Back in September, at Cowboys Stadium, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee debut its educational outreach initiative called Service Learning Adventures in North Texas — or, SLANT 45 for short. Long story short, it’s what Daryl “Mooooooooose” Johnston called “the largest service-learning project in our nation’s history.” Any…
Look at it this way — come June 24, when Blockbuster holds its annual shareholders meeting downtown, we’ll be all done with this particular, and particularly ugly, chapter in the life of the “American icon.” Till then, though, this latest development in Greg Meyer’s attempt to snag a seat on…
Quick — spot the real Southfork Ranch, the one in Parker. Good for you. (It’s the one on the left.) The other one’s a replica built in the mid-’90s by “corrupt Romanian billionaire Ilie Alexandru,” as he’s described on Ultimate Dallas. The only real difference, aside from a few exterior…
First person I saw at City Hall yesterday was Katherine Seale, exec director of Preservation Dallas, who’d come to council in an attempt to stall a vote on the historic demolition ordinance we’ve been discussing since, oh, August ’08 and the one that, as currently written, would allow the city…
This is basically insane. I am paddling a kayak into a body of water most people think of as a sewer. What should I call this activity? E. coli kayaking? It’s late April in an unusually cool spring for Dallas. I launched my boat 20 minutes ago at the top…
Campaign dish: In the interest of fairness, Buzz offers you the following information: Republican County Commissioner Maurine Dickey often uses campaign funds to purchase food from Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. Her campaign spent more than $14,000 between 2007 and 2009 at the restaurant chain she and her husband own, all to…
Where to begin? Let’s go with Your Texas Rangers, who were back in bankruptcy court in Fort Worth for the second day of “first day” proceedings following Monday’s voluntary Chapter 11 filing. Reports the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge D. Michael Lynn finally decided after a bidding war between Major…
So. Patrick and I just returned from the press conference in the Flag Room at City Hall, where quite the bold-faced crowd gathered for Coyote Slim’s big announcement with Mayor Tom Leppert, state Sen. Royce West and various Fox execs, including exec veep Jim Sharp. Only, we left not quite…
Patrick Michels and I are at City Hall for this afternoon’s big ol’ teevee announcement with the mayor and Pistol Pete. And we’ll return shortly with a few choice quotes and, better still, photos. But here’s the big announcement, which I tried to tease yesterday without spilling all the beans:…
Don’t be surprised if you see Jacquielynn Floyd’s latest column pop up on Passive Aggressive Notes, because her take on that whole 30-days-of-sex thing turns “I told you so” into “I would have told you so, but you done told yerself.”Let’s recap: A local married couple (we’ll call them Schmauren…
To date we’ve shared a few pops with sailors and their dates at Frank Nick’s The Nite Spot in ’45 and pulled up a chair at the old Plantation on Greenville. Next stop on our eBay tour of legendary Dallas nightspots: Abe Weinstein’s Colony Club, which, at this late date,…
This morning I had to go to the Oncor site to look for something that may or may not be related to the myriad tree limbs still intertwined with the power lines behind my house. Whilst there, I figured I’d take a look at the recent press releases, see if…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department only recently, and very quietly, began posting videos to the YouTube — like this promo video we mentioned a few weeks back, and Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s very brief inaugural Webcast (in which, right off the bat, she says “this was done with little to no…
Below you’ll find one of many docs submitted to the federal bankruptcy court this week concerning Your Texas Rangers’ voluntary Chapter 11 filing, done with the intention of finally sealing the deal with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. William Neary, the U.S. Trustee for the Northern and…
Here, to start your morning, a few highlights from today’s 858-page council agenda, which we’ll begin with a shout-out to Brad Kirby. Surely you remember him? Back in January, Kirby went down to Dallas City Hall to tell the horseshoe about his stolen dogs. He proposed an ordinance that would…
As I mentioned Monday morning, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board met this afternoon to begin mapping out in earnest the coming 20 years set to be set back by the looming sales tax receipt shortfall. Morgan Lyons, DART spokesman, just sent a recap of the bad news announced by the…
Sadly, we were unable to attend D-Spotting Downtown Dallas’s Membership Forum wingding this afternoon at Union Station. So I asked Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, if he could provide the mayor’s remarks: “The State of Downtown Address.” And so he did, along with the official release from…
A small group of former NFL players scheduled a press conference this morning to question the NFL Players Association leadership and compare talks between the players and owners about a new collective bargaining agreement to the 1982 players’ strike. However, it wasn’t long before Jeff Nixon, an ex-Buffalo Bills defense…
The 6-year-old who live in my house and I try to spend at least a little bit of each Saturday exploring different parts of the city, which is how, among other things, he’s ended up collecting pieces of what’s left of Little Baghdad, taking pictures of spray-painted cattle before hiking…
Sure, when the Windpower 2010 expo wraps up tomorrow, it’s back home to the bummers: stubborn transmission bottlenecks, a slow first quarter for new wind projects and the likelihood that development is going to keep slowing down. But for the next day and a half, there has never been a…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: What in the wide, wide world of sports is up with this job listing on the Texas Workforce Commission’s Web site:Experienced Journalist / Reporter(s) with work experience in the greater Dallas – Fort Worth market. Prefer 10 or more years experience in journalism, both…
Friend of Unfair Park Kyle Rains was kind enough to send us this photo he took of the great Burton Gilliam last night at the Woodrow Wilson High School Senior Dinner, which was held at the Lakewood Theater. The co-star of, among others, Blazing Saddles, Back to the Future III,…
