which will world-premiere down…
Turns out there’s nothing at all random about the day the city chose to debut its Seeds of Change website devoted to Southern Dallas. It comes just three days before Mayor Mike Rawlings unveils his so-called Southern Dallas Economic Growth Plan at Jack Matthews’s movie studio on S. Lamar, which…
Spent the latter half of the afternoon tracking down a mystery for a Friend of Unfair Park, who wondered whatever became of Man and Pegasus, Carl Milles’s 1949 sculpture — one of six, actually. For a long while it’s been perched at Harwood and Bryan, in front of Bryan Tower,…
A few days back James “Big Bucks” Burnett, proprietor of the world’s only Eight Track Museum (for now …), sent out a mass email asking for help scaring up a few bucks for a letter presently being sold at for $599.99 on the eBay. The seller’s advertising it as: “THE…
And just the other day I was grousing that Dallas City Hall’s yet to plant those long-promised Seeds of Change. But moments ago city spokesman Frank Librio sent word: that “coming soon” is “right now” as City Hall attempts to combat The Dallas Morning News’s 10 Drops in the Bucket…
Speaking of vacant buildings …Emily Simon at downtown-based ARCHITEXAS directs our attention to a competition being sponsored by Dwell magazine wherein folks are being asked to vote for their favorite endangered historic structure, after which the winning city’s chief preservation org will be handed a check for $10,000. In our…
This morning I got that list of the city’s surplus properties I asked for yesterday — and it’s not a long one, consisting of just four “improved properties” (meaning, they have buildings on them) and 19 vacant lots, several next to each other on, respectively, W. Laureland and N. Lancaster…
When first formed back in June, the city council-appointed Gas Drilling Task Force had hoped to turn into council by November its list of recommendations for an ordinance regulating drilling in the city limits. Time, after all, is of the essence as companies who paid the city millions for leases…
Maybe you saw KXAS-Channel 5 last night — why, yes, that was Jason Roberts and wife Andrea seated next to First Lady Michelle Obama at a Fort Worth Olive Garden last night. But, but … how’d the would-be congressional candidate and the missus land the seats? And what did they…
For the past three decades — on and off, but mostly on — there was no swindle too small-time for Alan Todd May. Credit card abuse, theft, check fraud — however he could make an easy, sleazy buck, May did what he could wherever he could to whomever he met…
Container Store co-founder Garrett Boone and the Star Employee Commission told the Dallas ISD trustees last month that the HR department was … how did they put it … well, let’s just go with completely, totally and utterly effed. (Look, my kid reads Unfair Park, all right?) And they offered…
Can’t say for sure how long the former fire station on Walnut Hill Lane near Marsh has looked like this, only because I haven’t taken Walnut Hill to work since Monday, when it did not look like this. (I’ve been taking Marsh to Lemmon to Inwood to Maple, if you…
The video you seesaw above till it was unceremoniously yanked this afternoon was made by Michael Marco on behalf of Tracy Locke on behalf of Downtown Dallas Inc., which had intended to show downtown’s makeover at its annual meeting held at the Omni a couple of weeks ago. Alas, it…
I’m hesitant to tease a PETA protest scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Akard and Main only because all the other ones have been so underwhelming. (So much so I forgot till using what passes for our search engine that PETA was just at the same spot…
It’s been close to five months since Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins went after Mortgage Electronic Registration System over what Watkins claimed were “tens of millions in uncollected filing fees owed to the citizens of Dallas County.” But since then little has been said about the suit, which was…
At the end of yesterday’s lengthy, heated debate over hopping into a bed made of tax-free bonds with Uplift Education, Mayor Mike Rawlings delivered the passionate testimonial Jim and I referenced. Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to hear the entire thing, the “Our Poor Kids” speech, so I’ve…
In the end, the posting to the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page, made moments ago, probably comes as no surprise. But as of today, Stormy Magiera is no longer a Dallas Police officer. The announcement comes days after the officer, decorated by Chief David Brown in November for saving the…
At the end of the week Joe shot up the flare: The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade is in danger of getting adiosed, unless the Greenville Avenue Area Business Association can raise $40,000 to cover the ever-escalating costs of the event. Since then a few fundraising sites have popped…
Amongst all the maybes, could-bes and one-days downtown, one development’s as close as it gets to a Sure Thing: 508 Park Avenue, which First Presbyterian is in the process of turning into The Museum of Street Culture to be curated by blues historian Alan Govenar. At this very moment, in…
