It began as an art installation-slash-political statement at the clusterfudged intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street in Oak Cliff: the Better Block project, which thumbed its nose at Dallas’s antiquated City Code. And it was a great deal of fun for all involved — those…
You know how I feel about squirrels, but … When I was a kid – thankfully I only have a vague memory of the experience – I underwent this allergy test. A bunch of razor-blade nicks in my bare back to see how I reacted to chemicals and whatnot. Result: I…
After yesterday’s dust-up over the weekend removal of trees at Elm and North Harwood Streets, a few downtown-dwelling Friends of Unfair Park are a bit skittish. Hence, the myriad what-the-what e-mails we’ve received over the past hour asking about the removal of eight elm trees on Main Street between Pearl…
Still waiting on The Official Online Trailer for FOX’s The Good Guys, which’ll be shooting ’round town till July. But one week after we brought you the 45-second clip airing on the network, a Friend of Unfair Park sends word that a second, shorter and altogether different teaser has found…
Four-game losing streak. Bats are dead. Fielding is iffy. Texas Rangers are 5-7 and in Boston for a series starting tonight. Brace yourselves, it could get worse. Today is April 20, better known as “the week of April 19th”, better known as the week the sale of the Texas Rangers…
When I first began posting those Lewis Hine photos of Dallas child workers, taken in the fall of 1913, I pointed your direction toward the work of Massachusetts historian Joe Manning, who runs the Lewis Hine Project and has spent the better part of the last several years trying to…
The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University won’t be breaking ground till November, but its policy arm, the Bush Institute, has already had a busy spring. Shacking up in SMU’s Collins Center, it hosted its first events last month, covering education leadership, literacy in Afghanistan and natural…
Mark it down: 2 p.m. tomorrow, George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building. That’s when the Fifth Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments for case No. 05-09-01170-CV — otherwise known as In the Matter of the Marriage of J.B. and H.B., otherwise known as the Dallas gay divorce case. No…
Draft schmaft. How about a mock schedule? The NFL will release its 2010 regular-season menu tonight at 6 on NFL Network. We know the Dallas Cowboys’ opponents for next this season, we just don’t when they’ll play where. Without the aid of a hidden cell phone video, allow me to take…
Dr. W.A. Criswell Speaks of a New Sanctuary for First Baptist Dallas from First Dallas on Vimeo.It was back in November we first learned of First Baptist Dallas’s plans to remake downtown in its own image. A few hours ago, First Baptist posted the video above, a virtual fly-through of…
Just left a message for Kyle Rote Jr. congratulating him on his pending induction into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, which was announced quietly last week but is making the rounds today. Suffice it to say, he was my childhood hero — a native son (of a local…
So, regarding those missing trees at Elm and North Harwood:They’ll be back. Don’t know exactly when. But, says Lincoln Properties’ Laurie Garcia, who manages that corner lot at Elm and Harwood for the Boston-based owners, they’re planting new ones “as soon as possible.” And that corner, she insists, will be…
Those of you who bash Dirk Nowitzki – you know who you are – are racial. Not racist per se. But yes, racial. When it comes to our games and the people who play them, first and foremost – above stats or accomplishments or character – is black and white…
It must be follow-up Monday — because, in a moment, a peek at the new-and-improved corner of Elm and Harwood. But first, regarding Sunday’s heads-up about 7-Eleven’s getting into the beer biz, earlier today 7-Eleven spokesperson Margaret Chabris sent along The Official Press Release, which follows after the jump. She…
Saturday morning we directed your attention to plans to turn IndustrialRiverfront Boulevard into a “complete street,” as it’s being presented to the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee tomorrow. But as a Friend of Unfair Park pointed out moments ago, at least one group thinks the city’s being disingenuous,…
I know. It’s early. The Texas Rangers’ season is exactly two weeks old. But there are ominous signs, no? Getting swept by the Yankees in New York isn’t Apocalyptic. But mustering only eight runs in four games is troublesome. More so, the 5-7 Rangers have already blown two wins with their…
If it feels like City Hall’s been debating the issue of how to tear down blighted properties within historic districts since forever, well, it’s only been … what … almost two years now? Which doesn’t mean the City Attorney’s Office is prepared to give up: At noon today city staff,…
This is what this corner of Elm and N. Harwood Streets looked like before this weekend. Per the heads-up on the Dallas Metropolis forum, this is what it looks like now. Dwyane Wade, apparently, needed the space. Reminds Noah Jeppson, who took the photos and let us run this one…
10. Asked Mavs owner Mark Cuban on his Stairmaster last night if he was serious about his story of almost imploding the team in late January before finding the Caron Butler trade: “Absolutely the truth. Ask my wife.” 9. In crunch time, it was Jason Kidd on Manu Ginobli. He…
Maybe you’ve seen the latest issue of Newsweek on newsstands — that cover’s hard to miss. It’s kind of the all-Texas issue, matter of fact, with Evan Smith contributing this piece about the hubbub over the high-school social-studies curriculum and Daniel Gross’s essay about how “the Texas turnaround may help…
The Dallas Watersports Complex — which, as we mentioned back in May 2009 and again in February, will be located on Fish Trap Lake in West Dallas — says on its Web site that it’s “coming Summer 2010.” Not quite, according to an item in front of the council’s Economic…
Back in November came news that 7-Eleven was getting into the private-label wine business with Yosemite Road, which sold for $3.99. Dave Faries, alas, was not impressed — “somewhat palatable” is hardly a viable slogan. So, then, how to greet news of this latest pour: The One Arts Plaza-based chain…
