Tomorrow the city council will discuss why Mary Suhm wants to keep all of Dallas’ trash and allowing the public a shot at redrawing the council districts’ boundaries. But not before it votes on two hot-button issues: food trucks and campaign signs on public property.The food truck issue’s already been…
For those who do not recall the story: In the wee small hours of August 12 of last year, 59-year-old Terry Glover’s Jeep Cherokee stalled out in the middle lane of South Polk near Camp Wisdom. Glover, who was on his way home after dropping off his godson, hit the…
Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James are the two best active NBA players without a ring. Jason Terry has a tattoo of the Larry O’Brien trophy on his right arm. Dwyane Wade is trying to depress Dallas. Again. Jason Kidd is the oldest point guard (38) in NBA Finals history. It’s revenge,…
A wishes-to-remain-anonymous Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my profound fondness for early Tom Waits sends warm wishes to one and all and this astounding holiday offering: Waits at Texas Hall on the University of Texas at Arlington campus on October 25, 1975. Which is why a bulk of…
I was just about to shut ‘er down for the holiday when two flashbacks popped up in the in-box worth sharing. First, courtesy Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, is this wonderful for-sale photo of the old Cliff Queen movie theater that once stood at 616 E. Jefferson Boulevard. As another…
Over the weekend, The Marietta Daily Journal pointed out that somewhere on the Cobb County School District’s website is an interview with Michael Hinojosa that’s supposed to be distributed district-wide on Wednesday. The chitchat, shot with Cobb County’s spokesman during the outgoing Dallas ISD super’s visit to Georgia last week,…
Late last night, the Startlegram’s Bud Kennedy took to Facebook to pass along state Sen. Wendy Davis’s heads-up that she was about to begin her filibuster intended to shut down (which is to say, temporarily delay) the vote that would have gutted public education. Said the Fort Worth Democrat and…
Yesterday, at 4 p.m. sharp, men wearing weight belts and camouflage pants lined up next to young families pushing baby strollers as nearly 400 people bearing backpacks, weights, logs and photos of loved ones set out along the 9.3 mile loop around the White Rock Lake. It was the kick-off…
Sorry to pee on your Memorial Day barbecue, but you gotta get mad one more time before we can get even. Revenge, after all, is best served … in South Beach. I know only Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry remain for the Mavericks and Udonis Haslem and Dwyane Wade remain…
Among the hodgepodge of videos to which we linked only yesterday are a handful of particular note today, as Texans mourn the death of Bill Clements — the 94-year-old Dallas native, two-time Texas governor, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford and chair of SMU’s board of governors…
Was listening to some new My Morning Jacket yesterday when up popped some old MMJ on the iPod — specifically, “One Big Holiday” from the band’s March 15, 2002, Rubber Gloves stopover. A month earlier the band had played Trees. They came through here a lot back then: Trees again…
Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find — a 42-clip collection consisting not only of…
For those playing along at home, this long-weekend’s offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we’ve time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in ’69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny Winter Sly and the Family Stone and others for the Texas International Pop Festival;…
Old trailers fill the lot in front of Gary Buckner’s West Dallas workshop. Two are almost completely gutted and ready for refurbishing, and one silver Airstream is nearly ready for the move-in of a fairly unlikely tenant. In less than two months, this trailer will be home to an insurance…
Not sure if you’re aware of it, because damned if I’ve seen mention of this anywhere, but we’re mere days away from the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park. Gates opened June 6, 1936, and it ran through the end of November. I…
Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to … oh … let’s say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because, see, that’s the one-day-fingers-crossed dream shared by DART and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority officials. Which is why DART president Gary Thomas, board chair Bill Velasco and…
This week’s cover story in the Paper Version of Unfair Park covers complaints from a series of investors around the world who say they placed millions of dollars with a group of Dallas men, expected huge, nearly instant returns, and never saw their money again. The series of investments detailed…
Just got a note from Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after Perry signed into law the voter I.D. bill, which requires voters to present photo identification at a polling place. Said the gov, “The right to vote is simply too important for us to take the act…
Just a few days ago City Manager Mary Suhm explained why the city’s seriously considering an ordinance that would demand all solid-waste collectors dump their trash at city-owned facilities, rather than one of the dozen other landfills in the region. Said Suhm, who’d proposed the idea last year without it…
Anderson Cooper, for one, will be disappointed, but Debbie Georgatos is no longer part of the Republican Party’s local leadership team. The avant-garde filmmaker and would-be Beat poet has resigned her post “as a courtesy,” newly installed Dallas County GOP chair Wade Emmert tells Unfair Park this morning.”She resigned,” Emmert…
Late last night the city posted the list of folks who’d like to be on the city’s gas drilling task force. That’s in advance of a 10 a.m. meeting scheduled for Thursday, at which time Linda Koop — chair of the ad hoc gas drilling task force nominating committee, whew…
At some point this evening, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will elect new officers. Among the front-runners for president is Lew Blackburn, which may explain why Carla Ranger took to her blog earlier today to throw Blackburn under the bus.You see, there’s no love lost between the…
