Jimmy Kuehnle, a one-man balloon animal, brought his inflatable suit-slash-portable art installation known as You Wear What I Wear to downtown Dallas today — either that, or Main Street Garden is under attack! Those unsure of the man or his demands were left to wonder, as one did, whether he…
I am finishing up a Buck Pets piece for the paper version of DC9 at Night in advance of the band’s reunion at Trees one week from tomorrow night. And, as I went to look for an old piece of video on YouTube (the “Iron Cock” performance at Trees in…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park probably don’t need a recap concerning the tragicomic goings-on at the former Bama Pie Co. building across the street from Fair Park. This blog is littered with stories about the more than $200,000 in city and federal money spent on a proposed “motorsports museum” and…
A couple of photo items of note on this Good Friday:Over on Boing Boing, former Newsweek senior writer Bill Barol celebrates the work of local shooter — and musician — Noel Kerns, who, on his Flickr profile, writes that he specializes “in capturing Texas’ ghost towns, decommissioned military installations, and…
According to the Internet Movie Database, there are three movies named Spooked: This 2004 entry starring Cliff Curtis (“… about the mysterious death of a New Zealander who happened upon international banking records after purchasing a used computer”), a 2005 short (about a teenager “spooked by a vision of his…
Ludacirs 2010 Census Dallas, TX from DTP TV on Vimeo.Christopher Brian Bridges came to town to a couple of weeks back to beg Dallas to fill out the Census — because, look, we clearly need the push. In this just-posted trip recap, he rolls by K104, hits Cowboy Bradie James’s…
On Wednesday, MPF Research released a press release touting the enormo bump in Dallas-Fort Worth apartment rentals: “During the first three months of the year, renters absorbed 6,520 apartment units, the best quarterly demand performance seen since fall 2007.” And, says Greg Willett, nearly 10,000 units have been taken off…
The Onion News NetworkThe Associated Press just posted its breathless report on the brouhaha over Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” striptease, which has become the Zapruder film of 2010. AP, why the headline: “Dallas Residents Stunned Over Erykah Badu Video”? Shouldn’t it have been: “Two Tourists Who Don’t Know Who Erykah…
For his new piece about how ESPN’s locally focused Web sites are proof that the Worldwide Leader’s “thinking bigger than ever,” per GQ’s headline, New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman spent most of his time in Dallas with the likes of Calvin Watkins, Tim MacMahon and other ex-daily-newsers who’ve…
A few odds and sods on this Census Day:The fine folks at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff have posted a video follow-up to our post about plans to build The Better Block at the intersection of N. Tyler and W. 7th Streets on April 10 and 11. That’s it up top,…
From time to time over the years, we’ve perused the Library of Congress’s archives for photos of Dallas not seen since they were first taken decades ago. But Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who shares my love for these vintage pictures, sends word of myriad recent additions to the collection,…
Two months ago, Chase pledged $3 million to the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park — for, specifically, the crescent-moon-shaped, 15-foot-wide Promenade that will span the length of the 5.2-acre park currently under construction. But, as we noted two weeks later, there’s still much fund-raising left to do: The Woodall Rodgers Park…
Up, up and away with some breaking news concerning Dallas Theater Center’s forthcoming big-deal redo of It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman: Artistic director Kevin Moriarty has his Man of Steel. We go to the release from the DTC for some info about the Arkansas-born singing…
Over on DC9 this morning, Pete posted a video of Erykah Badu performing “Window Seat” on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show earlier this week — oh, right, so there’s a song in that naked video. Speaking of: Alice Cooper was on CBS’s The Early Show this morning addressing Badu’s Dealey Plaza…
Perhaps you’ve seen the promotional materials — they’ve been everywhere during the past five years, as the Dallas Independent School District (and superintendent Michael Hinojosa, especially) eased on down that Road to Broad, so named for the $2 million award given to urban school districts who made “the greatest progress…
This just popped up in the in-box — a press release headlined “Dallas Drivers Happy, But Would Welcome Improvements.” OK, I’m interested. Tell me more, press release announcing the results of the 2010 Hartford Drivability Survey. Tell me more.Despite incidents of road rage and complaints from a core group of…
Speaking of celebrities coming to town at the end of April …I just got word that the Sci-Fi Expo at the Richardson Civic Center’s done set its April 24-25 all-star line-up — and, wow, maybe my mom can take my 6-year-old this go-round. That’s because none other than Lee “Scarecrow”…
So says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent us the link to the most astonishingly named Web site in the history of ever: Palin4Life.com. What you see above is the only thing on the Web site, which was created on March 8. And, ooof, tickets ain’t cheap — unless…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Adweek blog item from today about a pissing contest involving Love Field-based Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways — though, from the looks of the Google Machine, this first became a thing at the end of last week. In short, Southwest…
In the paper version of Unfair Park that hits stands today, you’ll find a review of Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Oklahoma native Tim Blake Nelson and starring, in dual roles, Edward Norton. I liked it much more than our Jim Hoberman, who reviewed the movie about an…
Word is Kay Bailey Hutchison will announce this morning down in San Antonio that she’s staying in the Senate — so say NBC News and The Washington Post, anyhow. Which would explain Mayor Tom Leppert’s acknowledgment yesterday that, sure ’nuff, he’s mulling a second term.And it would explain State Sen…
Around the time self-proclaimed shareholder activist Carl Icahn bought into Blockbuster half a decade ago, its stock was worth $10, give or take. He ultimately spent well over $300 million stocking up on shares, in large part to lead the effort that would lead to the ouster of then-CEO John…
