Below, two Friends of Unfair Park wonder if the shuttering of the Angelika Film Center in Houston yesterday is a sneak preview of bad news heading for the Dallas and Plano locations. Good question. So I asked Ellen Cotter, Angelika’s Manhattan-based chief operating officer — who’s in Houston at this…
At this very moment, the City Attorney’s Office is awaiting a verdict in the 4-year-old case of City of Dallas v. TCI West End, involving the demolition of the MKT Freight Station in the West End in ’06. The trial lasted two weeks, and word is both sides put on…
Even though Mayor Tom Leppert won an important battle when Angela Hunt voted on August 18 against a plan to extend the concession contracts at Love Field Airport for three well-connected Democrats — U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, state Rep. Helen Giddings and former Dallas Citizens Council director Gilbert Aranza…
I just sent an e-mail to Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney. I asked him one simple question: Is the paper about to start charging for some online content? Because that’s what a report from something called News & Tech says this afternoon:The Morning News’ strategy will include…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: What’s with all the bulldozering at Malcolm X Boulevard at Interstate 30? Well, I responded, if I’m not mistaken that’s the site of Larry James and Central Dallas Ministries’ “center of hope,” which we mentioned back in March — that 3.6-acre multimillion-dollar development paid…
This isn’t a sports town, but more so a winners town. It’s substance over style. For all you I-love-the-Cowboys-but-wait-over-there-the-Rangers-are-winning-so-now-I-love-them- more fans, there’s a chance for you to be trendy. All season long the Rangers have celebrated big hits with a “claw” and acknowledged dapper base-running with “antlers.” Act like you’ve…
A few minutes ago I spoke with LIG Assets Inc.’s founder Jeff Love, who says, why, at this very moment he’s “writing an offer” on the former Statler Hilton, which, we discovered Friday, Love wants to buy and rehab. “The owners should have it today,” he says. “Now, I don’t…
Last time I was out at Rangers Ballpark – which was Wednesday – it was a warm-n-fuzzy joint. Texas was winning three in a row from the Twins, fans were drinking “Blue Light Special” $4 beer. The Rangers were comfortably in first place. All seemed well. But now? Booing. Are…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park “The Big Guy” directed our attention to a Jalopnik item in which a security guard for Dallas Auto Auction is seen treating someone else’s Corvette ZR1 like it’s his very own hundred-thousand-dollar Hot Wheel. For whatever reason, said security guard not only recorded his burnout…
“Do a tax rate increase.” That’s how City Manager Mary Suhm sums up the feedback from Thursday night’s budget meeting at Edna Rowe Elementary. “That’s pretty universal when we’re at town hall meetings,” she says. Despite the overwhelming number of residents pleading for a tax increase to restore Suhm’s budget…
On the other side is the now-famous(ish) CNBC piece from June, in which Julia Boorstin asks Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes: “Will you file for bankruptcy?” — to which he responds with a smile and an elusive answer about how this has been a rumor for the last 18 months and…
10. Cowboys’ punter Mat McBriar kicked four times Saturday. He launched a 61-yarder in the third quarter, had a net average of 50.8 and pinned Houston inside the 20 twice. So much for the good news. 9. I understand this was a practice game. An exhibition. A glorified scrimmage. But it was also…
This morning, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert talks to something called The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about why Dallas “is on a roll.” It reads, in part, like a Mayor Tom best-of — part personal history (“I was raised by a single mother in Arizona”), part success story (“Later, I left to…
On the other side is this week’s packet of memos sent to the city council and Mayor Tom Leppert last night, a little later than usual. It’s a hefty stack, in large part because some council members had questions about Elgin B. Robertson Park, which Suhm has proposed selling to…
Earlier today, a Friend of Unfair Park sent the most curious heads-up: Something called LIG Assets Inc., a real-estate and oil-and-gas company fronted by an investor named Jeff Love, says it’s going to rehab the Statler Hilton Hotel across from Main Street Garden. Love says on the LIG site that…
Although investigators aren’t linking him to the series of white powder mailings throughout North Texas, Michael Wayne Patterson was arrested Thursday by federal law enforcement officers and was detained today pending an August 30 detention hearing, according to U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks. Patterson’s handwriting and fingerprints were found on…
You might recall reading last month about the Mesquite couple found dead in their home, in what police suspected was a murder-suicide. Police found Irene Haggerty, 46, beaten to death at the foot of the steps, while her 52-year-old husband Godfrey Spain was found upstairs where he’d hanged himself. Both…
An invisible lion, an invisible cow, and a whole cornucopia of simulated human partners got the go-rounds of their lives last night at Trees for Dallas’ first-ever turn at the Air Sex World Championships. The fauxnication was graphic, titillating, and at times, a little bit disturbing. No, let’s be fair:…
Last week around this time, the Wall Street Journal was telling us about three very private oil and gas companies — two of them based in Dallas — with designs on getting bigger in the gas drilling world. So, to help take their operations up a notch, both Talon Oil…
Irving-based Kimberly-Clark, they of the toilet paper and tampons and whatnot, are already in the business of being in your business, as it were, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised that they’re currently looking for 250-word essays on how your underwear got to be so nasty.”Project Makeunder,” for which…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends a note: The You Tube’r known as “cringevenom,” who has an unusually large collection of vintage Dallas broadcast-TV and cable-access videos, has returned to the virtual airwaves with a series of recent postings — all of which feel like lost Saturday Night Live sketches…
Willis Winters, assistant director of the city’s Park and Recreation Department, says, with a laugh, that it took him all of 30 days to write his forthcoming Fair Park history. He signed the contract with Arcadia Publishing in March, under the assumption that it wanted the book in time for…
