Prepare your fond farewells for Reunion Arena, which, come Wednesday, could be this much closer to demolition. The city council will vote this week on paying A&R Demolition of Austin a little more than $2 million to demolish the former home of Your Dallas Mavericks, as well as “remove remote…
Today could be former Dallas Police Department Chief Terrell Bolton’s final day as the top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia. Or not: This morning his attorney told county officials he’s been back in Dallas tending to medical problems, and that canning the chief for comp-time issues would be a violation…
Look, nobody’s perfect. Just last weekend on 105.3 The Fan my radio sidekick Mike Ogulnick referred to a huge crowd as a “thong of fans” and I invented a new word: “Necessarillarily”? But as of today we’ll no longer be treated to the malaprops and misspeaks of Emmitt Smith, whose…
Right now, this is what the intersection of N. Stemmons Freeway and Edison Street looks like — empty offices and showrooms perched on a corner. But on Wednesday, the city council will consider offering up $1,605,000 in Design District Tax Increment Financing District dough to former Hillwood veep Mike Ablon,…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will discuss updating the city’s 4-year-old water conservation and drought contingency plans, as this is shaping up to be yet another dry, dusty year. The update is necessary but won’t come cheap: If and when council gives the okee-doke, the city will pay Alan…
Sorry I’m a little tardy this morning. Been wringing out the tears from my computer keyboard. Why? Megan Henderson is leaving Dallas. (Please. A moment of silence.)…
Had it not been for an e-mail Parris Mayhew sent to local media on Thursday, The Case of the Sniper’s Perch might have gone unnoticed till too late. Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew — so named for the two men who’ve claimed since forever to possess the infamous window…
Looks like Elliott’s Hardware’s pitch to the former president paid off and then some, as the freshly unpacked Dallas resident made a “surprise” (so said the press release, anyway) swing by the Maple Avenue store today to pick up his name tag and dark-blue uni. Said the ex-president, according to…
By now, perhaps, you’ve read that some $104,070,000 of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package will wind up in the pockets of the Dallas Independent School District. (If your kids aren’t in the DISD, you can see how your district fared in the sweepstakes by checking out this site; Plano,…
Ten days ago, we extended Tennell Atkins an invitation to provide us with an explanation regarding the office space he’s spent nearly $9,000 in campaign dough to rent that he claims doesn’t exist, but not a peep so far from the freshman council member. In the meantime, we’ve continued to…
Ever wondered what’s at the bottom of New York’s Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside…
… a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to D.L. Hughley’s interview with ex-Dallas Morning News-er Michael Precker, whose move to The Lodge was mentioned twice last week in the Wall Street Journal. Precker now has a new nickname: “The Wolf Blitzer of Thongs.”Embedded video from CNN Video…
Couple weeks back, the chaps behind Bobby Goldstein’s Cheaters announced that former KTVT’er Robert Riggs had hopped into bed with them as executive producer of new programming and development. And I did talk to Riggs that afternoon, though I never got around to posting the follow-up because, well, Uncle Barky…
Just in time for the recession, the Dallas Auto Show revs its engines till Sunday, filling the Dallas Convention Center with a bunch of cars that nobody will ever buy. But that won’t stop us from staring, glassy-eyed, like children with the JC Penney Christmas catalog. I visited yesterday Thursday…
On Tuesday, just the feds were charging “Sir” Robert Allen Stanford with “massive, ongoing fraud” in Dallas federal court, a Friend of Unfair Park pointed out a report that Stanford had sponsored Senator John Cornyn’s November 2004 $7,000 “fact-finding mission” to Antigua. Now, courtesy another interested Friend of Unfair Park,…
Stumbled across this classic footage of a guy I’m glad the Mavericks didn’t trade yesterday. Wow, I think Dirk Nowitzki dunked more in his 1999 All-Star Rookie Game appearance than in the rest of his career combined. As Hubie Brown predicts, “He’s a handful.” …
This week, state Sen. Jane Nelson, a Republican from Flower Mound, introduced legislation to combat childhood obesity by requiring more P.E. time for school-age children. S.B. 890 was one of three pieces of legislation she introduced this week “designed to improve the health of Texas’ youth,” according to her press…
Aw, dang. Had hoped to break this in the paper version of Unfair Park next week, where we profile former Ensemble Studios music-maker Stephen Rippy; but, oh, well, no such luck. Regardless, the September shuttering of Ensemble Studios — the former Dallas-based indie-studio-turned-Microsoft property responsible for such mega-selling video games…
View Larger MapOn Tuesday, the Dallas City Council’s Housing Committee discussed 13 projects seeking low-income housing tax credits, among them Akard Plaza, which is being developed by Central Dallas Ministries’ 7-year-old affordable-housing subsidiary Central Dallas Community Development Corporation. Central Dallas CDC’s seeking $2 million from the city for what’s expected…
Weird to have the visitation two months after the funeral. But hey, it’s Texas Stadium, don’t let the effed-up order deter your ogling. If you haven’t yet paid your last respects to the house that Tom Landry built, Troy Aikman upgraded and Jerry Jones sentenced to the wrecking ball, this weekend is…
So, back to Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller. But only because there’s breaking news this afternoon: The Austin American-Statesman’s gotten hold of a notice of formal proceedings from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which says that “Judge Keller’s willful and persistent failure to follow CCA’s Execution-Day procedures…
The battle for the city council’s District 13 seat is already quite a pricy one, as Ann Margolin takes on Brint Ryan for the right to take over for Mitchell Rasansky, who’s leaving because of term limits. Both candidates have been flooding area residents with mailers and campaign materials over…
