Watching ESPN SportsCenter this morning here in Surprise, Arizona when the Top 10 plays came on. The Mavericks won again last night, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves for their 12th consecutive victory. Dirk Nowitzki wins his second straight NBA Western Conference Player of the Week Award, then goes out – despite two fouls…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons called back to answer some questions raised by the minutes from last month’s meeting — as in, is DART looking to lease or sell properties adjacent to some of its light-rail stations? Says Lyons, DART’s really hoping to sign long-term leases — specifically,…
It was but one week ago that National Public Radio aired that godawful segment pitting Dallas against Fort Worth for “cultural supremacy.” And, fine, maybe Wade Goodwyn and John Burnett were just goofing around, but many Friends of Unfair Park were not amused — and neither was Maria Muñoz-Blanco, director…
Oak Cliff’s gotten the Jim Schutze Bump, as evidenced by the teaser for today’s episode of Think on KERA-90.1 FM:TopicThe Oak Cliff RenaissanceGuestJason Roberts, Mariana Griggs & Amy CowanDescriptionIs Dallas’ “next big thing” south of the Trinity? Our guests this hour think so. With a nod to Jim Schutze’s recent…
Gil LeBreton’s Feb. 28 column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was 1,235 words. Not a one of them was “Nazi” or “Hitler” or “effyouhosers.” Why then did seemingly the entire country of Canada show up with fire and pitchforks, demanding an apology if not a lynching of LeBreton for his clever…
On Friday, at the bottom of his item about Roscoe Betz’s latest legal victory over Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Jim mentioned another ongoing “saga” — former DART board member John C. Tatum’s breach-of-contract suit filed against the transit agency, which Tatum claims balked on its deal to sell him a…
Maybe you missed it Saturday, when I pointed your direction to First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans’s memo warning the council that, sorry, but storm debris cleanup would take till April 10, not March 15 as originally guesstimated. (He blamed it on “residents [continuing] to set out additional limbs and…
10. So far, so good Josh Hamilton. Didn’t exactly crush the ball, but had two singles in yesterday’s debut. If he returns to 2008 form, the Rangers can will win the American League West. 9. Team president Nolan Ryan, by the way, predicts 92 wins for this team and says…
That’s Art Acevedo, by the way, among the six finalists named by City Manager Mary Suhm today to replace outgoing Dallas police chief David Kunkle, who’s so outta here next month. Acevedo’s probably the best-known among the candidates: Not only does he hail from the capital city, where he’s only…
A year ago, Ron White from Euless stormed the USA Memory Championship, drawing on years of delivering memory seminars and a training regimen that involved memorizing cards underwater, a story Megan Feldman related in the May cover story “Mind Games.”On Saturday, White was back in New York to defend his…
This morning I left a message for Joey Zapata, head of code compliance, to ask how the city handles city-owned buildings that fall out of compliance. Like this one, for instance: This is the former Fire Station No. 35 on on Walnut Hill Lane near Marsh, a circa-1953 structure replaced…
Just a few things I’ve collected during the course of a day that would have been better spent in bed …I see here that Bruegger’s Bakery and Café is expanding this year into the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Never had a Bruegger’s, but says here it’s nothing more than “an average…
For about 10 minutes an hour ago, the city’s Web site was working — time enough to let me access the briefings for this afternoon’s meeting of the Transportation and Environment Committee, where you’ll find Schutze ’round 2 today. The site’s down yet again (which Frank Librio didn’t know till…
Angela Hunt’s Web site is having similar issues to the city’s — the Internet, clearly, is having a case of the Mondays, as we’re also having our own server issues. Nonetheless, I asked her to send her account from last night’s fund-raiser at the Double-Wide, held to help those workers…
Back in June ’06, we recounted the tale of local Mr. Olpympia Phil Busch, who sued Pat Robertson in Dallas federal court over a weight-loss shake sold via The 700 Club. Long story, but Busch, who also sued Jon Stewart in ’06, was mad because he claimed Robertson was using…
Interesting development in the sad saga of Greg Williams while I was out of pocket: Turns out his radio re-launch gig with John Clay Wolfe went kaput. Weird, because I thought they had a deal. A working agreement. A contract, even. I know for sure they had a web site…
Here’s a quick Monday-morning discussion question for you Friends of Unfair Park: Have you stopped or cut back on taking the Dallas North Tollway in these lean times? My monthly bill recently hit $120, so it’s Stemmons Freeway — go, Speed Racer! — for me until some bills are paid…
A Friend of Unfair Park just sent word: “E-mails to City Hall are all bouncing back as invalid emails.” OK, I figure, maybe the system’s crashed. Then I go over to the city of Dallas’s official Web site to sneak peek the community gardens and Central Expressway landscaping briefings scheduled…
Okay, what’d I miss? While in Vegas the Cowboys did exactly nothing in free agency, the Rangers got rained out here in Surprise, Arizona, one of my favorite restaurants burned to the ground and the Mavericks injected some madness into March by running off 11 consecutive games and tricking us into thinking they…
A couple of items to get you through a gloomy Sunday morning …While we’re on the subject of rebuilding the block of Lower Greenville destroyed by an electrical fire at Terilli’s Tuesday morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park regifts the above photo he received this week: “Luke Zaby and…
Last night, District 14 rep Angela Hunt posted the latest update concerning the fate of the 2800 block of Lower Greenville that disappeared in a cloud of smoke Tuesday morning, due to an electrical fire at Terilli’s. Yes, she writes, one of the building’s owners, Jon duPerier, has vowed to…
Yesterday City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the council a financial forecast report in advance of Monday’s meeting of the Budget, Finance & Audit Committee. Through December, FY 2009-10 has been a mixed bag of bad news-good news, as in: “General Fund revenues are projected to be $8,559,000 below budget…
