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Beautiful Pores Trump Feminism

In Case You Were Wondering What That Zebra Was Doing Downtown Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Mike just had to see if there were any new sweater vests at Neiman's, so he strolled downtown and tweeted the picture you see above. (Okay, so it wasn't the mayor, who now signs his tweets MR, but a staffer under the handle @DallasMayorsOfc. It's great to see one's reporti ... More >>

A Cheap Lunch at the Zodiac? It's a Gas.

Overaccessorized old ladies count: 12 Prada count: 5 The Zodiac Room in Neiman Marcus downtown is an old white lady's wet dream. Here, you can brag about your Louis Vuitton luggage and talk shit about that chick who always shows up late to church ("And then, gasp, she has the nerve to sing the wron ... More >>

SMU Steps On The Catwalk

Tomorrow: Soup's On, Featuring a Load of Great Chefs and the Lady Who Wrote Glass Castle

Artist Cornelius Brackens Jr. "I Knew You Were There"​The fourth annual SOUP'S ON! Stewpot Alliance Luncheon and art sale is tomorrow at Union Station. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, will be the keynote speaker, and nine of Dallas' top chefs will serve up signature soups. The art ... More >>

Downtown Neiman Marcus Gets Tagged!

Sour Grapes at Neiman Marcus from Carlos Donjuan on Vimeo.Tagged, that is, by the estimable, Dallas Contemporary-endorsed members of the Sour Grapes crew. The Neimans windows received their new look in advance of next month's Dallas Art Fair, located at the Fashion Industry Gallery -- and sponsored ... More >>

Welcome, Cheeseheads and Towlettes! Let Us Show You How to Get the True Big D Experience

Today, At Least, Downtown Dallas's Super Bowl Hustle and Bustle Lacks Both Hustle, Bustle

Photo by Patrick MichelsCold pigeons outnumbered cold people in Downtown Dallas this afternoon.​Somebody get on the horn to Jerry Jones (or Tom Leppert or Phillip Jones) and tell him to send in those gazillions of folks who are supposed to be handing over their wallets to downtown merchants, bar o ... More >>

Another Neiman's Catalog

Is Bookmarks at NorthPark Center the Future of Libraries Nationwide?

​A couple of weeks back we took at look at City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed cuts for the Dallas Public Library system -- fewer workers at the branches, shorter hours downtown and more, meaning, of course, less. But libraries are in trouble nationwide, besieged by budget cuts and encroaching techn ... More >>

By Month's End, Robb & Stucky Will Move Its Furniture Out of NorthPark Center

​Never did understand why Robb & Stucky opened a NorthPark Center location -- it just didn't seem to fit, especially sandwiched between Barney's and other clothing retailers, and the few times I went in to peek at pieces well out of my price range, the sprawling, two-story furniture store was ... More >>

Get On The Happy Track

For Those Who Like Unwrapping Their Neimans Presents Christmas Eve ...

​As we mentioned yesterday, Neiman Marcus's downtown flagship will formally unveil this year's Christmas window display Friday night, just before they light the big ol' Christmas sculptree in Main Street Garden. But downtown denizens have already had their sneak preview: Justin Terveen was downtow ... More >>

Would You Pay $200,000 to Have Dinner With Christopher Buckley and Malcolm Gladwell?

Patrick MichelsSanta and Berkeley-based cupcake car designers Lisa Pongrace and Greg Solberg​Unfair Park was among those at the Dallas Contemporary this morning getting an early look at this year's Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, and among the gems inside: this high-performance, Burning Man-tested c ... More >>

You Say You Want Some Downtown Dallas Progress Reports? Well, Then, You Got 'Em.

Justin TerveenOur old pal, The Urban Fabric, grabbed this shot of downtown just last night, matter of fact.​I had Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city's Office of Economic Development, on the phone this afternoon, so I asked him for a couple of updates per several Friends of Unfair Park's requests p ... More >>

Case En Pointe

Taking It Off the Top for the Economy: What The Lodge and Neimans Have in Common

Observer contributing photographer Brandon Thibodeaux landed himself quite the gig: shooting local strip joints for today's Wall Street Journal story about how gentlemen's clubs are "striping down" (hawhawhaw) their upscale offerings to lure in customers afeared of dropping major coin in a down econ ... More >>

Far as Rick's Cabaret is Concerned, Going All-Nude on Stemmons Has Worked Out Well

Maybe Neiman Marcus, which today released yet more dispiriting sales stats, ought to consider going all-nude. Seems to be working out quite nicely for Houston-based, publicly traded (lesse ... p-u-b-l-i-c ... yeah, that's right) Rick's Cabaret International, which today announced that its revenues a ... More >>

The Big Store: On March 30, AFI Screens the "Lost" Legendary Neimans Doc at NorthPark

A scene from Fred Wiseman's 1983 Neiman Marcus documentary The Store, screening March 30 at AMC NorthParkOn Friday, in the comments to Rawlins Gilliand's Neimans recollections, Friend of Unfair Park Joseph B. wrote:I recently read an article on famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman and discovered he ... More >>

Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits in ... More >>

At Neimans in NorthPark, Space for Lease

The former Estee Lauder Spa in the lower level of the Neimans in NorthParkWomen's Wear Daily reports in a subscription-only story this morning that Neiman Marcus is looking for someone -- anyone -- to take over the lower level at its NorthPark Center location. In recent months, the downstairs has go ... More >>

Neimans Had a Lousy Christmas

Flickr photo: Wednesday181 It was but a month ago that Neiman Marcus president and CEO Burt Tansky insisted that sooner than later, the "aspirational shopper" and "loyal customer" would once again stroll through the store's doors with money to burn. At the time, the Dallas-based high-end retailer ... More >>

Street Life

Screw TV parades, we've got our own

For that Special Someone on Your List, How About an AA Flight Simulator?

There's a small but interesting item of note on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Facility Improvement Corporation Board's meeting agenda today -- and, right, whatever that is. Seems American Airlines is looking to unload one of its flight simulators. It's not for one of the big planes, th ... More >>

Life On The (Tiny) Rails

Play hobo at NorthPark

Sex and the Big D

Candace Bushnell speaks in Richardson

Before The Rise

AFI Dallas: Fancy, But Not Too

Step By Step

All Aboard

The trains are winding through NorthPark

CBS Wishes Neimans a Happy 100th

Have A Mav-ulous Holiday

Bird's-Eye View

See some photography at the mall

Dallas Is So In Fashion

Dallas: Full of Famous Folk Friday!

Hot for Hot Fuzz and Other AFI Delights

One More Bit of Dallas' History About to Bite the Dust

Taking School Board Candidates to School

Richie Rich Round-Up

Dallas is "Young, Black, Hip and Fabulous."

Go East

Don't get lost in translation

Plane Sight

Hit Parade

All we want for Christmas are some floats downtown

C'mon Ride the Train

Join the babes in train land

Best Greeting Cards (nice)

Mark & Larry's Stuff

Best visual artist

Nic Nicosia

Best place to view capitalism at its finest

Hebron Highway between Preston and Midway Roads

Best source to help you get the GQ look

David Mills at Neiman Marcus

Hash Over

Grapes of glory; Coming and going

Holding food court

Lunch at Neiman's is still fashionably good, but Nordstrom just serves off-the-rack