Every week I get two, three emails asking: What’s up with the federal lawsuit over The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art? You remember the one: Wendy Reves’s son Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. is suing the Dallas Museum of Art, claiming they done took his…
It didn’t come up last Wednesday, when the council talked about saving and selling Dallas’s water. But there was a brief mention made ago, during that chitchat concerning the city’s long-range water-supply plan, the most recent of which was done six years ago. Says right there on Slide No. 41:…
It most certainly did not feel like Christmas: Seventy-four degrees and 85-percent humidity is no way to spend the Saturday night before Thanksgiving. It certainly sounded like Christmas: Main Street Garden was surround-sounded by KVIL-approved Christmas hits, turned up to 11, not for the easily humbugged. But at the City…
When I had Willis Winters on the phone the other day, I mentioned in passing that I just driven pastthe new pavilion at Royal Park, off Royal and Cromwell in Northwest Dallas. At which point Park and Rec’s second-in-command directed my attention to this freshly minted guide to those architect-designed…
I just came across this brand-spanking new Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau promo — its title, clearly, “Moon Over Dallas.” First person I showed it to was The New Guy who sits next door. Said the outta-towner, “Pretty fucking great. Coulda used more of that girl in the bikini …”…
As expected Tom Gaglardi was awarded ownership of the Dallas Stars in a Delaware bankruptcy court this morning; and, as expected, the Canadian has brought back the great Jim Lites, the one-time team president and CEO moved in ’07 to run Hicks Sports Marketing Group, poor fella. And it didn’t…
A Dallas VA Medical Center nurse is on leave and her bosses are in full-blown groveling mode after a gay combat vet, in search of help for her deepening depression, said she was urged to come out of the darkness and to stop living in terrible lesbian sin. “I was…
Saw this one coming; so too did the city council. After all, in mid-September the council met behind closed doors with city attorneys to review “legal issues regarding proposed resource flow control ordinance” — which, as I am sure you recall, is the ordinance directing all solid waste collected in…
A couple of days back a Friend of Unfair Park shot me a note: “Thought you might want a look at this, seems pretty exciting!” Below was this link, which takes you to something called the Texas Lone Star Grand Prix scheduled to take place March 17-18 at Fair Park…
Shortly after the ad hoc committee met to discuss closing those 11 schools yesterday, Dallas Independent School District trustees gathered to receive the district’s latest audit, which shows a fund balance of $135 million — meaning, the district has added close to $100 million to its emergency reserves over the…
His family, defense attorneys — even the bailiffs and the transport drivers — noticed something was different about Seth Winder, who is standing trial in a Denton County court for allegedly murdering his 38-year-old lover Richard Hernandez in 2008, dismembering his body and disposing of him in a dumpster at…
Speaking of a Dealey Plaza’s redo … I’ve had a copy of National Geographic Channel’s JFK: The Lost Bullet sitting on the desk for a week; haven’t watched it yet, but there’s time — it doesn’t air till Sunday at 8 p.m. And while it’s said to show Lee Harvey…
For close to two years we’ve written here and there (and there and there and …) about Tim Headington’s slow-but-sure downtown takeover via The Joule’s expansion, which, we recently learned, is the reason the Praetorian and those other old buildings along Elm are being razed. And now we know, in…
As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas ISD trustees just got through discussing a very touchy subject: school consolidations and the repurposing of facilities — or closures, for those who aren’t sensitive to the subject matter. In all, DISD higher-ups are recommending shuttering 11 schools, nine elementary campuses and two middle…
While we were downtown in the wee small hours of this morning, I noticed that Reunion Tower’s lights looked a little … strange. But I didn’t think much of it; there were other, you know, distractions. Thankfully, the great Justin Terveen, who’d come out to shoot photos, also noticed it…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recognize the name Steve Houser: He’s the former chair of the Dallas Urban Forest Advisory Committee honored by George W. Bush in ’08 for his volunteer work saving the city’s trees. Reason I mention him today: The arborist sends word that he and other…
For days we’ve been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week’s worth of press releases, “a MAJOR announcement” would be made this morning. And even though it wasn’t exactly a secret by the time the press conference rolled around…
As if this case wasn’t already weird enough, it got weirder on Wednesday in Denton County court. According to prosecutors, in September 2008 Seth Winder murdered his lover, a beloved, longtime Walmart employee named Richard Hernandez. Then he allegedly dismembered him. Why? Haven’t gotten there yet. Winder apparently has a…
Ah, so this is why Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn and trustee Bernadette Nutall want to clamp down on public speakers at school board meetings — comments made by Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace at the October 20 board meeting. Specifically, they’re furious over Wallace’s assertion at…
I was in the middle of watching the city council briefings on water conservation and the Stage 1 watering restrictions yesterday when I got pulled away — and just when it was getting interesting too. So this morning I started going back to review the tape, beginning just as Sandy…
A little past 11 last night, one of the protesters camped out behind Dallas City Hall was walking from tent to tent, shouting: “Anybody in there? Anybody in there?” From one emerged a groggy, irritated “What?” He was told: “You gotta go, you gotta go. Police are coming.” And they…
The pride and shame of Lufkin, Texas, are located about a half mile from each other. Just west of the town’s east loop, there’s Abe Martin Stadium, site of many triumphs for the Lufkin Panthers, 5A state champions in 2001 and perennial contenders for the crown. About a quarter-mile up…
