Ten days before Christmas we broke the news: The Dallas Independent School District has purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church with the intentions of razing the 94-year-old 10th Street structure to make way for an athletic complex accompanying the W.H. Adamson High School redo. But court hearings and negotiations…
In the annals of local meteorological-teevee history, Mike Burger never achieved the renown of, say, a Harold Taft. Or Troy Dungan. Or David Finfrock. Or Rebecca Miller, even. Still. He’s had two swims through Dallas — first in 1989, when he went to work at KDFW-Channel 4 (a stint that…
Hold up on that Gilt Groupe purchase you were about to make and take a moment to think of the children — specifically, the five children of Ross Perot, who’ve given $10 million each to the future Perot Museum of Nature and Science expansion, presently under construction at Victory Park…
Turns out our own Patrick Michels is a bit, well, obsessed with the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells — as in, “I haven’t broken in there … yet.” He was just out there a couple of weeks back, matter of fact, just to see the place. Which is why, after…
Now that we’ve identified and solved downtown’s parking problems, here’s the second doc posted to the Downtown Dallas 360 site yesterday — the 48-page August 2010 Steering Committee Presentation, which breaks down downtown into five areas in need of some TLC: the Main Street District, Farmers Market, South Arts District,…
My former Dallas Times Herald colleague, Helen Bryant Anders, writes this morning that Jeff Trigger — former managing director at the Adolphus and The Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the man responsible for the Stoneleigh Hotel’s extreme makeover — is about to save the mighty Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells,…
Greg Maloney, president and CEO for Jones Lang LaSalle Retail, has heard he’s closing down Valley View Center. He’s heard he’s tearing down Valley View Center. “I’ve heard all the rumors,” says Maloney, whose company was appointed by the courts just last week as the receiver for the beleaguered mall…
Pat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he’d been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to condemn his business in order…
As Master o’ Doom John Carmack wrapped his keynote sermon yesterday evening, the old familiar QuakeCon rhythm began drumming back to life, tap-tap-slurp, in the dim and sprawling tournament hall full of home-built gaming towers, beady-eyed gamers lit by their screens and enough snack foods to stock a few 7-Elevens…
OK, it’s a hospital — the “new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas” that the UT System Board of Regents agreed to fund to the tune of $800 million. The 12-story, 424-bed facility will open in 2015 on Harry Hines Boulevard at Record Crossing Road and…
As gamers from around the world wheeled their home-tweaked shoot-’em-up-optimized computers into the Hilton Anatole this afternoon, industry maven John Carmack was getting his call to the stage in the hotel’s grand ballroom for his 15th annual QuakeCon keynote at the largest free networked gaming party in the world. It’s…
Ben Gold’s on a plane from Iowa back to Dallas at this very moment — a newly burnished Hall of Famer … like Emmitt Smith, let’s just say. On the other side, his final installment from his return to Ottumwa, Iowa, where not all victories are in the distant past…
Yesterday, legendary local video gamer Ben Gold began writing for Unfair Park about his return to Ottumwa, Iowa, home of the Twin Galaxies arcade and the place where, tomorrow night, he will be among the first class inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. In today’s installment, Ben…
Late last night, the missive you see below — in which Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield offers to pitch in $10 mil for that Oak Cliff-to-downtown streetcar line — appeared in the Unfair Park in-box. Mayfield tells Mike Eastland, executive director of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, that…
Early last week I told you about 43-year-old Ben Gold, who, back when we were kids, was better known as “B-E-N” amongst the video-gamers who hung out at local arcades — like the late-great Game Zone at Preston Road and LBJ Freeway or TILT at Prestonwood Town Center — and…
I’ve known Gary Cogill a long time, and despite what Zac says, he’s a good guy, a thoughtful critic and a pretty good cook who, back when the Lakewood Theater fed the homeless at Christmas, could be found in the kitchen lending a very helping hand. I’ve also been aware…
Forthcoming at the beginning of 2011: The Dallas Morning News’s iPad app. Only, per the press release this morning, it’ll be a New York Times-made product via its new Press Engine offshoot, which is spitting out iPad and iPhone products for smaller publications without the resources to do it themselves…
As the women’s editor for the Dallas Times Herald for nearly 30 years, from the 1950s to the ’80s, Vivian Castleberry revolutionized the section’s coverage — addressing domestic violence, for example, in addition to lifestyle pieces on decor and fashion — and became the first woman named to the paper’s…
After the jump you’ll find the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but short story shorter: KTXA will broadcast 15 Dallas Stars regular-season games each season for the next four beginning, well, this season. Most, incidentally, will be Saturday-night games — and all will be in high-def,…
After the jump is ESPN’s tribute to Leah Siegel, a Dallas-based producer for the network who, during her tenure at the Worldwide Leader, garnered a handful of Emmy Awards. Leah died early this morning, about two years after doctors discovered she had stage four breast cancer — right after she’d…
On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression — as though, really, there could be just one.Full disclosure: Most of mine involve early, awkward dates at…
It’s been 17 months since the city settled its legal dispute with developer Craig Hall over lease payments related to the Arts District parking garage on Ross Avenue — and then agreed to dole out up to $9 million from the Downtown Connection TIF if he ever got ’round to…
