Back in April, the Dallas City Council agreed to spend $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute could “assess redevelopment options” at Southwest Center Mall, formerly known as Red Bird. Only Mitchell Rasansky opposed the expenditure — the now-former council member didn’t like the idea of…
And, in international headlines this morning, Dirk Nowitzki wants to play with the German national team in the EuroBasket2009 tourney in Poland, which runs September 7-20. At least, if I read my Babel Fish translation correctly: “I believe already that it tingles/swarms.” He needs to get that checked. Oh, my…
Must be love this morning, as two Friends of Unfair Park who more often than not vote “D” sent along this link to the new issue of The Texas Observer (unrelated), in which the staff ranks “The People’s Friends and Foes” coming out of the 81st Legislature. And topping the…
After this morning’s city council inauguration, Angela Hunt celebrated her third term with a lunch at the Stoneleigh Hotel, where approximately 100 invited guests watched her open a copy of today’s Dallas Morning News. She read from Dave Levinthal’s article about the council members’ voting habits, and the crowd applauded…
Every so often, just for grins, I check out the auctions at Lone Star Online, which the city of Dallas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the Dallas Independent School District and other municipalities use to move surplus merch. Only, turns out the city of Dallas isn’t offloading flat-tire forklifts or Reunion…
Saturday afternoon, friend of the show Danny Hurley sent word that they were offering quite the Father’s Day gift out at Addison Airport — flights on a B-24 Liberator, where everyone calls shotgun. (Pretty cool too, as only two Liberators are still flying). Danny wanted to go out and shoot…
News today that 105.3 The Fan has said goodbye to weekday 9 a.m.-Noon hosts Kevin Scott and Greg Hill. More changes could be in the offing. Developing …..
Update: Check out more photos in this slide show.Not far from a downtown courtroom filled with memories of a time when cash allegedly flowed more freely through City Hall, Mayor Tom Leppert officially welcomed aboard two new City Council members with a promise to work together to do more with…
This weekend marked a quiet little victory for East Dallas: the opening of a section of raised street crossings on the Santa Fe Trail, from South Carroll Avenue southwest to Hill Avenue, which means cyclists can now ride from Woodrow Wilson High School all the way — well, almost all…
Turns out, after months of trying to come up with some solution for Deep Ellum and downtown’s parking-lot boot boom, the Dallas City Council’s ready to vote on the issue after all. A proposed amendment to Chapter 48C of the Dallas City Code has been added to this week’s council…
Dave Cook, the city’s chief financial officer, revealed at Wednesday’s city council budget briefing that more than 700 layoffs included in City Manager Mary Suhm’s cost-cutting recommendations would begin sometime in August. Yet the affected employees’ jobs are intact until the council votes September 23 on a final budget. “We’re…
Back in June 2007, a Dallas man named Bruce Kahn agreed to buy perhaps the most famous brothel in the world — the Chicken Ranch, ’bout 60 miles outside of Las Vegas — for a reported $15.2 million. But Nye County, Nevada, officials denied his application — said he didn’t…
This morning, a Very Special Unfair Park Correspondent — which is to say, Herschel Wilonsky, my dad — found himself in U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom for Don Hill’s contempt of court proceedings. Lynn didn’t rule this morning, except to say last night’s prayer vigil didn’t violate her initial…
‘Round 3 yesterday, one of my oldest friends called from Dallas Love Field with the breaking news: The airport was shut down, no one allowed in our out — including my friend, who’d put his son on a Southwest flight bound for Corpus Christi mere moments before Dallas police descended…
This is a cruel joke. Texas Rangers fans who for decades have yearned for pitching are finally getting it, only to see their woody go limp when they finally need it. Something I thought I’d never type: The Rangers can’t pitch hit. Spent Father’s Day plopped on the couch not believing my…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s public corruption case finally heads into an Earle Cabell Federal Building courtroom tomorrow morning, shortly before the Dallas City Council is sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center one mile away. But tonight, just outside the building on Commerce Street downtown,…
Family obligations kept me away from the official groundbreaking at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, about which we first told you in early May. But something tells me the shindig, attended by Mayor Tom Leppert, will be well documented. Jeff Liles’s TheKessler2010 YouTube page features, for now, this delightful…
Back when we posted our pics from the debut of the MonstoTron in Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, a few Friends of Unfair Park wondered if that sucker could be used for gaming purposes. Turns out, why, yes. Very much so, as evidenced by the photos taken by Jonas Brothers video director…
While on PACER this morning, I came across a lawsuit against the Dallas Independent School District about which not one word has been written: 55-year-old Lilia Gutierrez, a former principal at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, is suing the district, claiming, among other things, that she was wrongfully demoted in…
So, the city still hasn’t figured out the whole to-boot-or-not-to-boot parking-lot problem — but, look, it’s only been an issue since January, and, well, what do you expect? If nothing else, the briefing docs get thicker and thicker — here’s the 50-page package prepared for this week’s Economic Development Committee…
A Friend of Unfair Park points out that I’m not the only one collecting Re:Vision Dallas cast-offs. So too is the ArchDaily blog, which, earlier this week, posted PIKL Studio’s Commonwealth development for that block behind Dallas City Hall, where Central Dallas Community Development Corporation’s exec director, John Greenan, and…
In December 2003, the city of Dallas issued a request for proposals to build a convention center hotel after former Mayor Laura Miller and her husband, former state Rep. Steve Wolens, months earlier helped pass legislation creating 10 years’ worth of tax rebates for hotels built within 1,000 feet of…
