I was on the phone with a Dallas Independent School Board trustee just seconds ago — a trustee, mind you, who had not heard there were reports and a yeah-sure-maybe? that DISD Superintendent Michael Hinjosa’s outta here, possibly as early as tomorrow, to take the Las Vegas gig — when…
For a while there, life was pretty sweet for Ed Molz III. The financial start-up he formed last August was doing great business, and while his office staff fielded calls from investors around the world, he lived the good life, with shopping for sports cars and getting plastic surgery by…
In advance of the 3 p.m. press conference at Dallas Police Department headquarters during which the dash-cam video that Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway doesn’t want you to see will be released, Mayor Tom Leppert weighed in on the incident briefly at this afternoon’s State of the City address at…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I could read to you from this stack of press releases for big-deal Thursday happenings (“Boone Pickens, Mayor Leppert, Chief Brown unveil New Jubilee Park Buildings” and “Mayor Leppert, Dr. Hinojosa to launch first-of-its-kind nutrition education program tomorrow at…
“It’s Time”, meet “It’s Over.” With an 11-4 thumping of the Detroit Tigers last night – combined with the Oakland A’s loss in Kansas City – the Texas Rangers won their first American League West division championship since 1999. I know the magic number is 10 and there are still…
Blog Cabin VillageI used to have a blast as a kid going to the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. Dad and I would load up in his lumbering, early ’90s model Chevy “Suburbasaurus” and head out to Fort Worth for a woodsy day of living history. Of course, my…
If you had a hard time flagging down a taxi this morning, well, consider that just a taste of what’s to come if independent cabbies don’t get their way fighting the ordinance that lets natural gas-powered taxis jump to the front of the line at Love Field Airport. Hundreds of…
If you want to go to Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys’ home opener against the Chicago Bears, good news: Over at StubHub there are more than 2,000 tickets available. And, get this, they are cheaper than 2009. The current average ticket price is $209, actually down from last year’s $222. Party passes are…
Photo by Andrea GrimesI’ll be honest, I was kind of hoping for a Bradley Whitford sighting. But Cole Hauser will do.Had to idle on Elm Street in Deep Ellum for a while this morning as cops shut the street down for a Chase filming. Such is the life of an…
Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in and around downtown (parking meters and the need to acquire a seemingly endless laundry list of permits from Dallas City Hall,…
McCarthy Building Company has built plenty of projects around town in recent years — everything from the Wyly Theatre to the W Hotel to the Dallas County Detention Center South Tower to the under-construction Dallas City Performance Hall. To that estimable list add another landmark project: the Woodall Rodgers Deck…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…
Portland-based urban planner John Fregonese’s name should ring a bell — he’s the guy behind the Forward Dallas comprehensive plan, now in effect four years last June. Saw his name again today in the USA Today: Waco’s done hired him too to create a plan “that includes mixed retail and…
Club Zone… now’s your chance. I was browsing LoopNet this afternoon and noticed that Holliday Fenoglio Fowler is shopping 2200 N. Lamar Steet, which is where Dan Aykroyd helped plant the Dallas House of Blues outpost back in ’07. Asking price is awful steep: $19,120,000 for 61,876 square feet that…
Last month we took a long, hard look at FOX’s The Good Guys, with Friend of Unfair Park Howard Wen offering a few suggestions how Matt Nix might improve the hour-long set-here-shot-here cop comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. It returns a week from Friday in its new time…
Allegations from inside — and independent studies conducted from outside — Dallas Fire-Rescue over the past four or so years have painted a disturbing picture of what it’s like to be a female employee of DFR and fueled a costly, ongoing lawsuit in 2009. But as of last week, the…
Welcome back to City Hall, where the city council’s Quality of Life Committee is hearing from a blue-ribbon panel of downtown homelessness players, led by MDHA’s Mike Faenza and the city’s Housing/Community Services director Jerry Killingsworth. Up next is the briefing Robert mentioned on the Garland Road Vision Study, but…
I spoke too soon. Maybe you thought it too. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that if and/or when the Texas Rangers made the playoffs they’d face the New York Yankees. NY would win the American League East, the Tampa Bay Rays would win the Wild Card and the Minnesota…
Never one to let an unwelcome neighbor move in unannounced, Councilman Dave Neumann invited residents around far west Oak Cliff’s Hensley Field to come on out to the airfield last night and hear direct from XTO Energy reps about their natural gas drilling plans in their neighborhood.The City Plan Commission…
Jose AyalaLate last week the Dallas Police Department sent word that a passerby had discovered decomposed human remains in a field in the 10000 block of Van Dyke Road, near White Rock Lake. Early this morning, the department said it had identified the body as that of Javier’s popular general…
Deion Sanders played for the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens. Why, then, does it feel like it’s a no-brainer that he goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Dallas Cowboy? He’s – perhaps reluctantly – ours, right? Former Cowboys Bill Bates, Charles Haley,…
Last October we got our first look at the new-look Dallas Police Department black-and-whites. And while some Friends of Unfair Park didn’t much care for ’em, the department’s fleet manager said: Tough, everyone else does.One Friend of Unfair Park with a good, strong memory points out this morning that, hey,…
