Last night, at the suggestion of a Friend of Unfair Park, I went over to the Love Field Modernization Program website to watch a nearly seven-minute-long look at the what was and what will be at the city-owned airport currently undergoing renovations. It wasn’t there just a couple of weeks…
Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What’s up with all the police cars? I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Police media bulletins: A man had attempted to rob a bank in the…
Into the wee small hours of Christmas Morning I cued up some Freddie King from January Sound in March ’75 — “Hideaway,” to be specific. At which point a caller rang up The Ticket request line with some (rather slurred but very happy) news: The Zewkeeper in charge of the…
I’m a sucker for the locally shot time-lapse video — I blame it on way too much Koyaanisqatsi as a kid. Hence, this offering: You+Dallas’s time-lapse best-of, a highlight reel rolled into a whole 90 seconds. One warning, though: Those Friends of Unfair Park who’ve complained in the past about…
A little while ago, the Federal Transit Authority announced that it’s advancing around $182 million in New Starts grants to a handful of transit projects already under construction — and among the short stack of recipients is Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line (referred to in the feds’ release as…
Down below is that heads-up about the city’s plans for giving the city a proper pre-Super Bowl scrub-down — which, turns out, also merits a mention in the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s just-published list of things to watch for in the 41 days left till kick-off in…
I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks catching up on films I’ve missed in recent months (thanks, Unfair Park!), and high on the can’t-believe-I-missed list is Olivier Assayas’s made-for-French-TV Carlos, the marathon-length mini-series about Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — otherwise known as Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, played…
Had a very long, very off-the-record chat with don’t-call-him-Graffiti-Czar John Barr late last week, during which he dropped the hint that this week, the city would roll out some new tech aimed at power-washing the hell out of the city. But the Oak Cliff attorney, who’s been reaching out to…
Blockbuster’s slouching toward bankruptcy was easily one of the biggest local business stories of the year; from giant to joke, how the mighty had fallen. But since its Chapter 11 filing early on the morning of September 23, there’d been little to report during its reorganization, save for a notice…
Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to “like” Walmart’s Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide — $1 million to the top Facebook vote-getter, and $100,000 each to the next five highest-ranking communities on the…
By the time we arrived at the Eight Track Museum, James “Big Bucks” Burnett’s tribute to myriad dead media, some 60 or 70 folks had already come and gone, each one gladly forking over the suggested $10 donation per person needed to keep the doors open. At 4 on Christmas…
Many thanks to the many folks who tuned in and called in during last night’s late-night Christmas-music spectacular, which gets a replay on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) beginning, why, right this very moment. (That’ll be just the three-hour yuletunes special, not the two hours of pirate-radio non-holiday For Your Weekend…
There were a handful of Christmas-light-viewing suggestions in the Unfair Park in-box this morning — and how in the wide, wide world of sports did I miss the round-the-corner extravaganza on 11565 Cromwell Circle, home to 35,000 twinkling lights and, per Mike McNaughton’s e-mail, “a private radio station and a…
It was quite the big deal back in ’80, when the Dallas Diamonds of the fledgling Women’s Professional Basketball League signed Old Dominion star and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Lieberman to her first pro contract. I have a hazy memory of sitting among a few packed houses at Moody Coliseum, at…
On November 2, as you’ll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons’s body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothing to do with the 32-year-old’s death. Instead, they said, the world champion, who’d…
If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you’ve heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I’m yet again hosting a Christmas-music show. Which reminds me of this Darlene Love, um, standard? At last, an excuse for collecting far too many Christmas odds and sods lo these last few…
We’ve noted a couple of times in recent days that Gov. Rick Perry’s appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission are but days away from closing comment on Harold Simmons’s permit application to bury 36 states’ nuclear waste out in West Texas. Ah, but see, Public…
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune’s cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests — since,…
A long while back I’d promised to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a few images from Guy F. Cahoon’s Sketches of Dallas, a very limited-run book published by the locally based Authors Press in 1933. I’d found it at Half-Price, but alas, I never got ’round to it…
The feller in that holiday photo is one Matt Nerbonne, president and CEO of Tycoon Energy HQ’d in Plano. Don’t know much about him, except what I learned this morning: Folks in the Canadian province of New Brunswick don’t want him doing bidness up there. Per the Telegraph-Journal up thataways,…
In our best-of issue we bestowed upon Society Bakery the honor of Best Cupcake. I’ve found at least one more person, amongst the multitudes, who would agree: Mia Robertson, who penned this “Dear Bon Appétit” letter that appears in the new issue: “I can’t get enough of the S’mores cupcakes…
Surely you’re aware of the ongoing battle between the Environmental Protection Agency and Governor Rick Perry over the state’s enforcement (cough) of the Clean Air Act. Long story short: The governor says the feds don’t have the right to regulate greenhouse emissions, to which the feds have responded with a…
