Skipping Your Senior Year? Oh, So Now You Say Something, Linus Wright.

A fellow Thomas Jefferson High School grad forwards along this brief interview KERA-FM’s Bill Zeeble did with former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Linus Wright, who’s now one of Governor Rick Perry’s appointees to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas’s board of trustees. In the clip, Wright suggests that when…

They Done Tore Down Sue Ellen Ewing’s House

Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention this morning to a just-posted Flickr set from friend of the show Scott Dorn, a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting this teardown town. Turns out, Scott got a last-minute call late last week from Lindamood Demolition, the company…

Alibris, Meet Half-Price Books

There’s a business-section piece today about Half-Price Books’ new online marketplace, which coincides with the Dallas-based used-bookseller’s own release this morning announcing the virtual shoppe. Says Kathy Doyle Thomas, Half-Price’s exec veep, in the official announcement: “Half-Price Books is pleased to offer an online shopping option to our customers, both…

Dallas, The Next Portland! You Too, Fort Worth!

No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they’re handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Next Portland to Dallas/Fort…

Details Set for Frankie 45 Memorial Show

Pete’s asked me to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a link to the rundown for Thursday night’s show at Club Dada, a memorial for Frankie Campagna, who died early New Year’s Day. I’m happy to oblige — not only because I’d known Frankie 45 since he was a…