Saturday morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park sent word: “New Central Market (smaller version) coming to Borders location. Preston/Royal.” Which ran contrary to two commercial Realtors’ accounts that, no, Trader Joe’s was taking the spot. Figured I’d run down the story on Monday, only Maria Halkias beat me to…
Wilco plays Denton tonight, and for those so inclined who don’t yet possess ducats for the sold-out occasion, buck up: The band sent word yesterday that at noon today, remaining tickets for the University of North Texas appearance will be released right … here. Good luck. I’m rooting for you…
Willie Mays turns 80 years old today. I didn’t need ESPN to tell me either. When I was a boy, Mays’s birthday was a High Holy Day. He was, and still is, my dad’s favorite ball player. He still wears his New York Giants cap; still pines for the Polo…
Earlier this week, the White House announced that it’s looking to sell off excess federal properties — chief among them, the million-square-foot, 75-acre Fort Worth Federal Center. Says the Obama administration, “Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted each year on government properties that are no longer needed.” Which sounded familiar:…
ABC won’t announce which pilots it’s turning into full-blown series till May 17. But late last night, Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva wrote that it’s all but certain that exec producer Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches — set, of course, beneath The Bubble — is a go…
While we await some return phone calls: Twice today I’ve had occasion to dial up various local projects’ construction webcams, including our old favorite the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge — and this was before Mary Suhm acknowledged that, yup, you can cross that October opening off your to-do list, making…
Back in October, the Dallas Police Department launched iWatch Dallas, its spin on LAPD’s “virtual crime watch” intended to use citizen alerts to deter anything and everything from car burglaries to prostitution to terrorism. DPD says it’s working as planned and that iWatch has “led to several important investigations that…
Dallas anti-gas drilling activist Raymond Crawford just copied us on a letter he’s sending to state Sen. Royce West today, asking him to “personally get involved [and] do whatever it takes to help stop HB3105,” which is Rep. Jim Keffer’s proposed legislation that would essentially neuter cities’ ability to regulate…
Haven’t yet had a chance to check out the work of WFAA’s new morning-show co-host, New York transplant Ron Corning, but several Friends of Unfair Park direct our attention to this clip in which he makes a cameo, courtesy Alexa Conomos’s Mayfest gaffe. Turns out, Corning tweeted the clip this…
At the end of March, Heritage Auction Galleries invited some of us to walk across Oak Lawn to take a long, hard look at a never-before-offered original Frank Miller splash page from 1986’s The Dark Knight Returns, among The Greatest Batman Stories Ever told and, along with Watchmen, the comic…
Really. Who knew?Who knew that Ron Natinsky’s early-morning jab at Mike Rawlings over his union endorsements would become The Issue of the Day? Surely not Tom Leppert, who wound up having his spokesman comment on the matter once Rawlings made it clear that, hey, he didn’t do nothing Leppert didn’t…
Many thanks to the great Rudolph Mantooth Bush, head scorekeeper at The News’s City Hall Blog, who has shared Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s sequel to his Payday Loan King ad slamming Mike Rawlings for his six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express. But it’s so much more.Because,…
Remember that item last week about how the city was going to use code enforcement to collect and toss election signs planted on public property, “including parks, recreation centers and libraries”? No, neither do we. (Actually, they’re on a sliver of private property, owned by Fifty Seven Royal, that’s right…
Really, it’ll be like the day after Christmas when this mayoral campaign ends — that sad, empty what-now. Who knew this morning’s email from Dallas mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky would provide a small handful of highlights from an otherwise ho-hum campaign season.There was, of course, the initial email itself, in…
As promised, CBS News has sent along the first few minutes of Saturday night’s episode of 48 Hours Mystery, which is devoted entirely to the case of Lisa Stone, who disappeared last June from her Far East Dallas home and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. In the Very…
Digging through Pacer this morning, looking for something unrelated, I came across this: In Dallas federal court yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Donna Hvidsten the manager of Planning and Analysis at Brinker International, and her husband Bruce, a former Brinker employee, for insider trading. At the same time,…
Happy Trails 2:00 from Jake Ferguson on Vimeo.Like I wrote Tuesday, the city’s about to officially unveil its “Happy Trails” campaign intended to make those 104 miles’ worth of hike-n-bike paths safer following the death of Lauren Huddleston on the Katy Trail in October and another car-on-cyclist collision two weeks…
It’ll be a shame to see this mayoral campaign season come to an end a week from Saturday now that it’s getting so…campaigny. Take, for instance, this email that just arrived in the in-box with the all-caps subject header: “RAWLINGS PLEDGES TO SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS TO JOIN UNIONS…
“The significance of any building is what we put into it. A building is just bricks and mortar. But 508 Park Avenue is one of two buildings that has a connection with and is part of the story of two of the most important recording sessions in American history. I…
One week after turning the front of Dallas City Hall into the Living Plaza, Jason Roberts — who’ll sleep when he’s dead — sends word of yet another project: the 72-Hour Challenge to turn a stretch of Ross Avenue downtown into a complete street. There are some details on the…
Your Texas Rangers play the New York Yankees on Friday night, first pitch at 7:05 p.m. Got tickets? It’d be a lot cooler if you did.Because, see, the Rangers just sent word that Matthew McConaughey will toss out the ceremonial first pitch, right before he heads to Houston to pick…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the link to yet another vintage photo with local ties that’s presently up for grabs on eBay: “20s Swallow Airplane, Dallas Spirit, Dole Photo Negative.” Peter also included the note that the “Dallas Spirit was out of Dallas, Texas, flown by William…
