Merten, my favorite Hobbit, is spending his morning at the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting just under way — lucky! And among the topics of conversation we haven’t already covered is the 450-foot-long Belleview Pedestrian Connector, which is supposed to connect the Cedars DART Station “with a…
In January 2008, Matt Pulle profiled Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller, the former Dallas County prosecutor and hamburger heiress who attracted national attention in September 2007 when she closed up shop and went home promptly at 5 p.m. even as condemned inmate Michael Richard’s attorneys were on…
Dallas school board trustee Ron Price made it official at 3:44 p.m. on January 30, when he turned into the City Secretary’s Office paperwork announcing that he’s running for Carolyn Davis’s District 7 seat on the Dallas City Council. (Ex-City Manager Richard Knight Jr., now in the waste disposal business,…
There has been no shortage of stories about John Bramblitt in recent years, as evidenced by the “news” page on the Denton artist’s Web site. Four years ago, Mika Ferris even made a documentary titled, simply, Bramblitt. After all, his is an extraordinary tale: The 37-year-old El Paso native and…
In the wake of A.H. Belo’s recent announcement that it’s laying off yet another 500 employees — no later than March 28 — the question is: How much money did The Dallas Morning News’s parent company make in 2008, the first year it operated as a spin-off of Belo Corp.?…
Well, that’s my idea anyway. And it’s a damn good one. Think about it. In this crappy economic climate even Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is having trouble luring a 9-figure naming-rights partner out to Arlington. So I say – just for the stadium’s first year, mind you – Jerry…
“Attention to detail delays Army Corps of Engineers, frustrates Trinity Parkway supporters.” The headline of Michael Lindenberger’s latest story on the Trinity Turnpike in The News serves as a powerful reminder of the fundamental difference between supporters and opponents of the toll road. The opposition views the U.S. Army Corps…
Out of nowhere today, Stephanie Hastings, spokesperson for Silver City Cabaret on Stemmons Freeway, called to talk about the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s decision to strip the strip club of its liquor license over the weekend. No doubt, she had but one goal in mind: to remind folks that despite…
As he took the podium before more than 100 fans and aspiring writers at the University of North Texas on Saturday, the author of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel was surprised by the turnout. “Wow,” said Guillermo Arriaga, surveying the packed room at UNT’s Gateway Center. “When they told…
At Wednesday’s Dallas City Council briefing, there will be yet another Budget Workshop — the fourth of many in advance of the September 23 due date for next fiscal year’s budget. In the doc prepared for the council, City Manager Mary Suhm describes the process of “Setting the ‘Price’ of…
ELVIS COSTELLO / RADIO, RADIOby Sunnychopper82A Friend of Unfair Park points our attention to Rochester Institute of Technology new-media professor Michael Saffran’s newly published study in which he reveals that Dallas residents are “largely dissatisfied” with the local radio. The study’s got a Fiona Apple-worthy title: Effects of Local-Market Radio…
There’s no breaking news alert. No arrest. Not even a police report. But late last month at The Lodge there was … something. And, surprise, it involved a Dallas Cowboy. This much we know, confirmed by two independent sources: This secondary-level Cowboy and a member of his entourage were asked to leave…
This Associated Press reports this morning that hospitals throughout the country are having trouble finding and keeping nurses. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty hospitals are having in transitioning nurses from the training to the actual doing. Let’s begin in a Dallas ER, shall we?Newly minted…
AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year’s AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits…
Larry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year’s 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set for April 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. As James notes, his…
Always a treat when Friend of Unfair Park PeterK deposits in the in-box a link to an eBay auction of a vintage Dallas photo. This morning’s opening bid is eight bucks for a “1931 Photo Roadside Hamburger Barbecue Stand Dallas Tex.” And, hunh, it looks so familiar too …..
You may wanna spend a few minutes this morning boning up on the Rail North Texas plan, which calls for 215 miles of new commuter rail track that would connect much of North Texas — from McKinney to Midlothian, Cleburne to Carrollton, Burleson to beyond. Only, who’ll pay for it?…
The family and I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon strolling the Automotive Building at Fair Park, picking through the hand-me-downs stuffed inside the hangar during the monthly Buchanan Market that wraps up at 5 p.m. today for those with free time on their Sunday schedule. As always, there’s…
Unfair Park today received a missive Angela Hunt sent on Wednesday to General Kenneth Cox, Colonel Christopher Martin and Ray Russo of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which the city council member expresses concern over Mayor Tom Leppert’s lobbying political officials and the Corps to “expedite its evaluation…
After months of flirting with 105.3 The Fan and coming this close to leaving the phenomenally successful station he almost single-handedly launched 15 years ago, Mike Rhyner tonight reached an 11th-hour contract agreement with Cumulus Media that will keep him at 1310 AM The Ticket for the foreseeable future. Multiple times…
Today was tryout day for the Dallas Desire — which, as we mentioned way back in October, is the local franchise in the new Lingerie Football League. And around 30 women turned up at Grand Prairie’s Quick Stop Park hoping to make the final cut — 12, all told. Over…
Late yesterday, as the world was celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, we spoke to, um, Charles Darwin — by which we mean the pastoral counselor and life coach with a practice in Dallas. Unfair Park wasn’t the first and won’t be the last to approach Darwin about the relationship between…
