Feels like forever since we’ve posted one of Justin Terveen’s photos on Unfair Park, and that, right there, that’s too long. And so, on this holiday Monday, here’s quite the gift for the Friends of Unfair Park — four from The Urban Fabric taken last night from high atop the…
I did indeed let the boy loose with our in-need-of-replacing Canon PowerShot in the Dallas Cityscapes exhibit at NorthPark Center Saturday. We walked right past it at first — it’s tucked away inside the old Robb & Stucky next to Barneys on the second floor. But once in, well, sure,…
I’ll save the boy’s picture of Dallas-done-in-LEGO for tomorrow morning; so too tales of our trip to the crowded-ish Sixth Floor Museum + Cafe, which is far more surreal in person than Andrea describes below (she said nothing of being able to eat in the cafe while watching footage of…
With an extra day this weekend, an extra night: Blondie on December 1, 1979, from an unspecified Dallas venue; and Frank Zappa at the Dallas Convention Center Arena on October 17, 1980. Both, revolutionary in their own right.They’re both flawless recordings — Blondie because it was for radio. As for…
Our weekly rock-and-roll-and send-off will have to wait till tomorrow morning, as, at long last, Andy Siegel has filed that long-promised writ of mandamus in which he contends that the organization formerly known as Progress Dallas didn’t get enough valid signatures to call the November 2 election that could make…
Finally, the city of Dallas sends word. It has no Official Comment on the federal suit Robert Groden filed against the city on Wednesday, in which he says he was jailed for nine hours in mid-June for selling his Kennedy conspiracy-theory wares in Dealey Plaza — something he’s done for,…
A Friend of Unfair Park points out that William M. Tsutsui started his new gig yesterday as the dean of SMU’s Dedman College. OK, then. But then I read the release and discovered that the Princeton-, Harvard- and Oxford-educated Tsutsui is “a specialist in the business, environmental and cultural history…
Joanna Singleton, who handles PR for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, was kind enough to send us this photo of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park fabricated, as you can see, out of LEGO bricks. (I like it better than the actual thing myself.) It made its VIP bow last night…
The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with reminders from DPD in advance of the July 4 weekend, chief among them that by-now familiar heads-up concerning the department’s long-standing No-Refusal DWI Initiative. Which is to say: Beginning tonight at 6, if you’re pulled over from driving while intoxicated and…
As we noted yesterday crews have finally begun cleaning up that block of Greenville Avenue claimed by that early-morning blaze in March. But shortly before the bulldozers got to work, contractors allowed Melissa Davis Hennings, of The Kessler, behind the chain-link fence to document the debris. She was kind enough…
Dirk’s back in town and ready to meet with the Mavs, for whom there’s no Plan B if he doesn’t re-sign. (Cuban’s back too, following a trip to shoot an episode of Entourage.) And so begins Keep Dirk in Dallas Week: Lost amongst all the breaking news of Thursday was…
This morning, I opened my in-box to find a lengthy retrospective put together by KXAS-Channel 5 for last night’s farewell to Mike Snyder, whose 30-year run as reporter and anchor for the NBC owned-and-operated has come to an end. It is, of course, narrated by the only person suited for…
‘Bout one month ago today, over on Sportatorium, Richie called it: Russ Martin would be taking over as morning-show host on KEGL-FM (97.1) some time this month. J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s market manager, just made it official: The one-time Observer cover boy begins July 12 at 6 a.m. The full…
In about an hour, Blockbuster will release a second press release concerning, well, what we’re not quite sure — more than likely, though, it will deal with the fate of CEO Jim Keyes, whose contract with the company expires today. And, perhaps, it will address whether or not the downtown-based…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s Strategic Plan 2011-2015 isn’t due to the governor’s office till tomorrow. But I noticed that the Austin American-Statesman just posted an excerpt relevant to our November 2 beer-and-wine referendum, in which writer Eric Dexheimer theorizes that a sharp decline in the success rates of local…
Back in May, Robert Miller — the attorney representing building owner Jon duPerier in the litigation brought in April by Gregg Merkow, the insurance-less owner of Greenville Bar and Grill and Hurricane Grill — told Unfair Park he didn’t know when crews would begin clearing out the charred remains of…
Still waiting for Official Word from the city concerning Robert Groden’s lawsuit filed yesterday concerning his ability — or, in this case, inability — to sell his conspiracy-theory publications in Dealey Plaza. But when we went down to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, we left behind one significant…
Back in October, the Trinity Trust ponied up $2 mil for the creation of the City Design Studio, to be based out of Dallas City Hall and run by, among others, bcWORKSHOP’s Brent Brown. Larry Beasley, an urban planner known as the man who built Vancouver, was also tapped to…
At this very moment, beleaguered Blockbuster’s PR peeps are preparing a statement to explain why, moments ago, its stock stopped being traded on the New York Stock Exchange. At present, it’s stuck at a whopping 23 cents. NYSE spokesperson Mirtha Medina sends this brief note: “BBI was halted today at…
That’s quite the hodgepodge. Nonetheless, to the briefs …Avi Adelman, first to the story despite what you read elsewhere, brings the latest news concerning Lost Society on Lower Greenville Avenue: The landlords have done put a padlock on the place. And that’s not all: Co-owner Brightman Nwatu, already faced with…
Three years ago, or shortly before the Dallas Independent School District introduced its “effort-based” grading policy, the school board reminded teachers: They were not to give students a grade lower than a 50 for any one grading period. As the great Kent Fischer noted, “The reason given was that students…
Maybe you heard: A couple of weeks ago, Dallas police began cracking down on vendors at Dealey Plaza selling maps, magazines, books and other conspiracy-theory whatnots. Deputy Police Chief Vince Golbeck said some folks down there were cussing at and spitting on visitors to the Kennedy assassination site, and “that’s…
