Writes Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News: “The Yankees showed up on Wednesday in Game 5, they did, hundred percent. Now they have to do it again in Texas, or they become another big, bad Yankee team of this decade that got hit somewhere before the World Series…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention this late afternoon to DropWear.com — can’t believe someone didn’t think of this sooner. In short, it’s a tee-shirt company run by Ticket listeners who plan on turning those catchphrases and out-of-context utterances into, right, fashion statements. Brilliant.But right now, there’s a…
Following Friday’s hearing at the George Allen, Tom Hicks’s attorney in the Liverpool FC case, Fish & Richardson’s Steve Stodghill, issued a press release announcing that Hicks and George Gillett’s attorneys would “apply all of their legal energies toward securing at least $1.6 billion in damages they expect will result…
Our Stephen Masker was at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport last night — which is to say, at 1 this morning — when Your Texas Rangers returned from a 2-1 trip to the Bronx. Stephen’s slide show’s here, and though he reports the crowd was on the smallish side — a…
Following yesterday’s DART bus fire by Old Red, a Friend of Unfair Park sends us these smoky photos from a downtown parking garage fire — the Westin City Center structure, specifically, located at 799 Crockett Street, to which the Dallas police and fire departments dispatched multiple units a little more…
That, surely, is the question on your mind after reading of the 79-year-old Penthouse founder’s death at the Plano Specialty Hospital yesterday, following a years-long battle with lung cancer. The answer is simple, says one New Jersey attorney representing some of the myriad creditors in an ongoing Chapter 7 case…
At 2 this morning, Dallas Police officers were called to 1930 Greenville Avenue — shots had been fired in a parking lot at Greenville and Alta Avenues, right across the street from the Cavern and Billiard Bar. Officers arrived and found two men had been shot — one in the…
As Friend of Unfair Park Ed D. notes in the comments below, Dallas City Hall just posted to its Facebook page six photos of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken by — let’s see if I get this right — “remote control plane.” Oh, so that explains why I saw…
Sums up George A. King III in this morning’s New York Post: “The Yankees arrived last night deep in the heart of Texas with a pulse. Faint, for sure, but enough of a beat that the ALCS stethoscope detected it. Can the pump tick long enough to get the Yankees…
Eight days ago, Joel Burns delivered to his Fort Worth city council colleagues the “It Gets Better” speech since heard ’round the world. Today, he went on Ellen DeGeneres’s show to discuss what the host calls a “real and raw and moving” moment. Burns’s mother, who was in the audience,…
Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment — the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn’t officially…
This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts’s twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peoples, armed with cafe seating and greenery and chalk-marked bike lanes, take back the streets and sidewalks. Roberts is…
It’s been about a year now since the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles introduced the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, which still provides endless hours of entertainment as you attempt to see which dirty words you can slip through. (Side note: After typing that sentence, I went off to do…
The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds’ grant announced this morningThis morning we’ve received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing that Dallas is getting $2,225,000…
We’ve already seen a phony downtown fire this morning. But this one at left, captured moments ago by a good Friend of Unfair Park on Main Street not far from Old Red, is quite real. Or it was: Though the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department Active Incidents page shows this to be…
D.C.-based Afterschool Allliance wondered: What are America’s kids doing after the 3 p.m. school bell rings? Survey says: Only 15 percent of students nationwide are involved in some kind of afterschool program. That’s a small number. And Dallas comes in below the national average:Only 30,000 children in Dallas (14 percent)…
… it was — you guessed it — yet another Good Guys blow-em-up. This one took place at Young and St. Paul bright and early this a.m. — had to, since most of the city council, including Mayor Tom, attended this morning’s ‘sploding. Why the VIP turnout? Today’s the penultimate…
Only a few months ago the city — really, the Friends of Fair Park — axed the Fair Park Fourth, because there weren’t no money for fireworks. Then, at the last minute, City Hall found the dough in the back pockets of Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Neil and Kenny…
Sam MertenThis just in: Sporting News has named its 2010 Major League Player of the Year — and it’s a certain Anchorman-quoting center-fielder for Your Texas Rangers. And as SN is quick to point out, that’s the consensus among 326 major leaguers — this isn’t no sportswriters’ award, keep in…
Writes Mike Lupica in this morning’s New York Daily News: “So it has come to this for the Yankees, after the Texas Rangers threw them down another flight of stairs, trying to throw them all the way out to 161st St., all the way into next season. It has come…
Kevin TodoraThe National’s Matt Berninger, from Kevin’s slide show of the band’s show at the House of Blues on October 9A Friend of Unfair Park who’s says s/he only comes to Unfair Park for our work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and send-off (fair enough) thought we might be interested in these shows just posted…
As part of its rebuilding effort, Terilli’s is selling welcome-back bricks that’ll become part of a “Friends of Terilli’s Wall” upon its February reopening.Shortly after a four-alarm fire destroyed the block of Greenville Avenue housing Terilli’s, Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and the Greenville Bar & Grill on March 2, a Friend…
