There are any number of interesting and important items on the council’s agenda this week — like the latest suggestions for regulating neighborhood farmers markets (which I’m gonna pass around this morning when I head over to the White Rock Local Market), the proposed budget for street services in the…
Ever since a certain someone played a certain something recorded at a certain somewhere over a certain radio station’s drive-time show Tuesday, many Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: How do I get hold of that? My, my, hey, hey, hang on. No need to feel so helpless, helpless, helpless…
I’ve been trying to figure out: How much of Fair Park will actually get used one week from tomorrow, when it turns into the biggest effing dance party this town’s ever seen (I guess, whatever, close to). Because, in case you haven’t heard, on June 19 the Electric Daisy Carnival…
A few days ago I got a message from a gentleman named Steve Parrino. He mentioned that he too is a native of Dallas and that his family has been here since the 1890s. Said he’s a fan of the history-of items I like to post here and that he…
I’ve spent the better part of the last hour trying to upload some historical documents to Scribd, which is down at the moment. So while we wait out that rain delay, this related item of note: Courthouse News just posted a lawsuit filed last week in Collin County pitting the…
Apparently, one successful season a rebirth makes, as SMU sends word today that Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s about to get quite the upgrade with the installation of a new video scoreboard designed and manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics — the very same company responsible for that towering hi-def monolith installed…
A few weeks ago, you no doubt recall, The New York Times wondered whether American Airlines was becoming “a waning star of air travel.” To which many Friends responded, as they often do when the subject of the Fort Worth-based carrier comes up: Why, yes, yes it is. Among the…
Got an e-mail yesterday about a local author named Randy Schmidt who’s written a book about Karen Carpenter, Little Girl Blue. The book, from the very reputable Chicago Review Press, isn’t officially released till July, but copies have been sneaking into stores in recent weeks, and early reviews are good…
Steven Michael was hired in April 2007 as an Environmental Inspector III for the city of Dallas Water Utilities Department, at which point he told his immediate supervisor, Yilam Zerihun, that he had a disability that didn’t allow him to lift anything heavier than 20 pounds. Michael, who employment was…
… I present to you the story of one Richard Jordan, a local man whose tale of traveling cross-country in a Lamborghini Gallardo has become a smash hit over on Jalopnik since it was posted yesterday. Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy sent it my way late Thursday, along…
Richard Avedon’s photo of Lewisville lumber salesman John Harrison and his daughter Melissa, taken in 1981 for In the American West, sold for $26,290. Bruce Barnbaum’s 1986 Dallas — a photo of the Chapel of Thanksgiving, with the Republic National Bank in the background — sold for a mere $298.75…
TribLive featuring Dallas DA Craig Watkins from texastribune on Vimeo.Whilst browsing the Vimeo moments ago, I came across the entirety of Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s chat with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins yesterday at the Austin Club. It was just posted. We posted a three minute-excerpt yesterday, but…
Been meaning to get to this for a couple of days, ever since the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee sent out its weekly newsletter that said, at the very top:TOM LANDRY SUPER BOWL HIGHWAY: On Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30 p.m., the Host Committee along with Alicia Landry…
Within computer-security and hacker circles, the names Thomas James Frederick Smith and David Anthony Edwards are well-known — have been since 2006, when both men launched remote attacks on computer servers housed at Dallas-based The Planet and T35 Hosting. The attacks were intended to be but the beginning of the…
One need not dig too far on the Internet to find copies of Feeler, which was intended to be the Toadies’ second album for Interscope Records till the label ultimately scuttled its release. But those versions aren’t quite the real thing; they are, instead, unmixed and unmastered iterations — and…
If this week’s cover story on Dallas Theater Center’s revisal of the 1966 Broadway smash flop It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman! isn’t enough to make you want to see what Kevin Moriarty, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams have done to the singing Last…
As you no doubt recall, the rains of March ’06 wreaked havoc upon the White Rock Lake Spillway — retaining walls collapsed, and huge hunks of land were swallowed by the storms. Which is why, in August ’08, the city council agreed to spend $16,748,070 to not only repair the…
At some point today, Pete will no doubt post his musings on last night’s LCD Soundsystem spectacular-spectacular at the Palladium. I look forward to that. But, alas, poor Pete bailed too soon. There was the after-show, after all, otherwise known as Rock Star Karaoke in the upstairs Loft (where the…
At the Dallas Independent School District board meeting two weeks ago, the trustees held off on voting yea or nay on Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s plan to open an over-age high school in the 2010-’11 school year. Most agree that, yes, it’s probably a very good thing to put, say, college-age…
It is the least interesting part of any superhero story: the origin story. OK, OK, already—we get it. His parents were killed in an alley by a thug with a pistol. He was bitten by a radioactive spider. She came from an island full of Amazons. His parents sent him…
Alan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft … well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convictions in all, including parole violations. He even pulled…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that 44-year-old Jon Leslie Lyons, who has been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, was arrested and charged yesterday with possessing child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5. According to an affidavit filed today by an…
