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Two items from the community bulletin board, beginning with the more pressing item of business: how to spend the Fourth of July. Last year, a few Unfair Park’ers actually went to the Fair Park Fourth — as did one, ahem, “PDiddy,” who noted in our wrap-up that the fireworks were…

Since last we checked in on efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, my old friend Jeff Liles — a “consultant” on the project — has been hard at work parading folks in and out of the old joint for some stripped-down performances, a lovely bonus. I’ve given…

Was just over on Unfair Park reading Schutze’s take on the latest missle fired into the hull of the Trinity River Toll Road Waste Of Time Project. From the city that gave us the CueCat, plastic dividers on HOV lanes and P.C. Cobb Stadium downgraded into an InfoMart, this might be…

Saturday afternoon, I picked up the boy from a schoolmate’s house that sits across Pinocchio Drive from the mid-century modern masterpiece that, I discovered later, belongs to graphic designer Carlos Cardoza. Normally I’d never knock on a stranger’s door to inquire about the doings within — then again, most houses…

Tomorrow, Dallas Area Rapid Transit president and exec director Gary Thomas will be in Washington, D.C., to talk — what else? — transportation. Specifically, he’s been invited to appear before a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee, chaired by Chris Dodd, to address the Federal Transit Administration’s so-called…

The city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee failed Monday afternoon to vote on a proposed ordinance to regulate booting vehicles in private parking lots, opting instead to hold a third meeting on the issue. After some committee members asked questions already outlined in the briefing and others sought to modify…

So said Dallas city council member Dave Neumann, chair of the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, at today’s Trinity River levees press conference at City Hall about which Jim wrote earlier today. Last night, we provided a draft of Mayor Tom Leppert’s remarks, from which he seldom strayed; here,…

Friend of the show Danny Hurley grabbed what I imagine to be one of the more disturbing images from the A-Kon 20 shindig held over the weekend at the downtown Dallas Sheraton Hotel.  Observer enjoyer Cyndi Hearne captured one of the funniest. Caption contest, obviously. Winner gets a copy of…

We’ll leave behind the conceptual constructs for a moment and focus instead on Dallas’s old buildings, always a favorite topic of mine. Because on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., Preservation Dallas will dole out it annual Achievement Awards to old buildings made brand-new by their respective caretakers. And the…

Many Friends of Unfair Park have questions concerning Re:Vision Dallas — which we’ve been mentioning for months, but, sure, the release of the conceptual renderings of three potential downtown buildings has gotten folks’ attention. So I called John Greenan — executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, which is…

Mayor Tom Leppert’s made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren’t terribly energy efficient. The city council’s Housing Committee will get the full details today at 2 p.m.,…

Last week we showed you the three winners and three finalists chosen in the Re:Vision Dallas competition that called for folks to design a self-sustaining block on what’s not a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall. Turns out, that was but a sneak preview.Today, Urban Re:Vision — the folks behind…

It was shaping up to be a busy day at Dallas City Hall even before the Trinity River press conference was added into the mix yesterday; if nothing else, we should get some idea today where the city council stands on the proposed private parking lot booting ordinance, kicked to…