About a month ago, Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander told Unfair Park that even during this current budget crisis, the district has no intention of touching its fund balance, which, he said, should sit at somewhere near the $100-million mark. Explained Dahlander, the DISD’s reserve fund is not…
In 1958, per the novelist’s biography, her family moved from New Orleans to Richardson, where she attended high school. After which she attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, before moving to San Francisco and then international renown as the author of, among other things, Interview With the Vampire and the…
This morning I was scouting Heritage Auction Galleries’ website for local items of note perched on the auction block when I noticed a few bookshelves’ worth of titles being offered at the low, low price of … one whole dollar (not including buyer’s premiums, which do tend to add up)…
A couple of months ago, Tim Rogers provided a generous peek at the miniature version of the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden scheduled to take root at the Dallas Arboretum some time next year. Says the Arboretum of the $50-million, seven-acre site, it’ll be an “outdoor laboratory that will delight…
Former New York State First Deputy Comptroller-turned-investment banker Tom Sanzillo released a report this morning, via the Sierra Club, demanding that Dallas-based Energy Future Holding (and its Luminant subsidiary) shutter three of its coal-fired power plants: Big Brown (in Fairfield), Monticello (in Mount Pleasant) and Martin Lake. In a press…
First Baptist Dallas has taken out an ad on KRLD to promote Robert Jeffress’s Sunday-morning “special message” titled, as you can see above, Earthquake Theology (which just triggered the Album Title Alert), during which he will “give bold, biblical responses to the most common questions that arise after natural disasters.”…
The New York Times this morning revealed its long-expected plans to erect a pay wall (again) around some of its content: Starting March 28, visitors to the paper’s website will be able to access 20 articles every month without paying. After that, it’ll cost $15 a month to keep reading…
No doubt you recall the hubbub surrounding the Love Field concessions-bidding process that consumed much of last year as Mayor Tom and the council argued over no-bid contracts for incumbents Gilbert Aranza, Helen Giddings and Eddie Bernice Johnson. It was certainly fresh on my mind only Tuesday night, when I…
Paul, it should be noted up front, is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though there are indeed servings of both. Note the one key missing element: Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote with Pegg both the 2004…
We’ve been waiting since at least September to see whether TNT and Warner Horizon Television would be shooting that Dallas pilot here — ya know, in Dallas? Larry Hagman, who will be among The Holy Trinity of original cast members reprising their roles from the original CBS series, demanded as…
Still waiting for a call from City Hall, which is worth sticking around for. So with some time to kill, let’s go to the vaults — specifically, this gem suggested by a Friend of Unfair Park who’s cranked that Frampton set up to 11. Our Friend insists he was there,…
While we await confirmations and return calls, let’s take a look at this short film I just found (again) featuring one John Erik Jonsson and, specifically, the former mayor’s creation of something called Goals for Dallas, which I really never knew much about till coming across a copy of a…
There was a rather interesting exchange between mayoral candidates Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle at this morning’s mayoral debate at the North Texas Food Bank. And it began with a question posed to all four candidates (including, of course, Ron Natinsky and Edward Okpa) by moderator Janet Davis, one of…
A few weeks ago, as you’ll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy’s requests to drill near…
For the next three weeks, the Dallas Police Department will focus its attention on these mostly southern-sector neighborhoods near Bruton Road & Masters Drive, Hatcher Street & Scyene Road, Sunnyvale Street & Custer Drive, Beacon Street & Columbia Avenue and Polk Street & Twelfth Street. Says the DPD, it’s part…
Twice this week Friends of Unfair Park have written in to complain about the Crow family’s decision to move their collection of sculptures formerly on display at the Trammell Crow Center behind the gates of Old Parkland, now Crow Holdings’ HQ. A few weeks back, you’ll recall, the Crows announced…
On the other side, for those who haven’t read it, is the class action complaint filed on Friday by the National Football League players (among those named: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Payton Manning and homegrown Aggie Von Miller, who’s yet to be drafted) presently locked out by the team owners…
From the Texas Enterprise Fund, that is — otherwise known as the state’s “deal-closing fund” intended, in part, to bring new bidness to Texas. The governor was in Richardson earlier today to announce the state’s “investing” $2.45 million in Virtual Computing Environment Company, a Cisco-created cloud-computin’ company that’s building a…
By now you’ve read this (I hope), and it now appears the governor’s going to allow the state Lege to take $3.2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to pay down some of that budget shortfall, which may just save a few teachers’ jobs. But Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of…
Valeri Williams doesn’t want to talk about why her client — Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., the only son of Wendy Russell Reves — filed suit in Dallas federal court Friday, alleging that the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal took part in an “intricate pattern…
For those who’ve forgotten the now-legendary tale of Nathan Wayne Pugh, a 49-year-old Sachse man, allow me to recap. On July 26, Pugh went into the Wells Fargo at 4332 Lemon Avenue carrying a bag from a fast-food restaurant. He walked up to the teller and told her, “I want…
One week ago today we took a look at Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores’s proposal to rework how the district determines who its “best teachers” are before mass layoffs begin courtesy the state’s budget shortfall. After which it went before the board at Thursday’s briefing. After which it…
