While searching for something very unrelated on Flickr moments ago, I stumbled across this collection of 61 photos just posted by a Seattle man named Steve Lundeen. Steve didn’t take these photos of the State Fair of Texas in 1977 — his late father-in-law, Nick DeWolf, did (some from the…
One of the arguments presented by Mayor Tom Leppert in his quest to bid out the contracts for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport is that no one’s really interested in the 46 percent of the square footage at the brand-spanking new terminal that’s scheduled for…
Speaking of the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, which is investing $200 million in the looooong-in-the-works Museum Tower in the Arts District, I was reminded that way back in ’06, the system made another investment in Tucson, Arizona. As I noted in July of that year, the fund bought…
If you’ll recall it was Bloomberg News, not The Wall Street Journal, that broke the news last week that downtown-based Blockbuster was talking to bondholders about extending the video-rental company $150 million in loans should the debt-ridden company have to file for Chapter 11. But as soon as The Journal’s…
One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a state whose football conference was saved yesterday. One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a country…
Welcome to Day Three of our continuing coverage of Park and Rec’s proposal to sell, among others, Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, which will be taken up by the park board at its meeting tomorrow morning at City Hall. (Which Andrea’s covering, thank God.) So far we’ve spoken…
Cowboys Stadium hasn’t yet officially celebrated its 1st birthday. Yet, by my count, the joint in Arlington has already hosted: Pro football College football High school football Pro basketball College basketball A high-school prom A high-school graduation Professional bull riding International pro soccer Motorcross Concerts American Idol tryouts I’m sure I’m…
Later today I’ll post at least the first part of my chat with City Manager Mary Suhm about how she plans to gutcut the city’s FY2010-’11 budget, which needs to shed $131 million even after last year’s $180-some-odd-million bloodletting. But here’s a relevant sneak peek related to an item on…
Several Friends of Unfair Park are wondering this morning when Jim’s going to weigh in on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison added to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 two exemptions that will make it easier for the city to build the Trinity River toll road between the levees,…
I was at Texas Rangers’ spring training out in Surprise, Arizona the day they signed journeyman catcher Matt Treanor. Honestly, it registered a .5 on my 1-10 scale. The Rangers had their catchers of the future in Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden. Behind them, they had Max Ramirez. Surely Treanor…
For as long as I can recall, Brook Partners has been trying to build Museum Tower downtown, in the heart of the Arts District. The real estate developer’s Ross Ave. HQ has long been littered with renderings and mock-ups; a conceptual rendering hovers over the firm’s Web site and has…
With his broad shoulders squeezed in tightly next to Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan looked like he’d rather be tossing cow pies at the side of a barn or chasing snow monkeys than sitting in Fort Worth federal bankruptcy court this morning. But that’s exactly were he was,…
When W.W. Samuell left the city of Dallas thousands of acres of park land upon his death in 1937, he left very explicit instructions: “Real estate to the City of Dallas Park Board for park purposes – not to be sold.” Yesterday we broke the news that the Park and…
We’ve got July 12 circled in red on our calendars: That’s when Ron Slovacek goes to trial in U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn’s courtroom — making him the way last defendant to be tried in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case. Hard to believe we’re not done…
This isn’t our first item about Park and Rec’s proposal to sell Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, and it won’t be the last. I’m waiting to hear from the Texas Attorney General’s Office how it feels about Thursday’s agenda item, given that it was but 14 months ago…
Even if he’d secretly been hoping for a pony on his birthday, Mayor Tom Leppert was all smiles this morning at the Dallas Zoo, where the formalities of a press conference quickly gave way to a birthday cake, singing and fun times feeding exotic birds and giraffes. The morning’s occasion…
The Boston Celtics have the lead. But the Los Angeles Lakers have the advantage. Right? Boston needs just win one – tonight in Game 6 or in a Game 7 Thursday night – to clinch its record 18th NBA Championship. They won’t get it. As I said before the series, Lakers…
Last night’s episode of The Good Guys, “The Broken Door Theory,” is on the other side for those who missed it — and, says Uncle Barky, quite a few of you most definitely did not tune in. Writes Ed, the shot-here FOX series, which last night featured the Hotel Palomar…
If you were to drive by 4526 Leland Avenue, near the intersection of Hatcher Street and S. Central Expressway, you’d think nothing of it — as you can see, it’s two stories of stucco worth, according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District, a few cents more than $90,000. But tomorrow,…
Today or tomorrow, depending upon when she’s got the time to wrap up our chat, we’ll post the Unfair Park Interview with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm concerning this year’s $131-million budget cutting that’s more like a gutting following last year’s to-the-bone. So far in our conversations she’s used words…
Who’s the commissioner/savior/magician of the Big XII Conference, David Blaine? In a death-defying, last-second escape that would make the famed illusionist proud, Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has somehow kept his league alive and, I think, well. Lured to stay put by the carrots of doubled TV revenues, Texas and Texas…
Three weeks ago, AMC Entertainment Inc. sent word that 15 years after it revolutionized the big-screen business with the 4,960-seat Grand 24 off Stemmons Freeway and W. Northwest Highway, it was leaving the building. Reason: rent dispute with its Kansas City-based landlord Entertainment Properties Trust. One week after that, EPT’s…
