A Friend of Unfair Park reminds me: It’s that time of the year again — time for Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, to rank 75 major metros’ literacy levels using a handful of criteria (“newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational…
The place: the north side of the George Allen Courts Building, below the overhang. The date: February 7. The time: between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.That’s your invite to the foreclosure auction for Valley View Center, which, since August 2010, has been in the hands of LNR Partners out of…
If anyone would know the answer to the question, “Has there ever been an all-comedy radio station in Dallas?” it would be George Gimarc, who has spent most of a lifetime on Dallas radio whilst also collecting its related ephemera. No, he says. “Not that I’m aware of.” Not till…
Best I can tell using our half-baked search engine, we began writing about Jubilee Park-ers’ battle with the Dallas Independent School District over a new-and-improved O.M. Roberts in April 2010, when residents told Dallas County commissioners they were terrified of losing their homes in an eminent domain tug-of-war with the…
Well, here it is — at least HKS’s conceptual rendering of the “approximately 170,000 square feet, the six-story Jeffersonian-style building” that’ll be built on Crow Holdings’ Maple Ave. property across from Unfair Park HQ. And, no, the accompanying press release doesn’t mention, as many of you have, that Harlan Crow…
Around lunchtime at the Omni today, a crew was dismantling those enormous red Christmas balls that have been heaped up on the lawn for the past couple months, while in the Dallas Ballroom upstairs, Downtown Dallas Inc. was holding its annual meeting. It was a $100-per-head affair ($125 for non-members)…
This morning I called Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, about something more or less related when he mentioned the “Turkish Trump.” Say what now? Ah — turns out, he thought we wrote this piece about Mike Sarimsakci, the developer who came to the city with…
For the past seven years Teresa Woodard’s been a “popular” reporter and anchor for a Fox affiliate in St. Louis, where, as evidenced by the video sampler platter below, she’s donned many different looks for all kinds of stories. (Among then: The Banfield.) But it says here that Woodard’s about…
This is Ollie’s Place at 4909 S. Pacific Avenue, in the shadow of Fair Park. Till very recently the building, constructed in 1965, was owned by Martin Needom Jr., who lives not far away. It was once a neighborhood convenience store in an area zoned residential — not uncommon in…
Seems like forever ago we were getting our first look at the then-£300-million Stanley Park stadium Tom Hicks was promising to build for his, um, beloved Liverpool FC; ah, the good ol’ days — January 2008, before the cracks gave way to the complete cave-in. Back then, though, Hicks gave…
Till this morning, I’d never seen this 2-year-old Dallas-n-Arlington ad made by Victory Park-based TM Advertising as part of its Texas Tourism package; never had reason. (The Arts District! Souffles! The Dallas Cowboys!) But this morning we get word: The Texas Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism has opted…
Last year, you may recall, Brent Brown’s bcWORKSHOP spent the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service by posting ’round town those cutouts intended to raise awareness about how to end homelessness; but in the end, the city didn’t take kindly to their presence, threatening to remove them for being…
The ad you see above, done for German bank ING DiBa, started running two weeks ago and has been online for a month. In it, as you can see, Your Favorite Dallas Maverick walks into a butcher shop and has a nibble of wurst. Says the woman with the meat:…
Shortly after the clock struck just past midnight Sunday, Erykah Badu, behind the wheel of a matte black Stingray, led a funeral procession down Main Street — not far, mind you, just from Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard to the front door of PM Nightlife Lounge at The Joule,…
The video’s been making the rounds all morning, first on Busted Coverage, then Deadspin, then everywhere else. Question is: Who owns those beards sitting with the Dallas Mavericks in Detroit last night? The Mavs’ front office said: Dunno, ask Mark Cuban. So I did: “No idea,” he wrote back. But…
Justin Terveen’s already taken his place on the west side of the Continental Avenue Bridge for tonight’s lighting of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, set to begin glowing at 6:15, give or take. He says it’s filling up fast, no joke. I’m about to head that way myself; why not…
Thursday afternoon I met historian Alan Govenar at 508 Park Avenue, future site of the Museum of Street Culture. He was not alone: Joining him were developer Buddy Jordan, chair of the 508 Park Committee and a man who’s been pursuing the building for close to 20 years; Pat Bywaters,…
Yesterday we got word that John McKeon, the president and general manager of The Dallas Morning News since October 2007, was leaving, which publisher Jim Moroney confirmed via email. At which point a press release went out, leading with news of fourth-quarter 2011 earnings (“decrease of four to five percent…
We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building’s storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll’s backbone, but to…
I met Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson for breakfast this morning and traded him a bagel for a stack of his maps to the downtown tunnels; I got the far better deal. Way back in June, you may recall, we noted that Jeppson was attempting to kickstart efforts to…
Yesterday our new New York Times contributor offered eight ways the Dallas Cowboys can win the NFC East tomorrow night, each one a thoughtful, stat-driven how-to. The New York Daily News counters this morning with one of those (yawn) things-we-hate-about lists, which, as you can see, even graces the the…
As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here’s one that landed in the inbox late yesterday — a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar:…
