Shortly after city council candidate James Nowlin filed his campaign finance report Friday afternoon, he was beaming about raising $51,000 compared to incumbent Angela Hunt’s $28,700 haul during the reporting period that ended April 4. “Dallas has spoken, and the voters of District 14 have spoken,” he told Unfair Park…
At long last, the Dallas City Council’s set to tackle the subject: What to do about allowing natural-gas drilling on city property. According to a presentation prepared by city staff for Wednesday’s briefing, the council can choose from one of the following options: form a task force, hire a consultant…
Couple things here: *Never give the losing score first, even if it’s your team’s score. *With “like three minutes to go” the Mavs led 77-74, courtesy of two Dirk Nowitzki free throws. *Mark Cuban, at least when I saw him, wasn’t wearing a muscle shirt. But, yeah, he kinda was…
Bravo was first out of the box with its introduction of Most Eligible: Dallas, a reality series about the dating lives of Dallas’s rich-n-pretty. Then came the Style Network, which last week introduced Big Rich Texas, a reality series from the same people responsible for Dallas Divas & Daughters. And…
Admit it, right now Texas’ 10-5 feels more like 5-10. After Ogando gave up three homers last night, Arthur Rhodes surrendered the game-losing 8th-inning hit to Eric Chavez and Ian Kinsler-Elvis Andrus plunged to a combined 18 for 104 for the season, the Rangers’ 9-1 start feels like months ago. Don’t look…
More than three years ago, some residents living in the Disney Streets in Northwest Dallas proposed turning the neighborhood into a Conservation District in an effort to protect some of its mid-century marvels. But as former City Plan Commissioner and Northwest Dallas lifer Robert Ekblad told Unfair Park back in…
[jump] 5. Not to be unpatriotic, but the U.S. Navy band playing such current faves as “Mustang Sally” on Victory Plaza seemed a strange pre-game musical choice. Maybe Le Freak, Emerald City, Petty Theft and even Independent George were already booked? Speaking of Victory Plaza, the only joint that can survive…
Back in late January Oncor told the Public Utility Commission it wanted to raise Dallas residents’ electricity bill by, oh, let’s say $4 to $5 a month. Even though there’d been a three-buck jump in your bill only two years ago. Said Oncor, look, it had no choice: People aren’t…
Perhaps you recall: We had a pretty good back-and-forth back in December ’09 over city staff’s thoughts on Cityville at Cityplace, the mammoth mixed-use development that’s been planned for the former Loews Cityplace site since forever. After Kroger asked for that variance to sell beer and wine closer to Alex…
“Warriors Of The Discotheque” Trailer from simile productions on Vimeo.There is no pinned-down time line for The Official Release of Michael Cain’s The Starck Project, his long-in-the-works look at Blake Woodall’s opened-in-’84 dance-dance-danceteria on McKinney. “Let’s say late 2011, early 2012,” went the latest response to someone’s due-date query. Though…
When a clip from Aerosmith’s since-deleted VHS appearance at the Cotton Bowl in 1978 surfaced in February 2010, it made a brief cameo here — at which time, the great Jeff Liles jumped into the comments to remark upon the quality of that particular performance, which he was fortunate (?)…
The wife called: Power just went out. It’s a trend: When I checked Oncor’s outage-info website 10 minutes ago, close to 39,000 folks in Dallas were sans juice; that number has since jumped to 41,722, with another 12,680 outta luck in Fort Worth. Here’s the latest map. Oncor says: That’s…
Maurine Dickey’s decided two terms as Dallas County Commissioner is plenty; can’t really blame her. So it’s back to the family business — barbecue, but of course. Which is why, moments ago, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins just sent to media this not-exactly-tear-stained adios in which he wishes the commish…
Now that you’ve had time to chew on our analysis of the mayoral candidates’ fund-raising prowess, we thought it was time to take a quick look-see at how the city council races are shaping up. Unfortunately, eight candidates still haven’t filed their campaign finance reports online as of 2 p.m.,…
A couple of weeks back Texas Appleseed and ACLU of Texas reps were down in Austin asking why oh why do state school districts feel the need to write class C misdemeanor tickets to students, some as young as 6, in the case of the Dallas Independent School District back…
On the other side you will find a report William H. Whyte — The Organization Man — gave to the Dallas City Council on June 15, 1983. Whyte, then a fellow at the Dallas Institute who often came to town to give speeches on how to make our city “livable,”…
After the comments began streaming in on yesterday’s preview of the public art proposals for the Ross Avenue Underpass, there was no way we’d miss a chance to hear direct from the artists about, well, what exactly they were thinking.Two general thoughts on the artists’ live proposals: For one, all…
Till a few minutes ago, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and I had been playing a marathon game of phone tag in recent days, following District 2 council candidate Billy MacLeod’s efforts to get the city, county and even the Department of Justice to remove Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary…
Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte’s building a wakeboard park up in Allen — you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July…
Former TracyLocke CEO Mike Rawlings easily outpaced the field of mayoral candidates by raising a whopping $1.03 million — nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle — during the reporting period that ended April 4. Council member Natinsky reported $239,000 in donations, and ex-Dallas Police…
On Monday KERA’s BJ Austin asked the four candidates for Dallas mayor: Why you? At which point Mike Rawlings whipped out his wallet, David Kunkle flashed his badge, Ron Natinsky cued up an eight-track cassette and Edward Okpa offered his campaign’s catchy catchphrase, “Busboy to Mayor.” Today Austin and the…
For as long as I can recall, the city’s been talking about making the Ross Avenue underpass at Central Expressway in the Arts District an art project all on its own. Tonight, it inches closer to reality: On your way home, you’re all invited to an open house meet-n-greet at…
