Late last night the city posted the list of folks who’d like to be on the city’s gas drilling task force. That’s in advance of a 10 a.m. meeting scheduled for Thursday, at which time Linda Koop — chair of the ad hoc gas drilling task force nominating committee, whew…
At some point this evening, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will elect new officers. Among the front-runners for president is Lew Blackburn, which may explain why Carla Ranger took to her blog earlier today to throw Blackburn under the bus.You see, there’s no love lost between the…
As promised earlier today, on the other side you will find the entirety of the Dallas Independent School District’s proposed budget for the 2011-’12 school year, which was just released. And though it’s still rife with cuts (“Staff has been reduced by 1,679 employees in this budget. These reductions have…
About half an hour ago, Richie posted an item on the Sportatorium: John Rhadigan, hired in January to replace Josh Lewin as the Texas Rangers’ TV, play-by-play announcer, is already out. Moments ago, the team confirmed with an Official Statement that follows in full. But long story short: Beginning with…
Since Janine Turner didn’t get that spot on the next-gen Dallas reboot for TNT, she’s turned her attention elsewhere — late-night weekend AM radio. Had no idea. But, sure enough: The former Northern Exposure star with the ranch outside of town launched her right-wing radio hour last Saturday from none…
This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It’s a reprise of last fall’s successful series, wherein online voters…
At last, that long-awaited Union Station to Oak Cliff Dallas Streetcar Environmental Assessment is now available for your reading pleasure courtesy Dallas Area Rapid Transit. You’ll find the report itself after the jump; those wishing to drill deeper can peruse the myriad appendices here. But long story short, says Keith…
There’s no game out at the Ballpark today — shame too, since it’s likely The Last Lovely Day before summer slams into high gear. Nevertheless, at 11:30 this morning Nolan Ryan and Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington will find themselves at home plate, where Ryan will give Washington the keys…
After the jump you’ll find two things of note: the proposed 2011-’12 school year staffing formulas that could be voted on by the Dallas Independent School District trustees at their 5:30 p.m. board meeting today, and a music video featuring a young pianist and singer named Cameron Ordinario. He’s a…
What you see above is the official “The Time Is Now” video made last week for the Mavs’ postseason run, which continues in two hours, give or take, but you knew that. Oh, right: Go, Mavs. Cash Sirois, weekend talk-show host and Dallas Mavericks creative director, was in charge of…
You won’t have Chris Heinbaugh to kick around any more — at least, not as a city official. Four years after the former WFAA reporter left journalism to go to work for Tom Leppert as his chief o’ staff, Heinbaugh’s outta there as of the June 8 council meeting. He…
Out of the blue today I got a call from somebody at the Liberty Institute, who said she was returning my message. “I guess you’re calling about ‘The Candy Cane Case,'” she said. Um … no? I think it was about this, actually, but that was a couple of weeks…
Blockbuster, says a new 30-minute doc, was once “900 times the size of Netflix.” Now, it’s…well, you know the story. It’s barely anything at all, except something owned by Dish Network, which hopes to use Blockbuster’s by-mail service to lure new customers. It’s a sad story, the felling of a…
Well, that was certainly fortuitous timing: On Sunday the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I went for our weekly trip to the Scotty’sTop Golf batting cages, after which we took a little drive in search of a nice afternoon hike. At which point we found ourselves in the…
Dallas is all about the hike-n-bike these days, what with Complete Streets and Better Blocks and Bike Plans and Pedestrian Bridges and whatever else will help us ease on down, ease on down the road. Good thing too, since walking ’round Dallas — and Fort Worth and Arlington — can…
My old friend and long-ago Observer-er Matt Zoller Seitz, who wrote the definitive making-of piece about Bottle Rocket back in September 1995, sent me a note this morning: The Hillsboro motel where Wes Anderson, Luke and Owen Wilson and Bob Musgrave shot part of the film — known as the…
Fine — make fun all you want. But I didn’t get to see my Glee last night courtesy you-know-what. Not that I would have been able to enjoy it, what with the sound of hailstones ricocheting off the roof and the sirens turned up to 11. It was the season…
Well, this is certainly is disappointing — there goes my first book. While using the Google Machine to find something Tom Hicks-related this evening, I came across this: a review published two days ago in The Independent of a book called An Epic Swindle: 44 Months With a Pair of…
Thirteen long months ago the city of Dallas finally began replacing those street signs downtown — out went South Central Expressway, up went Cesar Chavez Boulevard. It only took two years’ worth of rancorous debates as city officials and activists went ’round and ’round over which street to rename –…
A few Friends of Unfair Park find those Dirk Nowitzki videos cute … or something? But, writes one, “They’re missing Dirk.” Fair enough. This one, provided by the NBA and submitted by a reader, is all Dirk — in slow mo, no less, his Game Four heroics augmented by a…
In a few weeks, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm will present to the city council some revenue-generating brainstorms she hopes could offset some of this year’s $60-million-and-maybe-more budget shortfall. Among her proposals, she tells Unfair Park, will be one familiar to anyone paying attention last year: flow control, which involves…
Back in April of last year some Oak Cliff-dwellers introduced that “Think Small” slogan, which was and is intended to counter Dallas’s “Live Large, Think Big” motto coughed up by The Richards Group in ’04 after six months’ worth of focus-grouping. A Friend of Unfair Park points out that on…
