Today, of course, as we mentioned over the weekend, marks a fair-sized milestone in the city’s rich and storied tradition of urban plan unveilings, with a two-part ceremonial drop of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan. In keeping with the public-private partnership-ness of the whole thing, the good folks at MIG,…
An old friend of mine was kind enough to forward along the hot-off-the-presses Marcus & Millichap National Retail Report, the must-read amongst real-estaters; insists my pal of the mixed-to-optimistic forecast, it’s “a pretty thorough insight into the retail world.” In which case, by way of introduction: “Caution gradually gave way…
I’ve tried several times in recent weeks to reach Plano attorney Tom Keen, who reps the Hong Kong consortium that owns the Statler Hilton downtown, but so far, no luck. Not only do Friends of Unfair Park ask, oh, once or twice a week about the place, but Keen has…
The Belo Garden — slated to go in at the corner of Main and Griffin downtown, where the federal courthouse parking lot used to be — has been plagued by soil-quality delays practically since plans began six years ago. But the park, funded by “Belo-related parties” in conjunction with public…
Bobbie Wygant’s 2011 Coming Soon Film Reel from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Our pal Erik Clapp, keeper of the Bobbie Wygant Archive, just sent this most watchable teaser featuring little look-sees at classic interviews he’s in the process of restoring before posting to the site. Good Lord, that’s an estimable roster of…
As The Buggles famously sang in 1979, video, in fact, killed the radio star. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram continues to share content with Dallas’ Only Daily and slice positions and send talented writers out into the cold in 2011, it’s apparent that the Internet is choking out newspapers. My first…
I’ll leave it to Schutze, who’s covered this subject at great length, to explain precisely how Larry and Ted Hamilton wound up including more affordable-housing units in their Atmos Complex project downtown. Perhaps Jim will do so as early as tomorrow morning, when, I see here, the Downtown Connection Tax…
Let me get this outta the way once and for all: I’m short(ish). Bald(ing). And, since I don’t adopt you guys’ system of surrendering to middle age but rather I try to combat it, I’m also douche(y). Yes, I work for a free newspaper and my radio station is No…
Those two women above, of course, are Faith Hill and Chrissie Hynde, the latter of whom was my first rock-and-roll crush. That was taken yesterday at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, where, tonight at 9 p.m., the former Audrey Perry and the Great Pretender will perform in front of…
While I was writing the DART item below, about 29 Friends of Unfair Park forwarded along the freshest of hot-off-the-press tweets from Sports Illustrated’s Peter King:I’m telling you: I-30 between Dallas + Fort Worth is a plow-less, snow-windswept moonscape. This is officially a debacle.At this very moment, King and Mike…
10. The House of Blues put on a pretty nifty show, but $30 for valet parking? I was as gouged as I was cold. 9. After gorging on sausage, blackened catfish, brisket, fajitas, beans-n-rice and then repeating the process, I will not be eating today. 8. I’ve never even met…
Tomorrow morning, Justin Terveen’s promised us a close-up of the Margaret Hunt Hill’s promised light-er-up from his perch on the Continental Avenue Bridge. But, well, we’ve got an awful good view of the Calatrava from Unfair Park HQ, and our Eric Garcia climbed up to the roof to get a…
So, about that local TV news rumor to which I alluded below … Earlier today we got a call that Troy Dungan, the longtime WFAA-Channel 8 weatherman who stepped down in July 2007 after 31 years on the air, has been seen loitering around the KTVT-Channel 11 studios in recent…
While we await a call back concerning a Local TV News Rumor that may be a big nothin’, here’s a confirmed little something: KXAS-Channel 5’s getting a new sports reporter. Actually, says Susan Tully, news director at KXAS, Rontina McCann is “the quintessential I-touch-all-the-product person,” meaning that when McCann starts…
By way of a Super Bowl XLV preview, The New York Times’s Sports section features a front-page piece on the Allen Eagles’ $60-million football stadium, to which The Wall Street Journal has already given its stamp of approval. Greg Bishop talks to Allen athletic director Steve Williams about all the…
A few weeks back we took a look at the back-and-forth between The Dallas Morning News and Parkland Memorial Hospital, which, in recent months, has been the subject of numerous investigative pieces detailing patients put at risk and “needlessly harmed,” in the words of News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman…
High on the top of my list of favorite downtown buildings is the old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay. But the building, built in ’30, has gone unused for decades. That changes immediately: On the other side is the official announcement from Downtown Dallas Inc., in…
Jim’s on vacation this week. So I’ll use that opportunity to highlight a short film starring his boy Will, the Woodrow Wildcat presently residing in Los Angeles, where, between acting jobs, he’s busking on Venice Beach, in Santa Monica and in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. I…
KDMX-FM (102.9, The Mix) hasn’t been on my radar since … well … um, ever? Till about 24 minutes ago I didn’t even know its format. Oh, I see: “Variety From The 90’s ‘Til Now,” meaning Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat … and…
Driving home from the Kessler Theater Friday night, I was reminded yet again of how drab and shabby the Commerce Street bridge over the Trinity River looks in the dark, what with more than a dozen of the old streetlights inoperable since who can remember when. I made a note…
Speaking of the Standing Wave …Yesterday, a fellow named David Morring sent me the following note, which accompanied a link to the video you see above:I saw your recent post in your blog. Myself and several other whitewater paddlers have been following this project and in fact received permission to…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent me today’s Paste piece on Big Bucks Burnett’s Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum. So let me note: Pete posted the details concerning the Official Grand Opening on DC9 yesterday. Takes place Valentine’s Day, with The O’s and the Tom Tom Club in…
