Like I wrote yesterday, Sam was at that council briefing during which they back-and-forthed over those three themes for the new-n-improved Love Field. Sam shot me a few texts during the meeting, including some funny quotes from council members as they pro-and-conned the options. But when he got back, he…
An unremarkable northeast Dallas office park, just outside the 635 Loop, is one of five spots across the United States where Southern Sudanese emigres can register to vote for their homeland’s independence. The referendum on independence is a condition of the peace agreement that ended Sudan’s 20-year civil war in…
At the risk of sounding 103 years old, I need to ask a question: What has happened to football? On 105.3 The Fan I co-host the weekly radio shows of Dallas Cowboys’ defensive players Jay Ratliff (Mondays 6 p.m.) and DeMarcus Ware (Wednesdays 2:15). Each week they bemoan not being…
The woman at right is Eileen Loskot, a 54-year-old woman last seen leaving her job — somewhere in the 2300 block of Reagan Street, between Harry Hines Boulevard and the Dallas North Tollway — a little after 1 this morning in her red 2004 Infiniti G35. At 12:07 this afternoon,…
Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a federal suit claiming, among other…
Last night, in the comments of the Good Guys-are-gone item, Friend of Unfair Park “Urban Observer” observed: At the 1:39-minute mark of the just-released trailer for writer-director Terrence Malick’s looooong-awaited The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, there’s a fleeting glimpse of the Glory Window, otherwise known…
When Cliffdwellers were rating and debating the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff had but one significant demand: “allow businesses to supplement the zoning requirements for car parking with bike parking,” per this morning’s post on BFOC’s website. Because, see, citywide there’s been this ongoing issue…
The National Alliance for Hospice Access lays out very clearly what the so-called “hospice cap” is, but long story short: In 1982, Congress enacted a law that allowed Medicare beneficiaries to choose hospice care over hospital care. There was one caveat: Congress put in place a cap on Medicare payments…
The Trinity Trust this morning sends further details concerning the grand opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which, as we’ve noted before, is scheduled for October 14-16. For those who like to plan ahead, expect parties and street fairs; the three honorary event chairs — Ron Kirk, Laura Miller…
I was coming back from an interview last week when I heard Mark Cuban on with Bob and Dan talking about a book he’s reading: Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan. In the book, the reporters…
You are supposed to be hearing this story from “Rico.” Ernie Santos is the one, after all, who cattle-prodded me into first considering telling a tale of the fast, fascinating, intimidating and sometimes dark culture of motorcycle clubs in Dallas. “There’s nothing better than being on your bike with your…
Bar bites dog: Well, this is surprising. A bar and restaurant owner last week sued Avi Adelman, operator of the barkingdogs.org website and all around pain in the butt to bars on Lower Greenville Avenue, for libel. By “surprising” we mean that, according to Adelman’s website, this is the first…
Anastasio Hernandez Rojas screamed in agony as U.S. border agents rained blows on him and delivered 50,000 volts of electricity to his body over and over. “No! No! Ayuda!” the 42-year-old Mexican wailed, pleading for help in Spanish. “Ayudenme [help me]!” It was late in the evening of May 28,…
After this morning’s post about Keep the Dollars in Dallas’s attempt to intervene in the lawsuit contesting the results of the November 2 wet-dry election, several Friends of Unfair Park wondered: When is the judge slated to rule on Andy Siegel’s request to halt the presently ongoing permitting process while…
A man from Lancaster spent Monday night in a nature preserve 75 miles east of Dallas trying to lure Bigfoot to his black Toyota sedan, police say. Mineola Police Capt. Jack Newman tells Unfair Park he responded to a trespassing call Tuesday morning to find the man camped out in…
Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, just called with disappointing but not entirely surprising news: The Good Guys will not return for a second season. Which means Bradley Whitford can go ahead and shave off that ‘stache now, and Colin Hanks — who tweeted earlier today that “as…
Sam’s at City Hall for the council’s Love Field briefing, but he got there in time for the 1:30 announcement of the city’s new “graffiti czar,” attorney John Barr. Only, Barr told Sam in their post-announcement chat, “Don’t write that I’m a czar.” Whoops. My bad.Anyway. You remember Barr, right?…
We mentioned this yesterday: The City Plan Commission will hold a public hearing tomorrow to discuss Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano’s proposed ordinance requiring businesses on Lower Greenville to get a specific use permit if they plan on staying open past midnight, among other proposed regs. Andrea, but of course,…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
I couldn’t make the Tron: Legacy press screening a few days back — they keep me chained to the desk these days. Besides, the 7-year-old who lives in my house wants to see it, even if he does find (the great?) Steven Lisberger’s original ’82 film “a little boring and…
Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees — one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster — have copped to breaking the law. Let’s begin with the FBI agent.Her name is…
Speaking of fine art …Tuesday morning, our editorial assistant got the phone call. The voice on the other end of the line whispered: Someone has just brought to Consignment Heaven dozens of pieces taken out of the old Dallas Times Herald, including publishers’ portraits and exec-office furniture. Elizabeth passed on…
