As promised, Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy has posted his thoughts on the YouPlusDallas video in which Jack Gosnell regales viewers with tales of how Dallas came to bury its businesses beneath downtown. And, like Gosnell and the denizens of the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum (where the video likewise prompted a…
A little while ago, The Hockey News reported that a new bidder for the Dallas Stars has emerged — and that it’s none other than EXCO Resources’ chairman and CEO Douglas Miller, whose “offer is believed to be for about $110 million cash, but it would likely be publicly announced…
Welcome to March. The madness can’t be far behind. Been getting into college basketball the last few weeks. Some quick thoughts: Kansas is the best team I’ve seen. BYU is more than just Jimmer Fredette. The Big East is the best conference. And, uh oh, Texas is hinting at another…
On February 13, Steve Thompson wrote that ex-municipal judge Staci Williams — a Hockaday grad with a Georgetown law degree dismissed by the Dallas City Council last June — might sue the city. The reason: Williams claimed repeatedly that she was sexually harassed by Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander, who…
Spoiler alert: Last night, Disney Street-ers Jon and Anna Usry and their two kids opened the doors of their house to World News with Diane Sawyer’s David Muir, who promptly backed up the moving truck and emptied their house of everything not made in America.That, after all, is the title…
The Dallas Stars have been falling, from the top of the NHL’s Western Conference down to eighth place. But as yesterday’s trade deadline came and went without any deals, the message is clear: The Stars aren’t giving up. It’s not only a bold move. It’s the right move. Leading scorer and…
Been meaning to get to this for a few days, so while we await some return calls before calling it a day, here’s the trailer for Clay Liford’s shot-at-Garland High WUSS, which, as we noted a few weeks ago, world-premieres at South by Southwest on March 12. Now’s a good…
Some 200 pro-choice demonstrators — some college-age, others old enough to recall protesting for abortion rights before Roe v. Wade — turned out for Saturday’s Walk for Choice in downtown Dallas, one of a few dozen in cities around the world meant to drum up support for Title X funding…
Welcome to City Hall, where nothing seems to have changed too drastically since Mayor Dwaine Caraway took the reins over the weekend. Any doubts you might have had should be assuaged by item number one on this afternoon’s agenda at the Transportation and Environment Committee briefing, where, as Robert told…
FOX & Friends, starring Channel 5’er-turned-Daily Show punching bag Gretchen Carlson, ran a piece this morning on Dallas ISD’s up-to-$10,000 buyout incentive offered to teachers through March 8. As soon as I saw the name of the teacher interviewed (Beverly Stergeos) I hit The Google! to see where she works;…
Yesterday I flipped on the Mavericks and they trailed the lowly Toronto Raptors — playing without leading scorer Andrea Bargnani — and they trailed 22-3. 22-3! I couldn’t believe it. I was worried. I was…soothed when I realized it was the Raptors. By the third quarter the Mavs led en route to another…
From time to time we’ve revisited the damage done to downtown Dallas by Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who proposed in the June 1968 issue of Esquire that downtown Dallas bury its businesses underground — a decision then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller referred to in The New York Times in ’05…
The Department of Transportation sends word today that it’s charging American Airlines for charging its passengers for agreeing to swap seats on oversold flights for travel vouchers. Because, ya see, the Fort Worth-based carrier doesn’t just let you use the vouchers gratis — turns out, AA charges an up-to-$30 ticketing…
Ties are for Troy Dungan or calf ropin’ or Oscar night or Mila Kunis’ brother (cuz kissin’ his sister would be bueno). But UFC? Watched UFC 127 with some buddies Saturday night and was entertained, but confused. Always figured in this manliest sports featuring bloody knockouts and tap-out surrenders they’d fight…
Home Media Magazine directs our attention to this Friday filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, where Renaissance Tower-based Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 back in September. As we noted last week, Blockbuster’s up for sale now, with Monarch Alternative Capital among the interested parties, having contributed to the…
Patrick’s liveblogging this afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, whose agenda reads like an Unfair Park greatest-hits: City of Dallas Complete Streets Initiative Update, 2011 Dallas Bike Plan and The Better Block Project. You might wanna peruse the docs before the festivities begin — especially the Complete…
10. Funny, but I don’t think Justin Timberlake is Banksy. Is he? 9. As far as early-year Super Bowls of industries go, give me football (Super Bowl), followed by music (Grammys), auto racing (Daytona 500) and movies (Oscars). 8. Original score? Original song? Sound mixing? Sound editing? Enough already. There…
Over the weekend, local gas-drilling opponents forwarded to media members Ian Urbina’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the heretofore unknown dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water, sand and a laundry list of toxins known and unknown into the ground that busts up rock and releases…
A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Dallas barely grew between 2000 and 2010 — by 0.8 percent, to be precise, though Matt Stiles and Emily Ramshaw, the Texas Trib’ers contributing to this morning’s New York Times, are generous enough to…
View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com.Above is KXAS-Channel 5’s story from last night about teachers who camped out at 3700 Ross last night to sign up at 8 this morning for their up-to-$10,000 buyout; on the other side is WFAA-Channel 8’s. In both I see my son’s kindergarten, first-grade and art…
At midnight, Dwaine Caraway will erase the “pro tem” from his title and become, simply, Dallas Mayor. And though he will replace U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert for just a few months, Caraway tells Unfair Park this evening: “It’s very humbling to be able to be in this position.” He…
I spent way too much time during the wee small hours of this morning looking at all the goodies posted to the Remember in Dallas Facebook page, where bossman Jim Hayes vowed only today that the website will be “up and running again soon,” well, all right. Because as much…
