Minutes after the Dallas Independent School District adjourned the town hall meeting over at O.M. Roberts, I headed the two miles north to my neck of the woods for a meeting of the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association at the recently opened Watel’s World Piece Café. According to the May/June newsletter…
Loves me some Dez Bryant. So does Dallas Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins. And tight end Jason Witten. And even, yep, NBA analyst Charles Barkley…
So. Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway just called. Like, just.Said he just sat down to read Unfair Park and noticed that item wherein Mayor Tom Lepperts’s consultant Willis Johnson says he met with Caraway a few weeks ago to discuss concessions at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.Caraway says that most certainly…
Lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson or Deep Ellum? That’s the question I asked all kinds of folks before moving back to Dallas this month to re-join the Observer. Two and a half years gone while in grad school in Austin, and all kinds of things change in this town. Somebody set off…
Got home from the Rangers-Angels game last night ’round 11ish only to find two Oncor trucks parked on the street behind the house. Seems they’d been called to emergencarily trim trees in the power lines causing sparks to shoot high into the night sky. Which is funny: I’ve been up…
Surprised by the reaction to Tuesday’s item about Girls Gone Wild: Search for the Hottest Girl in America. There was a computer hiccup in the afternoon, so comments were disabled for a while. But via text, in my email inbox and through calls to 105.3 The Fan most folks are…
A Friend of Unfair Park asks that we take a long look at this item posted a few days ago to the legal-eagle blog Above the Law: “SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates.” You read that right: The SMU Dedman School of Law has started a program called…
Shortly after I posted this morning’s item about the Love Field Concessions Committee meeting, I got an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park that contained what you’ll see after the jump: an Official City of Dallas Lobbyist Registration Form submitted on April 13 by Willis Johnson — local…
Last night, the Dallas Independent School District played host more than 150 folks in a heated — though comfortably air-conditioned — town hall meeting at the century-old O.M. Roberts Elementary School building meant to bring the Jubilee Park neighborhood together to discuss the “past, present and future” of the elementary…
Daniel will be along shortly with notes from an Avi-free meeting last night of Lower Greenvillians, but till then, here’s an update concerning Tuesday’s post about the charred ruins formerly known as Terilli’s, Mick’s, Greenville Bar and Grill and Hurricane Grill. I finally spoke with Robert Miller, the attorney repping…
Late last night, Dallas City Hall finally posted the briefing docs for tomorrow afternoon’s debut performance of the Love Field Concession Committee, formed after Mayor Tom just said no to those no-bid contracts on April 28. And, no wonder it took forever to get online: Sucker’s 72 pages not including…
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels took a lot of crap early in his career. Altogether now … Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez to the San Diego Padres for who?! If you remember the answer is Adam Eaton, you have an idea of just how far Daniels has progressed…
I’ve known one or two folks who’ve had kind words about Madison Avenue — especially the patio, with its expansive view of downtown. And Friend of Unfair Park LaceyB sends word today that she’s always been fond of Liar’s Den, home of “a fair-priced beer in Uptown.” But all of…
A little while ago, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sent word that the mayor won’t be distracted by faraway matters. Far as he’s concerned, what happens in Arizona stays in Arizona. That said, the blog’s all yours, Mr. Mayor:”Through most of its recent history, the Dallas City…
It was déjà vu at this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting as Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway preached about revitalizing the Cedar Crest Boulevard bridge and Carolyn Davis pressed city staff for transparency — two themes from the last get-together nearly a month ago. Although Davis has been…
Maybe, maybe not. OK, probably not. But while I was on PACER this afternoon hunting down something unrelated, I thought I’d see if there’d been any resolution in the ongoing legal brouhaha involving Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. For those in need…
Your bucket list should never include kicking the bucket. An 87-year-old World War II Navy vet was being honored for his generous blood donations out at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend when an accident on the track resulted in his death. Don Krusemark was a passenger in a corvette…
Mayor Tom had busy morning: At 7:30 a.m. he dropped by the Annual North Dallas Chamber Membership Breakfast at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center, where he addressed the looming $131.1-million budget shortfall and said, hey, could be worse: “With all the challenges we have on the budget, there are many…
Just a heads-up: A few minutes ago, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent word and posted this press release noting that tomorrow morning, it’s planning to picket the Dean Foods shareholders meeting at the Dallas Museum of Art — and picket it hard.As in: Sure, they’re bringing signs…
Sam’s at the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting — lucky! (Too bad he don’t liveblog like Andrea.) But whilst on the subject, let’s look ahead to next week’s council meeting, when the city will finally move forward on a project that been years in the making: construction of the…
Finally got around to watching HDNet’s Girls Gone Wild: Search for the Hottest Girl in America last night. In a word: HolyHellWowzaI’mHooked. Couple of people have told me HDNet is struggling, that’s why proprietor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is desperately partnering with GGW founder Joe Francis. Another skeptic…
FOX has been sneak-peeking The Good Guys all over town in recent days — at the Lakewood Theater Sunday, at a cast-and-crew viewing party last night — in advance of its early-look tomorrow night. Early reviews have been good: Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker gives it a B-, but writes “it…
