That’s the question answered by this briefing that’s been prepared for the city council’s Economic Development Committee on Tuesday morning. The short answer: The 2010 NBA All-Star Game is expected to generate about $2.49 million in tax revenue for the city. But keep in mind, should the council give its…
A little more than 24 hours after a jury found Don and Sheila Hill guilty on a total of 12 counts in the City Hall corruption case, the two sat down with me for a lengthy interview at the offices of Baker Botts on the 11th floor of Trammell Crow…
In all the coverage of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s opening this week (and, remember, there’s a free open house Sunday), I’d yet to see anything showing just how the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre interior morphs from intimate to epic, its key selling point. Then I stumbled across this…
Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the day Dallas Police Lt. Carlton Marshall took a bullet in his neck during a narcotics raid in Oak Cliff. Extreme spinal damage, hearing loss and a stroke still limit Marshall’s mobility. To make matters worse, shortly after Marshall’s injury, his daughter began suffering…
During a last-minute hearing this afternoon, a judge ordered that data seized from Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes’s office computer be returned — only, not to Cortes, as his lawyers, Larry Friedman and Domingo Garcia, had demanded, but to the court, where it will remain under seal until an upcoming…
… P.M. Summer has the perfect shirt for you.That’s it at right — “just in time for Xmas 2009,” he notes on his blog today, though they are by special-order only. Summer, who was Dallas’s bike coordinator, is among those who don’t think Dallas needs cyclist-only lanes — hence, perhaps,…
Can’t say we didn’t warn you: Back in May we offered up the heads-up that the city was giving away money to folks who could prove they really, really loved their neighborhood and just needed a few thou to take care of some pet projects. Turns out, 30 groups applied…
What Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants, he usually gets. (Other than, obviously, a playoff win over the last 13 years.) And what Jerry has his eye on – long-term – is Texas-OU. The game – tomorrow’s kickoff is a ridiulously early 11 a.m. – is married to Dallas and the Cotton…
In case you missed it, on Tuesday Tawnell Hobbs published Dallas Independent School District trustee Jack Lowe’s list of things he’s looking for in an “ideal” trustee. Among his bullet points: “Supports our vision of being the best urban school district in the country.” Fantastic. “Makes courageous decisions for the…
Friend of the show Justin Terveen’s doing some weekend work for Unfair Park; should have it ready to go Monday, fingers crossed. Till then, then, this inspirational triptych taken yesterday on the northbound Red Line near the Park Lane station…
That is, unless you have business with former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who, in his position as U.S. Trade Representative, will be holed up at the hotel Monday talking North American Free Trade Agreement. But, as Kirk cautioned in April, don’t count on anyone “reopening” NAFTA any time soon. So,…
Bob Mackie — or the “Sultan of Sequins,” as Tim Gunn so flamboyantly introduced him — was the designer judge and the inspiration for this week’s challenge on Project Runway. Master of Madonna’s sparkling bodice, Diana Ross’s sequined head and hips and Cher’s tinseled titties, Mackie is the go-to guy…
The jaunty pick-me-up “Dallas Rag” by the Dallas String Band appears on a number of compilations, among them the easy-to-find Texas Black Country Dance Music (1927-1935) and Before the Blues Vol. 2 and the hard-to-get American Pop: An Audio History – From Minstrel To Mojo: On Record, 1893-1946. By most…
As the new AT&T Performing Arts Center’s grand opening week continues, architects behind the Wyly Theatre, Winspear Opera House and Sammons Park were on hand Thursday morning to answer reporters’ questions about how the designs all came together, and what it all means.Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus were both on…
I see the Texas Rangers can’t afford to refund True Believers’ playoff-ticket money till November at best — klassy! But good news, Rangers fans: Reuters reports today that the three parties interested in taking the team off Tom Hicks’s debt-heavy hands are due to meet with management as soon as…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas just sent word that the organization, in coordination with a U.N.-affiliated advocacy group called United Sikhs, sent out a letter warning Texas school districts — including DISD — to protect Sikh students from discrimination or bullying. The missive is after the jump. The…
Long, boring story short: I was on Getty Images looking for something completely unrelated when I came across this — a photo of Luke, Andrew and Owen Wilson at the Zombieland premiere in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. Can’t remember the last time I saw all three in…
Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall sends word for those heading to the Red River Shootout on Saturday: Take the Green Line or at least park on Fair Park property, where spots are $10. But if you insist on parking off-site, in one of the privately owned lots where spots…
On Tuesday, DMN’er Gromer Jeffers reported on one of the paper’s 423 blogs (apparently they have one named after the Portland Trail Blazers) that Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman (and the target of the plot to blow up Fountain Place, according to one fine journalist) will not challenge…
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow – inexplicably – it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated national computer ranking,…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word of a most historic property for sale not far from Unfair Park HQ: 3206 Knight Street, yours for the low, low price of $399,999. Notice the year built: 1874. Which happens to coincide with the construction of the first home of Oak…
Speaking of Southwest Airlines …The Love Field-based carrier reported this morning a $16-million third-quarter loss, which, given the current state of the aviation industry, Southwest is treating like a big victory. Hence, CEO and president Gary Kelly sunny(ish) disposition on Fox Business this morning. And a Friend of Unfair Park…
