On the other side is the full announcement from Dallas/Fort International Airport concerning Virgin America’s decision to go west, young man: On December 1, the just-turned-3-year-old carrier considered by many to be the Best Domestic Airline will start flying from DFW to Los Angeles twice a day; five days later,…
At its August 25 meeting, the city council will be asked to sign off on taking close to $14 million from the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which, in June, agreed to dole out exactly $13,474,712 that’ll go toward nine Dallas infrastructure projects and a few hundred thou more…
To keep your life fresh and stimulated ask yourself this question: When’s the last time I did something for the first time? My answer: Today. Can’t recall ever going to a day/night football/baseball doubleheader where I could literally walk between sites. But that’s the case today as the Dallas Cowboys…
As he told us a couple of weeks ago, attorney Scott Palmer was hired to represent Anna Fermanova two hours before her detention hearing in Dallas federal court on July 15. No way he imagined that a few days later, his client — popped by the feds for trying to…
Patrick took one Friend of Unfair Park’s morning advice and went to find him a nice place to snap some photos of Air Force One as it pulled into Love Field today. Only problem was, the president arrived a little ahead of schedule, and Patrick ran into the motorcade as…
While President Obama drops by the Highland Park home of lawyer Russell Budd this evening to raise dough and break bread with local Dems, Republicans are rallying at Franklin Stadium next to Hillcrest High School to … well, to do what? “It’s not just complaining about the Democrats,” says Dallas…
Here’s an admission that should humiliate me as a food writer and a Scrabble player: I can’t spell “strudel.” I had the seven-letter word on my rack during the first day of play at the National Scrabble Championships in Addison this weekend, but — unsure whether the word looked sufficiently…
While it’s well-known that Dallas County leads the country with a whopping 22 exonerations since 2001 — 20 of which resulted from the preservation of DNA evidence — there’s been some squabbling among Republicans and Democrats about who deserves the bulk of the credit: former District Attorney Bill Hill or…
That didn’t take long: Less than two hours after posting that item about Ralph Isenberg and his intention to speak with President Obama this evening about the case of Saad Nabeel, Isenberg called Unfair Park to say it’s off. According to Isenberg, one day after his Saturday chat with the…
How you looking at your Texas Rangers these days? A) Despite Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Oakland A’s they’re playing well enough to maintain a comfy cushion in the American League West, holding a 7.5 games lead with only 51 games remaining. B) They were held to two or fewer…
On Wednesday, Patrick went down to the Dallas Farmers Market, where Dallas police higher-ups met with neighborhood stakeholders about getting a DPD storefront down there pronto. Because, as we’ve noted in recent weeks, property owners are clamoring for a substation to deal with what they say is an increase in…
First we bitch that Roddy Beaubois doesn’t play enough. Now we’re prepared to moan that he’s playing too much? Not good news when we learn that the Dallas Mavericks’ point-producing, jitterbug of a guard breaks a bone in his foot while playing for the French National Team. But it’s not…
City Hall’s attempts to regulate community gardening in Dallas is the story that won’t go away: As I mentioned at the bottom of the budget item on Friday, the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the issue tomorrow — this’ll be the sixth proposal to go…
Speaking of the president’s visit …One week ago today we mentioned that Former Dallas City Plan Commissioner-turned-immigration activist Ralph Isenberg has taken up the cause of Saad Nabeel, who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 3, graduated from Frisco’s Liberty High School, got a scholarship to…
It’s been close to radio silence from Renaissance Tower for several weeks as Blockbuster tries to find “strategic partners” to keep the close-to-broke video giant-at-one-time out of the bankruptcy courts. But on Friday, Bloomberg reported that Jim Keyes and Co. will announce this week that they’ve been given a month-long…
No doubt you’ve heard: The president’s coming to town today. But one look at his schedule reveals he’s probably not staying for dessert after the early-bird buffet at the Highland Park home of attorney Russell Budd: 4:20 p.m. The President arrives in Dallas, Texas Dallas Love Field Open Press 5:25…
10. Man, what a letdown. You spend all weekend talking about and listening to and watching highlights of Emmitt Smith and Super Bowls and football immortals. Then they kick off the Hall of Fame game and you get Cowboys 16, Bengals 7. It’s like going to the theater and being titillated…
Back in April ’09, Del Taco spokesperson Barbara Caruso told us she’d let us know in “the next 60-90 days” if and when the chain was returning to Dallas after a lengthy absence. Took a little longer than that, but This Morning’s Official Announcement concerning Denton and McKinney locations forthcoming…
Ben Gold’s on a plane from Iowa back to Dallas at this very moment — a newly burnished Hall of Famer … like Emmitt Smith, let’s just say. On the other side, his final installment from his return to Ottumwa, Iowa, where not all victories are in the distant past…
On July 29, Mayor Tom Leppert, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Dallas Police Chief David Brown issued the joint press release calling for the ban on synthetic marijuana and salvia divinorum. The mayor got the so-called K2 ban on the fast track: The council’s scheduled to make selling it…
Moments ago, the city posted to its website the proposed budget City Manager Mary Suhm will discuss with the council at 9 a.m. Monday. It’s not a detailed breakdown by any stretch, but a terse, bullet-pointed 53-page summation of what we’ve known for months was coming — from the 450…
No need to rehash my feeling about The Eagles — if only I’d kept that fax Don Henley sent me back when I was at the Dallas Times Herald and he tried to bar me from his Starplex show. Though, on second though, I guess he was trying to do…
