Actually, according to an e-mail ABC-TV publicist Erin Felentzer sent to Unfair Park a few days back, Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book about a divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities is no longer called Good Christian Bitches. Instead, she…
Tuesday evening, Mayor Dwaine’s not-quite-chief-of-staff Chris Heinbaugh sent word: At 2:30 today, Caraway, council member Ron Natinsky, Grand Ricchi’s Leobardo Trevino, Arts District exec director Veletta Lill and Downtown Dallas Inc.’s CEO John Crawford will gather for a press conference to discuss “the future of the historic Statler Hilton Hotel,…
Speaking of federal lawsuits …Here’s another one I found Tuesday morning, filed Monday in the U.S. Northern District of Texas Dallas Division: Rodney Bennett v. Dallas Independent School District.In the complaint, which you’ll find in full on the other side, Bennett says that between 2001 and the end of last…
Last year, This Old House magazine singled out Junius Heights as one of the Best Old House Neighborhoods in the country, insisting, “Proximity to downtown Dallas, great schools, and recent recognition as a National Register Historic District are driving up Junius Heights’ property values and helping the neighborhood maintain its…
Yesterday we watched ABC News’s David Muir do Diane Sawyer’s bidding and empty the Snow White Drive home of Jon and Anna Usry of everything not made in the U.S. and A. Though, as several Friends of Unfair Park noted, the couple and their kids did get to keep their…
Last week, the Texas Tribune sat down in Austin to chat up U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Today, the Trib posted some of that interview, during which Kirk reveals that when he stepped down as Dallas Mayor, he cried. So did Schutze. Like a baby.You can watch the video. Or…
Back in mid-June came The Big Announcement: The Dallas Police & Fire Pension System was ponying up the $200 million needed to build the long-stalled-out Museum Tower high-rise in the Arts District. That same day, you may recall, we revisited a blast from the past — the system’s $27-mil investment…
A Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off earlier today: Dallas County property records reveal that the old Statler Hilton has indeed been sold; so too its next-door neighbor, the former Dallas Public Library. And according to the deed sale documents, both were purchased by none other than the Ricchi…
While we await some return phone calls, this just in: There’s a “community meeting” scheduled for tomorrow night to discuss possible cuts at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. Per the Dallas Friends of Public Education, the meeting — which I’ve been told is really…
As promised, Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy has posted his thoughts on the YouPlusDallas video in which Jack Gosnell regales viewers with tales of how Dallas came to bury its businesses beneath downtown. And, like Gosnell and the denizens of the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum (where the video likewise prompted a…
A little while ago, The Hockey News reported that a new bidder for the Dallas Stars has emerged — and that it’s none other than EXCO Resources’ chairman and CEO Douglas Miller, whose “offer is believed to be for about $110 million cash, but it would likely be publicly announced…
On February 13, Steve Thompson wrote that ex-municipal judge Staci Williams — a Hockaday grad with a Georgetown law degree dismissed by the Dallas City Council last June — might sue the city. The reason: Williams claimed repeatedly that she was sexually harassed by Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander, who…
Spoiler alert: Last night, Disney Street-ers Jon and Anna Usry and their two kids opened the doors of their house to World News with Diane Sawyer’s David Muir, who promptly backed up the moving truck and emptied their house of everything not made in America.That, after all, is the title…
Been meaning to get to this for a few days, so while we await some return calls before calling it a day, here’s the trailer for Clay Liford’s shot-at-Garland High WUSS, which, as we noted a few weeks ago, world-premieres at South by Southwest on March 12. Now’s a good…
FOX & Friends, starring Channel 5’er-turned-Daily Show punching bag Gretchen Carlson, ran a piece this morning on Dallas ISD’s up-to-$10,000 buyout incentive offered to teachers through March 8. As soon as I saw the name of the teacher interviewed (Beverly Stergeos) I hit The Google! to see where she works;…
From time to time we’ve revisited the damage done to downtown Dallas by Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who proposed in the June 1968 issue of Esquire that downtown Dallas bury its businesses underground — a decision then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller referred to in The New York Times in ’05…
The Department of Transportation sends word today that it’s charging American Airlines for charging its passengers for agreeing to swap seats on oversold flights for travel vouchers. Because, ya see, the Fort Worth-based carrier doesn’t just let you use the vouchers gratis — turns out, AA charges an up-to-$30 ticketing…
Home Media Magazine directs our attention to this Friday filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, where Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 back in September. As we noted last week, Blockbuster’s up for sale now, with Monarch Alternative Capital among the interested parties, having contributed to the…
Patrick’s liveblogging this afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, whose agenda reads like an Unfair Park greatest-hits: City of Dallas Complete Streets Initiative Update, 2011 Dallas Bike Plan and The Better Block Project. You might wanna peruse the docs before the festivities begin — especially the Complete…
Over the weekend, local gas-drilling opponents forwarded to media members Ian Urbina’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the heretofore unknown dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water, sand and a laundry list of toxins known and unknown into the ground that busts up rock and releases…
A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Dallas barely grew between 2000 and 2010 — by 0.8 percent, to be precise, though Matt Stiles and Emily Ramshaw, the Texas Trib’ers contributing to this morning’s New York Times, are generous enough to…
View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com.Above is KXAS-Channel 5’s story from last night about teachers who camped out at 3700 Ross last night to sign up at 8 this morning for their up-to-$10,000 buyout; on the other side is WFAA-Channel 8’s. In both I see my son’s kindergarten, first-grade and art…
