On Friday we spoke with Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, about why the city council will on Wednesday more than likely approve a $235,000 economic development grant for a film and television production studio in a S. Lamar warehouse owned by Jack Matthews. Long story short: Burklund…
It’s always fun to play around with Dallas County’s elections website after a race. Above, for instance, you get a look at which parts of town went Rawlings and which went Kunkle. More fun (and dispiriting): the precinct-by-precinct breakdowns. Lotta zeroes and single digits on there…
So what do you give the man who — all the sudden — has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he’s never met. After getting serenaded with “Happy Birthday” by a post-parade American Airlines Center crowd…
First off, to the Friend of Unfair Park who noted yesterday that Paula Blackmon would be named mayor-elect Mike Rawlings’s chief of staff today, kudos. That’s indeed correct, says City Hall: Former Mayor Tom Leppert’s deputy chief of staff, who took a gig as University of North Texas at Dallas’s…
When we last left our Rangers they and pitcher Derek Holland were clubbed around in New York by the Yankees. Not, no last Wednesday. Way back on April 16.It was hours after the Rangers’ 5-2 loss in the Bronx that Saturday afternoon that the Mavericks rallied in the last six minutes…
Twice now, following a weekend excursion to the scenic, dancing-watered parkingscape known as Lake Highlands Town Center, we’ve checked in on the city’s efforts to back-on-track that stalled-out mixed-use development. Good timing: At 9:30 this morning Office of Economic Development director Karl Zavitkovsky will spent about half an hour briefing…
Shortly after 11:30 last night, not long after an infinitesimally small amount of Dallasites elected a new mayor, the calls and email began pouring in, all saying more or less the same thing: Chaos has erupted at the Electric Daisy Carnival dance-fest at Fair Park; dozens of ambulances on the…
Mike Rawlings is the new mayor of the city of Dallas, besting David Kunkle by some 7,000 votes: 30,487 to 23,853 with all but a few precincts having reported in. Anna Merlan, one of crack newcomers, is at the Meddlesome Moth. She files this:Rawlings said he just got off the…
David Kunkle’s once again at the San Francisco Rose watching election returns he’d probably like to return right now, given Mike Rawlings’s commanding lead at the moment: 26,427 to 19,856. That said, the former Dallas Police chief isn’t ready to give up just yet: “You fight the good fight, you…
I’m killing time at this point … and this bottle of Old Fitzgerald. And while we wait for the county to update its election totals, I’m reading tomorrow’s New York Times, which is full of local-interest stories — more than our own daily, probably. Like this nice piece about Dallas…
Dallas County’s just posted early-voting results — and, as was the case on May 14, Mike Rawlings snagged a huge slice of vote. Which is to say, of the 24,818 early ballots dropped in the box, the one-time Homeless Czar got 59.17 percent (or 14,685). Which leaves former Dallas Police…
We’re, what, nine whole minute away from our first look at early-voting results … like anyone cares. I spoke with Toni Pippins-Poole, Interim Dallas County Elections Administrator, earlier this afternoon, and she described the action at the polls as “so, so, slow — about what we expected.” Which is to…
Twice now we’ve been fortunate enough to discover photos from the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park being disposed of on eBay by the Tribune Company. Now there’s a third stack of old Baltimore Sun photos consisting of four shots, each one a nighttime look-see both iconic and essential…
‘Round this time last year Al Lipscomb was hospitalized at Methodist following a fall that resulted in a broken leg; Gromer Jeffers wrote that the former council member wasn’t “doing so well these days.” Which was a far cry from just two years ago, when Sam ran into him at…
“I think I’ll be playing only bowling alleys from here on out. There’s something to it. I have to admit, I had a little trepidation when the guy said, ‘Oh, it’s a bowling alley.’ I was a little nervous.”That was Bruce Springsteen on January 26, 1996, sitting on the stage…
This just in from the Associated Press: “Key advisers to Texas Gov. Rick Perry are beginning to lay the groundwork for a campaign for Iowa’s leadoff GOP presidential caucuses in case the Republican decides to seek the 2012 nomination.” And, this just in from Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office: He’s…
And here I thought most Friends of Unfair Park were spent from yesterday’s festivities. Apparently not: Several have suggested we post the YouPlusDallas recap from the Mavs’ downtown parade and post-game festivities at the American Airlines Center — and who am I to argue, given that Jun Kang and Justin…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on whether or not to give Jack Matthews’s CCH Lamar Partners that $235,000 economic development grant needed to help finish out a film and television production facility on S. Lamar. (It’s Item No. 98 on the agenda.) As you’ll recall, there was…
On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, then 27 years old, was working behind the cash register of a Texaco station in Pleasant Grove when a man wearing a bandanna, sunglasses and a baseball cap walked into the station holding a gun.Bhuiyan, a slight, soft-spoken man with big eyes and a thatch…
“Complete Streets” is a catchphrase that’s been rolling ’round Dallas City Hall since at least October 2009, when the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee was first introduced to the concept . Now, there’s a website: Dallas Complete Streets, which explains right there in the intro:In the past, Dallas’ streets were…
You probably remember this: End of the day Tuesday we posted that video shot during the wee small hours of the morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in which West Coast photographers Joe Ayala and Larry Chen are having a cute, no-harm-no-foul home-alone moment at an American Airlines check-in desk,…
Above is a video just posted by the Dallas Police Department in which two men smash-n-grab the Brook Mays on John Carpenter, stealing as many instruments as they can get their mitts on in the wee small hours of June 7. But it’s a two-parter: A few hours later they’re…
