Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today: The old Monroe Shops building, near the Blue Line’s Illinois Station on Corinth Road, was officially rebirthed today as the DART police department’s HQ after close to 20 years on the drawing board. For preservationists, this qualifies as Big News: It was originally…
I know that stats are usually meaningless during baseball’s spring training. But trends and feels aren’t. The San Francisco Giants won the Cactus League in 2010 with an 23-12 record, but their opponent in the World Series – your Texas Rangers – went a last-place 10-19. Pitchers are usually ahead of…
Since last week’s piece in The News about David Kunkle, Ron Natinsky and Mike Rawlings’s thoughts on the Trinity River toll road is behind the pay levee, allow me to summarize: Natinsky’s still very much for it; Kunkle’s ain’t at all interested, and Rawlings is taking the ol’ wait-n-see. But,…
I know the big news over the weekend for the Dallas Mavericks was another home loss to another potential playoff opponent – this time to the San Antonio Spurs – but the fine print after last night’s blowout of the lowly Golden State Warriors was a clinched playoff spot. Some…
Over the weekend news broke that Doug Havard is back in the country — nine years after the former SMU student was arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, but bullet points on a longer laundry list of crimes of which he’s been accused. Havard was extradited…
It’s been a year, more or less, since we last heard Tim Headington talk about his plans to expand The Joule in downtown, which began with his purchase of five properties along Main and Commerce in September 2009. And since we haven’t heard much more since May, when the hotel…
Since he quit being nonpartisan mayor to run as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Tom Leppert has certainly made his politics very clear: He’s for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge and a balanced-budget amendment, and against National Public Radio and gay marriage and cap-and-trade. Brian Bolduc, a…
I’ll admit it, my NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket sucks. Got off to a horrid start with Louisville losing to Morehead State and got progressively worse as the weekend wore on. The Sour 16 carnage: I’ve lost three of my Final Four teams including my projected champion Pittsburgh. In other words,…
Woke up this morning to find in the in-box a series of photos Danny Hurley took yesterday at the Crowne Plaza North Dallas on Midway, site of this weekend’s Dallas All-Con, which wraps this evening for those still in need of weekend plans. Though it doesn’t draw the guest list…
If you read our story about the ballot drawing Friday morning for mayoral and city council candidates, you might have noticed the omission of a certain someone from the District 14 race. Chad Lasseter — the guy who slammed Angela Hunt for bailing on Tom Leppert’s adios and aimed to…
Aaron “T-Bone” Walker died 36 years ago, almost to the day; the 7-year-old who lives in my house notified me of this over breakfast Wednesday as he read from the this-day-in-history section of the morning paper. He asked, “Who was T-Bone Walker?” I gave him the short answer: the greatest…
For those who do not recall the name Jesse William McGraw, a brief refresher: He’s the 26-year-old Arlington man Formerly Known as GhostExodus of the Electronik Tribulation Army who was arrested in June 2009 for hacking into 14 computers at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway, where…
Once or twice a week for the past couple of months, an e-mail will pop up in the in-box about a proposal to put a gas station and convenience store in the Lowe’s parking lot on Inwood Road just off of Forest Lane. It’s no small development, either: According to…
Yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered if there were any gigs available on Good Christian Bitches (which is now set to feature this JAG) or Dallas’s pilots, both of which are set to start shooting here in coming weeks — the former in early April now; the latter, late…
Two weeks back we noted that at least one person had already been appointed to the Dallas Independent School District’s first-ever Citizens Budget Review Commission: Dallas Friends of Public Education’s Mike MacNaughton. The commission, made up of trustee appointees, was a board brainstorm in an effort to find fresh eyes…
City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff oversaw the selection of ballot positions this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall, as mayoral and city council candidates for the May 14 election chose envelopes with numbers inside. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings landed the top spot among mayoral…
Forthcoming in moments, Sam’s recap of this morning’s ballot-place-picking procedure at Dallas City Hall. But two days ago we listened in as the four candidates for Dallas mayor — Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle especially — debated the root cause of domestic violence at the North Texas Food Bank’s forum…
Apparently, Charlie Sheen’s not going anywhere. Matter of fact, according to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s coming to Dallas on April 27 at part of his Charlie Sheen’s Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option tour — tickets for which go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m., says Ticketmaster. And…
At the end of last month, Patrick Michels was at City Hall for that Complete Streets-Bike Plan-Better Block jam session, where Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard were greeted with “great acclaim” by council members no doubt eager to implement and then claim the pair’s restorative ideas as their own. But…
About a month ago, Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander told Unfair Park that even during this current budget crisis, the district has no intention of touching its fund balance, which, he said, should sit at somewhere near the $100-million mark. Explained Dahlander, the DISD’s reserve fund is not…
If St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t a good enough excuse to let the boss man cut you loose early to go drinking, perhaps you should consider a vasectomy. That’s right, you heard me. Dallas urologist Dr. Mitch Moskowitz is offering his version of March Madness, in the form of a vasectomy complete with…
In 1958, per the novelist’s biography, her family moved from New Orleans to Richardson, where she attended high school. After which she attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, before moving to San Francisco and then international renown as the author of, among other things, Interview With the Vampire and the…
