A few months back, Big Bucks Burnett was so, so close to setting up his Eight-Track Museum in Deep Ellum, till the deal went south and it was back to zero. But last night — meaning, at 12:10 this morning — Bucks sent word: Not only is the former 14…
It’s going to be a long, effin’ hot weekend — good for staying inside and reading council docs, now that the brain trust is back from its summer vacation. Tomorrow morning I’ll post my chat with the mayor, but for now a few highlights to consider, chief among them Park…
When we took a long, deep hit of Foghat at January Sound Studio back in April, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind to remind: Freddie King also recorded a set there in ’75 for KZEW. March 31, 1975, to be exact — about a year and a half before…
Last night, more than 100 folks packed into the dining room at Vickery Towers “senior living community” for a standing-room-only public meeting on the proposed plans to rezone Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District — a plan opposed by the Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association, the…
If you’re headed over to Founders Square in the next, oh, little while or, really, anywhere near the 900 block of Jackson Street downtown, you might wanna hold off: A Friend of Unfair Park who works in the building says it was just cleared due to a bomb threat. Dallas…
We warned you in early June, when the Dallas Independent School District crunched some TAKS test scores and released its list of exemplary and recognized schools well ahead of the Texas Education Agency’s official date of, well, today: Those numbers were very preliminary. As TEA spokesperson DeEtta Culbertson reminded in…
Yesterday Friend of Unfair Park John M wondered if we had any spare interns who’d be able to snap a photo of the newly installed billboard next to the Woodall Rodgers ramp that dumps into northbound Stemmons Freeway. And when I say “next to,” I mean “right on top of,”…
A long while ago I made mention of a forthcoming doc about St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church’s efforts in cleaning up and rebuilding Jubilee Park near Fair Park. Then I forgot all about it, till a Friend of Unfair Park sent along this reminder: The 30-minute feature has…
As the women’s editor for the Dallas Times Herald for nearly 30 years, from the 1950s to the ’80s, Vivian Castleberry revolutionized the section’s coverage — addressing domestic violence, for example, in addition to lifestyle pieces on decor and fashion — and became the first woman named to the paper’s…
Forthcoming, my very early-morning chat with Mayor Tom Leppert, during which we touched on, among other things, his call for a citywide fake-weed ban, the now-sidelined Dallas Watersports Complex and the fallout from Monday night’s surprise announcement concerning Cliff Manor. But during the interview, I asked the mayor about concerns…
From the September 3, 2004, issue of the Dallas Business Journal, in a story headlined “Projects afoot for South Lamar area” about developer Jack Matthews’s plans for the area around his South Side on Lamar:A 70-room boutique hotel, long Part of Matthews’ vision for the area, is also moving forward…
Late this evening I was poking around the City Secretary’s site to sneak-peek the council’s doings upon its return to work Monday. At which point I noticed that when the Public Safety Committee reconvenes at noon, City Attorney Tom Perkins and Dallas Police Deputy Chief Patricia Paulhill will brief the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission just sent word: In New York federal court today it filed a 78-page complaint charging Sam and Charles Wyly with violating federal securities laws over the last 13 years, during which the SEC alleges the Dallas brothers pocketed more than $550 million in “undisclosed gains.”…
Richie asked Schutze yesterday what he should ask Mayor Tom Leppert, who appeared Wednesday on the sports programme he hosts with one Greg Williams afternoons on 105.3 The Fan. Schutze’s suggestion — something to do with airport contracts at DFW International. Needless to say, that did not happen.Instead, Richie and…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: What the what does Anna Fermanova’s husband do, anyhow? Good question — especially since Fermanova’s attorney, Scott Palmer, says those three high-priced, high-powered scopes she was caught taking to Russia were for a friend of her husband’s so he could get his big-game…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Seven locals, ranging in age from 23 to 60, are accused of setting three fires that caused close to $1 million in total property damage in order to collect a few thousand from the Dallas chapter of the American Red Cross. The…
Update: Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, responds, briefly, to some questions I had for him this morning. They follow after the jump.This morning a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to None Zip Zero, a Web site created by opponents of Dallas Housing Authority’s efforts to…
About five weeks back, the Dallas Police Department warned the under-17s to stay inside after 11 p.m., lest they face a trip to DPD HQ and a call to the folks. Tonight: the sequel! This just in from Sgt. Warren C. Mitchell: The Dallas Police Department will be conducting another…
After the jump you’ll find the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but short story shorter: KTXA will broadcast 15 Dallas Stars regular-season games each season for the next four beginning, well, this season. Most, incidentally, will be Saturday-night games — and all will be in high-def,…
Scott Feldman has been bad this year. He’s 5-9 with an ERA of 5.46. Feels like every game he’s staked to an early 3-0 lead only to give up five runs in 5.1 innings and walk off the mound tied or behind. Frust. Rating. He’s scheduled to get the ball…
On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley’s “first professional recording?!” The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University of Texas at Dallas prof…
On Tuesday, I asked several city officials one very simple question: Just how effective are these “warrant roundups”? Because, as we noted, bright and early Sunday morning the Dallas City Marshal’s Office will hit the streets yet again to go after scofflaws with unpaid citations, threatening everything from putting a…
