Well, at least this one isn’t about wealthy singles who like to mingle.A&E Network has just announced that coming to a small screen this fall is the local spin-off of its what’s-behind-door-No.-1 hit series in which treasure hunters risk small fortunes in the hopes of digging up big rewards hidden…
No need to recap at this late date the messy process that led to city officials finally looking for new concessionaires at city-owned Love Field Airport, presently undergoing that extreme makeover expected to wrap in 2013. But the bidding process isn’t going too smoothly either: Last month we noted that…
At last: On Saturday night, CBS will finally air the episode of 48 Hours Mystery 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. Dallas Police Department spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell tells Unfair…
The city’s having a press conference Thursday morning during which Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Park and Rec officials and others will unveil the city’s new “Happy Trails” campaign designed to make the 104 miles of the city’s Dallas Trail Network jes’ a little bit safer. You recall this campaign: We sneak…
So, funny thing. Last week I got calls from two unaffiliated commercial realtors, both of whom said that Trader Joe’s was snooping around Dallas, looking for locations here at long last. So I called the company’s spokesperson, Alison Mochizuki. We exchanged messages for a few days, till finally we spoke…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this certificate of congratulations from the Richardson Independent School District, which has been posted to Lamebook. High five…
Back in late ’08, developer Bryan Foster went to Dallas City Hall to see about getting $475,000 in City Center Tax Increment Financing District reimbursements, which he said were needed to give 1400 Main Street, then a 1954 building in sorry shape, an $4-plus-million extreme makeover. The end result: Plush,…
Speaking of vacant downtown landmarks …Two weeks ago, a City Hall employee asked if we knew what was up with 500 South Ervay, which sits in ruin right next door to City Hall and but a block away from 508 Park Avenue. It came up again last week when, during…
I was digging through our old photo archives Friday afternoon — I think I’m the only one left ’round here who knows we even have such a thing — looking for a photo that, turns out, I remembered wrong. I thought it was a picture of R.E.M.’s visit to Clearview…
I saw a piece Friday in Variety that said the long-promised, never-delivered Charley Pride biopic is back on again — only, without Terrence Howard or Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan writer-director Craig Brewer, who announced their intention to make a movie about Pride way back in the fall…
A couple of weeks back we talked to Realtor Newt Walker about Cali-based Robert Yu’s decision to put the old Dallas High School, more commonly known as Crozier Tech, on the market after all these years. Said Walker, “Time cures a lot of things,” referring to Yu’s long-held grudge against…
On Wednesday, the full council will get that economic development update that never made it to committee two weeks ago (time was not on its side). Which is just as well: When we spoke two weeks ago, I’d completely forgotten to ask Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the Office of Economic…
Terry Southern — novelist, screenwriter, journalist, provocateur — would have turned 87 yesterday, had he not died of a heart attack in October 1995. And so, last night, council member Delia Jasson proclaimed May 1, 2011, Terry Southern Day — thanks to filmmaker Kirby Warnock, who has partnered with the…
Schutze and I have a date tonight: the North Texas GLBT Chamber’s mayoral forum at the Cityplace Conference Center on Haskell, where he and I have been asked to serve as moderators. (Because asking us to serve on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Dallas Candidate Forum would have…
Late last night and into the wee small hours of the morning, as news spread of the death of Osama bin Laden, revelers gathered at the White House, at Ground Zero … and outside the gate of the 10141 Daria Place near Preston Hollow. That, of course, is the home…
Superintendent Media Availability (4/29/2011) from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo.As the Dallas Independent School District was sending word Friday that it had just laid off 203 from central administration, and eliminating another 247 presently unfilled positions, Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa was holding a press conference at 3700…
That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns’s Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within,…
Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when — a little bit of this,…
Perhaps you recall: Back in February of last year, The News ran a piece on Shea Fragoso, who spent three years and $1.5 million converting the century-old St. John’s United Methodist Church on East Side Avenue into a house. At the time, Fragoso had the house on the market for…
That young man you see at right is 21-year-old Cameron Mitchell of Fort Worth, the latest local to get his shot at fame courtesy the warm glow of reality television. This afternoon, we received word that Mitchell is among the lucky dozen vying for a shot on Glee next season…
A couple of hours ago, Tawnell Hobbs wrote that she’d heard 250 central staffers at the Dallas Independent School District were being laid off today. Matter of fact, says the district in a release made available moments ago, the total number of central staff positions cut today is almost twice…
Only four months ago we were at the Meyerson when Roger Staubach and Tom Leppert gleefully introduced Bill Lively as the incoming president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. But only days after officially taking the reins part-time on April 1, Lively has stepped down: The DSO sends word…
