Several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered this morning, in so many words, “Where we goin’ smoking tonight?” You know, last day and all. Really hadn’t though about it. But now that they mention it … I dunno, Ship’s, maybe? But it’s been a while. The Slip Inn? Been even…
I’d tweet this item, but … no. Instead, this trio of Twitter-related items in a single post. As in: This morning, the Chicago Tribune becomes the latest in a series of stories to reference Addison-based TweetCongress, which, go figure, follows the tweets of those in Congress — about 110 politicians…
Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it’s cause…
Like the rest of us, Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson admitted to being a little confused during Monday’s Opening Day. “It didn’t look like us out there,” he said after throwing a scoreless inning in his team’s 9-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Of course,…
It was a postcard-perfect January afternoon in Scottsdale, a winter’s day more like a postcard-perfect spring afternoon. Some 60 Stanford Group Company “wealth managers” had flown to Arizona for the company’s quarterly meeting—the kind most of these advisors might have skipped most other quarters. But not this one, not now,…
“Athletes’ Feat?” by Richie Whitt, April 2 Dim Whitt I don’t know who you think you are, but you have no idea what you’re talking about. So why don’t you keep your screwed-up, backward opinions about the No. 1 sport in America to yourself? You don’t know what the hell…
Remember Jenny?: Give Margaret Morin credit for perseverance. For nearly a year, the leader of Concerned Citizens for Jenny has lobbied, cajoled and pleaded with city leaders to send Jenny—until last week the Dallas Zoo’s only elephant—to a sanctuary in Tennessee. In that time, she says, she’s learned just how…
At the end of March, The Washington Post ran a piece in which some National Public Radio hosts and higher-ups discussed the idea of having NPR member stations raise funds on the mothership’s behalf. Because, after all, NPR’s struggling like every other media organization: In December, it axed two popular…
GlobeSt.com today crunches Texas’s apartment vacancy numbers and finds that multifamily units around the state — and in Dallas very specifically — are a little less full-up now than they were this time last year. There are, of course, two very obvious reasons for the rise in vacancies: the economy…
I’ll leave it to Dr. Merten to comment on the content of Vote No!’s brand spankin’ new ad, which the pro-hotel campaign just posted to the series of tubes interconnected to each other, and instead just let you watch as God and Tom Leppert intended. Because it’s mighty meta and…
It’s all well and dandy that Jason Terry is all but guaranteeing a Dallas Mavericks’ victory tonight against the Utah Jazz and that Dirk Nowitzki is welcoming difficult games during the NBA season’s final week. They’re saying the right things. But will they do the right things? Who knows? In…
View Larger MapMoments ago, the Dallas City Council approved spending $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute can “assess redevelopment options” at Southwest Center Mall. As we noted earlier this week, the council’s Economic Development Committee took a peek at the proposal, and it was recommended…
So much for Tennell Atkins’s move to push back the citywide smoking ban till October 10. Atkins had insisted that some bars and restaurants have had issues securing city permits to build porches and patios in advance of the April 10 start date of the new ordinance’s enforcement, which will…
Economy’s a bummer. Taxes almost due. Stars out of the playoffs. He/She/It busy with other things. Times … they are tough. But I arrive today with great good marginally better news: It could be worse. Much worse. When I cleaned out my hunks-o-junk closet I found not only some “Hey,…
When I got home last night, the missus was listening to All Things Considered — specifically, a piece about Unleashed Indoor Dog Parks on Samuell Boulevard, which bills itself as a “one-of-a-kind facility with indoor and outdoor off-leash play parks for dogs and their owners, shopping, dining and dog services.”…
Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, just delivered a speech to the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, where he didn’t quote Bob Dylan or compare the economy to the contraptions of Rube Goldberg — though he did open with a…
Less than a week after that FBI raid at a 2323 Bryan Street data center that left dozens of innocent companies and Internet service providers in the dark, Wired’s Threat Level offers the most complete picture of what went down. From information gleaned from court docs (including the 39-page affidavit,…
So much for redevelopment of 1011 S. Akard Street, once the site of hotels named Sheraton, Ramada and Plaza. For months, Larry James, president and CEO of Dallas Central Ministries, and Larry Hamilton, the building’s owner and the man responsible for copious downtown do-overs, had hoped to turn at least…
My old friend Troy Aikman says that if – I repeat, if – Roy Williams doesn’t produce like a No. 1 receiver, then the Dallas Cowboys’ trade to acquire him last season will be “one of the biggest busts in the history of the league.” The screaming headline on the…
Allen Gwinn’s taken a sneak peek at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ briefing agenda for Thursday, and one item in particular struck him as … well, interesting. Which is: Ratification of Authority to Execute Master Lease Agreement with Dell, Inc. for Sixty Months and Provide for Subsequent…
Dallas Morning News insiders and the merely curious have no doubt spent the better part of the day watching the comments pile up on the DMNcuts blog, which has documented the layoffs taking place inside 508 Young Street. Condolences have been extended, tempers have flared, those let go have said…
A Friend of Unfair Park’s got big plans for April 11: taking part in the “A New Way Forward” break-up-the-banks nationwide protest. The Dallas shindig’s scheduled to take place in front of the AIG building on Walnut Hill Lane off North Central Expressway. Thus far, 90 folks have RSVP’d for…
