A couple of weeks back, the city acknowledged that a “renegade pruning operation” was responsible for hacking down trees in the Great Trinity Forest, kinda the last place you’d expect someone to go nuts with a chainsaw. Now, this: Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston sends along an item posted…
The case involving the citywide sale of beer and wine, which voters approved in November, is set for trial September 12. Could be a short trial, could be a long trial, could be no trial at all; a hearing’s set for this Friday in front of Judge Laurine Blake of…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park tipped us to this Dangerous Minds interview with Freya Bardell, one of the principals in Los Angeles-based eco-art collective Greenmeme. For the past six years, Bardell and Brian Howe have been dropping into the Los Angeles River art installations known as River…
Your Texas Rangers are a long way off from clinching the American League West — magic number’s still a whopping 25 after the Mariners’ 5-3 win over the Angels last night. That said, John Blake sends word this afternoon: If you’re interested in scoring ducats for “potential Rangers 2011 Postseason…
With an offensive line featuring two rookies and an undrafted free agent, not difficult to see the Cowboys in a transition — if not a rebuilding — season in 2011. Gone from last year’s underachieving team: Roy Williams, Marion Barber, Leonard Davis, Marc Colombo and now Andre Gurode. Next to go:…
Environmentalists will line up at the horseshoe at this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s gas drilling task force, scheduled, as always, for a 2 p.m. start time. This afternoon’s agenda includes seven presenters who will discuss the effects of drilling from perspectives ranging from hydroecological to financial, all with an…
First line of my Observer column from May 19: He’ll be here before you know it. Sooner than we all expected. He is Leonys Martin. And the future of Texas Rangers’ center field is now. Trying to remain calm. And I know Martin — though he’ll take the Rangers’ roster spot…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a batch of unhappy missives from Jane Bryant, the owner of 600 Elsbeth near the Bishop Arts District — a property that’s been the subject of years’ worth of litigation. Bryant’s particularly unhappy with my characterization of the property on Friday –…
Dallas Complete Streets Competition from Andrew Goodwin Brown on Vimeo.Absolutely, says Dallas filmmaker Andrew Goodwin Brown in the short you see above. It’s his entry in the 2011 Dallas Great Streets Visual Essay Contest, which City Hall sponsored in order to find out “what people like about streets in Dallas…
The Aggies are a joke. After a 15-year marriage, they want a divorce. Greener pastures they say, failing to camouflage their hissy-fit jealousy of Texas. Their long-time spouse, the Big 12 Conference, shrugs and begins courting other attractive partners. And now, almost three weeks after we’d all deemed the Aggies…
Looks like this is the last we’ll write of Chad Lacerte and his Dallas Watersports Complex, once slated to become a West Dallas destination on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority stepped in and drowned the deal last summer. Lacerte’s already said he’s taking his wakeboarding operation to…
Damn it. We got so caught up in the state Supremes’ pole tax ruling at the end of last week we missed the far bigger one staring at us from the top of Friday’s Opinions on Orders page: City of Dallas v. Keneth E. Albert et al., otherwise known as…
Ramona Trevino wiped her eyes as she stood at the microphone. She looked out at her audience, a crowd of 50 or so sweating on a narrow patch of grass up in Sherman. “For three years, I managed this Planned Parenthood,” she said. “There was a tugging in my heart,…
After this, I’ll let Pete handle whatever becomes of the Dallas Backyard Music Festival — since, ya know, it’s a music festival? But we begin on Unfair Park for a couple of reasons: It’s on the Park and Rec board’s agenda for its Thursday meeting, which is where I was…
Feed yards are glutted with the cattle of drought-stricken Texas ranchers forced to liquidate their herds, according to the most recent report from the USDA. Some 640,000 head were placed in feedlots in July, a staggering 56-percent increase from the same time last year. On a recent trip through counties…
Perhaps it’s been awhile since you’ve re-read Rick Perry’s book Fed Up, in which he chronicles, presumably choose-your-own-adventure style, the improbable rise of a D-student to the highest office in the only-land-that-matters. If it has, you may not recall Perry’s take on Social Security, which he called a “Ponzi Scheme”…
Best performance of the night, by far, was Chris Brown’s dancing melody which included him grooving to Nirvana and flipping and flying in the air on wires hooked to his back. Very cool. 9. Upon receiving a Moon Man trophy for Best New Artist, a dude named Tyler, The Creator’s…
On the other side’s freshly minted First Baptist Dallas trailer for Robert Jeffress’s upcoming sermon series, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” which begins on September 11. Sounds like a blockbuster — the thing’s very Jerry Bruckheimer. Says the doom-saying voiceover: “Economic chaos, moral relativism, terrorist threats, global turmoil — are we witnessing…
Earlier this month we outlined Lewisville-based Delcom Group’s $40-million breach of contract claim against the Dallas Independent School District, which was filed after the district suddenly and surreptitiously yanked its board-approved contract to give classrooms a high-tech makeover and went with second-place finisher Prime Systems out of Houston. Delcom alleges…
[jump] 5. David Buehler better get healthy. Fast. Not only did Dan Bailey make field goals of 37 and 41 yards against the Vikings, veteran Shayne Graham made a 38-yarder and sent three of his six kickoffs into the end zone. And, remember, 2009 Lou Groza Award winner Kai Forbath should…
At this late date you should have a pretty good idea in which city council district you’ll be in, should the map going to council next month wind up as the one officially adopted. And when it comes to redistricting, well, it’s left the Dallas Independent School District one trustee…
10. Love ESPN’s on-screen strike zone and other unique camera angles and, for the most part, I dig Bobby Valentine’s analysis. But when he says a change-up low and away will get David Murphy out “every single at-bat” it’s just makes him sound silly. 9. Down 4-1 and facing Jered…
