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2010 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• If You Were Waiting for the Casa Linda Theater to Show Movies Again, It Ain't Happening

  published Dec 22, 2010

  I've yet to step foot into the Natural Grocers that recently opened in a smallish section of the old Preston Forest Whole Foods, but my wife has and says it's "a cross between Sprouts and Roy's." As i... More >>

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  Author of Book About Corruption in College Sports Sees Nothing Wrong With Allen Eagles' Under-Construction $60-Mil Stadium

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Mark Yost is the author Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics. But back in late September, he was more interested in a high-school game: Plano vs. Alle... More >>

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  Yer Officially All Wet, Dallas! TABC Has Issued the First Wave of New Beer, Wine Permits.

  published Dec 22, 2010

  This just in from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: As promised, the agency has begun issuing permits to retailers looking to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of town. So far, it ain'... More >>

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  Leppert's Still Sending Companies Those iPhones. If Nothing Else, It's "Great Marketing."

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Rudy beat me to it, but for those wondering to whom Mayor Tom's been sending those come-to-Dallas iPhones, well, The Oregonian found one lucky recipient: Tim Boyle, the president and CEO of Columbia S... More >>

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  Battle for the Fanboy: Comics Retailers, Publishers Will Meet in Dallas in February to Discuss the Future of Their Business

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Yesterday, the Comics Professional Retail Organization -- which is the trade organization for comic-book retailers -- announced that for the first time in its history, it's meeting in Dallas in Februa... More >>

• Watch Hard: Christmas in Oak Cliff, and a Tour of Some of Your Finer Dallas Nativity Scenes

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Two You+Dallas offerings this morning, both guaranteed to put a smile on Robert Jeffress's face. At top is our pal Justin Terveen's Creche Crawl -- "from Lakewood to Baylor Hospital to Highland Park,"... More >>

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  Christmas in Prison: For Locals Only, Wyatt Cenac Tells World's Longest In-Joke Ever

  published Dec 22, 2010

  'Bout two and a half years ago we first introduced you to Wyatt Cenac -- "introduced," because he was only a few weeks into his new gig as correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As you no ... More >>

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  A Bad Day for the Rebel Alliance at Love Field

  published Dec 21, 2010

  A Friend of Unfair Park forwards some raw, silent footage from KXAS-Channel 5 of an experimental plane that landed the hard way at Love Field earlier this afternoon. The video follows, and given the m... More >>

• Last-Minute Gift Idea: A Red Ranger Raygun

  published Dec 21, 2010

  We stopped by the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market Saturday and were pleasantly surprised by the breadth of vendors on hand. But we spent a good 30 minutes at the Red Ranger Ray Guns table, where the 7-year-... More >>

• After the Eclipse, the Sunrise

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom's chief of staff, sends this early Christmas gift taken this morning. He also sends this note: "My friend Mike Walker grabbed this shot from Trammell Crow Park this morning.... More >>

• For a 115-Year-Old Book Featuring 88 Photos of a Very Young Dallas, It's Quite the Bargain

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Glad to see yesterday's eBay offering landed in the right hands: The folks at Dallas Market Center send word this morning that they purchased John and Storey Stemmons's Christmas pamphlet, and that it... More >>

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  Party, Party: Fair Park Will Be Very Busy During Super Bowl Week (and Other Invites)

  published Dec 21, 2010

  A couple of weeks back we passed on our invite to the concerts in the Cotton Bowl during Super Bowl week. But this morning, the Unfair Park in-box offered other options, among them: Gene Simmons and S... More >>

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  Report: Dallas County's DA Cited as One Reason for Decline in Texas's Use of Death Penalty

  published Dec 21, 2010

  The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Tex... More >>

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  'Twas the Lunar Eclipse Before Christmas

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Packed a bowl of mistletoe and tried to get excited about last night's lunar blackout, but in my stretch of NW Dallas, skies were murky with thin, high clouds -- not terribly whelming even at prime ti... More >>

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  City Manager Mary Suhm Clarifies That New "No Public Parking" Policy at Dallas City Hall

  published Dec 20, 2010

  A couple of weeks back, as you no doubt recall, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner sent the mayor and city council a memo in which he wrote that come January 3, the general public would no longer be... More >>

• After Proposing Land Swap, State to Pay Dallas Homebuilder $13 Mil for Devils River Land

  published Dec 20, 2010

  A couple of months back we noted that the Texas Park and Wildlife Department had proposed making one hell of a trade with Dallas's Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Home, for some land down in Val... More >>

• Who'll Buy His Memoriesr Larry Brown's Selling Very Rare Copy of Super Bowl Magnum Opus.

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Back in '08, Neiman Marcus offered in its annual Christmas Book something called the Super Bowl XL Opus MVP Edition, which, as you can see in the photo, is a mammoth keepsake -- "the heaviest sports-r... More >>

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  Once More, Blockbuster to Close Out Year By Closing a Couple Hundred Stores

  published Dec 20, 2010

  It's been exactly a year now since our last extensive sit-down with Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, who, at the time, referred to the downtown-based videotailer as "a football team that's rebuilding." At t... More >>

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  From 1966, the Stemmons Family Christmas Pamphlet and I-35 Corridor Photo History

  published Dec 20, 2010

  While browsing eBay for hyperlocal Christmas suggestions late last night, I came across this two-birds-with-one-stone offering -- John and Storey Stemmons' tribute to their father Leslie Allison Stemm... More >>

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  A Look at the Latest Proposed Legislation Calling for Statewide Sobriety Checkpoints

  published Dec 20, 2010

  As The American Independent reminds this morning, there have been myriad bills proposed in the Texas Legislature in recent years that would allow for the creation of so-called sobriety checkpoints. An... More >>

• Will That Dallas Reboot Be Shot in Dallasr And Will It Be Without J.R. Ewingr Stay Tuned.

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Over the weekend, a local TV-bizzer sent to Unfair Park this TV Guide piece about the future of TNT's Dallas reboot and whether or not it'll include one J.R. Ewing. Late last week, there was a report ... More >>

• Grandma Got Run Over By the Mavericks

  published Dec 20, 2010

  On the other side, the Dallas Mavericks square off against the worst Christmas song of all time. They do not win. ... More >>

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  How Do You Get Texas to OK Burying Other States' Radioactive Waster If You're Harold Simmons, You Give Rick Perry Lots of Money.

  published Dec 20, 2010

  A nuke-free Friend of Unfair Park forwards this morning this just-released add-em-up from Texans for Public Justice, which asks: Can anyone seriously believe Governor Rick Perry or his appointees on t... More >>

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  First He Steals DPD Squad Car in Handcuffs. A Week Later, Late-Night Downtown Stand-Off.

  published Dec 20, 2010

  A week ago Sunday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that officers had lost James Huffer Jr., who was arrested earlier that morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway following a fam... More >>

• Dallas PD, Humane Society Seize Some 100 Roosters During Raid on Cockfight Saturday

  published Dec 18, 2010

  The Dallas Police Department sends word this evening: The Humane Society of the United States shot some undercover video of what sounds like a mammoth cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas -- whe... More >>