It was but one week ago today that James “Big Bucks” Burnett announced he was, at long last, opening his Eight Track Museum on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum on Christmas Day, but of course. At the same time he announced his new eight-track label: Cloud 8, which will release…
A large-scale vandalization job at South Dallas’s CorinthPark warehouse-workspace will be turned into an gallery exhibition in the Cedars tomorrow during the Cedars Open Studios Eighth Annual Studio Tour. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done over a period of days last month by a “jealous” and “insecure” person…
Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don’t wanna be scanned. And they don’t wanna be gate-raped. That’s the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole, which you can…
Back when we HQ’d downtown in the old KLIF building on Commerce, plenty of old-timers made note of the fact that, why, just across the street, matter of fact, was the old Cellar — the Dallas outpost of the Fort Worth mainstay that opened in ’59 and birthed most of…
Speaking of City Archivist John Slate and the Dallas Farmers Market …Maybe you remember: Back in May Slate told us the city had recently gotten its hands on “several hundred vintage images of the Dallas Farmers Market — really, really cool ones that show what an active place it was.”…
Word o’ the day today on the Urban Dictionary: “gate rape.” As in: “The TSA airport screening procedure.” Perhaps some students in Cle Elum, Washington, will find it on their chalkboard this morning, following their teacher’s recent pass through DFW International Airport. Please turn to Page B1 of this morning’s…
[Update at 10:23 a.m.: The judge’s office sends word that Ron Slovacek was found guilty on all three counts of the superseding indictment — counts 10, 12 and 19, to be specific. More details to come.]The staff’s all tied up at present, which means no one’s able to head down…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park found this old newspaper cutout here. It’s an ad from the October 4, 1911, issue of the Dallas Times Herald, and, as you can see, it promises quite the something special — then, certainly, and now most definitely. Our Friend, a history buff…
This arrived in the in-box mere moments ago: an invitation to The Formal Unveiling of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan, the first holiday party of the season. After all, you paid for the plan (close to a million, once you factor in the late-addition parking study), so you might as…
If you’re not sitting down here in the Council Chambers at City Hall right now, then you’re missing one of the fine ways to spend a Thursday afternoon in Dallas: sitting in on a meeting of the City Plan Commission. We’ve already covered student foot traffic across roads near schools,…
On the other side is the announcement from Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor, which is about to scoot to Victory Park. Long story short: Cumulus Media is moving its four local radio stations, including The Ticket and KLIF, into 20,248 square feet of empty next door to the American Airlines Center…
On Sunday we took a look at the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, just as they were getting their finishing touches following some issues with a contractor that tried to cut corners. At which point Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, told us the…
It’s been no secret that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra could use a little classical gas right now, following a season that left the DSO with what some guesstimated to be a seven-figure deficit, a few high-profile last-minute cancellations and chief operating officer Paul Stewart taking the president’s baton from the…
Yesterday I joked: Since the city can’t find anyone to take over Dallas Farmers Market, maybe Tom Spicer and I would just go ahead and take the keys. But Spicer — the man behind Spiceman’s FM 1410 on Fitzhugh, beloved seller of produce to chefs professional and amateur alike, and…
On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, the Dallas Cowboys traded for receiver Roy Williams. In exchange, they sent to the Detroit Lions a first- third- and sixth-round draft pick in 2009. Matching him with Terrell Owens, the move was supposed to give the Cowboys yet another elite weapon en route to being…
Dallas has long been one of the most woefully ill-equipped large cities in the United States when it comes to dealing with sexual assault. Until recently, only Parkland Hospital was authorized to conduct rape kits for submission into evidence, and there was no free-standing rape crisis center that victims could…
Texas Rangers’ manager Ron Washington deserves credit. But not a trophy. I was neither surprised nor disappointed yesterday when Minnesota Twins’ skipper Ron Gardenhire was named American League Manager of the Year. While he led his team to 94 wins and a division championship despite major injuries to closer Joe Nathan and…
Last week, during the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, chair Linda Koop dropped what appeared to be a bombshell: Fort Worth, she said, was going to return the $25 million Urban Circulator Grant it received in July for its Fort Worth Streetcar Loop, which she said wasn’t…
The Texas Rangers’ incredible October playoff run made this summer’s messy bankruptcy saga easier to forget, but the court filings continue, with Major League Baseball alleging that the team’s law firm deviated “sharply from the facts” when portraying MLB as “iron-fisted and overbearing.” In a response filed Monday to an…
Love me some Dirk Nowitzki, the most underrated, under-appreciated athlete in the history of Dallas/Fort Worth sports. Behind him and his finesse game of around 25 points and 10 rebounds this season, the Mavs will win 50-55 games and make the NBA’s Western Conference playoffs as the 3-6 seed. But …..
When we first looked at the Dallas Independent School District’s proposed anti-bullying policy one month ago, it was a brief two-page document intended, as trustee Edwin Flores said at the time, to be more “comprehensive” than the existing student code of conduct. But for some, the so-called “Freedom of Bullying”…
On Sunday the Dallas Cowboys look for their first home win of the season. Manny Pacquiao has already won twice in Cowboys Stadium in 2010. In other words, it’s time to adopt the eight-time boxing champion as our “team.” After all, the bludgeoning he delivered upon the unfortunate noggin of…
