A good Friend of Unfair Park, through a friend of a friend of a friend, just shot us this extraordinary video captured early yesterday morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Took place at the north toll plaza, which served as a launching ramp for one drunk driver trying to exit…
We’re clearly big fans of UTD’s Greg Metz — not for nothing did we once bestow upon him our Best Visual Artist award. In doing so, we claimed that “his art carries energy and a bit of controversy,” which so happened to include a certain work done in a certain…
Yup — says so right here. The Maple Ave. location, that is. Elliott’s has been there since ’84, 37 years after Jerre and Kathleen Elliott turned an old house on Maple into a hardware-etc. institution. Says The News story, the family-owned-and-operated establishment just down the street from Unfair Park HQ…
OK, so by now we’re all clear on one thing: The Business Council for the Arts’ downloadable downtown tour was always intended to be focused on one thing and one thing only: public art. That, says Greg Brown, program director for the Dallas Center for Architecture, “was the way it…
In an interview — strangely enough — with CNN suspendered-geezer Larry King, the most coveted free agent in the history of sports is alluding to a hometown advantage. And while LeBron James says the Cleveland Cavaliers have an edge, Dirk Nowitzki’s best friend in basketball says he believes the giant German will stay…
Walked into today’s city council briefing a couple minutes late to catch Tennell Atkins talking about how Dallas needs “classy,” and then they gave a long and lengthily introduced award to Wal-Mart wherein everybody was really enthusiastic and in no way embarrassed that they were giving an award to Wal-Mart…
Took a few days, but last night I finally got a call back from John Weis, head of investor relations at Kansas City-based Entertainment Properties Trust, which owns the building that has, since May 1995, housed the AMC Grand 24. On Thursday, AMC said it’s outta there by no later…
The Texas Rangers broke a four-game losing streak last night with a 9-6 walloping of the Chicago White Sox. But they didn’t look good doing it. I know those white beanies atop their head were special Memorial Day caps, but in a word … Godawful. The Colonial the other day…
This, if I am not mistaken, is the very National Public Radio story that introduced me to Jubilant Sykes, the classically trained baritone who crossed over to pop long before Renée Fleming released her controversial new Dark Hope. Sykes, who’s performed at venues as varied as Carnegie Hall and the…
For those who missed it: Yesterday, in the comments of the Downtown Dallas 360 update, Brother Bill Holston wondered if there was a “walking tour” brochure for those interested in touring downtown architecture. A little later in the day, Business Council for the Arts’s CEO Katherine Wagner chimed in with…
That’s a look at the ongoing cleanup effort in the Dallas County Records Building, where a couple dozen rubber-gloved workers in smeared uniforms spent the day passing sludge-filled buckets to bail out the basement. By 4 p.m. they’d already filled up four tanker trucks, and were working on a fifth…
When Patrick checked in with the Jubilee Park residents last week, we reported that just because the Dallas Independent School District had called for a “time-out” of sorts while it looks at other possible alternative sites for a new site for O.M. Roberts Elementary, one group of home- and business-owners…
Well, so much for the Lily Pad opening today in Main Street Garden.Rudy notes that Park and Rec has sent word that someone kicked in the park eatery’s bathroom door last night, which means that certificate of occupancy will have to be put on hold till repairs are made. Which…
I called over to the Dallas County Commissioners Court a few minutes ago to get an update on clean-up efforts at the Records Building, which flooded last night following a water main break. Good thing I called too: Peggy Lundy in County Judge Jim Foster’s office said she’s just about…
While we rate and debate Roy Williams vs. Dez Bryant, the uncertainty about Miles Austin as the Dallas Cowboys’ No. 1 receiver is starting to linger into concern. Today’s deadline will pass with Austin not having signed the team’s tender offer and still being a restricted free agent, meaning the…
Turner Courts, Dallas Housing Authority’s 58-year-old public housing project on Bexar Street, has long been on the city’s to-do list. Just a few months ago, the city council’s Housing Committee took yet another long, hard look at Turner Courts in the hopes of using 2006 Proposition 8 Bond money just…
So says Charity Navigator today in a press release announcing The Most Charity-Conscious Cities in America — we’re right there at No. 3 on the highest-rated-cities list, so barely behind No. 1 Pittsburgh and No. 2 Houston (Houston). So, to all those who give till it hurts, a hearty mazel…
Maybe everyone who attended the National Polka Festival over the weekend in Ennis is too hungover from copious amounts of kolache and Czechvar to hop straight on the Craigslist to post their missed connections. Maybe that’s why there’s only this one lonely missed polka connection, which is a joke anyway…
While I was gone the Texas Rangers, well, um, let’s face it … they crumbled. Starters not making it past the fifth inning. Bullpen overworked. Bottom third of the order about as effective as BP’s oil spill plans G, H and I. Four consecutive losses. Division lead kaput. Not good…
It’s been a long while since MIG posted any new Downtown Dallas 360 updates — trust me, I look at the Web site, oh, once a week as MIG begins wrapping up the doc due to the city council by no later than August. But on Friday morning the planners…
Like I said last Thursday, the Texas Education Agency would probably prefer it if the Dallas Independent School District held off on announcing school ratings based on TAKS scores till, ya know, July 30, when the TEA officially releases its 2010 Accountability Ratings. But school’s out in a few days,…
Back on March 22 we told you about Michael Riddle, the former senior employment manager at defense contractor DynCorp International’s Fort Worth outpost who claimed in court docs he was fired last September for being a whistleblower. Specifically, Riddle alleged in Dallas federal court papers that DynCorp took millions from…
