More than three years ago, some residents living in the Disney Streets in Northwest Dallas proposed turning the neighborhood into a Conservation District in an effort to protect some of its mid-century marvels. But as former City Plan Commissioner and Northwest Dallas lifer Robert Ekblad told Unfair Park back in…
Back in late January Oncor told the Public Utility Commission it wanted to raise Dallas residents’ electricity bill by, oh, let’s say $4 to $5 a month. Even though there’d been a three-buck jump in your bill only two years ago. Said Oncor, look, it had no choice: People aren’t…
Perhaps you recall: We had a pretty good back-and-forth back in December ’09 over city staff’s thoughts on Cityville at Cityplace, the mammoth mixed-use development that’s been planned for the former Loews Cityplace site since forever. After Kroger asked for that variance to sell beer and wine closer to Alex…
“Warriors Of The Discotheque” Trailer from simile productions on Vimeo.There is no pinned-down time line for The Official Release of Michael Cain’s The Starck Project, his long-in-the-works look at Blake Woodall’s opened-in-’84 dance-dance-danceteria on McKinney. “Let’s say late 2011, early 2012,” went the latest response to someone’s due-date query. Though…
When a clip from Aerosmith’s since-deleted VHS appearance at the Cotton Bowl in 1978 surfaced in February 2010, it made a brief cameo here — at which time, the great Jeff Liles jumped into the comments to remark upon the quality of that particular performance, which he was fortunate (?)…
The wife called: Power just went out. It’s a trend: When I checked Oncor’s outage-info website 10 minutes ago, close to 39,000 folks in Dallas were sans juice; that number has since jumped to 41,722, with another 12,680 outta luck in Fort Worth. Here’s the latest map. Oncor says: That’s…
Maurine Dickey’s decided two terms as Dallas County Commissioner is plenty; can’t really blame her. So it’s back to the family business — barbecue, but of course. Which is why, moments ago, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins just sent to media this not-exactly-tear-stained adios in which he wishes the commish…
A couple of weeks back Texas Appleseed and ACLU of Texas reps were down in Austin asking why oh why do state school districts feel the need to write class C misdemeanor tickets to students, some as young as 6, in the case of the Dallas Independent School District back…
On the other side you will find a report William H. Whyte — The Organization Man — gave to the Dallas City Council on June 15, 1983. Whyte, then a fellow at the Dallas Institute who often came to town to give speeches on how to make our city “livable,”…
Till a few minutes ago, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and I had been playing a marathon game of phone tag in recent days, following District 2 council candidate Billy MacLeod’s efforts to get the city, county and even the Department of Justice to remove Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary…
Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte’s building a wakeboard park up in Allen — you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July…
On Monday KERA’s BJ Austin asked the four candidates for Dallas mayor: Why you? At which point Mike Rawlings whipped out his wallet, David Kunkle flashed his badge, Ron Natinsky cued up an eight-track cassette and Edward Okpa offered his campaign’s catchy catchphrase, “Busboy to Mayor.” Today Austin and the…
For as long as I can recall, the city’s been talking about making the Ross Avenue underpass at Central Expressway in the Arts District an art project all on its own. Tonight, it inches closer to reality: On your way home, you’re all invited to an open house meet-n-greet at…
In case you forgot…
Almost one month ago to the day the Dallas Independent School Board received an updated version of the district’s budget reduction plan made necessary, of course, in the wake of the state budget shortfall emptying classrooms of teachers and filling them with more and more students. Moments ago, the board…
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sends word: May 10 is Texas Travel Rally Day, during which the TPWD will officially launch seven paddling trails in North Texas, beginning with the 8 a.m. shove-off from the Walnut Creek Paddling Trail at Joe Pool Lake. I’ll put the whole release after…
Those tuning in to today’s Dallas Independent School District board briefing expecting to hear what was sure to be a heated discussion about how to “streamline the process for implementing a charter school” are out of luck. The item’s been pulled, as trustee Carla Ranger pointed out yesterday on her…
You may recall: Back in the summer of ’09, there was a rash of cat killing across the city, with the animals often sliced in half and left in front yards. Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse tells Unfair Park this morning those slayings went unsolved, which troubles…
Last month, as you no doubt recall, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was killed in the parking lot of the Spearmint Rhino, just off Walnut Hill Lane and Stemmons Freeway. McKenzie, who was at the club for a party with some friends, was run down by Eric Brent Crutchfield, who was behind…
Yesterday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released what it calls The People’s Budget, which insists it would eliminate the deficit by 2021 by eliminating the Bush tax cuts, creating “fair tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires while maintaining credits for the middle class and students” and bringing home the troops “because…
At 9:30 this morning, a hearing is scheduled in Tarrant County District Court in the matter of Rangers Baseball Express, LLC v. Ballpark Realty Estate L.P. — otherwise known as the battle over close to 12,000 parking spots around the Ballpark in Arlington. To recap, quickly: The Rangers’ current ownership…
As Sam notes below, Angela Hunt was the lone council member to vote against paying architect Santiago Calatrava $10.7 million to design a second version of the Margaret McDermott Bridge. The District 14 council rep believes spending all those many millions on a “signature” component added to a bridge TxDOT…
