Not a week goes by that a Friend of Unfair Park doesn’t ask: Is Lone Star coming back? It’s a fair enough question. After all, back in September, the day after FOX killed the series a mere two episodes into its critically acclaimed run, creator Kyle Killen told Unfair Park…
I came across this photo this morning, for sale on eBay. For obvious reasons — and, yes, that’s said to be an actual car sitting in Santa’s lap — it became My Obsession of the Day. Ad insists it was taken in ’54 at Porter Chevrolet in Dallas; that’s what…
Earlier today, via The Twitter, reader Joe Roberts submitted this: “Workers are pulling boards off windows at the old Dallas High School building at Pearl Station. Any clue as to why?” Why, no, Joe. But I have heard in recent days that crews have been gutting the century-old structure –…
It was three years ago I was first introduced to the work of Justin Terveen, though I didn’t know it then — clearly. But since then, of course, I’ve fallen in love with his photos — clearly. Hard to say which is a favorite. This one? No, wait, this one…
It’s déjà vu all over again as, once more, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is set to take up the issue of giving a raise to its chief academic officer. That’s only the third time in less than two years this issue’s come up. Perhaps you call…
Maybe you heard: Keith Urban taped a mini-set — which included a hometown homage to St. Mark’s grad Steve Miller — in the West Village tonight, in advance of his halftime performance during Cowboys-Saints. Our Stephen Masker was there and had, from the looks of this very hunky slide show,…
Figured we might as well get the usual week-ending rock-and-roll-and ender out of the way sooner than later, though we will return Friday (if not sooner). Besides, I’ve got cooking prep work to do tonight (this, highly recommended) and could use the company. And this offering, from July ’78, also…
Shame there’s no one at Dallas City Hall till Monday, because this just popped up on the year-ending December 8 council agenda: an ordinance that will “prohibit multiple registered sex offenders from residing in the same dwelling unit, with certain defenses.” Says the agenda, the council first discussed this item…
Four months back, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger directed our attention to a a study by UT-Austin Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning Julian Vasquez Heilig that questioned whether Highland Park High School grad Wendy Kopp’s Teach for America was the success story it claims. Ranger also…
Two weeks ago, a crack team of You+Dallas filmmakers introduced us to Dallas Police officer Jason Groom, a former fireman now in his first year on the force. Groom’s got the downtown beat — lucky! In this, the second installment of “Deep Nights,” Groom deals with a stolen purse at…
At this point, it’s hard to recall precisely where we left off when last discussing the city’s attempts to regulate community gardens; after all, it’s only been a subject for discussion (and point of contention) since, like, June 2009? Last I remember, Kris Sweckard, managing director in the Office of…
Brad Kizzia, the attorney repping Robert Groden in his fight with the city to keep selling his JFK conspiracy materials in Dealey Plaza, missed a golden opportunity for some terrific PR by filing these docs with the court yesterday instead of Monday, November 22. Then again, there was a method…
For a sneak peek of what’s in store on November 30 and December 3, go here — to a video from New York City, wherein the Ralph Lauren store on Madison Avenue was transformed earlier this month into a ginormous movie screen. Which isn’t the half of it. “Inception in…
Seems like it was only Friday that Transport Workers Union Local 556 — which reps Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants — was sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole that note letting the officials know they most certainly did not appreciate being scanned and/or…
What you see above is all that remains of 4044 Commerce Street, where Commerce intersects with Ash Lane not far from Fair Park. Our pal Justin Terveen posted some photos of the demolished structure to his Facebook page and Flickr photostream. Justin, who lives nearby, noted that it met with…
Remember two years ago, when there was all that ruckus over Dallas Independent School District trustees trying to extend their terms — from three years to four? But a single trustee said: No way, no how. (Right — it was Carla Ranger.) And remember how, in April 2009, Texas Attorney…
As you’re no doubt aware by now, Love Field’s starting to get its extreme makeover — otherwise known as the Love Field Modernization Program, for those now quite with the program. But, see, maybe you’re headed out for the holiday and have absolutely no idea what the what you’re in…
Yesterday, the highly debatable Walk Score posted to its site so-called “heat maps” for most of the nation’s biggest cities and their surrounding neighborhoods. You’ll find Dallas here — along with a ranking of 26 neighborhoods from highest (Main Street Districts, which scores a near-perfect 98) to lowest (South Dallas,…
Way back in May, before the filmmakers yanked the trailer from YouTube, we sneaked a peek at something called Article 19, a doc-in-progress by two Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas grads about the events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in…
On September 17, we noted: The New York Times, for whatever reason, really wanted to get its hands on a tape made in Fort Worth bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s chambers on July 9, when the judge ordered a closed-door sitdown with those involved in the bankruptcy and subsequent auction of…
Friday night’s Robert Duvall speaking engagement at Hall of State went down swell: He and Elvis Mitchell bantered cheerily for an hour about stage and screen in front of an audience that included Mayor Tom, other city officials and various well-heeled arts patrons and Dallas Film Society supporters. After which…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Not three weeks after her abortion wingding at the Majestic, Sarah Palin’s coming back to Dallas on Sunday to sign copies of her book America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, which went rogue over the weekend. She’ll be at the Lincoln Park Barnes &…
