As we’re well aware of the Friends of Unfair Park’s thoughts on parking in downtown Dallas, we attended yesterday’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, drawn like moths to the Downtown Dallas Parking Strategic Plan presentation on the agenda. And Chris Beynon, the familiar face of MIG and…
From time to time we’ll name-drop L.M. Kit Carson, perhaps the most influential local-born filmmaker, with good reason: The Irving-born actor (Running on Empty, great on Miami Vice) and writer (Paris, Texas with Sam Shepard; that Breathless remake) was co-founder of the USA Film Festival, feted at the first Deep…
Steve Brown tips us to the story, but not the site: Newmark Knight Frank’s sprawling online ad for the Superconducting Super Collider down in Ellis County, just outside Waxahachie, where the feds sunk $800 million into a project that’s been kaput since ’93. Can’t be going for more than $6.5…
A little more than two years ago, Angela Hunt gave to The Dallas Morning News what she called the Trinity River Corridor Project Plan B, which called for, among other things, ditching the toll road, hopping on Project Pegasus, straightening out Dead Man’s Curve, fixing the levees and planting between…
Got an email earlier today from Chad Sour, who’s taking over Woodall Rodgers Deck Park duties for our old pal Joanna Singleton, who’s about to take a maternity leave (and mazel tov, incidentally). Anyway. Sour’s note was a bit of an inside-baseball update about two new hirings related to programming-slash-special…
Oh, right — there’s a runoff Saturday, or did you already forget? Apparently you did: Toni Pippins-Poole, Interim Dallas County Elections Administrator, tells Unfair Park this afternoon that as of Sunday, 15,451 people have cast their ballots in early voting — well shy of the 16,644 who’s voted during the…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has The Response. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has The Resolution. Here’s the press release declaring Your Dallas Mavericks and the rest of us “Honorary Ohioans” tomorrow. And here’s the signed doc, suitable for framing…
We had a photographer out at Love Field, where fans met the 2011 National Basketball Association Champion Dallas Mavericks; a slide show, of course, is forthcomingright here. But one good Friend of Unfair Park was out at the airport and moments ago sent this shot, along with this note: “Cuban…
Here, as promised, is the final “mini-movie” from the 2011 NBA Finals, which was just posted by The Association. Near the beginning you will find Ro Blackman, one “Mavericks legend” discussing another — the Mavericks legend now, the German Moses who led his people into the Promised Land. For such…
Jim and I’ve spilled a lot of virtual ink in recent months writing about Robert Groden’s legal battles with the city of Dallas over his selling JFK assassination-conspiracy wares in Dealey Plaza — specifically, beneath one of the pergolas beneath which the Oliver Stone adviser has long set up shop…
Mark Cuban was fuming. His team had just blown a 23-point lead in a Game 4 loss to Portland in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Mavericks were two losses from another early-round exit, the likely firing of head coach Rick Carlisle and yet another in a seemingly…
The Mavericks — those soft lil’ Mav-wrecks — were headed onto their bus and into the Miami night toward South Beach for an unprecedented night of partying with 100 bottles of Rose at famed night club LIV. More important, the Mavericks were headed into a future as NBA champs. “The best thing…
Sure, you’re satisfied this morning — you just woke up in a city planning for a championship parade, dang it. But how ’bout the rest of the year? Reason I ask: On Wednesday the city council will get a look at the 2011 Community Survey, where, long story short, the…
We’ve long wondered, including just last month, why the city can’t (won’t?) unload its old libraries and other so-called surplus properties, and time after time City Manager Mary Suhm has said: The market’s just not right. But in just a few minutes, the council’s Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee will…
Dallas, it would seem, has a new America’s Team this morning, and so we’ll get to the “news” in a moment. First, though, two Association videos — sneak peeks at the “mini-movie” to come later this afternoon. On this side, Dirk Nowtizki, who “slew the fire-breathing demon of unfulfilled expectations”;…
Only took an hour to get from Oak Cliff to Northwest Dallas tonight. Never shoulda taken Commerce, which, when it reached downtown, was blocked off by Dallas Police, causing an endless stream of brake lights between Commerce and Continental. No matter: The traffic turned into a standstill parade soundtracked by…
10. You knew it was going to be an intense game … even before the game. During shootaround at American Airlines Arena this afternoon neither Dwyane Wade nor LeBron James would respond to Dirk Nowitzki calling their mocking video “childish” and “ignorant.” Their response: “We have no comment.” Before the…
Happened to be down in Victory Park for drinksa meeting during Game 2 of The Finals. Got there well before tip-off, and a small line was already beginning to snake around the American Airlines Center; folks were also starting to congregate in the plaza. By the time we left midway…
As promised, last night the city council received a new FY2011-12 budget update in advance of Wednesday’s briefing, the last before summer break. And on the surface, it looks like better news: The $59.3-million shortfall City Manager Mary Suhm predicted in mid-May is now closer to $32.2 million, according to…
Far as I’m concerned, there’s never been a bad Squeeze record. Sure, some are better than others — that five-record run from the eponymous debut to Sweets From a Stranger is almost unparalleled in modern pop. But Babylon and On did provide The Big Hit (“Hourglass”), while Play has some…
If you care at all about the fate of the Dallas Independent School District, carve out an hour over the weekend. Then, jump to the other side of this item, where I’ve posted the entirety of the school board budget discussion to which I referred yesterday (down below too). Now,…
Only yesterday I watched as my son’s school’s librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trustees who agreed were told: Fine, but we’ll have to fire 42 teachers to make room. Trustees who disagreed insisted: Why do we…
