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After the jump, a photo taken Sunday evening at the intersection of Merrell Road and Cromwell Drive in Northwest Dallas — perfect for those in need of a Christmas card at this late date. –Robert Wilonsky…

For weeks, the United States Conference of Mayors has been touting its Main Street Economic Recovery Plan, which would, if enacted, involve putting federal funds into local projects. To that end, mayors from all across the country provided the Conference with a wish list of project they’d like the feds…

What you see above is an early cover sketch for the Criterion Collection Bottle Rocket DVD about which we’ve written, oh, just a little in recent weeks. Like all of the artwork featured on the disc and throughout its accompanying booklet, it was done by Ian Dingman, and it measures…

Every now and then this week — till Wednesday at least — we’ll highlight some items on the Dallas City Council’s agenda, which runs more than 2,300 pages once you tally up the final agenda and final addendum items. Feels a bit like a year-end best-of, as the council takes…

Seven months ago, the word “streetcar” started showing up on Unfair Park — seems Jim’s plenty keen on the idea, along with other trolley-touters who look to yesterday’s transportation option as tomorrow’s development generator. Which is why, as the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee discusses the second downtown…

Bad news this afternoon from Kurt Kleinmann, whose Pegasus Theatre has been coloring its stage productions a distinctly retro shade of gray since 1986: There will be no new “In Living Black and White” production next month at the Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, where, last December, Kleinmann opened…

A Friend of Unfair Park who works — sorry, make that worked — for Electronic Data Systems in Plano sends this missive:Amazing how the DMN or any of the local news outlets has not reported the fact EDS has laid off 8,000 to 10,000 people this week. I was one…

A Friend of Unfair Park and M.O.T. forwards us this link to tomorrow’s big auction at the VFW Hall on S. Smith Street, off Walton Walker. Looks like Randall Hill Auctions, based in La Coste, is selling off some 1,000 pieces of World War II memorabilia — including, oh, pistols…

Those local Starbucks targeted for shuttering over the summer are still open — dunno for how long, though, as the Seattle-based coffeeteria stages the closings in waves. (“Could be any time,” says one Lower Greenville barista.) And, more bad news, as it looks like Starbucks won’t rake in the big…

Moments ago, Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez announced a GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) for the convention center hotel of $356 million to the council’s Economic Development Committee, which will be voted on by the full council in January, along with a final development agreement with Matthews Southwest. This number represents…

Every so often for about the past month or two, someone will whisper to me in hushed conspiratorial tones, “So, did you hear? That Deep Ellum deal is dead.” Then, they will slink back into the shadows, no doubt to giggle their told-ya-so’s into someone else’s ear. Because, frankly, for…

This morning at City Hall, some three dozen urban planners, architects and city officials gathered on the fourth floor to begin discussing precisely how to turn a dollar-a-spot parking lot behind City Hall into a self-sustaining community. (That’s the site above.) Meaning: How, precisely, can you turn an barren spot…