A Friend of Unfair Park sends this, via SMU’s Twitter account:Alert: SMU Main Campus Only: There is an emergency on campus. Please shelter in the nearest building now. Do not go outside. Will update.Just checked The News site, where it notes only that “a student says a professor has told…
Out this week is a report that notes the following: Patients spent “an average of four hours and three minutes” waiting in the emergency room in 2008, a slight decrease from the ’07 average but an enormous jump from the ’02 numbers. (In Texas, the average wait is 258 minutes,…
Pete reminded me late yesterday that I hadn’t mentioned the press release we received earlier this week from the Hard Rock Cafe’s New Jersey-based publicist concerning the joint’s opening date in Victory Park. So here ’tis: July 15. Can you smell the excitement? No? Maybe that’s just the $14.95 burger.We’ll…
Like the Dallas Cowboys did a couple months ago, the Dallas Mavericks have made the decision to fortify their roster via quantity, not quality. But in an NBA Draft that features Blake Griffin, Hasheem Thabeet, James Harden and a bunch of extras, that might not be such a bad idea. Unwilling…
Pardon the early-a.m. geekout; no doubt, there will be real news to follow shortly. But first this announcement: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen are making their way back into theaters on Friday, July 17, in but four cities — Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and, of course, Dallas. But…
A motion was filed in federal court today in the Dallas City Hall public corruption case in which developer Brian Potashnik’s high-priced, high-profile attorneys tell the feds that their client’s all good and really doesn’t need to see their evidence, but thanks. Brian and Cheryl Potashnik, of course, weren’t in…
Last week, we noted that Icon Partners’ dream to erect a Lil’ Manhattan at the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and LBJ Freeway is all but dead, buried beneath $18 million in debt. Which reminded us of another spectacular-spectacular heralded several months before the so-called Icon Midtown announcement: Provident…
Over on The Ticket, Mike Rhyner (aka “Baseball Jesus”, the cockiest nickname in the history of sports, by the way) is quick to identify the “catastrophic moment.” The play/incident/injury/whatever that signals the beginning of the end each Texas Rangers’ season. Over the past 37 years it’s usually been multiple choice…
Seconds ago, literally, Angela Hunt posted to her blog an explanation concerning what went down at Dallas City Hall this morning, when she and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano convinced the council to yank from today’s meeting agenda a vote on the proposed parking boot ordinance. As Sam mentioned…
We’re awaiting our very copy of John F. Wasik’s new book Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream, due to arrive shortly, in which he documents how the housing boom went bust and how walkable cities died a slow death, surprise surprise. And while Dallas and the surrounding suburbs…
View Larger MapNoticed this interesting item on the City Plan Commission’s agenda for tomorrow: a specific use permit renewal application “for an Alcoholic beverage establishment limited to a Bar, lounge or tavern and a Commercial amusement” for a property located on the northeast corner of Greenville Avenue and Lewis Street…
A conference broke out during this morning’s city council meeting shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert announced that Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and council member Angela Hunt pulled Addendum Item No. 15 regarding the booting ordinance for discussion. Leppert, Medrano and Hunt were joined Chris Heinbaugh and Paula Blackmon…
Dallas’s red light cameras came under scrutiny yesterday during a meeting of the city’s Automated Red Light Enforcement Commission, where commissioners wrestled with the concept of spending a lot to make a little. As in: The installation of the 66 cameras in 2007 — and their maintenance since then, not…
So I’m watching the Channel 8 news Monday night at 6:29 and after a sparkling fill-in sportscast by Ted Madden he alerts viewers that: ” … in the game, Texas already trails, 1-0.” To which anchor Gloria Campos valiantly responds, “Aw, but they’ll come back.” Adds John McCaa, “Let’s hope…
Should be an interesting Dallas City Council meeting today — if, that is, the Deep Ellum Association knows it needs to send its people to City Hall before 1 p.m., as the council will vote on the parking-boot ordinance well before lunch break, according to city officials to whom we…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this front-page Wall Street Journal story about Cyrus Hassankola, who moved to Dallas to open a business that always appears on the verge of closing — the oriental rug shop at Preston Road and Royal Lane formerly known as “Going Out of Business.”…
The watch-listed Danny Hurley sends the sad news: Joe Christ — filmmaker, musician, provocateur, parent and all-’round hell-raiser — died on Father’s Day. According to the Facebook memorial page to which the faithful have been posting fond memories and farewells, he passed away in his sleep — heart attack, three…
This afternoon outside Dallas City Hall, several hundred people braved the summer’s first 100-degree day to protest the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Iran. They waved Iranian flags, held signs demanding freedom and democracy and showed photographs of the violence that has rocked the country since the June 13 election.The…
If you’re unaware for whom Young Street downtown is named, here’s a brief history lesson courtesy the Texas/Dallas History & Archives at the Dallas Public Library:Young Street was named for Methodist minister Reverend William C. Young. Young had served as a chaplain in the Arkansas Confederate regiment under the command…
When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came to Fort Worth earlier this month, they parked a woman in a cage, nearly naked and painted up like a cat, on a sidewalk downtown. So imagine our excitement to hear the animal lovers would be on a street corner in…
In case today’s triple-digit heat hadn’t reminded you yet, summer officially began this week. Y-a-w-n. No football. No basketball. No hockey. No frost bite. No worries. With plenty of time to kill, thought I spend today pondering my favorite heat-beatin’ time-killers. Otherwise known as The Top 10 Best Things About…
Updated at 3:07 p.m. As we mentioned yesterday, the freshly inaugurated city council is set to approve a booting ordinance after the Economic Development Committee voted unanimously June 16 to put a modified version of the staff recommendation on tomorrow’s addendum. This didn’t make the Save Deep Ellum coalition happy,…
