Patricia Viramontes has long been one of Dallas Independent School District’s more controversial figures, dating back to at least September 2007, when district officials concluded that, yes, maybe the DISD’s executive director of instructional technology services shouldn’t be reporting to her husband after all, nepotism policies being what they are…
In late August, Kim spoke with Phillip Dennis, head of the Dallas Tea Party, about his aspirations for the group. This is what he told her:I believe in what we’re doing. I believe in this movement. I think this really is the beginning of the second revolution of America. It’s…
Dave Neumann kicked off the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting this morning by revisiting last week’s decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which approved levee remediation plans regarding construction of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. “It ended up not being a major deal at all,”…
So says list-lovin’ Forbes in its round-up of The Best (And Worst) Teams of the Decade, assembled using franchises’ win-loss record during the ’00s, playoff appearances, titles won and the value of the franchise (which, in the Mavs’ case, has more than doubled since Mark Cuban bought the team in…
‘Bout a week ago over on DC9, Pete posted some new Christmas carols from the likes of Dorrough, THe BAcksliders and A Bird A Sparrow, which, yet again, prompted me to dust off my copies of the long-out-of-print Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum (released in ’95) and 2000’s Electric…
We last spoke with Maria Munoz-Blanco, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, about the Majestic Theatre in mid-May — just as Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group was opting not to renew its contract to manage the 89-year-old city landmark, given a $1 million loss since taking it over…
Norv Turner. You know, the guy who coaches the San Diego Chargers. The guy whose team has won seven in a row this year and is 10-0 in December under him. The guy who is 4-2 in the playoffs. Ring a bell? Dallas Cowboys fans, you heard your head coach…
When last we heard, plans to redo the old LTV Tower at 1600 Pacific Avenue were indefinitely put on hold when developer Curtis Lockey filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a few months ago. But City Hall was determined not to give up on the project, some of which was…
When last we looked at the city of Dallas’s crime stats on November 13, there was just one number on the rise: homicides, up from 134 at the end of October 2008 to 141 at the end of October ’09. But when Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle presents the latest…
It was all I could do Saturday night to keep my eyes off the EnormoDome’s big screen during UT-Nebraska; it takes more willpower than trying to stop smoking. So perhaps this is just Jerry Jones’s way of acknowledging the obvious: Broadcasting & Cable reports this morning that folks attending the…
If you’re one of those who doesn’t believe in the theory of “credit where credit is due”, and who thinks principles like “ownership” and “theft” are antiquated ideals better left behind in a kinder, gentler, softer era, please stop reading. Now. If you have a tendency to respond with “Dudn’t matter!” or “Who cares?”,…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed this morning wondering what a Ticket-Dallas Morning News content-sharing deal, announced this morning, actually means. After all, Jean-Jacques Taylor, Rick Gosselin, Todd Archer, Evan Grant and other sportswriters already appear on the station regularly. What’s new about this particular arrangement? I’ve e-mailed Jeff…
Earlier this afternoon, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Morgan Lyons sent word that the U.S. Department of Transportation is giving DART $5.3 million to fund something called an Integrated Corridor Management system. The feds have been messing around with this for years in an effort to unclog heavily congested freeways; Dallas…
While the city’s chief financial officer began his career 28 years ago as a computer programmer in the Dallas Water Utilities Department, somehow he didn’t find his way onto the pages of Unfair Park until two years ago — a short mention in a February 2008 piece about the convention…
Back to Dallas Farmers Market Shed No. 2 for just a moment. While doing some follow-up phone-calling this morning after posting the item about Pecan Lodge Catering, I found out that the city-owned building, which cost $3.2 million to redo before its quiet reopening at the end of 2008, never…
This year’s Fair Park Holiday found a wet Sunday night for its free, family-friendly round of ornament decorating, photos with Santa and Christmas tattoos (they’re temporary), plus the new Esplanade Fountain’s big debut as another Sunday night stocking stuffer.The fountain, with a “dancing water” show a la the Bellagio, featured…
For polling purposes, Rasmussen Reports pretended the Tea Party movement organized as a political party and then tossed it into a ménage with the GOP and Dems. On a generic congressional ballot test using the three parties, 23 percent of respondents to a national telephone poll voted for the Tea…
We’re probably a long ways off from finding out if TNT and Warner Bros. TV plan on shooting their small-screen Dallas remake in Dallas. Which hasn’t stopped me from leaving messages all morning for Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, to see if she knows what’s what on…
Actually, it’s not confounding defeats to the Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks that has Cuban peeved, but more so tonight’s American Airlines Center invasion by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). (This is, after all, a blog named after an old rasslin’ barn.) Cuban, never one to turn down some theatrics or a spotlight,…
A week after discovering that Dallas Farmers Market’s Shed No. 2 has one new tenant — and, by the way, that Chicago-style deli’s actually called the Old World Sausage Co., and it’s scheduled to open at the end of this week — Unfair Park brings news of another. And this…
Over the weekend, some 65 people paraded into Sean Fitzgerald’s Canton Street home to talk about how in the world to plant a community garden in Deep Ellum. It was, says the president of the Deep Ellum Community Association, a varied gathering consisting of neighborhood activists, urban planners, property owners,…
Ironic, isn’t it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that’s getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to win the National…
