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Never did understand why Robb & Stucky opened a NorthPark Center location — it just didn’t seem to fit, especially sandwiched between Barney’s and other clothing retailers, and the few times I went in to peek at pieces well out of my price range, the sprawling, two-story furniture store was…

Way back in August, Megan wrote about the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committe’s vote to spend $2.5 mil in ’06 bond funds snapping up a piece of a parking lot that’s supposed to be the future home of Pacific Plaza Park, one more piece of the Downtown…

Schutze is right — they ought to trademark it, “The Oak Cliff Way.” Now, it’s more than likely the  Old Oak Cliff Conservation League won’t stop the Dallas Independent School Board from razing the Oak Cliff Christian Church to make way for tennis courts or an athletic field or whatever…

I swear — swearswearswear — this is our last item about Fair Park. At least, for today — I’m headed over to the George Allen, so. But, seriously, I highly recommend attending Park and Rec board meetings, mostly because Park and Rec’s the only city entity I’m aware of that…

While we’re on the subject of Fair Park (and when are we not this week?), I’ll assume you missed this when we first mentioned it on Christmas Eve: Fair Park’s getting a car museum. Or, to be more precise, the Texas Museum of Automotive History. Just this morning, matter of…

Now we know where we’ll be at 4 p.m. today: at the George Allen Court House — specifically, in Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson’s courtroom. The judge will consider a temporary restraining order filed moments ago by the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, which, of course, is trying to keep the…

Haitians living in the Dallas area came together last night to grieve for a country wrecked by last week’s earthquakes (and this week’s aftershocks) that have left an estimated 200,000 dead. Dieula Previlon, a young Haitian woman who moved here when she was in the fifth grade, said it was critical…

Two months before last year’s May 9 referendum on public ownership of the Dallas Omni Convention Center Hotel, we cautioned voters that one of the key selling points of the project — the erection of residential units, restaurants, shops, bars, nightclubs, and other entertainment venues surrounding the hotel — had…

Because I can’t go two days without posting something by the great Justin Terveen, his latest: a shot of Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Pearl Station. Actually, Justin explains, it’s three shots in one: “Two were stitched, while the remaining shot was blended in to create the static effect within the…

Back in October, we spoke with Daniel Iacofano, the “I” in MIG, Inc., which the city hired to develop the latest downtown master plan known as Downtown Dallas 360. Though the study isn’t due till June, a Friend of Unfair Park points out that on his thoughtful, hell-raising, attention-getting blog…

On August 11, 2008, Mark and Patty Lovvorn wanted nothing more than to tear down their massive house on Nonesuch Road, the famous manse designed by Roscoe DeWitt for Stanley Marcus in the 1930s. “Energy inefficiency” was the reason offered in the couple’s letter to the Texas Historic Commission, which…

Clearing the smoke: Every two weeks or so, we wander into our publisher’s office and flip through copies of our company’s sister papers in Denver and California, where medical marijuana is legal. “Wow, they must be raking in the ad dough,” we say, looking at the advertisements for medical pot…

Unlike his neighbors’ homes, Craig Cunningham’s house in Northeast Dallas looks abandoned. The grass is dried out. The concrete slab under the front door is lopsided and cracked. The green exterior has faded to a toxic-looking shade. Yellow Pages pile up near the front door, and the black mailbox is…

Shortly before the end of the year, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes told me that the Dallas-based videotailer is a “football team that’s rebuilding. At first, the press is all over you. They’re gonna hammer you, tell you you’re dead, you’ll never be as good as you were. Meanwhile, you’re slowly…

On Sunday we sneak-peeked City Manager Mary Suhm’s money-making proposals for covering the latest inevitable budget shortfall. They include everything from a plan to “vaporize” waste to imposing a tax on plastic bags and bottles to leasing the city’s seal to private companies to selling City Hall for $900,000 cash…

Just last month we mentioned the city’s proposal for regulating neighborhood farmers markets — another bright idea from what Jim likes to call the Municipal Ministry of Food Production. For those who need some catchin’-up, the city wants to make sure the smaller markets, like those at Celebration and at…