When we got to the Metro Diner yesterday, a little after noon, the Gaston Ave. greasy spoon was packed. TV crews were in the back, interviewing Virgie and James Adams, who opened the diner in ’68 and was there to help his son Wayne close it down after close to…
The city’s still auditioning would-be managers for Dallas Animal Services, which is still recovering from a disastrous run of bad news, and hopes to have that wrapped by month’s end. And while plenty items remain on the to-do list, one quick fix is identified in this afternoon’s DAS update in…
Here’s a council committee briefing worth keeping an eye on today: Streetcar Planning Update, always a topic of interest but even more so as the Federal Transit Administration revenue-service deadline barrels down the tracks. Recall: In order to not to lose that $23-million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant the…
Took the visiting mother-in-law to White Rock Lake yesterday, and as we were leaving, the wife espied a sign like the one you see above in this photo posted by Jason Roberts to his Facebook page last night. Turns out it’s part of that BlockCamp project about which we wrote…
Tomorrow at 2 p.m., Wayne Adams will do something he hasn’t done since The Great Remodel of ’97: He will lock the front door to the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue. Which is why he had to see a man about a lock earlier this week. Wayne couldn’t find the…
The best part of posting secret audio from concerts you’ve attended is using them as an excuse to ring up others who were also there and reminisce about that, like, amazing night, remember? Like, say, Jeff Liles, who recalls Blur’s February 3, 1996, show at Trees (scroll down) as “a…
It’s been an awful long time since last we wrote about John Greenan and Brent Brown’s plans to build that green, sustainable building of tomorrow directly behind Dallas City Hall. But a few days ago, a piece written by a former local crossed my screen celebrating Dallas — and this…
We mentioned this morning that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro was in town speaking to business journalists gathered on the SMU campus. Turns out, during her speech she mentioned something that rings a bell: The failure of the Fort Worth office to shut down Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme…
I just stumbled across this piece out of Houston, which says the Texas Department of Transportation has submitted docs to the feds asking for around $43 million to expedite that long-discussed and even longer-debated Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail line. I called Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at TxDOT,…
Speaking of big doings on the SMU campus …Next week brings the first-ever Engineering & Humanity Week to the Hilltop, courtesy the Hunter & Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity. And among its myriad highlights is the construction of the so-called Living Village, where students will “live, cook their…
At this very moment, more than 350 biz journalists, members all of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, are on the Hilltop for a star-studded afternoon of speeches and panels set to feature the likes of Elizabeth Warren, tasked by President Obama with creating the Consumer Financial Protection…
If you need Governor Rick Perry or Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief this afternoon, they’ll be at the intersection of Belt Line Road and Montfort Drive at around 2:30 — at that Walgreens, to be specific. (Update: I’ve been informed that Perry and Moncrief will actually be at the Arlington…
Who knows how seriously the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will take the suggestions of the board-appointed Citizens Budget Review Commission — which, as far as Carla Ranger’s concerned, exists in large part to push the super’s charter-school agenda. In the end, the commission has no real authority…
Speaking of downtown Dallas …Here’s something I stumbled across on eBay this morning — and, lucky you, three whole days remain to bid on this trio of photos, for which the opening bid’s stuck at a whole $6.99. Says the California seller — and the back of the pictures –…
One day, perhaps later than sooner, there will be a resolution over how much, if anything, Tom Hicks or the present owners of the Texas Rangers owe over that failed Glorypark development that was to have been built next to the Ballpark in Arlington. But for now, that case remains…
While I finish up what’s sure to be the most scintillating story you read all day about a famously failed real estate development, allow me to direct your attention to a vintage clip I discovered a few days ago on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image website. It’s of…
Wuh-oh. Hang on. Looks like you can forget that Downtown Dallas 360 plan. Why? Well, says right here: “North of Ross is the new downtown. South of Ross is a problem.” At least, that’s what Billinglsey Co. President and Chief Operating Officer Michael O’Hanlon says today in a National Real…
A couple of weeks back, Sam mentioned that Billy MacLeod, who’s running for the District 2 city council seat against incumbent Pauline Medrano, has a few problems with the coming elections. Chief among them: Votes will be cast at Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School — which so happens to be…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks: When should they begin avoiding LBJ Freeway, which, of course, is about to become the “LBJ Express”? (To which I replied: What, you don’t already avoid LBJ Freeway? I know, right? Hilarious!) One Friend asked in particular because he espied…
First thing this morning, the “final draft” of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan appeared in the Unfair Park inbox, replacing the version sent out a few days back in advance of Wednesday’s council meeting, at which point the city will officially adopt a resolution that “directs the City Manager to…
For four days at the end of October, San Francisco-based Out & Equal will hold its annual Workplace Summit at the Hilton Anatole; they’re expecting quite the crowd, following the 2,500 who turned out for last year’s star-studded confab in Los Angeles. But before the visit, Out & Equal would…
Two months ago, almost to the day, NBC announced it was prematurely yanking Chase from the schedule and replacing it with Minute to Win It, at which point it appeared that was that for the locally shot series about U.S. marshals chasing (ah!) baddies all over the Southwest. Only, not…
