This go-round, Dallas City Hall has thoughtfully provided a list of city-run buildings that’ll be open and closed tomorrow, the second furlough day per City Manager Mary Suhm’s cost-cutting efforts. So, let’s see: City Hall’s closed; so too the Oak Cliff Municipal Center, so there goes my Friday. All Dallas…
My new midday friend Newy Scruggs takes an active interest in my weekly monthly randomly updated list of the hottest chicks on our TV sets. He was on my case for not including Tammy Dombeck (middle) in my August offering. Now, he’s strongly suggesting I – and, of course, that…
Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas iMedia Network sent word of its Slam Bang Theater 50th-anniversary celebration scheduled for September 24 (an in-studio taping for which you’ll need to RSVP) and September 26, when, at the Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, Richard Kent will screen his doc Icky…
Late yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested that Cumulus Media’s going to rebrand 93.3 on Your FM Dial as a pop-40 station — as in, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas. Maybe so. But this much is (almost) certain: Sooner than later, KDBN-FM will most likely be known…
Don’t know how we missed word of the Whole Foods “buycott,” which kicked off Tuesday night in St. Louis and at the Preston Forest location. Read about it in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, where author Meghan Daum brings word of the National Tea Party’s response to the response to…
They’ve lost Michael Young (two weeks with a hammy) and now maybe even Josh Hamilton (left last night’s game with back ouchie). But, give them credit, your Texas Rangers haven’t lost hope. And why should they? Allow me to quickly clarify my position: I don’t think the Rangers will make…
Copy cats: You’d think the activist folks on the left of the political spectrum would be pretty chapped right about now. After all, they’ve been in the protest and civil disobedience game for decades, speaking out against everything from war to the death penalty to environmental rape. And now we…
John Beckwith Jr. walks into his morgue and over to the new corpse. His colleagues and pastor follow him inside, still talking from lunch. The air in the morgue stirs and rattles a paper sign taped to a door that reads, “Where excellence is standard and only perfect is acceptable.”…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze uses two of Mayor Tom Leppert’s top political consultants — Carol Reed and Mari Woodlief — to explain why the mayor is hardly the “Angel of Ethics” despite the new lobbying rules presented (per some council members’ requests, behind closed doors)…
A few years down the road, you just may get pulled over by a Dallas Police officer driving this hot new number. If nothing else, it’s on the DPD’s wish list — appropriate in the hometown of RoboCop.The first purpose-built police car is on a national tour and stopped this…
For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make ’em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at…
If the Dallas City Council winds up passing an ordinance requiring rent-house owners to register with the city — a proposal we mentioned Sunday and just discussed at the council’s briefing — it’ll apparently have to do so without three members’ input. In the middle of Code Compliance’s presentation, two…
“Traveling Man” artists Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg got their first glimpses of their three finished sculptures through a train window yesterday, rolling into DART’s new Deep Ellum Station on a Green Line test run.This morning, they were good enough to send the above close-up of the largest piece, “Walking…
Several Friends of Unfair Park — which is to say, the handful of people still listening to 93.3 Quality Rock — have e-mailed me this morning wondering what the what is going on on the left side of the FM dial. Because starting at midnight, the fledgling station began broadcasting…
10. I’m impressed. Your Texas Rangers bounced back from Monday’s gut-wrenching 18-10 loss with typical, testosteroned resiliency. Granted, the Blue Jays suck – 18 runs one night; last night only 12 hits in 18 innings – but the Rangers could’ve caved. They didn’t. 9. I was reminded last night that…
Tuesday morning, Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka took note of Schutze’s column from July, in which Jim got a no-nuthin’ from the mayor and his peoples concerning his interest in running for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s could-come-open Senate seat. Wrote Burka, he’s never taken the idea seriously, as big-city mayors haven’t done…
The city’s Landmark Commission on Tuesday afternoon upheld an August 12 decision by its Central Business District Task Force, unanimously denying a request by Colby Properties to tear down 508 Park Avenue based on its “imminent threat to public health and safety.” The commission also denied Colby’s application to raze…
Last Friday, we broke the news that the Texas Attorney General’s Office is threatening to take control of the W.W. Samuell Trust if the city of Dallas doesn’t turn over by September 11 documents that were due July 15. What the AG wants: an accounting of “current operations of all…
View Larger MapSpeaking of DART stations …What you see above is all that empty land up around Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Bush Turnpike Station at U.S. 75 and the G.B.H. — 220 acres’ worth, to be precise. For years, it belonged to the Hunt family, which wasn’t in a hurry…
This just in: Richie Whitt has landed a permanent gig as Newy Scruggs’ sidekick on 105.3 The Fan weekdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Never fear, he will enthusiastically, dutifully continue his full-time work at the Dallas Observer, blogging daily at this here Sportatorium and writing a weekly column and occasional cover story in…
In a small meeting room at Dallas Independent School District headquarters this afternoon, Ron Price addressed reporters and a half-dozen cameras to explain why — on the eve of the deadline to file for re-election as District 9 trustee — he’s ending his 12-year run on the school board. “I…
Check out more photos from the Green Line tour in this photo set.With less than two weeks until Green Line trains haul their first paying passengers, DART’s kicked its countdown into high gear this week, making scheduled runs along three new miles of track runs from Fair Park to Victory…
