This just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning an attempted smash-and-grab at the mall at around 3 this morning:Dallas Police Officers Responded to a call at North Park Mall at 8687 North Central Expressway regarding an open building. A witness who works at NorthPark Mall told officers that after…
At this late date is there really any reason to go back and retell the tale of the Ghost of War on Christmas Past? You remember this, right? Kids at Plano Independent School District elementary schools pass out “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” pencils and Christian-flavored candy canes…
A nod to old Dallas wrestler Fritz Von Erich? A psychological ploy by hitting coach Clint Hurdle? Fallout from last year’s swine flu? After seeing two more Texas Rangers smack extra-base hits last week and then make bizarre hand gestures — Ian Kinsler did a wide-arm double claw and Josh…
After Mayor Tom Leppert quashed public comments and instructed city staff to bring more options to the city council in August regarding the Dallas Love Field Airport concession contracts, Schutze declared victory for Angela Hunt, who had told us that she had enough support to defer the item until the…
Till a Friend of Unfair Park just pointed it out, I hadn’t seen mention made anywhere of Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP’s accolade handed out a few days back by the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Brown’s Congo Street Initiative — which, as you should…
Folks started showing up at Founder’s Square downtown even before 6 last night, carrying Harvey Milk posters, rainbow flags and equal rights stickers. The Texas Evangelical Republican Caucus And Barn-Stomping Jesus Revival was in full swing. Ha ha! Just kidding! Last night, gay rights activists and allies gathered for the…
Developer Jack Matthews has promised to chat more this week about his movie and teevee production facility in the Cedars — just as soon as he returns from his summer vacay. For now, though, he says this via e-mail: “We have been working on this many years … however what…
Since the day Michael Finley was released in 2005, your Dallas Mavericks have been searching. Looking for a consistent starting shooting guard who can create his own shot off the dribble, get to the free throw line and provide a viable alternative other than Dirk Nowitzki as a guy capable…
I remember Dad taking me a high-school football game to old P.C. Cobb Stadium, and I saw the Dallas/Fort Worth Spurs play minor-league baseball at Turnpike Stadium. What I don’t remember is something called the Dallas Submarines. Apparently they evolved into the Dallas Steers? P.C. Cobb is now the Infomart…
Late last week a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that he’s very concerned about SMU’s plans to expand south of Mockingbird Lane along N. Central Expressway, where the old Mrs. Baird’s bakery still stands. According to the university, which will hold a public Wednesday in advance of its asking…
Well, well, well — the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a “revised” Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the…
Over the weekend — and, really, for the past several days — the admin side of Unfair Park and the other Observer blogs has been acting a bit wonky. Which is to say, one minute it’d work just fine; the next, it became inaccessible. We couldn’t post; you couldn’t comment…
Took the boy to get some “rare miles” this morning. Took Morgan Lyons’s advice too — stopped at It’s a Grind, then caught the train at the Baylor station to make the Texas-OU loop. We were joined by two, three other homegrown tourists out for the morning jog ’round Fair…
I called Jim this morning at 6:30 — wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning’s “topping-off” ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too…
I had intended to provide as this week’s aural audio the entirety of Beck’s redo of INXS’s Kick, which features on guitar and vocals none other than Lake Highlands’ own Annie Clark, or St. Vincent. (The formerly Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated St. Vincent, Pete asks me to remind you as…
Above the tunnel where we’re sitting, cars rumble across the blazing asphalt on the northbound Stemmons Freeway access road. I can see flags on the Medieval Times towers from down here, blowing in a strong summer breeze. The wind sends cooling gusts down the length of the tunnel, picking up…
City Hall just posted the latest fiscal forecast for what remains of FY2009-’10, and, unexpectedly, it’s cloudy with a chance of shitstorms. Right now, it looks like the sales tax falloff through April, at least, is $6.3 million less than originally budgeted — if, that is, revenue rates stay the…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit was awful happy with the outcome of April’s test run of the “reconfigured” Green Line, intended to alleviate the f-bomb that was last year’s Texas-OU train ride to nowhere. For the first time since its opening, DART had the Green Line going in one direction –…
City Manager Mary Suhm and I spoke a few days about about how she’s trying to find $131.1 million to excise out of the FY2010-’11 budget, which she’ll present to council upon its return from summer vacay in August. And so, while the council takes its summer break and Suhm…
‘Round this time yesterday, Judge Michael Lynn all but postponed the Texas Rangers’ hopes of getting a sale done by the July 31 trade deadline by ordering most of the parties involved in the bankruptcy case into mediation on July 16. The one major party not invited to the dance…
Nice to see someone’s found a use for our former home at 2130 Commerce: Reid Slaughter, founder of Park Cities People and former Cowboys & Indians publisher, and Jeff Hinson’s YouPlusMedia, whose local offering is essentially the “YouTube for Dallas,” in the words of our own Daniel Hopkins — who,…
A couple of weeks ago, we broke the news that Park and Rec would like to ask voters for the permission to some day maybe pretty please sell Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, two properties given to the city by physician and philanthropist William Worthington Samuell with the…
