A couple of weeks ago we noted that 48-year-old Brion Randall is pleading guilty to bilking investors out of $6 million — a plea he’s expected to enter in Dallas federal court today, matter of fact. Hence this Wall Street Journal story today about Randall, yet another in a long…
Funny thing, this showing up on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda this week of all weeks: Texas Paddling Trail Program. Which is …? Well, in short, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has told the city that, why, sure, it’d love to include a 10-mile stretch of the…
Jubilee and her doll beat cancer from Children’s Dallas on Vimeo.I was looking for something entirely unrelated earlier this afternoon when I came across this video on Vimeo. It was posted today by Childen’s Medical Center, which is debuting a new series of animated ads made by Jamie Caliri –…
My wife and son stopped by the 7-Eleven at Marsh and Forest a few minutes ago to see how Carlos Quintanilla’s protest was workin’ out for him. My boy took this photo, and as we now pay him for his blog contributions in Slurpees, it worked out well for us…
At midnight Saturday, two men were walking along the 2700 block of Throckmorton Street toward Cedar Springs Road when they were attacked by four men wielding baseball bats. The two men had their wallets and a cell phone stolen, according to the police report; one suffered a broken jaw. They…
I’ve been trying for several days to reach Jon duPerier, the owner of the burned-out block of Greenville Avenue that was once home to, among others, Terilli’s and Greenville Bar and Grill. No luck. I’ve also left several messages for attorney Robert Miller, who’s defending duPerier in that liability lawsuit…
Whenever we’ve needed to speak to someone rational on the State Board of Education, we’ve always called District 13’s Mavis Knight, who reps parts of Dallas and Tarrant Counties. Very nice; very thoughtful. Also: very tactful — like that time we talked to her about fellow SBOE board member Cynthia…
Oooh, just got a press release about an “informational protest” scheduled from 4-6 afternoon at a 7-Eleven close to my house — the one at Marsh and Forest Lanes, to be precise, as it’s apparently “the largest distributor of Frito Lay products.” Where? In Northwest Dallas? Texas? The world? The…
Like I said Thursday, Dallas will serve as the backdrop for three network TV series come summertime, an announcement made official this morning when FOX revealed its fall prime-time line-up with Lonestar (formerly Midland) front and center. From the early-a.m. press release:LONESTAR, a sophisticated and provocative drama set against the…
We’ve spoken here and there (and there) of The Joule’s expansion plans, heralded last fall with Tim Headington’s acquisition of five surrounding properties along Commerce and Main Streets. But this morning, the council’s Economic Development Committee gets a closer look at the what-the-what, a few details of which are spelled…
Maybe you heard — the city’s facing a $131.1-million budget shortfall, not as bad as last year’s $190 mil but, still, bad enough to merit deep cuts once more. And while several council members, among them Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, have said a tax hike may be necessary to…
So, the Friends of Fair Park only jumped the gun by three months when they sent out that tweet concerning the any-time-now announcement “that could really ROCK Fair Park.” Friend of Unfair Park Barney Gumble was right all along when he was the first to write in the comments: “I’m…
Since last we posted mention of Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s trip through town this weekend, I see a few Dallas-related golden oldies have been added to the collection — the initial 82 has blossomed to 121. And that doesn’t include Dallas City Archivist John Slate’s latest find in…
A few months back we spoke of the late, great Texxas Jam, and I’ll be honest — that poster at right is mine. It’s framed and hangs in the Unfair Park home office, near the framed flier for Joe Jackson’s June 2, 1984, Body and Soul Tour stop at the…
This here’s a sneak peek at the Sunday New York Times Travel section, in which Ceil Miller Bouchet goes to Deep Ellum and finds out that … why … why … why, it’s a “a sun-baked, low-rise neighborhood in Dallas where urban pioneers have staked out a bling-free zone.” Well,…
It was almost one year ago the feds introduced us to 25-year-old Jesse William McGraw — otherwise known as “GhostExodus,” founder and the, uh, leader of the Electronik Tribulation Army. You remember McGraw: He’s the former night-shift security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway who…
For no apparent reason, other than this marks the 47th anniversary of when Parade magazine began naming players to its All America High School Football Team, the Sunday supplement today has listed its The Top 10 High School Football Programs. The ranking process was simple enough: They just tallied up…
It ain’t hard finding a recording of The Cure’s September 15, 1989, stop at Starplex in support of Disintegration — they’re out there, trust me. But there’s no need to settle for so-so quality: A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that in advance of Rhino Records’ release of the…
Dunno if you remember this, but back before Christmas the city of Dallas took out a lease on the abandoned JCPenney’s space at Southwest Center Mall — a six-month lease, that is, with an option to buy. Rent — $16,200 a month — may be a little high, given that…
Still no word from Major League Baseball concerning its imminent seizure of Your Texas Rangers in order to expedite the sale to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But, finally, there’s been direct contact with Monarch Alternative Capital, the main lender holding up the deal with Hicks Sports…
Networks won’t officially announce which pilots will be turned into full-fledged series till next week’s upfronts. But two days after NBC surprised absolutely no one by picking up Jerry Bruckheimer’s U.S. Marshals actioner Chase comes word that FOX has indeed placed an order for Lonestar — the soapy drama about…
Way back in January Dallas made the cut of 18 cities that could maybe possibly fingers-crossed hold-your-breath host the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022. We’re still months away from a final decision — that won’t happen till December 2 — but tomorrow, the USA…
