The sprawling Casa Verde apartment complex doesn’t look like anything much. It’s a weathered collection of green buildings behind a long black fence that runs along a cracked street. Located on Fair Oaks, not far from Greenville and Park, it’s tucked behind Today’s Discount Food Mart, a taqueria and a…
KBR, Inc., the massive and controversial Houston-based wartime contractor that has landed billions in military contracts for erecting base camps and supplying fuel for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will have to convince a federal judge in Dallas that race and religion had nothing to do with the firing…
This morning, KDFW ran a piece on Dallas Police Officer Andrew Litz, a 30-year-old assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division who came this close recently to having his utilities cut off. The reason: Litz hasn’t been able to work for weeks, and, according to the department, he’s exhausted all of…
Back when Dallas was on the air, the series barely shot in Dallas — maybe two months out of the season, tops, which was “crazy-making,” as Linda Gray told Unfair Park back in April. That said, an old friend did have his folks’ house used in a few episodes –…
Three years back Realtor Jeff Duffy wondered how in the hell could the Dallas Country Club, more than 100 acres nestled within Highland Park, be worth a mere $10 million according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District: “Do country clubs fall under the church and school categories when it comes…
You like golf. But not for five hours in 100-degree heat while paying $50. Oh yeah, and you like Skeeball. And bowling, right? Then I’ve got your solution. TopGolf, which now has two locations, one in Dallas and the newest one in Allen. I beat the heat Saturday afternoon at TopGolf in…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.Surely you didn’t think you’d heard the last about the homeless sleeping in Main Street Garden …A few weeks after council member Angela Hunt tweeted about the “bums” in the downtown park, KXAS-Channel 5 sent its cameras to see what was what during the pre-dawn hours…
So the Rangers exploded for 12 runs Friday night thanks to Nelson Cruz’ eight RBI. On Saturday they authored a dramatic 9th-innning comeback, powered by three consecutive bunts and a walk-off hit by Michael Young. So surely Sunday night would provide some thrills. Some entertainment. Some drama. At least some runs? Nope. A game…
Day 132 of the NFL lockout is going to be the last. When the NFL Players Association’s 11-man executive committee formally agrees to accept the owners’ labor proposal this morning — around 10 a.m. — it will effectively end a boring, maddening off-season. As the league’s approximate 1,900 players show…
This morning, stock talk revolved not only ’round the stalled-out D.C. debt-ceiling discussions, but what might the Dallas Fed say when it released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, especially following last month’s not-such-good-news accounting. What analysts were particularly concerned about was the general business conditions piece of the fiscal puzzle:…
Prohibition, the latest doc from Ken Burns, doesn’t premiere on PBS till October 2. But if you’re hankerin’ for a sneak peek at the five-and-a-half-hour three-parter, which the The Civil Wars and Baseball maker directed with Lynn Novick, look no further than the Belo Mansion on August 17: The Dallas…
And speaking of redistricting …The Dallas Independent School District will begin holding hearings tonight during which the public will finally get a long, hard look at the draft maps on the table, courtesy San Antonio attorney Rolando Rios (who Carla Ranger initially didn’t want to hire) and the law firm…
Of all the books written about Dallas, it’s easily the one most often cited: Warren Leslie’s 1964 Dallas Public and Private, with a later edition underscoring its heretofore subtle subtitle “Aspects of an American City.” Subsequent histories-of — from Patricia Evridge Hill’s Dallas: The Making of a Modern City to…
In March we screened one of the greatest films made in or about Dallas, director Blaine Dunlap’s 1973 Sometimes I Run, about Stanley Maupin, who worked for the city’s Public Works Department flushing downtown’s streets in the wee small hours of the morning. Some Friends of Unfair Park said they’d…
So far on this apparently never-ending jaunt down Amnesia Lane we’ve visited the Bronco Bowl a handful of times, dropping in on the Clash, Squeeze, the Cure, the Replacements and Bruce Springsteen. But there are still myriad memories from the Fort Worth Ave. haunt I’d like to chase down, among…
A Friend of Unfair Park just gave me the heads-up: The three winners of that so-called “Power Art” competition, intended to create some kind of artistic cover-all for the Oncor substation at the western foot of the Calatrava, were quietly posted to the CityDesign Studio’s website this week. Mazel tovs…
The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday — I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwaine Caraway. Only, don’t expect the presentation — which will be made by…
We’ve known since June 30 — days after FBI agents raided the homes and offices of John Wiley Price and Kathy Nealy, among others — that the feds had also paid a visit to Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood HQ. As Haynes and Boone’s Barry McNeil told The News: “The FBI…
The State Board of Education met yesterday to debate which supplemental materials the state should use to update its outdated science textbooks. To make things easier, before the meeting, the board’s choices were narrowed down by allegedly reliable panels of stakeholders. But when it came to a biology panel making…
Back in April 2010, the Dallas Opera finally announced it had found someone to run the show: Keith Cerny, who was tasked with, among other things, finding contributors to the opera’s endowment during the $10-million matching grant challenge that expires on Halloween of this year. He also told Patrick that…
I’ve tried several times this morning to reach Michael Northrup, the attorney repping a coalition of neighborhood associations at yesterday’s City Plan Commission meeting where Madison Partners’ bowling alley concept was voted down 6-5. I’ll keep trying and post his thoughts separately. But I did manage to talk to Bill…
Attorney and Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston posts semi-regular pieces to FrontBurner under the header Law Man Walking, in which the nature-trekker documents his strolls through the heretofore oft-overlooked slices o’ heaven that remain in and around the city limits. And when Bill’s not penning those, he’s contributing to…
