One week from Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will hold a public hearing and, more than likely, vote to approve the long-awaited, much-discussed (here, at least) Downtown Dallas 360 plan. And while you may be familiar with many of its conceptual renderings and proposed “quick wins,” you’ve yet to read…
About a year ago we revisited the Cure’s September ’89 Starplex stop in support of Disintegration, at which time Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone recalled attending an earlier Bronco Bowl show. Why, Monte, you wouldn’t be referring to the July 19, 1986, show at the Bronco Bowl, would you?A brutally…
Earlier this morning, Jason Roberts posted to his Facebook page the photo you see here, along with the note: “Zac & his non profit are taking former school portable buildings & making them into amazing homes in S Dallas.” Turns out, Zac is Zac Lytle, co-founder of Bike Friendly Oak…
No, seriously, it’s been a long while since we’ve mentioned the fate of Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster, which has been in Chapter 11 since September and been shutting stores ever since. (Per a recent filing, the store at 6760 Abrams Road had its lease rejected effective yesterday.) But that’s about to…
As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to California. They were carrying with them 11 vacuum-packed boxes…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked this morning when oh when will we post the great Jun Kang’s short film Last Night at the Metro, made specially for the Dallas International Film Festival. Um, now? As I understand it, a trimmed-down version will play before DIFF screenings — since,…
Observer-er Gadi Elkon is one of the twosome behind Pearl Snap Discount, where this morning you’ll find the most detailed blow-by-blow available from last nights’s Dallas International Film Festival gala at the Winspear — as in, you can listen to every last utterance from the likes of Star Award honoree…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department rarely posts videos to the YouTube, and when it does it’s usually something unusual — like, say, this eerie dash-cam smash-em-up. And then there’s this morning’s find, initially posted a few weeks ago: a mini-doc in which you follow along as a man (actor Fernando…
The 7-year-old who lives in my house and I have spent the last two weekends at Fair Park while he wrapped a school project; so — sniff — proud. And somewhere between walking around the Cotton Bowl and sitting in on an Assassination City Roller Derby warm-up at the Coliseum…
The Dallas International Film Festival, which kicks off tonight with its gala to-do at the Winspear Opera House featuring Elmo and Ann-Margret, features no small amount of must-sees and can’t-misses, among them Clay Liford’s homegrown WUSS, Michael Sheen and Maria Bello in Beautiful Boy, Morgan Spurlock’s product-placement doc The Greatest…
The Dallas Police Department just sent word — not to mention the video you see above: Two men hit the Galleria Bachendorf’s yesterday around 8 p.m., getting away with close to $100,000 in jewels in a very short amount of time. (The police report says they got away with diamond…
Last week we asked: Will the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees extend to at-will employees the same buyout deal given teachers a few weeks back in order to trim its budget in the way of the $86-million to $150-million budget shortfall expected over the next two years? To…
I see that the old Dallas Brake & Clutch building on Main and Exposition, which dates back to circa-1930, hopped on LoopNet just yesterday. My dad, a parts man from way back, has fond memories of the building, which hasn’t been the B&C for the last few years. Its 16,202…
Two days ago we looked at Mike Rawlings’s Education Plan, which calls for forming partnerships between the city of Dallas and the Dallas Independent School District. He follows up with the video you see above, in which the city’s former homeless czar insists that the mayor must take an active…
Late yesterday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and I had a long talk about several subjects, one of them being her efforts to trim the budget, yet again, this go-round anywhere from $60 to $110 million — depending, she said, upon how much the state and feds take from the…
As we mentioned below, city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have called a 1:30 p.m. press conference to announce that more than likely, the Corps will sooner than later sign off on plans to repair the Trinity River levees by pouring those concrete seepage cutoff walls guesstimated to…
Last night, good Friend of Unfair Park Lakewooder sent the photo you see at right — a couple of food trucks parked in the lot where once the Arcadia proudly stood till it was claimed by fire in June 2006. He asked of this mobile food court: “Is this a…
Last year, the question most often asked of Dallas International Film Festival artistic director James Faust was, “What’s this year’s The Hurt Locker?”—a reference, of course, to Kathryn Bigalow’s wrenching Iraq bomb-squad nail-biter that had one of its earliest screenings at the 2009 fest then called the AFI Dallas International…
City Hall just sent word: Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Flag Room, Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Trinity River Corridor Project Committee Chairman Dave Neumann and representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Trinity Trust Foundation and Trinity Commons Foundation will hold a press conference to announce “significant news regarding…
Looking for something entirely unrelated on YouTube moments ago, I came across three videos just posted by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra — and by “just posted,” I mean “20 minutes ago,” says DSO manager of publications Chris Shull. They’re part of the DSO’s “new branding campaign,” he says, which will…
At this very moment, Bravo bigwigs are gathering in New York to announce the network’s latest lineup of reality programs, which will include The Therapists (“Centered on some of the top private practices in Los Angeles …”), Mad Fashion (“presents an up-close look at the over-the-top world of celebrity fashion…
From time to time, Heritage Auction Galleries’ public relations director Noah Fleisher extends us the invite to walk across Oak Lawn Ave. to sneak a peek at some of the latest items on the auction block. It’s hard to say no when every nook and cranny of that high-rise is…
