Friday morning, a Friend of Unfair Park sent a note with the header: “The Former Grand 24 Theater.” In it, he asked: “Have you checked out the new refurbishing there? It’s worth taking a camera along.” So on the way in, I swung by — because, clearly, I’m on the…
Jim’s on his way back from that court hearing involving Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s request for a temporary restraining order that would, at least temporarily, block the release of police records documenting Dallas PD officers’ visit to the home of Caraway and his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, on January…
We noted just last week that ABC has already changed the title of Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches, about a divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities. Right now, the working title is GCB — and that’s…
At this very moment, the state Senate Committee on Education — which includes chair Florence Shapiro, John Carona and Royce West — is hearing testimony related to these seven Senate bills, most of which would let school districts increase class size and give teachers furlough days and further flexibility in…
Never mind what I wrote yesterday. Because yesterday, when I checked the Dallas County District Clerk’s computers, there was no record of it. But early this morning I took another look, and sure enough, there it was — a suit filed yesterday afternoon in the 68th District Court, Judge Martin…
There’s an intriguing item on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board agenda this morning: “DART Board of Directors’ Streetcar Tour.” Which is exactly what it sounds like: At 11:30 this morning, the DART board — and some city of Dallas officials, says DART director of media relations Morgan Lyons –…
Earlier this afternoon, I noticed that the City of Dallas Store’s selling a Stoelting Model #22608 lie detector, which was the go-to “Emotional Stress Monitor” for the U.S. Armed Forces upon its release in the mid-1960s. I also noticed that 14 people have thus far bid on the item, which…
You hear it every year around this time: Spring training stats are meaningless. And, sure, while that can be true for guys like Doug Deeds — the 29-year-old career minor leaguer who’s hitting .357 with two homers and four RBI for the Texas Rangers at the moment — there are…
Seems like only 10 months or so The Hottest Topic in Town was who’d get a crack at those Love Field concessions. And, sure, it seems so 2010, but only for those not paying attention. Because just a few days ago the city put out the request for proposals –…
On Friday, the Texas Attorney General’s Office told the city of Dallas to give up those police records pertaining to Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s pals Arthur and Archie. At which point Caraway’s attorney — Michael Payma of Payma, Kuhnel, & Smith — turned around and sued Greg Abbott, claiming the AG…
Via the Facebook, the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management directs our attention to this just-posted crime-prevention PSA made by Dallas Area Rapid Transit titled Always Be Alert, the hilarious prequel to the better-known Always Be Closing…
When Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa initially told the school board last month about the coming budget cuts that could result in the district laying off 3,100 on-campus full-timers and some 600 at 3700 Ross, he warned that under the so-called “worst-case scenario,” the losses could add up to…
By now you’re no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still needs to be funded by the state Legislature in the current session. Right…
In years past, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival — which last year made its bow as the rebranded Dallas International Film Festival — has doled out its Dallas Star Award to the likes of Lauren Bacall, Frank Darabont, Adrien Brody, Kathryn Bigelow and Peter Bogdanovich, amongst other bold-faced names…
This morning, the council’s Economic Development Committee will take up whether or not to give Dean Foods a $250,000 economic development grant (and $1,673,964 in tax abatements) for that new factory in the southern sector, which Ron Natinsky mentioned last week.At the same time, the committee will consider another grant…
At last week’s budget town hall, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores took a thinly veiled shot at U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who he did not name, over the $830 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money presently sitting in D.C. As Flores told it, Doggett’s blocking the money…
We’ve mentioned in recent months Ralph Isenberg’s efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, where a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering scholarship awaits the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad. Nabeel, though, was deported to Bangladesh last year: His family had been denied political asylum a decade…
On our way back from an early-morning Trinity River outing yesterday (more about that tomorrow), we happened past the Trammell Crow Center on Ross. The boy wondered why there was a giant horse in the street; his mother, a former art-history major, explained that’s a sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle, and…
Speaking of Fair Park attractions …Here’s another one: Beginning with the March 26 season-opener — a double-header pitting the Deadly Kennedys against Viva La Revolucion! and the Bombshell Brigade against last year’s champs the Lone Star Assassins — Assassination City Roller Derby moves into the Fair Park Coliseum. Which means…
It’s perhaps the most common request among the Friends of Unfair Park: Where oh where is Peter Frampton’s January Sound Studios sessions, which aired on KZEW back in February of ’75? The complete show too — not just “Do You Feel Like I Do,” the version of which hopped to…
The Texas Rangers just sent word: General manager Jon Daniels, who was only under contract through this season, today signed a four-year extension — the financial terms of which were not announced. Hard to believe, but should Daniels stick around through the 2015 season, that would mark his 10th anniversary…
Austin’s not a “major city”? Hunh. Tried to drive in Austin in the last 15, 20 years? Traffic seems pretty major. And last I looked, there was some big college there — that’s what my diploma says, anyhow. And something about a state capitol? Look, I dunno. I’m always drunk…
