Partnerships

What Is “Book?”

You Got Your Rat Pack in My Design District

Sam Bush at Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge

Starting A Kid Art Revolution

But Really, What DO You Do With It?

Viva la W

Revising and Re-imaging History

The Sushi Axiom on Cedar Springs is Closed

Sushi Axiom (formerly Fin Sushi) at 4123 Cedar Springs Road closed for good yesterday in a combined decision of the owners and business partner Monica Green. The spot will be combined with an adjacent space, which is owned by the same group, and will reopen as a Mexican concept. Sushi Axiom on Hen ... More >>

Deion Sanders Wants Parents to Know He's Starting a Charter School for Love, Not Money

Deion Sanders is not messing around with haters. "Someone is ready to hate, somebody is ready to naysay," he said at last night's Oak Cliff town hall meeting to rally support for his charter school, Prime Prep Academy, slated to open campuses in Dallas and Fort Worth in August. The crowd looked ar ... More >>

A Very Short Film About Erykah Badu's Very Short "Funeral Procession" Down Main Street

When we joined, which is to say "stumbled," into Erykah Badu and the Rebirth Brass Band's 407-foot-long drive-n-dance down Main Street a few weeks ago, we noted the many cameras on hand to film the brief trek; word was, per Badu's business partner Paul Levatino, they were there for a doc-in-progress ... More >>

One Sweet Class

Captain America's Team: Marvel Comics and Your Dallas Cowboys Join Forces. Again.

Via.​Well, this is certainly odd timing: Only a few hours after flashing back to that Dallas Times Herald gimme featuring Spider-Man and Danny White, Your Dallas Cowboys have announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment. As in:Through an agreement that enables the Dallas Cowboys to license Ma ... More >>

Suze's Jeffery Hobbs: Making Something New from the Familiar

Robert BostickSuze's Jeffery Hobbs.​Like many chefs, Jeffery Hobbs fell in love with the kitchen because both his grandmother and his mother were in it. Born in Indianapolis, the 40-year-old Hobbs spent much of his time as a kid in the kitchen peeling carrots and potatoes or in the family gard ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Says Dallas Mayor Must Use "Bully Pulpit" to Address Issues at Dallas ISD

Two days ago we looked at Mike Rawlings's Education Plan, which calls for forming partnerships between the city of Dallas and the Dallas Independent School District. He follows up with the video you see above, in which the city's former homeless czar insists that the mayor must take an active role i ... More >>

Taking a Spin Around the Texas Museum of Automotive History Parked at Fair Park

Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

In DISD and Across Local Charter Schools, Teach for America's Growing Next Year

​While they were busy voting not to extend their term lengths last Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees also made the call to extend the district's partnership with Teach for America, on the heels of the glowing review they heard of TFA's first year-and-a-half here so ... More >>

Well, Well, Looks Like They Found a New Tenant For Victory Park: The Ticket!

​On the other side is the announcement from Unfair Park's across-the-street neighbor, which is about to scoot to Victory Park. Long story short: Cumulus Media is moving its four local radio stations, including The Ticket and KLIF, into 20,248 square feet of empty next door to the American Airlines ... More >>

After Shuttering of Angelika's Houston Location, CEO Says the Dallas, Plano Locations Are "Fine"

​Below, two Friends of Unfair Park wonder if the shuttering of the Angelika Film Center in Houston yesterday is a sneak preview of bad news heading for the Dallas and Plano locations. Good question. So I asked Ellen Cotter, Angelika's Manhattan-based chief operating officer -- who's in Houston at ... More >>

It Would Appear Rangers, Stars Bound Together Even After Tom Hicks is Out of the Picture

​Well, well, well -- the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a "revised" Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the most interesting development in a case I h ... More >>

Weeks After West Dallas School Reform Announcement, DISD Board's Ready for Details

DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa​Superintendent Michael Hinojosa drew a roomful of huzzahs two weeks ago when he announced that DISD was getting involved in a new effort for school reform in West Dallas. A handful of DISD trustees were among the cheering crowd, including Lew Blackburn and boar ... More >>

The Joneses

Table Setting

Sons, Daughters and Airplane Parts?

Drink to a New Look

Look Out, Don Hill. Because Allen McGill Isn't Going Down Alone.

The Texas Rangers Are Pleased to Meat You, Nolan Ryan

Oliver? I Just Met Her

See a Dickens of a show at Trinity Arts Theater

French for Funny

The Modern knows My Best Friend

Don Hill's Faith-Based Plan For...Crime-Fighting?

Belly Up

Heaven Sent

Smith celebrates J.C. and co.

Belo in Bed with Yahoo!

Follywood

A B-actress, computer mayhem and families feudin'! Making a movie with your rich friends is just courting disaster.

People Pie

Lyric Stage presents Sweeney Todd

TV on the Radio, Celebration

Sunday, April 23, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Star Sounds

The DSO goes celestial

Uptown Strikes Back

Medici and Il Mulino founders join forces

Best Chef Comeback

Matthew Antonovich, Sipango

Show Him the Money

Steel Restaurant operator facing lawsuit from partner

Ring Toss

Royce Ring anxious to cut ties with Triple R

Bob Hoofs North

The Plano version of Bob's Steak and Chophouse stays true to form--mysterious carrot and all

Best Bookstore (New)

Barnes & Noble SMU Bookstore

Best Art Gallery

Plush, Purple Orchid

Have It Your Way

Jeanie Terilli is expanding her domain

Sushi wars

Two Deep Ellum sushi bars are locked in raw battle

Hash Over

Helping themselves

Ministers hope to do something Dallas developers won't -- build homes in South Oak Cliff

Conflict? What conflict?

When D/FW Airport hired the partner of one of its board members, something didn't add up

Is this any way to run an airport?

Black bookseller Robert Crews once ran a thriving store at D/FW. Now he's in court fighting to save his business, thanks to airport policies that boost local minorities and squeeze airport concessionaires

Rushes