A Video Tour of the Eight Track Museum

Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent me today’s Paste piece on Big Bucks Burnett’s Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum. So let me note: Pete posted the details concerning the Official Grand Opening on DC9 yesterday. Takes place Valentine’s Day, with The O’s and the Tom Tom Club in…

Need a HotelHouse in North Dallas?

About three years back we stumbled across the mother of all modern manses being built where Northaven Road turns into E. Ricks Circle, only to discover it was the future residence of country singer Darren Kozelsky. Hadn’t thought of it since, not till I drove past it again a couple…

Very Soon, the End of European Crossroads

On Tuesday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me an e-mail with the subject header: “European Crossroads demolished.” He included a link to friend of the show Scott Dorn’s Flickr set, where Scott had written that “the small shopping community was demolished for new development In Janaury 2011.”And so, on…

The City’s Not Fond of 5750Dallas’s Cutouts

On Monday we took a couple of looks at bcWORKSHOP’s public-art installation known as 5750Dallas, intended to spark a conversation about homelessness and consumption and so forth. It certainly got noticed — by Dallas Code Compliance, which wants ’em vanished by week’s end, per last night’s WFAA lead-off piece. Shouldn’t…

DPD Arrests Ex-Arts Magnet Teacher for Improper Relationship With Student

The Dallas Police Department just sent word: Yesterday, a DPD detective arrested 36-year-old Michael D’Spain on a warrant for an improper relationship with a student. D’Spain was arrested at Farine Elementary School in Irving, where, according to his Linkedin profile, he’s been teaching since August. But DPD says the arrest…

Well, If It’s Good Enough for the Jonas Brothers

Big high-five for Westlake this morning: That tiny town in Tarrant (and Denton) County, once the playground of Nelson Bunker Hunt, has been named by Forbes as The Most Affluent Neighborhood in America, based upon the recently released U.S. Census Bureau Community Survey. The annual median income in Westlake is…

Wave Hello(ish) to the Standing Wave

Between court hearings and cover stories, we couldn’t spare a warm body to attend this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, the first since December 7. On the agenda: an update on the Standing Wave and Santa Fe Trestle projects, about which a Friend of Unfair Park will occasionally ask…