The University of North Texas unveiled its shiny new football stadium last week, a $79 million complex designed to bring some juice to Denton come college football season. By big-time college sports’ standards, $80 million for a new stadium isn’t a ton of money. University of Michigan spent three times…
Yesterday afternoon, the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce hosted what was essentially a baby shower for the nascent neighborhood on the other side of Dallas’s ballyhooed architectural statement, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. The luncheon at Salon Las Americas — across Fort Worth Avenue from Smoke, which catered the affair…
Speaking of downtown fun …I see on the City Plan Commission’s agenda for tomorrow that downtown ultra-lounge Plush is hoping to get its specific use permit reupped — and that the CPC, at the moment, is recommending denial. Long story short: Its two-year SUP expired in September of last year…
Yesterday Bloomberg noted that high-end American hotels are being sold to buyers from Hong King, Singapore and China in the hopes of catering to “a growing number of affluent Asians traveling abroad.” Among those sold: the Rosewood Crescent Hotel and the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, now in the possession…
For the second time in as many days, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution pits The ATL against The City of Hate — a common occurrence — and rules in favor of Dallas, in part because we have toll roads to help pay for regional light rail projects that run to the suburbs,…
For those who found this morning’s paper particularly dissatisfying, here are some other Sunday stories with that taste particularly local:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins its “Atlanta Forward” series this morning by comparing and contrasting that city with ours, a not-uncommon occurrence, and concluding: We win. Since it’s available solely to subscribers,…
MediaBistro has picked up on KXAS-Channel 5’s video taken from one of its traffic cams earlier in the week, in which an illuminated something-or-nother can be seen falling from the sky before taking a sharp turn to the right. The NBC owned-and-operated says UFO investigators (?) have been asked “to…
Over the weekend, The Dallas Morning News blessed us with a pay-walled profile of First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, no stranger to the Friends of Unfair Park. And while briefly touching upon some of the pastor’s more, oh, let’s say controversial offerings in recent years, for the most part Scott…
Spurred by that for-sale Byrds concert poster dating back to an all-but-forgotten June 1, 1968, concert at the Forest Theater, I drove by the place a few days ago to see if the historic haunt had found any takers. But, no: The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard landmark built in…
As Merritt noted on Mixmaster earlier, The Dallas Morning News will no longer publish Quick after its August 4 issue, bringing to a close the free weekly’s 8-year-long run. Jim Moroney, the publisher and CEO at The News, tells Unfair Park he broke the news to its staff at around…
And so it begins continues. Actually, it’s been going on for years now. The slow, excruciatingly painful death of the newspaper, that is. I meet twentysomethings, even thirtysomethings every week who listen to the radio, who read blogs, who Tweet and Facebook and Skype and … who shrug and giggle at…
A few weeks ago I was talking to Office of Economic Development head honcho Karl Zavitkovsky about something unrelated when he mentioned the petition drive aimed at convincing Trader Joe’s to open a location at the Lake Highlands Town Center, where the city’s kicking in millions in extra TIF funding…
Late Tuesday I got an email from Jonathon Hetzel of Madison Partners, which is trying to roll out that bowling alley on Lowest Greenville that once more goes in front of the City Plan Commission tomorrow. He noted the myriad comments accompanying yesterday’s item and said perhaps he could lend…
Haven’t you heard? There’s gas in them thar shale formations. And if the parking lot outside of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison was any indication this morning, a goodly number of the players are in town, looking to make fat deals. You could tell because parking was spilling out into…
I see Avi’s posted a piece to Barking Dogs wondering whether a Walmart will take over the old Whole Foods on Lowest Greenville. Writes Adelman, yesterday “teams of inspectors — electrical, structure, property, roofing — swarmed all over the building, taking photos, comparing architectural drawings to reality, and deciding what…
I was talking to George Gimarc last night (more about that later … ish) when he mentioned that the Texas Radio Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 class of inductees. Among them is a local great who won’t be able to attend the October ceremony: the great Cuzzin’ Linnie,…
There is, of course, the significant local tie to one Kenny Powers: David Gordon Green, the Richardson High School grad and former ticket-taker who’s show-running HBO’s Eastbound & Down and introduced Danny McBride to the world in his 2003 film All the Real Girls. But, perhaps you’ve heard, tomorrow night…
We’ve known for a couple of weeks that Glenn Beck was eying a Westlake manse, but this morning on his radio show he made it official. Let’s go to the “fusion of entertainment and enlightenment” hisself for the official what-for:”I’m moving to Dallas, Texas, and my family is there now,…
We were driving through downtown yesterday, on our way to Dallas Farmers Market, and passed by First Baptist Dallas’s under-construction “spiritual oasis,” sweet fancy Moses. Which reminded me: At week’s end, FBD sent the heads-up that its new-campus webcam is up and running, or at least walking on water, and…
One week ago this morning, KNON’s Warren Harris passed along the news that local radio icon Linwood Henderson, better known as Cuzzin’ Linnie, died in his sleep after a lengthy illness. Henderson, long considered the disc jockey who broke Dallas radio’s color barrier by being the first to play soul…
A little while ago I saw this lengthy and occasional inside-baseball Q&A with Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney in which he insists that life behind the pay wall’s just fine, thanks for asking. Sorry — that’s “subscriber content initiative.” Anyway. Says Moroney, since the pay wall was erected a…
So, the feds want Pettis Norman and Jon Edmonds to appear before a grand jury on July 20 — can’t imagine why. Oh, wait. My bad. And speaking of the Inland Port, for those who knocked off early for the Christmas holidays in ’08, after the jump is a doc…
