At Wednesday’s Dallas City Council briefing, there will be yet another Budget Workshop — the fourth of many in advance of the September 23 due date for next fiscal year’s budget. In the doc prepared for the council, City Manager Mary Suhm describes the process of “Setting the ‘Price’ of…
ELVIS COSTELLO / RADIO, RADIOby Sunnychopper82A Friend of Unfair Park points our attention to Rochester Institute of Technology new-media professor Michael Saffran’s newly published study in which he reveals that Dallas residents are “largely dissatisfied” with the local radio. The study’s got a Fiona Apple-worthy title: Effects of Local-Market Radio…
There’s no breaking news alert. No arrest. Not even a police report. But late last month at The Lodge there was … something. And, surprise, it involved a Dallas Cowboy. This much we know, confirmed by two independent sources: This secondary-level Cowboy and a member of his entourage were asked to leave…
This Associated Press reports this morning that hospitals throughout the country are having trouble finding and keeping nurses. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty hospitals are having in transitioning nurses from the training to the actual doing. Let’s begin in a Dallas ER, shall we?Newly minted…
AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year’s AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits…
Larry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year’s 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set for April 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. As James notes, his…
Always a treat when Friend of Unfair Park PeterK deposits in the in-box a link to an eBay auction of a vintage Dallas photo. This morning’s opening bid is eight bucks for a “1931 Photo Roadside Hamburger Barbecue Stand Dallas Tex.” And, hunh, it looks so familiar too …..
You may wanna spend a few minutes this morning boning up on the Rail North Texas plan, which calls for 215 miles of new commuter rail track that would connect much of North Texas — from McKinney to Midlothian, Cleburne to Carrollton, Burleson to beyond. Only, who’ll pay for it?…
The family and I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon strolling the Automotive Building at Fair Park, picking through the hand-me-downs stuffed inside the hangar during the monthly Buchanan Market that wraps up at 5 p.m. today for those with free time on their Sunday schedule. As always, there’s…
Unfair Park today received a missive Angela Hunt sent on Wednesday to General Kenneth Cox, Colonel Christopher Martin and Ray Russo of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which the city council member expresses concern over Mayor Tom Leppert’s lobbying political officials and the Corps to “expedite its evaluation…
After months of flirting with 105.3 The Fan and coming this close to leaving the phenomenally successful station he almost single-handedly launched 15 years ago, Mike Rhyner tonight reached an 11th-hour contract agreement with Cumulus Media that will keep him at 1310 AM The Ticket for the foreseeable future. Multiple times…
Today was tryout day for the Dallas Desire — which, as we mentioned way back in October, is the local franchise in the new Lingerie Football League. And around 30 women turned up at Grand Prairie’s Quick Stop Park hoping to make the final cut — 12, all told. Over…
Late yesterday, as the world was celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, we spoke to, um, Charles Darwin — by which we mean the pastoral counselor and life coach with a practice in Dallas. Unfair Park wasn’t the first and won’t be the last to approach Darwin about the relationship between…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Rhett Miller’s solo debut Mythologies, which I’ve still got somewhere — it hides in a closet, no doubt in youthful shame. Doubt there’ll be a double-disc deluxe reissue; oh, not if I can help it. Though, rather unbelievably, someone’s selling their autographed and…
On Wednesday, as you’re no doubt aware by now, the Dallas City Council voted to create three municipal management districts, or MMDs. They’re the first in Dallas, though Houston is often invoked as proof that MMDs do wonders for development. Which is no surprise, as they’re made for development –…
Judge David Lopez has been presiding over the 256th Family District Court for more than two years, and on any given day, he grants around 15 divorces. This morning, though, he was busier than usual: On this day before Valentine’s Day, Lopez upped the number of splits to an even…
About 200 cities around the world hosted Twestivals Thursday night — part Twitter meet-up, part charity fundraiser — and Dallas got in on the action with a party at Mockingbird Station. For three hours last night, local social networking all-stars paid a $15 entry to drink at Trinity Hall with…
The press release showed up a tad late in the in-box for us to make a 10 a.m. press conference in Arlington. Nonetheless, this heads-up. Local law-enforcement agencies are announcing the kick-off to the Third Annual Great Texas Warrant Roundup, which is “designed to target thousands of defendants with traffic,…
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The Texas Historical Commission sends word that the Dallas Downtown Historic District is now a little bit bigger than when first established in 2006 by the National Register of Historic Places. Says the THC, the district — which encompasses 555 acres and 66 buildings in an area “roughly bounded” by…
I exchanged a few e-mails with Michael Precker on Tuesday, after a brief mention in the Wall Street Journal blossomed into a miniature media feeding frenzy. Said the former Dallas Morning News-er who went to work managing The Lodge following the first round of Belo buyouts in 2006, “I figure…
And now, from KXAS-Channel 5, the story of the naked, “terracotta-colored” man spotted along the Katy Trail Thursday morning. At first, the woman who saw him thought he was a statue. Till he moved. And, please, do keep in mind: “This is very offensive and something that is not funny,…
