Twice today, including just moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent notes to media asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a red 1999 Ford F150 who police say was responsible for a fatal hit-and-run yesterday at Northwest Highway and the Dallas North Tollway. According to police,…
Maybe you recall: About three months ago Bravo sent word that some time over the summer it would debut Most Eligible Dallas, wherein the city “serves as the sexy backdrop for this jaw-dropping docu-series that follows a group of successful friends living it up like only Texas socialites can.” Right…
On and off in recent years there have been several attempts to fill that vacant lot across Marilla from the Dallas Farmers Market, and each plan has gone nowhere. Which is why I got interested when I saw this: This morning the Farmers Market TIF District Board of Directors met…
No doubt you’re aware: This is fast becoming one of the worst droughts in state history — No. 3 so far, at a cost of billions to farmers and ranchers. And save for this tease of “dissipating thunderstorms” moving in, or not, from Oklahoma, it ain’t gonna get any better…
While we await delivery of some conceptual renderings from Dallas City Hall (and, really, can this week get any better?) for an item to follow, let me direct you attention to a couple of black-and-white keepsakes, only one of which is up for grabs. Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs…
A lifelong Friend of Unfair Park just called from the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway wondering how in the hell did he miss the news that come Friday, the North Texas Tollway Authority’s jacking up rates, according to the flashing heads-up greeting motorists this morning. That’s understandable: The…
Schutze is taking in commissioners court this morning; it’s part of his summer local-government internship program. I see John Wiley Price got there early — why, there’s a Channel 8 cameraman chatting him up as he walks into work ’round 5:30 in the a.m. First and only question’s about all…
Leslie’s already summed up Mayor Mike’s first-ever official speech as Dallas mayor, which was given at this morning’s swearing-in of the new council. And she’s up shortly with a recap from the ad hoc gas drilling committee vote, which took a bit of a twist; she’ll let Scott Griggs explain…
I sent one of our interns, Alex Scott, to the law offices of on-and-off John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind about two hours ago. Turns out, John Wiley Price was there — had been all morning. Moments ago he came out and spoke. And this is what he said:The Dallas…
Pete directs my attention to this tee presently making the rounds courtesy Curtis Black, the same graphic designer responsible for the Obey Dirk shirt. My, that was fast…
Jim’s on his way to Dallas County HQ at this very moment to watch with his own eyes as FBI agents search the downtown offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, as initially reported by KTVT-Channel 11. The CBS station also notes that “federal investigators have also been dispatched…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site — where you’ll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas High School by none other than Frederick Bean Avery, otherwise known as Taylor-born Tex…
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano will ascend to the title of mayor pro…
Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars …Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to both…
Tomorrow, we’ll have much more from the Build a Better Boulevard event presently slowing traffic along a stretch of Ross near and into downtown; maybe I’ll even let Leslie run the photo she took of me submerged into the dumpster swimming pool parked in Fellowship Church’s lot at Ross and…
“It’s an Everyman’s story. It’s the story of someone slipping through the cracks — if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode.” That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line — otherwise known as the film that proved Randall Dale Adams did not…
A couple of months back, Friend of Unfair Park Bob wrote: “Waiting patiently for you to find and post a Replacements performance in Dallas. I think there was only one, yes?” But as we ascertained, no, there were several, from a Theatre Gallery gig to that unfortunate and wildly disinterested…
Several times now we’ve sneak-peeked the Build a Better Boulevard Challenge set to debut along Ross Avenue, between Hawkins and Pavilion, this Sunday morning beginning at 11. Preparations are underway at this very moment, as teams of architects and planners and students begin building their better bus stops and outdoor…
Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we’ve talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in “Detroit” but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of 1986. (Ah, yes, I remember…
I just went over to the city’s bids website to look for something unrelated when I noticed: The deadline for would-be Love Field vendors to submit proposals for restaurants and retail shoppes has been extended yet again — this time to July 13, following an earlier add-on that had ’em…
In April director Morgan Spurlock came to the Dallas International Film Festival to show his sponsored-from-start-to-finish documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, after which he and I engaged in a little post-screening Q&A at the Magnolia. During our chitchat, I asked him about a sequence in the film concerning budget-beleaguered…
On its Facebook page this morning, the Dallas Police Department has posted an estimable visual history of its squad cars, beginning with the 1928 Model A. My father, a parts man his whole life, could do without the AMC Matador, wishes he had the ’56 Fairlane pictured above and is…
