While the Cowboys finish saying goodbye to their old home one piece at a time, they’re busy finishing up the newest feature at their digs Arlington: 14 works of contemporary art commissioned specifically for Cowboys Stadium. Gene Jones led a media tour for through the building yesterday, along with family…
We just got word that Kim Rivera, the 27-year-old soldier and mother of three who deserted to Toronto and who you’ll remember from “Gimme Shelter,” cover story from the paper version of Unfair Park back in March, has gotten one last chance to stay in Canada. On Tuesday a Canadian…
Seems like we’ll never be done with Reunion Arena or Texas Stadium, which is still loaded with shit the city of Irving would love to sell you for pennies on the penny. Like, oh, this scoreboard — which, believe it or not, can be yours for the low, low price…
On Friday, we broke the news that the owners of 508 Park Avenue have decided to tear down the building in which blues and country history was made. The Glazers, longtime liquor distributors in Dallas, have their reasons: The former Warner Bros. Picture storage facility, built in the 1920s, has…
O.K., this morning I think we are getting a more clear look at the government’s case in the Dallas City Hall bribery case, in which former city council member Don Hill is accused of using racial affirmative action and “fair share” requirements to squeeze bribe money out of real estate…
Got this “friend” named Newy Scruggs. He has his theory that the Texas Rangers “play well against the big boys.” Hogwash I’d tell him, until the Rangers took two of three against the Angels last weekend. Then I watch Texas last night and – yep – I’m starting to embrace…
That’s it at left: Jaume Plensa’s Sho, which stands 13 feet tall by 10 feet wide and weighs 660 pounds and appears to enjoy traveling in its spare time. The university announced the acquisition yesterday, noting that it’s “the most important acquisition of a work by a living artist into…
Yesterday afternoon, I spoke briefly with Dallas Animal Services manager Kent Robertson, who says in his latest “Pet of the Week” video, posted below, that if you’re interested in adopting from the city pound, you’d best hustle: “We’ve had over 40 adoptions every week for the last couple of weeks…
Late this afternoon, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, called to discuss those proposed changes to council meetings, which would put stricter limits on public speakers at City Hall and put a deadline on when council members can remove consent agenda items for individual consideration. Heinbaugh insisted that…
After months of discussion and debate and occasionally contentious meetings with parking lot operators and downtown business owners, the members of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee appeared today more than ready to bring to a close the saga of the parking boot. And so, pending a vote by…
On Friday, The New York Times got a sneak preview of North Texas’s largest art gallery, that intimate EnormoDone known as Cowboys Stadium. Today, it was our turn to tour, and seeing as Patrick Michels never misses a chance to dash out to Arlington, he has returned with a small…
In the comments concerning Mayor Tom’s proposal to limit speakers at city council meetings, Friend of Unfair Park Mike MacNaughton directs our attention to a similar policy change the Dallas Independent School District’s trustees will consider on Thursday. You can read the whole thing here, but looks like the board…
Announced by Jody Dean?! Sportatorium spy sent me this pic of the new VOCS (Voice of Cowboys Stadium) working on his craft this week out in Arlington. T-Minus 10 days until the new public address announcer’s debut in Cowboys-Raiders Titans…
Anyone who’s driven south of town knows most of the state’s suffering from a severe drought, especially south-central Texas. And without water, there can be no hay. So Monday morning before dawn, a ranch foreman from Harwood headed north to Bonham to buy some for the cattle and other farm…
I see Rudy’s already posted his item about tomorrow’s vote on Dallas City Council rules changes, which showed up earlier this week on the addendum for tomorrow’s meeting. (It’s Item No. 2.) But what he doesn’t get into is why the council will vote on reducing and, in some cases,…
When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like “a coffee table from 1974.” Or, “that carport thingie that’s going up in the Arts District.” Turns out, it’ll stay that way a while longer — like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena’s exterior plaster…
The day Jerry Jones introduced the world to his huge new TV screen, gamers wondered what it’d be like to plug in their PlayStation and have a game 90 feet above the Cowboys Stadium field.Well, wonder no more. While the stadium opened up to season ticket holders for Saturday’s open…
Speaking of old business … At 2 today, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the business of how to regulate parking-lot owners who wanna boot patrons who they claim ain’t paid up. Seems months of meetings and complaints from Deep Ellum and downtown patrons…
Now that everyone on the Dallas City Council’s more or less okee-doke with Mary Suhm’s proposed budget — Suhm and city CFO Dave Cook were damn near feted during yesterday’s briefing — it’s apparently back to old business, of which there’s plenty planned for today. At noon, the Quality of…
This morning, The Wall Street Journal goes to church — Bent Tree Bible Fellowship Church, specifically, on International Parkway in Carrollton, where membership is high (4,000-plus pray at the arena-rock-sized megachurch) and shekels are low. Which has necessitated a few cuts superficial (lawn care, daily cleaning crew) and profoundly deep…
Former Highland Park star and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had himself quite the summer bash recently. Girls in bikinis. Dirty dancing. Some sort of beverages in those same red cups that I serve alcohol in at my pool parties. Who knows, maybe whipped cream made a cameo at some…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The North Texas Tollway Authority will, come September 1, most likely raise the speed limit on most area toll roads to 70 miles per hour following a full board vote one week from Wednesday. There will be some exceptions: For instance the Dallas North Tollway between Oak…
