One month ago, after a lengthy discussion, the Dallas City Council voted not to give a late-night specific use permit to a bowling alley being proposed for the old Lucky’s Roadhouse space, next to Good Records on Greenville Avenue. Pauline Medrano — who, with Angela Hunt, co-wrote the Planned Development…
The reason I called Park and Rec’s second-in-command Willis Winters the other day wasn’t about downtown parks. Rather, I was curious about an $869,465 item on the Park Board’s agenda for today: “Consider a professional services contract with Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects for schematic design through construction administration services…
On the eve of the final school board meeting of the year, I had a long talk with Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn, who expects tonight’s adios to 2011 will be a lengthy one: “We’ve got a long list of people who want to speak about the…
Listen up: The first thing Buzz noticed when we got our advance copy of Press 2 for English: Fix Immigration, Save America were numbers: “The direct after-tax costs illegal immigrants impost on the public coffers each year,” said press material accompanying the book, is $9.6 billion. The source cited for…
By the time the 2009 football season rolled around, the University of Minnesota hadn’t won a Big 10 title in 42 years. The Gophers had largely spent those decades serving as target practice for the league’s higher powers, but they weren’t without occasional bursts of second-string glory. That season Minnesota…
Just after that totally delightful discussion on the voting habits of trees, after which the city council OK’d a new Walmart, there came another momentous development matter: the West Dallas mixed-use project known as Sylvan Thirty, the one we’ve been writing about since, I dunno, forever-ish. The city council voted…
For eight years Youlanda Rochelle Wright worked for Radio Shack as a customer service rep in its Fort Worth call center. Day after day she fielded complaint after complaint about a defective this and a busted that and how do I return an oversized item and what do you mean…
Speaking of Dwaine Caraway …The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing — far from. It was quite the discussion — heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it was…
As blogs go, Unfair Park is a mostly safe, well-lit space, free of the black-hearted cynicism that infects so many other blogs. (Except when Rick Perry parts his lips.) (Oh, and when Schutze shows up.) (And Patrick! Can’t forget about Patrick.) (Anna and Brantley have a little darkness in their…
Since every Cowboys game is a Game 6 these days, it’s time to look to the 2012 baseball season, when Your Texas Rangers will celebrate 40 years in Arlington. And for those of us who’ve been going to games since first pitch at Arlington Stadium (thanks, Dad), today’s announcement is…
“Jesus didn’t want us to have a trial this close to his birthday,” Steven Phillips’s attorney, Tom McKenzie, said yesterday. He was joking, we’re pretty sure. His point: That the prospect of an ex-wife now 20 years divorced from Phillips cutting a slice out of the roughly $4 million paid…
Last night Dallas Area Rapid Transit sent word that its board of directors signed off on the design-build contract that’ll push the under-construction Orange Line the final 5.2 miles that’ll get it to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport’s Terminal A. Long story short: You’ll be able to light-rail it from DART to…
We’ve known for a long while now that the upcoming expansion of expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street to Live Oak Street, would create a new downtown park — Carpenter Plaza Park, to be specific, which will unite those three separate parcels into a…
This is not the first time Dwaine Caraway has stood up for Skyline High School. Three years ago, back when the Dallas ISD first toyed with tinkering with its magnets, the District Four council member — and Roosevelt grad — went to the board of trustees and demanded they keep…
Rob Mahoney runs The Two Man game, an ESPN-affiliated Mavericks blog, and occasionally writes about basketball for Unfair Park. Mark Cuban and Donnie Nelson have never exactly run the Mavericks like an ordinary NBA franchise. They built a team around a gangly German kid, and leaned on a bleached-blonde, seldom-used…
Been waiting all day for a call-back for an item I’ll post in the morning, regardless. So while we keep waiting, here’s this ultimate time-kill: My Morning Jacket taped last week at the Verizon Theatre. First MMJ show I’ve missed in a long while; those ’02 shows really did me…
I know — this whole tussle over “flow control” probably doesn’t do much for some of you. So long as your trash goes away, it doesn’t matter where it goes or who takes it there. Let the waste-haulers and City Hallers duke it out in the courtroom. Just make sure…
Former Mayor Tom Leppert may well need a Hail Mary come the March 6 GOP primary — if, that is, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst can maintain his frontrunner status in the race for the U.S. Senate. So, then, who better to lock up for an endorsement than Captain America himself?…
Way back last April, the energetic, civic-minded hipsters over at Better Block turned the area around King’s Highway, W. 7th St. and N. Tyler St. in Oak Cliff into a nice little plaza space where it was entirely possible to sit without being, you know, repeatedly run over. That was…
When Walmart made its big to-do back in February about opening “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas, including at least three new stores in Southern Dallas,” among the locations mentioned was a Neighborhood Market on S. Buckner and Scyene Road that would provide “that community…
It won’t get the buzz that landing Lamar Odom or Vince Carter will, but last night the Mavericks made what will easily be their most interesting move of this abridged off-season, signing guard Delonte West to a one-year deal. ESPN summed West up as “a tenacious defender,” which is a…
Council member Angela Hunt popped into the comments yesterday to express and explain her frustration with implementation of the city’s new Bike Plan, unanimously okee-doked by the city council in June. Because, as we’ve been discussing since Saturday morning, the plan isn’t really a plan — more like a suggestion,…
