Mark Cuban’s curious real estate play at Preston and Northwest Highway — the one where he’s tearing down 80-year-old estates and floating plans to build a couple office buildings — has gone over about as well as if he had littered the earth with the carcasses of a thousand rotting…
One of Unfair Park’s favorite things is all the unsolicited lists we receive that tell us where Dallas ranks when categorized in some completely unverifiable, useless category. Normally, they just languish in our inbox like so many Groupon notifications, but sometimes we’re too weak to resist. Dallas is one of…
Because ours is going back to the UK. Which is sad. He is smart and funny and is easily confused by America, and he makes Chartbeat blush. Remember when we sent him to the NRA convention? Or the time he watched the World Cup — that was that one soccer…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A developer wants to build some apartments on an extremely valuable yet bizarrely underdeveloped major North Dallas intersection. These apartments will be very classy, as evidenced by the slick, full-color brochures zoning/PR consultant Sarah Dodd is distributing as part of a campaign…
On Thursday evening in a spacious meeting hall at University Park United Methodist Church, neighborhood leaders and local bureaucrats, led by City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates, began the process of puzzling over how to solve Preston Road and Northwest Highway. The intersection, choked with traffic and curiously dumpy given…
A judge asked the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and The Dallas Morning News to salvage their relationship Monday, but instead the two parties will duke it out in court.A lawyer for the Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins says politics is behind a Dallas Morning News lawsuit seeking to…
We have an immediate opening for a copy editor. Until we find one, we’ll continue to let commenters correct our terrible spelling and grammar while we try and fail not to get defensive about it. It’s the Observer way…
We have an immediate opening for a copy editor. Until we find one, we’ll continue to let commenters correct our terrible spelling and grammar while we try and fail not to get defensive about it. It’s the Observer way…
UPDATE: On Friday, the general contractor sent over a check covering the lien. “While this still does not cover the entirety of the missing wages, the payment is a victory for workers,” Workers Defense Project says in a statement. “By ensuring that workers are paid for their work, Aldi Supermarket…
Last we checked, Mark Cuban was in “no rush to do anything” with the block of five estates he’s bought up over the past quarter century behind Ebby Halliday’s little white house at Preston and Northwest Highway. But something’s changed in the past eight months. In September, Cuban closed on…
Earlier this week, we spent some time examining why Preston Center, the aging shopping center floating on a sea of Park Cities/Preston Hollow riches, sucks so hard. Little did we know that Crow Holdings already had a plan to fix it. With a skybridge. Last December, Crow purchased the old…
Anyone who’s attempted to navigate the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway at rush hour will have had ample opportunity while sitting through multiple cycles of the stop light to contemplate one of North Dallas’ most enduring paradoxes. Here, at the spot where the Park Cities and Preston Hollow converge…
It’s been a banner week for the DFW sports media brain trust. First, the Star-Telegram’s Mac Engel told us why we were stupid for thinking Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was a child abuser just because he gone a little too far. Now we have Shan Shariff, a radio host…
Our apologies to WFAA’s Brett Shipp. After a lengthy run as our favorite local investigative TV journalist — occasionally prone to hyperbole, sure, but a fantastic reporter with the proper evening-news mix of charm and obnoxiousness — he has been displaced. That coveted spot in our heart now goes to…
Some situations are not nuanced. That didn’t keep Mac Engel from making excuses for Adrian Peterson in this morning’s Star-Telegram. Peterson, he says, may have abused his two sons when he allegedly beat them to the point of bleeding and scarring, but he is not a child abuser — which…
Neighbors never exactly embraced Wal-mart’s plans to build a Neighborhood Market on Lower Greenville. Suspicious of the chain’s ability to integrate into an urban neighborhood, particularly one as fastidious as Lower Greenville, their opposition was close to unanimous, the only variation being in the intensity of their anti-Wal-mart sentiment. Leaders…
We have an immediate opening for an editorial assistant. This is a full-time, entry-level position, perfect for a hyper-organized self-starter who can successfully juggle tasks ranging from crafting short blog posts to managing listings to monitoring the provisions in the newsroom beer fridge, all while working independently on long-term projects…
After reading Jeff Speck’s book Walkable City, Brian Reinhart had to respond. The book spoke to the issues he and his friends faced in Dallas so clearly, outlining many of the problems they’ve had and the aspirations they have. He wanted to give Speck “an update on the lay of…
When Urban Orchard Market opened to moderate fanfare last October, there was hope that maybe, finally, Downtown Dallas was grown up enough to support a grocery store. It’s not. Ten months after opening, the jaunty “Now Open” banner still hanging above the door, the market has quietly closed. A downtown…
We get the impulse. The easiest way to dive into a story about Oak Cliff, especially if you’ve never spent more than a few days there, is to talk about November 1963. Failing that, you can talk about crime, making it seem as if people who cross the Trinity heading…
What kind of rich people would be more fun to have living along the Katy Trail — family-oriented rich people who prefer short buildings, or fast-paced rich people in high-rises? The current property on 4719 Cole Ave. is not habitable for any type of rich people. The Saltillo apartments building…
Armed with at least his Infowars.com press pass and his smartphone camera, Frisco resident Brett Sanders is staging a one-man crusade for the Bill of Rights. For each of the last three Fridays, Sanders, who says he is also involved in the Open Carry movement, has filmed a different entity…
