Since as long as I can recall, Dougherty’s has been my family’s pharmacy, dating back to its days in Oak Cliff (it didn’t move to Preston Royal till ’67). So I’ve taken it for granted all these many years — just one more place I stop in or drive by,…
Can’t recall the last time I recorded Rangers games — ’99, maybe? Nevertheless, even a few hours later Nelson Cruz’s 10th-inning walk-off last night was a thrilling thing of beauty — and towering enough to put the Rangers eight and a half up over both the A’s and Angels, so…
Thanks to The New York Times, I just spent the last little bit taking a virtual tour of the Dan Shipley-designed 25 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve off N. Central Expressway and LBJ Freeway. The Shipley house — otherwise known as the corrugated Ford Tri-Motor House — is one…
Between The Smoking Gun and Gawker, Anna Fermanova’s bound to have the most-peeked-at profile pictures page on the Facebooks in the last several hours. And after Tim Rogers made mention of the ’05 Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails grad, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: Why haven’t…
Thanks to this brief heads-up on the NBC5 Web site, I just spent the last little while researching Ben Gold, the local man set to be inducted into the brand-spankin’-new International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa, on August 7. Hard to believe I didn’t know anything about…
You probably forgot all about the Institute for Justice’s federal lawsuit filed in November, which claims the city of Dallas’s 2-year-old law that prohibits business owners from covering their storefront windows with signs is unconstitutional. So, then, this heads-up: The case is coming, more than likely, to a courtroom near…
Back in March there was one of the city’s semi-annual warrant roundups — otherwise known as pay-up-or-get-locked-up weekend — during which we peeked at the city’s lengthy list of scofflaws only to find, way down toward zee end, a woman named Sherriee (or Sherice or Sherie or …) Zeek with…
When last we left the furor over Cliff Manor, where the Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance plan to turn 100 units into permanent supportive housing for the “chronically” homeless, Mayor Tom Leppert had council member Dave Neumann create a task force. Its mission: see if perhaps there…
We’re less than two weeks away from finding out How the City Manager Spent Her Summer Vacation: On August 9, Mary Suhm will give present to council her proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. We’ve sneak-peeked a few of the pending cuts needed to whittle away a $131-mil deficit,…
A few very random notes while trying to wash the Magic Time Machine out of my clothes after last night …Saw first thing this morning that Barry Kooda is admin-ing a brand-new Facebook page: “Please Keep Oak Cliff Dry.” Left and sent the Nervebreaker a few messages to discuss and…
Howard Hallam, chair of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s board and president of Ben E. Keith Company, tells Unfair Park this afternoon he, like everyone else, was “surprised” when president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen resigned this morning. Maybe, Hallam says, he should have seen it coming: “Looking back,” he says,…
After the jump is ESPN’s tribute to Leah Siegel, a Dallas-based producer for the network who, during her tenure at the Worldwide Leader, garnered a handful of Emmy Awards. Leah died early this morning, about two years after doctors discovered she had stage four breast cancer — right after she’d…
The release just sent by the AT&T PAC folks announcing the sudden and surprise resignation of Mark Nerenhausen, who was named president and chief executive officer for the then-Dallas Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2008, doesn’t say what led to the decision this morning. Though it’s “effective…
Sports Business Journal calls it a “unique marketing effort,” which is one way of putting it: The University of Texas at Austin, Crescent Court-based Branded Retail Energy Company and Houston-based Champion Energy Services this morning announced the creation of Texas Longhorn Energy. Which is? Well, put simply, it’s a marketing…
First, there were the billboards. Then, the poster. Then, the song. Then, the worldwide picture-taking campaign. And now, this: From an e-mail that just showed up in the Unfair Park in-box, “Liverpool fans kick off poster campaign against Tom Hicks. These are apparently going to start appearing in Texas.” So…
This morning Pilgrim’s Pride announced it’ll be exporting chicken to Russia (my favorite Ramones bootleg, incidentally) from its Dallas plant — good timing too, given that the Brookings Institution just released a report stressing the need for export growth in order to “boost competitiveness.” The report also looked at the…
Some weekend catch-up while we wake up following several base-running mistakes last night: Kevin Smith is at the Granada Wednesday night, and, maybe, he’ll address his earlier-this-year run-in with hometown-based Southwest Airlines, which, you’ll no doubt recall, asked the filmmaker to deplane pronto lest his heft pose a “safety risk”…
Some random notes while I attempt to get myself out of a murky land deal:Dallas Theater Center’s revisal of It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman closes today, following the 2 p.m. matinee. Which prompts this New York Post piece that wonders: “It’s a big hit in…
On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression — as though, really, there could be just one.Full disclosure: Most of mine involve early, awkward dates at…
Three months back I directed your attention to Led Zeppelin’s March ’75 shows at the Dallas Convention Center, a long-time favorite. Till today I hadn’t heard any of the band’s earlier or later Dallas dates, stretching from March 28, 1970, to April 1, 1977. But on the occasion of Robert…
The boots got the boot last week, and my apologies to those Friends of Unfair Park who wrote in wondering what the what. (Out-of-town family obligations, if you must know.) I had intended to make up for that slight with a certain high-quality recording of some renown: Elvis Presley at…
At around noon today, Kelly Qualls, a crime analyst in the Dallas Police Department’s Central Patrol Division, sent to Unfair Park three documents, all of which compare and contrast crime statistics for The Bridge-Dallas Farmers Market area beginning in 2007. All three follow, as does a DPD map of the…
