As he’s done throughout the convention center hotel campaign, Mayor Tom Leppert’s op-ed in The Dallas Morning News Thursday focused more on kicking Harlan Crow in the crotch than providing tangible reasons why voters should approve public ownership of a $500 million hotel. He wasted valuable words ripping Crow for…
After pestering would-be voters in the West End last week for their opinions on Proposition 1, Megan and Patrick headed over to Fair Park yesterday to see how folks were feeling about the city getting into the convention center hotel business. Patrick’s video’s here; Megan’s wrap-up follows. If nothing else,…
After several requests, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau finally in March gave us a breakdown of the room nights that DCVB president and CEO Phillip Jones and other pro-hotel’ers claimed were contingent on building a convention center hotel. However, the names of the conventions were not disclosed because “some…
Several hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test…
If, after years of YouTube, unintentionally funny strangers just aren’t that funny anymore, there may be only one cure, and — lucky you — it’s stopping in town tonight at the Lakewood Theater.The Found Footage Festival is a collection of vintage VHS clips lifted off corporate training videos, low-budget TV…
At the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s annual “State of the West” luncheon yesterday, nearly 200 people filled a sunny room at the Lake West YMCA to hear about the future of West Dallas — and, in a keynote address by Mayor Tom Leppert, still more about the convention center…
So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more — specifically, 73 smalls, 34 mediums and 20 larges. So, yeah, you’re in luck, especially those of you who yesterday requested the Spock hair shirt after…
Unfair Park had two visitors this morning: Enrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general for the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway, and Jesus Contreras Cantu, the consul of media affairs. They stopped by to address the lawsuit we mentioned yesterday in which the consulate is referred to as “a ‘lawless’ world where…
Speaking of players addressing the media in the most uncomfortable of predicaments, my I re-introduce one Leon Lett. Everyone remembers the former Dallas Cowboy’s all-time gaffes – at Super Bowl XXVII and in the snow against the Miami Dolphins in 1993. But afterward – unlike Dirk Nowitzki – Lett went…
Edwin “Bud” Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, including the best-selling sports tome of all time, but longtime fans will fondly recall his Willie…
Since November, a Dallas attorney with a familiar last name has been at odds with Facebook over its decision to allow Holocaust-denial groups to post to the service. The story’s generated some heat in recent days, culminating today with this CNN story in which Brian “Brother of Mark” Cuban, who…
Dallas Observer art director Alexander Flores was out and about last night — at the Target on Northwest Highway and Skillman Street, if you must know — and spotted this message scribbled on the window of a Land Rover Discovery. (Which reminds me: Time to wash off the “Seniors ’86!”…
Before Game 1: Doubtless. After Game 1: Defiant. Before Game 2: Determined. After Game 2: Depressed. Before Game 3: Desperate? Delusional? Dead? Fine, then you tell me. For my prediction of Thuggets in 5 to remain in play, the Mavericks have to win a game at home either tomorrow afternoon…
Several good Friends of Unfair Park have big plans to attend Tuesday’s real-estate confab at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre: the first-ever North Texas Realty Symposium. The schedule seems to cover all comers, with bold-faced panels planned for residential, retail, lending, commercial and apartments — and Schutze’ll take particular interest…
Clint Barlow got to Dallas City Hall way too early today — 10:30 a.m., hours before he was set to plead his case to the City Plan Commission. Still, though it may have taken a while before Barlow spoke to the commissioners about his efforts to re-open Trees, the wait…
Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works — the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns…
Dirk Nowitzki bought her a ring. Bought her a dog. Bought her entire pack of lies. Sad to say, he went for Crystal Cristal Taylor’s exaggerated, elaborate head fake. Couple of weeks ago the Dallas Mavericks’ star gave an in-depth interview to the German newspaper Bild. In it, he talked about…
Early this morning, a Canadian police officer parked his Hummer H3 in front of Dallas Police Department headquarters on South Lamar Street. This was no surprise visit. A crowd of about 50 DPD officers and staff waited outside for Sgt. Steve Gibson to arrive. Gibson is on a “drive to…
Talking to reporters after the Mavericks’ morning practice, Dirk Nowitzki didn’t have much to add to reports that Cristal Taylor, the woman arrested at his home yesterday, is in fact his pregnant fiancee.”It’s pretty obvious I’m going through a tough time in my personal life right now, but like I…
Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up ’round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they’ve gone … extreme! Which is to say, Star…
Couple of days back, the National Football League announced that 16 so-called “legacy games” would be played this season in honor of the American Football League’s 50th anniversary. One of those games takes place in Kansas City on October 11, when the Dallas Cowboys play … the Dallas Texans. In…
Friend of the show Leslie Halleck is a horticulturist of some renown who chronicles her “Adventures in Urban Organic Gardening…” on her blog GrowLively. She’s also general manager at North Haven Gardens and a veggie test-gardener for Organic Gardening magazine. Add all that together, and that’s how she wound up…
