In the high-ceilinged shadows of the old Pump House at White Rock Lake, Bud Melton clicks through PowerPoint slides of apartment complexes, shopping malls, even public schools. Underneath them, he explains, is a crisscrossed network of the creeks and streams that used to be part of Dallas’s landscape, long before…
We’ll return to weightier issues in a moment — ba-dum-dum — but, for a moment, this respite from hotel talk and DISD chatter. Vanity Fair’s been gracious enough to post the entirety of its Jessica Simpson June cover story, due to his stands shortly. It’s quite the breathless read that…
George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation Mark Langdale won’t tell Time how much the ex-president’s raised for his SMU library — or who’s given to the cause of reshaping his legacy. But the magazine this morning notes that sources close to Bush are reporting he’s done pocketed $100 million since…
Last week, the Texas Attorney General’s Office offered its opinion that the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees “was not authorized to change the length of its members’ terms of office” from three to four years last November. Which has prompted a called board meeting at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow,…
Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter ’09 results — and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 million, some of…
Mike Fisher – DallasBasketball.com With his team trailing only 90-82 and eight minutes remaining in Sunday’s Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks’ point guard Jason Kidd sailed a cross-court pass for … nobody? Lisa Salters? John Elway? Who knows? The ball whistled past Ryan Hollins and…
A break in the storm Saturday night drew a crowd of about a dozen gawkers — Unfair Park among them — alongside the network TV vans for a look at what remained of the Cowboys’ training bubble.WFAA’s Arnold Payne captured this chilling video of the collapse from inside, but by…
As folks go to the polls to vote yea or nay on Propositions 1 and 2, we thought it might be instructional to ask folks who might not necessarily deposit comments on blogs how much they know — and care — about the issues on the ballot. This week, Patrick…
In my inbox this morning, I received an e-mail from the Vote No! group, who are packaging Proposition 1 and 2 together. For those needing clarification, Proposition 1 will approve a charter amendment prohibiting the city from “owning, financing, constructing, or operating a hotel or other lodging facility,” and Proposition…
Fashion designer Tim Gunn — of Project Runway super-fame — has a new book out, and to honor the occasion he dropped by the Kate Spade New York shop in the Galleria last night. It was the man’s second stop in Dallas in as many days, after his visit to…
Last December, we received word that come November ’09, the Dallas Convention Center would play host for three days to a mammoth video-game expo — the Southwest Video Game Expo, to be precise, which promised to fill more than 200,000 square feet of exhibit hall space with all manner of…
By now, perhaps you’ve heard that earlier this week, Addison-based American Community Newspapers –publisher of the Plano Star Courier, the McKinney Courier-Gazette and the Frisco Enterprise among dozens of papers scattered across four states — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said there would be “no change in…
Quite the shocker to pull up Courthouse News and see a big ol’ Texas Rangers logo. Then again, when Daddy needs his money, Daddy needs his money, and he’ll go to Tarrant County District Court to get it. Because, according to the complaint filed yesterday, Dallas-based Highland Capital Lending owes…
Best. House Energy and Commerce Committee Meeting. Ever. From this morning in D.C.: “The Bowl Championship Series: Money and Other Issues of Fairness for Publicly Financed Universities.” Smokey Joe Barton of Arlington wants to ditch the BCS and go to a college-football playoff system, and he’s got the legislation to…
“Bummer.” That’s how Dallas Independent School District board trustee Edwin Flores initially responded yesterday when Unfair Park asked for comment concerning the Texas Attorney General’s opinion yesterday that the board “was not authorized to change the length of its members’ terms of office” from three to four years last November…
I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this, but I have a feeling we’re all about to get really pissed. Watching the most athletic – and by far the most animated and arrogant – team in the NBA knock the Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs could be very painful. Get out your hate…
Used to be a time when procuring a real Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper meant hoping that case of bottles you ordered from Dublin arrived mostly intact; though, years ago, my old man bought a few cases of the 12-ounce cans from a guy in a parking lot on…
GlobeSt.com notes that Dallas-based 7-Eleven is making a list of stores and checking it twice to see whether it’s paying too much for leases in some locations. Everyone’s doing it — trying to get a break on rent in these tough times, looking for a little landlord love just to…
For weeks at the end of 2008, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger insisted the DISD board of trustees’ decision to extend its term limits from three to four years was illegal. She posted to her blog items in which she wrote that the decision to do so “was…
Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a “Future Connect leadership development conference” on May 4-6, followed by a “MARKETECHNICS® technology event” May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at…
The kind folks at SpikeTV have passed along this sneak peek at Michael Irvin’s Fourth and Long, his limited-run series featuring a bunch of washed-out Dallas Cowboys wanna-bes set to debut on The Dude Network next month. The series was shot earlier this year at the Cotton Bowl and features…
Regardless the outcome of this afternoon’s pitching duel between Vicente Padilla and Bobby Bragan, it’s already – I’m sorry, I’m being told the Oakland pitcher is actually Dallas Braden – a successful April for the Texas Rangers. Not only has Texas not had any players succumb to the international flu…
