Don’t. It’s closed. Per Dallas PD a little while ago, officer were serving warrants on two aggravated robbery suspects when one ran … all the way into the Giants of the Savanna exhibit, where he remains at large. Per DPD’s note, SWAT’s been sent in.When the incident occurred shortly after…
Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns — who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine — died early this morning at Baylor of a heart attack.For those who didn’t know the Hillcrest grad, there was…
The timing, if nothing else, is remarkable. May 8 marks the 100th birthday of Robert Johnson, the Mississippi bluesman who cut half his influential body of work — perhaps the most influential in all of popular music — at 508 Park Avenue downtown in June 1937. The building, once the…
The NCAA’s Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke’d bowl licenses through 2013-’14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football’s postseason. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go’s were already fo-sho’s: the Fiesta…
A woman who claims a former Dallas County deputy constable demanded sex in exchange for burying outstanding arrest warrants has filed suit against the county, claiming it failed to perform proper background checks on the deputy.In January 2010, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Deputy Constable Howard Watson on nine…
Just a few minutes ago, the Dallas Independent School District posted to its Facebook page a lengthy note that says Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has ditched his plan to split Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center into two schools while at the same time eliminating five of its seven principals. Instead, says…
I was on the City Secretary Office’s website looking for something the other day when I noticed a new addition in bright red letters: “NOTICE: PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.” It goes on to quote Section 3-1(a) of the Dallas City Code, which says that it’s … “… unlawful…
Like Sam said: Mike Rawlings has raised more than $1 million in his quest to become the next mayor of Dallas — or “nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle.” And he’s determined to spend that dough: Moments ago his campaign posted Rawlings’s latest ad…
Back in July, WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris spent quite some time digging into the doings of the Kennedale-based United States Fallen Heroes Foundation, which said it was a nonprofit raising funds to construct a memorial in Tarrant County to servicemen and women killed in action since September 11, 2001. Turned…
In recent weeks, the YouPlusDallas gang has been out recording some of the more intriguing mayoral debates and forums, like the arts-and-crafts showdown at the Nasher last week and the Faith and Public Policy Forum held Monday at the Gospel Lighthouse Church on W. Illinois. That event was sponsored by…
On the other side’s a video that started making the rounds yesterday (courtesy Alex Jones and FOX News) in which 2003 Miss USA winner-turned-actress Susie Castillo cries into a camera while recounting a particularly invasive pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Castillo — speaking, she says, immediately after the…
I’d intended to spend, oh, maybe half an hour in front of Dallas City Hall today, where, decades after William H. Whyte first proposed the idea of making that expanse of concrete habitable for humans, Brent Brown and Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard and many more breathed life into what…
Two weeks back it came to light that the current owners of the Texas Rangers were feuding with the former owner of the Texas Rangers over some 12,000 parking spots around the Ballpark in Arlington. To recap, quickly: Ray Davis and Bob Simpson’s Rangers Baseball Express, LLC took Hicks’s Ballpark…
This just in from The Hilltop: On May 9, the Dalai Lama’s going to appear on the Southern Methodist University campus, where he’ll speak from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at McFarlin Auditorium as part of SMU’s 10th Hart Global Leaders Forum. Per the announcement, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan…
Below, Big Jon Daniel was mazel-tov’ing us Northwest Dallasites about all traffic headed our way, up and down Forest Lane, once Cintra begins planting those managed toll lanes up and down LBJ between I-35 and N. Central Expressway. Which reminded me: Way back in January, Mark Roberts — the man…
Back in August, Patrick Michels graced the cover of the paper version of Unfair Park with this great cover story about skateboarder and real estate developer Al Coker’s private Guapo Skillz Center, banished to a slice of the Cedars (“near where Akard Street dead ends at Corinth in a collection…
By now you’re likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg’s ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials — after Saad’s parents’ application for political asylum was denied and…
We begin this morning, like last, with talk of tearing out another freeway — only this one’s a done deal. On the other side is a brief video just posted by the folks at Spanish road-builder Ferrovial and its subsidiary Cintra, in which the majority owners of the about-to-commence LBJ…
So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk — what else? — streetcars, on both the DART board and city council’s to-do lists tonight and tomorrow. And Leininger made it very clear: While rider revenues for the next few…
Two weeks ago, Schutze noted that the city council — very quietly, very nonchalantly, very consent-agenda-y — loosened up its own restrictions governing when and how developers with zoning cases at City Hall could slide council members some dough-re-mi.When the original ordinance passed two long years ago, it prohibited “applicants…
On Friday, Keith Manoy, the chief transportation planning officer, spoke to Unfair Park about who will be responsible for what when it comes to the designing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Union Station-to-near-Methodist Hospital streetcar line, which has to be up and running down the Houston Street Viaduct by…
Perhaps you’ve heard: President Obama didn’t issue an Easter proclamation, and that has some folks in a tizzy (which I believe is some kind of religious headgear?). Anyway. First Baptist Church of Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, who is now a FOX News regular, went on FOX & Friends this morning to…
