Said the city’s own time line back in ’07, the Belo Garden downtown should have been completed by … let’s see … last month, matter of fact. And revised guesstimates last summer set the start date for construction at this summer. But there have been myriad reasons for the delay…
Okay, I’m sucked in. Not to the point of eating Creatine cupcakes, stocking my closet with Affliction T-shirts and putting Newy Scruggs in an arm bar, but I’m intrigued enough by the sport of Mixed Martial Arts that I’m journeying to American Airlines Center Saturday night for UFC 103. I know…
In a word: Well, that answers that. Sort of. On Tuesday, Dallas Morning News reporter Rudy Bush attempted to answer a straightforward question: Would all the rain the city’s been having lately have flooded the toll road that City Hall wants to build alongside the Trinity River, between the levees?…
“The Mayor’s Retainers,” by Jim Schutze, September 3 Devil in Details Toward the end of “The Mayor’s Retainers” article Jim writes: “The real tragedy of the federal corruption trial, no matter what the verdict it produces, is that the behavior of the defendants has sullied and squandered the promise of…
Terrell who? After last year’s season opener, the Dallas Cowboys were 1-0, coming off a road win at Cleveland and defending their egomaniacal receiver, Terrell Owens, who had drawn a fine from the NFL for his track star touchdown celebration. After this year’s opener the Cowboys are 1-0, coming off…
Anyone who’s followed Food Network’s Opening Soon, a program documenting the furious ups and downs of bringing a restaurant to life, expects to see chaos. Fixtures break, code inspection reveals hidden flaws, contractors fail to show—and if they do, it’s with the wrong materials. Park opened on Henderson Avenue this…
A month ago today we told you about The Trinity Trust’s “Suspense is Building” campaign, which is intended to get the locals hot and bothered for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in advance of Santiago Calatrava’s $150-a-ticket victory toddle on September 25. I finally saw one of the billboards this…
Anthony Daniels was in Dallas yesterday to promote the Star Wars: In Concert megavent scheduled for October 23 at Cowboys Stadium, where two hours’ worth of Star Wars clips will get a screening on Jerry Jones’s high-def wall of voodoo. Patrick Michels recorded my lengthy chitchat with C-3PO’s alter ego…
It’s been two months since Texas Monthly’s president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: “What I’ve Learned.” And among those myriad lessons is this one:…
Speaking of the council and the budget and fees versus taxes …As we mentioned yesterday, Tennell Atkins’s budget amendment called for a 1-cent property tax increase — which I didn’t think would get terribly far, given council members, the mayor and the city manager’s oft-repeated vows not to raise taxes…
Just when the budget process couldn’t get more interesting …Yesterday we noted that some on the council, and City Manager Mary Suhm, have pointed out that at the end of the year, the city’s franchise fee contract with Atmos Energy is set to expire. Suhm notes, on Page 24 of…
Coulda swore the National Hockey League never returned from its 2005 lockout. No, wait, don’t I sorta remember a hip little hiccup back in 2008? Honestly, they tell me there will be a Dallas Stars game down at American Airlines Center tonight. Marc Crawford is the new coach. Brenden Morrow is…
If you’ve got some time this afternoon, you may wanna tune into the city council’s budget amendment briefing, which has turned its attention to the council members’ proposal to cut their own budget. As you may know, the council’s modest proposal got more modest last week. But the council –…
Yesterday came the big announcement: AT&T done bought itself the naming rights to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. But there was one glaring omission in the press release’s fine print: How much did the company pay? That troubles New York Times arts and business writer Judith Dobrzynski, who…
Unfair Park’s about to get a new down-the-street neighbor, as evidenced by this coming-soon banner I espied on the drive to work this morning. And, no, this is not the Hot Klub reunion scheduled for October 9 — though, funny thing, it’s but blocks down Maple Avenue from Mark Lee’s…
It took Mayor Tom Leppert approximately two years to accomplish what no one else in Dallas could: begin building a convention center hotel. And hundreds of assorted politicos, city officials, business leaders and supporters were on hand Tuesday afternoon at the site of the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel to…
At last: KERA just sent word that its announced-in-June all-music radio station, now known as KKXT-FM (91.7), will officially makes its bow November 9 at 7 a.m. Also announced this morning were the nationally syndicated programs KXT, as it’ll be known, will air: Acoustic Café, American Routes, Mountain Stage, Putumayo…
Courthouse News this morning draws our attention to the plight of Brwa Aziz, a dentist in Iraq for whom the mission has not been accomplished. Aziz, you see, enjoys sinking his teeth into North American fast food. He’s already serving up smoothies, as a franchisee of Canada-based Juice Zone, and…
Buddy of mine took his 9-year-old to the Rangers game Monday night in Arlington. Kid, not surprisingly, wanted some ice cream. In one of those cool, plastic Rangers helmet cups. One problem: “They didn’t have any Rangers helmet cups,” my buddy tells me. “They had run out. They told us…
Speaking of Mayor Tom Leppert and his sales pitching …Today at the Dallas Regional Chamber luncheon at the downtown Sheraton, the mayor gave his State of the City address, which more or less consisted of a show-and-tell: He told the audience — businessmen and elected officials, mostly — how he’s…
Kim’s wrapping up her piece from Mayor Tom’s State of the City address at the downtown Sheraton this afternoon. And she’s got a nice photo of Leppert holding one of those nifty iPhones he’s sending to corporate honchos across the country in the hopes of convincing them to relocate to…
Back in June, Provident Realty spokesperson Marie Fahey told Unfair Park that, look, the developer wasn’t quite sure when it was gonna get around to building that European crossroads at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway, site of the long-delayed Glen at Preston Hollow mixed-use development. The company, she said, was…
