Every so often I’ll get an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park who wonders: What the what’s going on with Belo Garden? They ever gonna do that thing or what? To which I usually respond: I dunno. Because, if you recall, courtesy a fire ’bout 120 years ago, there’s…

Pretty sure at some point early yesterday there were more police than protesters downtown — the only time I had trouble navigating traffic was at the barricades set up at various intersections, where there wasn’t a soul or sign in sight. But the boy and I were our way elsewhere…

Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The PastGood Friend of Unfair Park “Spectator” forwards along this piece from the Onion News Network, sure to play like a Betamax at Renaissance Tower HQ. It’s a look inside the, ahem, Blockbuster Video museum — “a historically authentic…

So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audiobooks,…

Jeff Liles gave me a tour of The Kessler last week — hadn’t yet seen behind every door and corner. Workers were installing a new bar; a handful of 6- and 7-year-old girls were taking ballet lessons in the auditorium; their mothers were in the back, reading and knitting. Jeff…

Not making that up — the press release that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box follows. But long story short: The Genesis singer-drummer is a ginormous Alamo fetishist — so much so that “he is now believed to own the largest collection of Alamo artifacts in the world,” according…

While I was futzing around looking for something Green Line-related yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of videos Dallas Area Rapid Transit posted a few days ago that highlight the visual art found up and down the sections of the Green Line currently up and runnin’. And, sure, there’s a…

Never you mind those stories about how today’s Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s last day. Sure, April 30 was his original retirement date. But it’s been pushed back — surely you didn’t think the city would go without a top cop till Tuesday, when Chief Designate David Brown will be…

Ever since we mentioned that Massachusetts historian Joe Manning has been tracking down the Dallas newsies and other child laborers captured by Lewis Wickes Hine in Dallas in October 1913, several Friends of Unfair Park and other passersby have mentioned that, sure enough, that’s their mother-in-law’s uncle or so-and-so’s second…

It’s been said time and time again: The oh-that’s-where-it-is Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park is the least attractive — and, certainly, the least-utilized — part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. And the AT&TPAC knows it. Which is why, this morning, they’ve sent out a press release announcing…

Most Unfair Park items come and go, but a fortunate few last forever. Take this one from August 1, 2008, about Richardson’s Colin Ross, who claimed that with the use of swimming goggles, electrical wiring and tin foil (the inevitable part of this equation), he could get a beam of…

Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Green Line …You won’t be able to catch it at the Victory Park or MLK Jr. stations Sunday between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. DART’s got a very good reason: It’s trying to see if it can reconfigure the Green Line in…

December 6 — that’s when Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said the Green Line would be good to go with the completion of the final two sections of the “20-station, 28-mile, $1.8 billion project” (catchy!). The two sections left: MLK Jr. Station to Buckner Station in Pleasant Grove, and Victory…

Just got an e-mail about a new housing development being planned at the intersection of Lake Highlands Drive and Easton Road — pardon, a cohousing development — called White Rock Crossing. The Web site says it’ll involve the construction of 17 smallish, “eco-friendly” town homes that back up to the…

Every now and then I’ll find on eBay old photos from Fair Park — like this batch of John Sirgio originals from the ’36 Texas Centennial Exposition that wound up going for $147.50, or these rare glimpses at the Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition held in ’37. This morning…

Most of the leftovers and hand-me-downs sold by municipalities over on Lone Star Auctions have four wheels and are covered in rust — though there was that one time, about a year ago, Dallas County was selling off four horses just in time for the Apocalypse. Now, the county’s trying…

[Update at 7:27 p.m.: Michael Cramer, the Dallas attorney repping Red Frog, just sent The Final Word via text: “The event is on!!! Both the Sheriff and Fire Marshal have given written approval.” Mazel tov, and good luck to all.]Surely this will be the last item about will-they-or-won’t-they Warrior Dash…