On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will more than likely vote to approve turning over management of the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society — and, more specifically, its management arm, Dallas Zoo Management, Inc. Further details concerning the transfer of power can be found in Item No. 9…
A few minutes ago, the University of Texas at Dallas posted word that over the weekend, one of its programmers made a tiny boo-boo that allowed students to peek at each other’s very private information — such as, their names, “addresses, class schedules, Net identification, UT Dallas ID numbers, and…
Check out our slide show for a closer look at the racing chihuahuas, and the rare breed of owners who trained their dogs for this.One-hundred and fifty nine Chihuahuas came to the parking lot Saturday morning, but by high noon there was only Charlie. Flanked by his entire family on…
How you get shut down by Gio Gonzalez and then light up John Lackey I’ll never know, but your Texas Rangers deflected the dirt from their coffin in Anaheim this weekend. I still don’t think they’ll catch the Angels or make the playoffs, but taking two of three in California keeps baseball relevant past mid-August…
So says Editor & Publisher in its just-published list of “10 That Do It Right.” A.H. Belo biggest wig Robert Decherd has long maintained the free, miniature Morning News is a money-maker, not merely a trash-generator. (Though, admittedly, my folks got a copy last week that wound up much closer…
[Editor’s note: Jim’s on deadline, and Sam’s on vacation. So Trey Garrison’s down at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse live-blogging the City Hall corruption trial for Unfair Park today. Jim’s back tomorrow; till then, take it away, Trey.]Don Hill’s defense attorney, Ray Jackson, spent the morning building on…
Hard to remember way back when we bitched and moaned about a “Cowboys bias” in the Pro Football Hall of Fame isn’t it? Saturday night in Canton receiver Bob Hayes became the 11th Cowboy inducted into Canton, continuing a trend that has seen four Dallas stars earn immortality over the…
As the council begins commenting on the proposed FY2009-2010 budget, one issue comes up time and again: the layoff of 840 city employees, which will begin on Friday. Moments ago, the city manager further explained how the process will work: When the reduction-in-force notices are sent out at the end…
This is but a sample of Hal Samples’s photos taken Saturday afternoon and evening, as Frank Campagna and his band of artists were wrapping up the Deep Ellum Mural Project just a few weeks after kick-off. (The tunnel’s gone; long live the tunnel!) Patrick M. is compiling the whole wingding…
At this very moment, the Dallas City Council is being briefed by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm, chief financial officer Dave Cook and others on the proposed FY2009-1010 budget, which the council will approve on September 23. But before Suhm and Cook took control of the meeting, Mayor Tom Leppert…
During the waning days of the ’08 presidential election, a piece of Photoshop made the rounds featuring Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin’s shoes. Collin County man Roger Baker, an eight-year J.C. Penney veteran at its Plano HQ, says he printed out the photo and taped it to a co-worker’s computer…
My problem isn’t that Texas Rangers’ All-Star Josh Hamilton got drunk, took off his shirt and playfully licked whipped cream – and vice-versa – off three hot females in an Arizona bar last January. My beef isn’t that a born-again guy who continually tells us I Am Second decided to -…
Check out our slide show for more shots from the tournament and around the stadium.It was a moment you knew was coming ever since the Cowboys unveiled the largest-in-the-world 1080p HDTV screen hanging above midfield in their new stadium.Saturday afternoon at an open house for Cowboys season ticket holders, Sony…
So many pages of Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget left to sort through, and so little time left till tomorrow’s council budget briefing. But several Friends of Unfair Park worry about an item they found at the very bottom of the page devoted to the Central Library’s line-item breakdown: the amount…
Occasional Dallas Observer photographer Allison V. Smith and the namesake of the Barry Whistler Gallery on Canton Street were hitched Saturday evening at Allison’s family vacationland in Maine. Just read all about it in The New York Times, which has a lovely photo of the couple as well as a…
The city has posted the entirety of Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2009-2010 budget, including a searchable breakdown of line-item details. (Look — the demolition of Reunion Arena, which will now be finished come January 2010 per this week’s council agenda, saves the city $3.6 million.) Here too is…
Once again, we found former council member Al Lipscomb in the courtroom at the City Hall corruption trial yesterday, and he predicted the jury will “dump” the case. “The jury’s gonna say, ‘You’ve taken our time up on all this crap here. There’s a hell of a lot of involvement…
I have a notebook and digital voice recorder full of Mary Suhm quotes in which the Dallas city manager offers encouraging words about the FY2009-2010 budget, a teensy-weensy bit of which we saw at City Hall this afternoon. (Turns out, she’s especially excited about once-a-week trash and recycling pick-up.) But…
Moments before her budget presentation to the media, scheduled to begin any second, City Manager Mary Suhm called with a bit of a sneak preview. We’ll have more shortly, upon our return from City Hall, but when asked what was the most difficult cut she had to make to balance…
Via Gawker, we find word that KXAS-Channel 5 has laid off its marketing folks — you know, the promo-makers. NBC Universal’s making the cuts at all of its owned-and-operation stations, of which Channel 5’s but one of 10. Notes Gawker, “News employees will be expected to produce promos for their…
Unfair Park might be a little slow-going ’round 1:30 this afternoon, when I’ll be down at Dallas City Hall to pick up the executive summary of City Manager Mary Suhm’s final budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. Media attending this afternoon’s shindig won’t be given the entire document, but…
Here we go again — though, perhaps, for the final time.Unfair Park has learned that this week, Glazer’s Distributors and Colby Properties, the owners of 508 Park Avenue downtown, filed with the city a certificate of demolition that would allow for the razing of the former Warner Bros. Pictures storage…
