Says this sneak preview of the city council’s Economic Development Committee agenda next week, Dallas is considering forking over an economic development grant to Hilton Hotels, which is looking to relocate a regional headquarters to Dallas. Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavitkovsky, as always, has at least some insight…
As expected, former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill has taken the stand to defend himself against charges of corruption and extortion, as U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn reminded him that he has a constitutional right not to testify, which he waived. His attorney, Ray Jackson, just asked him to introduce…
It’s been too long since we’ve published a photo from The Wayback Machine, so much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who was messing around on Flickr and found this gem amongst the treasures kept by the Library of Congress — a photo of Judge Quentin D. Corley, for…
The biggest African American funeral home in the Southwestern U.S. is located here in Dallas, and it’s called Golden Gate Funeral Home. Its CEO, John Beckwith Jr. — a man who dreams of burying everybody in Dallas, black and white — is the subject of this week’s cover story in…
In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys’ roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don’t I believe in feel-good, underdog miracles?! In the movies, absolutely. In the NFL, um,…
A few minutes ago, I spoke to Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander concerning his voice-mail message this morning. I wondered if today’s decision, to let teachers and principals decide whether their classes could watch President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday, was a change from any kind of…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that former Dallas Cowboy hitting machine, 48-year-old Eugene Lockhart, is among nine people indicted by a federal grand jury. They’re accused of a running a mortgage scheme out of Dallas between 2001 and ’05 under such monikers as America’s Team Mortgage, America’s Team…
So, the Plano Independent School District has opted out of President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday, but what says the Dallas ISD? I asked Jon Dahlander, district spokesman, via e-mail this morning about the district’s plans. While I was out of the office, he left the following message on…
This go-round, Dallas City Hall has thoughtfully provided a list of city-run buildings that’ll be open and closed tomorrow, the second furlough day per City Manager Mary Suhm’s cost-cutting efforts. So, let’s see: City Hall’s closed; so too the Oak Cliff Municipal Center, so there goes my Friday. All Dallas…
My new midday friend Newy Scruggs takes an active interest in my weekly monthly randomly updated list of the hottest chicks on our TV sets. He was on my case for not including Tammy Dombeck (middle) in my August offering. Now, he’s strongly suggesting I – and, of course, that…
Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas iMedia Network sent word of its Slam Bang Theater 50th-anniversary celebration scheduled for September 24 (an in-studio taping for which you’ll need to RSVP) and September 26, when, at the Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, Richard Kent will screen his doc Icky…
Late yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested that Cumulus Media’s going to rebrand 93.3 on Your FM Dial as a pop-40 station — as in, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas. Maybe so. But this much is (almost) certain: Sooner than later, KDBN-FM will most likely be known…
Don’t know how we missed word of the Whole Foods “buycott,” which kicked off Tuesday night in St. Louis and at the Preston Forest location. Read about it in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, where author Meghan Daum brings word of the National Tea Party’s response to the response to…
They’ve lost Michael Young (two weeks with a hammy) and now maybe even Josh Hamilton (left last night’s game with back ouchie). But, give them credit, your Texas Rangers haven’t lost hope. And why should they? Allow me to quickly clarify my position: I don’t think the Rangers will make…
Copy cats: You’d think the activist folks on the left of the political spectrum would be pretty chapped right about now. After all, they’ve been in the protest and civil disobedience game for decades, speaking out against everything from war to the death penalty to environmental rape. And now we…
John Beckwith Jr. walks into his morgue and over to the new corpse. His colleagues and pastor follow him inside, still talking from lunch. The air in the morgue stirs and rattles a paper sign taped to a door that reads, “Where excellence is standard and only perfect is acceptable.”…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze uses two of Mayor Tom Leppert’s top political consultants — Carol Reed and Mari Woodlief — to explain why the mayor is hardly the “Angel of Ethics” despite the new lobbying rules presented (per some council members’ requests, behind closed doors)…
A few years down the road, you just may get pulled over by a Dallas Police officer driving this hot new number. If nothing else, it’s on the DPD’s wish list — appropriate in the hometown of RoboCop.The first purpose-built police car is on a national tour and stopped this…
For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make ’em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at…
If the Dallas City Council winds up passing an ordinance requiring rent-house owners to register with the city — a proposal we mentioned Sunday and just discussed at the council’s briefing — it’ll apparently have to do so without three members’ input. In the middle of Code Compliance’s presentation, two…
“Traveling Man” artists Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg got their first glimpses of their three finished sculptures through a train window yesterday, rolling into DART’s new Deep Ellum Station on a Green Line test run.This morning, they were good enough to send the above close-up of the largest piece, “Walking…
Several Friends of Unfair Park — which is to say, the handful of people still listening to 93.3 Quality Rock — have e-mailed me this morning wondering what the what is going on on the left side of the FM dial. Because starting at midnight, the fledgling station began broadcasting…
