Merritt Martin, your usual recapper, has let her personal life interfere with her TV watching schedule, so I have been drafted to fill in for her this week. With 10 designers remaining, and Heidi’s ominous warning in previews that “one OR MORE of you will be out,” we were really…
Back in April, the Dallas City Council gave Berkeley-based Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. $515,000 out of the Downtown Connection TIF District Project Budget to come up with a downtown Dallas “area plan.” Because, look, Dallas has a mountainous stack of studies and plans — the Downtown Parks Master Plan, the…
Phillip David Wainscott, who’s been licensed to practice law in Texas since 1995, says Dallas County is interfering with his ability to make a living — and by Dallas County, he really means Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price in his position as a member of the county’s Bail Bond…
“Perry sets up pay for recruiters”—headline in The Dallas Morning News about Governor Rick Perry’s Amway-like campaign program that pays cash incentives to “volunteers” who recruit additional “volunteers” Coming soon to a cable channel near you: Perry, dressed in an electric-blue dress shirt, white belt and tan slacks, rushes from…
Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your runoff water feeding vegetation growing on the roof and walls, upon which you’ll feast later that night. Or…
Seems like forever ago that Plano-based Metromedia Restaurant Group shuttered Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale — but, nope, it was just July of last year. A few Bennigan’s locations resurfaced shortly thereafter, when Richardson-based Bennigan’s Franchising Company, LLC assumed the position and reopened 100 eateries, half out of the country…
But that’s just because the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn’t want the Rangers’ shortstop to become a bullfighter. Oh, you missed that? Yeah — a couple of days back, the former Indians great said bullfighting is “one of my things on the to-do list.” That’s only because…
… William “Tex” Moncrief Jr., the Fort Worth oilman and Internal Revenue Service fan who comes in at No. 366 on Forbes’ latest list of the 400 Richest Americans. So, what does the man in possession of 20,000 acres of undeveloped Barnett Shale property have to say in the magazine’s…
Down below, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to a video he shot downtown last night, where a helicopter was a-hoverin’ in order to make Dallas look “L.A.-ish” for ABC’s mid-season replacement series, The Deep End, shooting here till mid-November. All ’round, a rather nicely put together presentation…
While we keep tabs on the Dallas and Richardson designers cutting and sewing their way to the middle on Project Runway, which has been rendered a hot mess by Lifetime, keep in mind: Three locals populate the cast of Glee, by far the best of the new fall shows and,…
Council member Angela Hunt has nominated Dr. Bill Peterson, a professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, to replace term-limited Neil Emmons on the city plan commission. Peterson’s term as Hunt’s appointee to the city’s senior affairs commission expired Wednesday, and Hunt expects the city council to approve the…
On a whim, I headed over to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse yesterday afternoon for the day’s last two hours of jury deliberations in the City Hall corruption case. Sure, the odds of catching a verdict while I was there were slim, but I thought I might get…
So, yes, until a few minutes ago, there was quite the delay at Dallas Love Field: According to Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Ashley Rogers, “there was a white powder” found in a lower-level bathroom, which briefly prompted the closing of the main security checkpoint near the Southwest check-in area. Folks were…
Let’s see, your Dallas Mavericks have a star with longer hair and a lighter mood. They have a free Fan Jam Friday night at 7 at American Airlines Center. And, lookie here, they have an opening at a key position – public address announcer. With long-time voice Humble Billy Hayes moving…
A Friend of Unfair Park who’s in The Movie Business read yesterday’s item about Fox shooting The Deep End in Dallas and forwards along this note: Producers are in need of extras. Which is why he sends along this casting-call notice for “20 regular extras” willing to work on the…
In case you missed her short speech to the Dallas City Council before last week’s vote on Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget, District 13 rep Ann Margolin has posted to her Web site an item titled, simply, “Why I Voted Against the Budget.” Spoiler alert: She mentions the decision to up…
Lots of little items with which to kick off the day, such as …Kinki Lounge on Greenville Avenue, between Penrose and Martel Aves., apparently opened up without getting a dance-hall license, which is naughty, but hardly kinky. Hence its appearance today at City Hall today before the Permit and License…
Catch the ball. Shut your mouth. It’s really not that difficult. Cowboys’ receiver Roy Williams is becoming a Terrell Owens starter kit, in every way. First he dropped what should have been a touchdown pass in last week’s win over Carolina. And now he’s questioning his role on the team. Oh…
As we predicted, the word “balance” was frequently used to describe what a “great street” could and should be during Tuesday’s presentation to the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committees. The council was left with plenty to ponder as RTKL’s Eric Dohrer more or less told the council that it…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department:The Dallas Police Department has discovered an apparent theft of 38 cases of ammunition from storage bunkers at the Firearms Training Center located at 3200 Mountain Creek Parkway. The theft occurred within the last 30 days and involves ammunition for both rifles and…
If you’re downtown this afternoon — say, beginning at 4 p.m. but most likely after dark-thirty — and start to wonder what the what those helicopters are doing flying so danged low, fret not: It’s all for Billy Zane! (See? The Phantom? Get it? Forget it.) Or maybe you forgot:…
If you need me between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, I’ll be at the American Airlines Center auditioning to be The New Voice of Your Dallas Mavericks. So. Not. Kidding. But, let’s see … what do I need to do? Oh, here it is: “Registered applicants…
