Another day, another bike plan for Oak Cliff. But Jason Roberts, founder of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, says the Seventh Street proposal and another for Bishop Avenue are all part of efforts to brand the neighborhood “a major bicycling corridor.” The Bishop Ave. concept is this: Install bike-only lanes connecting…
The New York Times gives you $600,000 and three homes from which to choose: a 172-year-old hacienda in Pomona, California; a one-bedroom condo in Boston; or a 105-year-old, four-bedroom craftsman on Swiss Avenue near Fitzhugh voted Preservation Dallas’s top redo of ’07. And … go…
Punter Mat McBriar (he’s forced a league-high 23 fair catches) seems a thorny omission and a case can be made for quarterback Tony Romo (five less touchdowns than Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, but 18 less sacks), but the Dallas Cowboys should be pleased to have landed six players on the…
When I was a kid, Valley View was my mall — bought my first skateboard (a Powell-Peralta purchased at the stand beneath the escalators), my first album (KISS’s Double Platinum at the Disc Records) and my first guitar (thanks, McCord’s) there. But now it’s a ghost of a ghost of…
Elaine’s year-in-local-theater piece runs in the paper version of Unfair Park on stands tomorrow. Till then, then, this sneak peek from Theater Jones, where our theater critic and Mark Lowry look back at the highlights of the year (and decade) that was…
While waiting for Macerich officials to return our calls concerning Valley View Center, where I spent some of this afternoon, there’s this story out of Phoenix worth a look-see, if only as a cautionary tale. Because if the movies have taught us anything, it’s that couples stopped by the police…
Much thanks to Friend of Unfair Park “Mike,” who, in the comments to the Greggo item below, directs our attention to a podcast by a certain Kimball High School and SMU grad best known, perhaps, as Ned Ryerson. He’s been at it for two months, looks like, but Stephen Tobolowsky’s…
Mayor Tom Leppert isn’t an easy interview to snag these days. At least, not for us here at the Observer. But that doesn’t stop us from catching a glimpse of the man whenever we get the chance, and, of course, capturing snapshots along the way. Yup, we’ve developed quite a…
Reason No. 239 blog comments are a good thing: On Christmas, Friend of Unfair Park “whiskey a go go” posted a note to the Hawaii Bowl item that said, simply, “Here’s a link to greggos show from last week.” And, sure enough, one click later there was The Hammer on…
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff sends word this morning of a plan intended to turn Seventh Street into a “pedestrian/bicycle boulevard.” It’s among several bits of heads-up offered this morning, along with further promise of pedicabs courtesy Eno’s.Heads of Winnetka Heights home owners association, local business owners, and property owners are…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park was in Deep Ellum last night and noticed the sign: The King Bucks and The O’s at La Grange on December 30. Turns out, tomorrow is opening night for the latest Deep Ellum venue, to which we introduced you in October. It’s a…
I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. “I’ve had to hook my delay back up,” says Williams’ new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. “This guy makes me want to cuss.” Wolfe, who happens to…
Your Dallas Cowboys’ guaranteed trip to the NFL post-season prompts Bill Rhoden to visit with Jerry Jones in this sports pages of this morning’s New York Times. Much of the content feels reheated; most of the opinions, rehashed. (To wit: “Jerry Jones — owner, president and general manager — is…
GlobeSt.com takes a longish, hardish look at the Dallas’s apartment market and says, yeah, that sure feels like the bottom, so let the good times roll in 2010. But locals who buy and sell multifamily units aren’t sure this will be The Year of the Rebound: Says Will Balthrope in…
One down, three to go as the Old 97’s work their way through a four-night stint at the Sons of Hermann Hall, which is being recorded for some future use. Pete runs down last night’s “informal” opener (so, no ties or tails?) over on DC9, while one Jeb Matulich serves…
Says one baton-lovin’ Friend of Unfair Park, Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden received some early New Year’s best-wishes courtesy the Los Angeles Times, which named him a classical-music “face to watch” in the coming year. Writes Mark Swed of the conductor unknown to locals a mere two…
On Wednesday, the city of Dallas gave John Greenan the good news: The executive director of the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation was told that, yes, finally, he could begin moving people into 511 N. Akard Street, otherwise known as Citywalk @ Akard. More than four and a half years…
On Christmas Eve I was looking for something to post on a snowy, slow news day. I stumbled across a video posted late last week: a flashback to 1997, when the Dallas Diabolicrats pranked Grassy Knoll visitors on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Kinda remembered that. Went over to…
The defense is excelling. The December Demons are exorcized. The Dallas Cowboys are in the playoffs. But is head coach Wade Phillips back next season? I’m sticking to Phillips being a Dead Man Coaching, short of a trip to the Super Bowl, but it’s sounding more and more like owner…
Jody Rikhilal’s family has been selling its curry powders, herbs and masalas downtown for 18 years, and remained at Dallas Farmers Market during Shed No. 2’s $3.2-million overhaul a few years ago. But they decided last week that they’d had enough of dealing with the city of Dallas to remain…
While we’re trying to figure out Florida coach Urban Meyer (one day it’s his health; the next he just doesn’t want to cede control) and muster up interest in this afternoon’s Independence Bowl (Texas A&M and Georgia are a combined 13-11), let’s again daydream of a world void of the BCS and…
An op-ed, co-written by SMU President R. Gerald Turner, has been circulating through the nation’s newspapers in recent days; here’s yesterday’s pit stop in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which Turner and William Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland system, argue that college athletics’ business model is “on a path…
