View Larger MapEarlier this month, Alexa was in West Dallas for the tearing-down of several problematic properties courtesy nonprofits promising safe, affordable housing in coming months. Among those in attendance was Mayor Tom Leppert, who said, “We are very interested in rebuilding and revitalizing [West Dallas]. This investment is going…
If you liked Live 105.3 FM, chances are your affection is growing for Rational Radio KMNY 1360 AM. No, Russ Martin isn’t resurfacing just yet. Awaiting his July trial, he’s wisely biting his lip and cashing his checks. But just a month after Live-ex Richard Hunter debuted on 1360 AM comes…
Four years ago, the Dallas City Council authorized the so-called “Alternative 3B” as the locally preferred alignment for the Trinity Parkway. (It was resolution 05-1210 — you can look it up.) But that was then. Today, the council’s Trinity River Committee will meet at City Hall, where members will be…
“Provide year-round midway features: ferris wheel, carousel, roller coaster, sky ride and observation tower.” So says Page 22 of 2003’s Fair Park Comprehensive Plan, which offered myriad suggestions for turning Fair Park into a year-round attraction rather than the ghost town it becomes during those 49 or so weeks out…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins certainly likes to make an entrance, which isn’t hard to do when you’re 6-foot-5, star of a nationally broadcast reality mini-series, a recent guest on The View and the subject of countless gushing profiles for your office’s work in helping to free the wrongfully…
Just last Thursday, Dallas Morning News City Hall co-reporter Dave Levinthal said his official adios: Sooner than later, he wrote, he’d be leaving Dallas for Washington, D.C., where his fiancée is taking a position at the National Institute of Health. “No good-byes, thank-yous or anything of the sort now,” Dave…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley was way out and very about Saturday at the Hot Rods and Heels shindig in Deep Ellum. For those unable to make it, he has returned with a slide show. A very, very intriguing slide show…
I get that Gary Catwright believes his generation of sportswriters is the best that ever was. Believe me, I get it. I even agree. I grew up reading Blackie Sherrod’s transcendant scattershootings in the Dallas Times Herald and while at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram I penned praise pieces on Dan…
CBS won’t officially announce its fall lineup till Wednesday, but today word came down that it’s given the green light to at least one new comedy: Accidentally on Purpose, starring Jenna Elfman as … lesse here .. a “a San Francisco movie critic who finds herself accidentally pregnant after a…
But two months ago, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm told Unfair Park she was “looking for quarters in the couch” in order to cover the estimated $100-million budget deficit. Won’t be nearly enough. She and the Dallas City Council will go over the ugly why’s and what-to-do’s Wednesday, during yet…
Was watching the Orlando Magic dethrone the Boston Celtics last night and it re-dawned on me that the Mavericks need a savvy, veteran player who can create – and make – his own shot. Who’s not afraid to initiate a physical confrontation. Who’s fearless. A player like the Magic’s Hedo…
In about an hour, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle will go before the city council’s Public Safety Committee to present the city’s latest crime statistics, at least as counted through the end of April. This sneak peek, for those who can’t read be bothered to read the whole four pages…
Just last October, KXAS-Channel 5 was congratulating anchor Mike Snyder for 25 years of service: “Mike has changed very little over the years, and is still dedicated and committed to his journalistic craft.” But last night, Ed Bark noted that Snyder may be on his way out of the 10…
Three months ago, I spoke with Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, about the enormous pile of cash Curtis Lockey wants from the city in order to redo the old LTV Tower — about $76 million from the Downtown Connection Tax Increment Financing District for a…
On this glorious morning of May 18, 2009, I hereby pronounce that your Texas Rangers are champions legit magical contenders. Look, I’ve been a Rangers fan since I witnessed Frank Howard whistle a homer out to center in old Arlington Stadium back in April of 1972. Like you, I’m happy and…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked when we’re going to address Saturday’s Dallas Morning News story about a letter from the city of Dallas to the Texas Attorney General’s Office in which it’s suggested that there is, in fact, a draft of HVS’s convention center hotel financial feasibility study…
Since becoming mayor less than two years ago, few have enjoyed the success of Tom Leppert. First a key victory in the Trinity River toll road campaign, then two more big wins last week after defeating two charter amendments, and now his very own commemorative ceramic tile. Even though we’re…
Fort Worth-born horn player Jim Price is usually a footnote in most Rolling Stones histories; his contributions to the canon — he appears on Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup — seldom merit mention, save as a sideman to sideman Bobby Keys, the Slaton, Texas, native…
Tried to listen to The Ticket’s “Great Game” last night, but … no, unh-unh. (Though it sure did sound like a great game — from 16-1 to 20-20, awesome.) But, fortunately, Patrick Michels did stop by Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark just long enough to grab yet another installment of Awkward…
According to its Web site, Apogee Software “is considered the founder and father of the local Dallas-area game development community,” but it’s no more. The PC shareware developer’s been dead all of a week now, some 12 years after Apogee’s 3D Realms announced development of a video game, Duke Nukem…
The paper version of Unfair Park this week features the story of Ron White, the 2009 U.S.A. Memory Champion, who lives in Euless.To help document his quest to prove that everyone — even a college dropout — can not only accomplish daunting mental feats but literally do anything they put…
Friend of the show Don Johnson, who maintains East Texas Photo, happened by Reunion Arena yesterday, where the demolition’s in full swing. And he snapped a handful of terrific photos that he’s posted to his Flickr page. But this one in particular stands out — “Reunion Inside-Out,” Don calls it…
