This just in from Senior Corporal Kevin Janse in the Dallas Police Department’s Media Relations Office:There was a downtown shooting this morning at approximately 5:50 a.m. An AT&T employee was walking with a co-worker to work at 208 S. Akard when a black male suspect approached complainant and shot her…
This twosome likes hitting the CVS at 4207 Lemmon Avenue, between Wycliff and Douglas; twice in recent weeks they’ve jumped the counter and loaded shopping bags with cartons of smokes. Then they took it down the street to the RaceTrac. The clerk seen during the first robbery is clearly not…
For no good reason, I was wondering earlier this afternoon whatever became of DowntownDallas’s plan to fill up Main Street Garden’s fountain, which, we discovered at the end of March, wouldn’t be operational more than a two hours a day due to the fact Park and Rec’s all tapped out…
Collier’s International sent word today that, yet again, 1401 Elm Street is back on the market — this time, just four months after its owners kicked out the last remaining tenants and locked the doors one last time. The asking price this go-round, though, is considerably less than when Collier’s…
Last I heard, the folks behind the Texas Theatre’s extreme makeover still needed some $7 million to get the historic Oak Cliff movie palace completely put back together again. (Some $2 mil has been raised and spent since redo efforts began in ’01, but those Cliffdwellers behind its restoration hope…
So says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that just landed in the in-box. His name is Brion Gary Randall, and according to the feds, on May 18 the 48-year-old will plead guilty in Dallas federal court to running a handful of scams between 2004 and last July…
San Antonio’s Krayolas have been around a long while — since the late ’70s, on and off. I’d definitely start with Best Riffs Only, which collects the early singles that sound alternately like the Sir Doug, the Kinks and the Beatles, but the newer comeback stuff’s top-notch too, especially ’08’s…
Surely you’re aware by now: The Good Guys, filming here till July, makes its sneak-premiere two weeks from tonight at 7 on FOX. From the sound of the e-mails we get almost every day, most of the Friends of Unfair Park have had at least one run-in with the show;…
Pardon the musical interlude so early in the morning; blame an overnight missive from Jeff Liles. He sends very advance word: David Garza’s getting Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom together for the first time in 20 years at The Kessler on July 17 — which is awful big news for Merritt Martin…
What you see above is the first Lewis Wickes Hine photo I ever saw, and one of the few we’ve yet to run on Unfair Park. It appeared in December 2008 on Shorpy; and it’s what initially directed my attention to the Library of Congress’s photo archives. The two boys…
On Sunday we mentioned the proxy fight brewing between Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes and shareholder Greg Meyer, the former CEO of DVDXpress (which eventually morphed into Redbox, more or less) and the man who, in 2005, told Blockbuster, look, get in the DVD-dispensing kiosk business, close the stores early, lower…
Almost four years ago, the great George Gimarc introduced us to his then-latest rock and roll alternative: a would-be syndicated format called Radio SASS, which stood for “Short Attention Span System” — as in, no song lasted lasted longer than two minutes. Said one commenter at the time, the whittled-down…
Till not so long ago, on Webb Chapel Road just north of Northwest Highway — and directly across the street from Bachman Lake — there sat a decaying apartment complex that looked as though a small gust of wind would reduce it to splinters. Eventually, it was surrounded by chain-link…
Sorry, but after that PETA item down below, I just wanna look at rainbows. And I need look no further than our old pal Justin Terveen, who grabbed this shot yesterday evening out the window of his loft. Says Justin, “Easily the most perfectly shaped rainbow I’ve ever seen.”…
Had it not been for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, federal investigators might never have known about conditions inside U.S. Global Exotics, the “massive international exotic-animal wholesale facility in Arlington” raided on December 15. For seven months, PETA had a man on the inside gathering evidence that…
A couple of weeks back we noticed, courtesy some video from Central Dallas Ministries’ Larry James, that Paul Quinn College was in the midst of transforming its football field into a two-acre “urban farm,” in the words of school president Michael Sorrell. This morning, we received an announcement that fills…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to yet another Sports Business Journal story about Tom Hicks — this one, a massive profile that attempts to reconcile his personal wealth (“The Matisse on the library wall looks utterly appropriate”) with his professional woes (“his sports portfolio, once among the…
Seems like only yesterday we were at the grand opening of Kidrobot in Mockingbird Station; so too Erykah Badu. But less than a year later, it’s the grand adios: According to the store’s blog today, it’s closing at the end of the month.I spoke to someone there today, and The…
A couple of notable press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, the most recent of which has to do with a former Internal Revenue Service employee sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 months in the federal hoosegow for…
Speaking of the Trinity River and the levees (though, really, when are we not?) …Late Saturday afternoon, the 6-year-old who lives in my house and I were heading home after a long day spent digging through dusty relics in the Antiques and Design District. I’d wanted to check out Lula…
On Wednesday the council will get an update from Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the Office of Economic Development, about projects that may get an infusion of foreign cash via the City of Dallas Regional Center, which we told you about back in October. (Long story short: Foreign investors who sink…
According to court documents, on the evening of September 23, 2005, Dallas Police officer Kent Wolverton received a call for help from a fellow officer at the Larry Johnson Recreation Center on Dixon Avenue near Fair Park. Wolverton would later insist “that he heard screaming in the background of the…
