Ziggy Gruber, namesake of the revered Houston deli Kenny & Ziggy’s, has but one request from the Jewish community of Dallas: Please, please stop with the calling. In recent days, he’s received countless messages at the deli from folks up here who’ve heard that Kenny & Ziggy’s is finally opening…
KVUE and KXAN down in Austin ran pieces last night about how the city of Austin really wants to keep Austin PD’s top cop, Art Acevedo, one of the six finalists for the Dallas Police chief’s job. City officials have offered to bump his salary to close to $200,000, which…
In advance of the big fight at Cowboys Stadium this weekend, Jerry Jones spoke to, of all places, the UK Telegraph about a great many things — such as his inspiration for the Enormodome (“I visited Wembley three times while it was being built”) and how he’d never, ever, ever…
Just so there’s no confusion, beginning at 7 tonight you won’t be able to post comments to Unfair Park. Our crack IT staff informs me this outage will last no longer than 30 minutes — but they said Tuesday night’s maintenance outage would last no more than an hour or…
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff was the first locally to make mention yesterday of the fact Google Maps now offers bike trails — that’s the green line you see on the map at right. (Writes Jason Roberts, “It’s a good way to see a birds-eye view of our trail system, and…
Till Saturday’s visit to the Dallas Convention Center, I hadn’t walked around Pioneer Park Cemetery since I was a kid, when my dad took me to see the Jackson 5 at Memorial Auditorium. And so I was stunned to see, years later, what a shambles the city-owned cemetery, in which…
And speaking of late-night teevee hosts …Just got word that ousted Tonight Show ex Conan O’Brien is about to take Andy Richter and the band on the road for a two-month tour, the title of which is “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television.” Which I mention because, right, there’s…
Tony Romo’s been all over the place this week: on Jimmy Kimmel Live, in that what-the Super Bowl video and, last night, on the Late Show With David Letterman. Well, actually, Romo wasn’t on Late Show — he was just the topic of conversation. The Richardson native was ostensibly visiting…
At some point today DC9 at Night will feature a very lengthy chat with our old buddy James Burnett — better known as Big Bucks, proprietor of the late, great 14 Records on Greenville Avenue and frontman for the Volares and, more recently, Rachel Bazooka. The subject this go-round: His…
Pinkston grad and Prairie View A&M golf great Leonard Jones has been making the rounds in recent weeks, promoting a Samuel L. Jackson-narrated Golf Channel doc called Uneven Fairways, about those who broke the sport’s color barrier long before Tiger Woods was born. One month ago, as a matter of…
What you see up top is the artwork unveiled today for this year’s State Fair of Texas, where the theme is “Super Sized Fun.” Which is in reference to …? Let’s go to The Official Announcement: “Super is the word heard all around North Texas this year and Fair officials…
KTVT-Channel 11 just sent word: The CBS affiliate, and KTXA-Channel 21, has a new news director and vice president, Adrienne Roark, who comes to Dallas from South Florida. Roark replaces Scott Diener, who was summoned to Cali in January and who, in 2007, replaced the not-well-liked Regent Ducas. The Google…
OK, Jim, so Michael Lindenberger didn’t ask Angela Hunt for a “told-ya-so” quote. Didn’t need to, because, after all, the District 14 council rep has her own blog, to which she just posted an item explaining why she just voted against taking $4.75 million from the Trinity River project bond…
We’ll have more from the Park Lane Whole Foods Market over on City of Ate in coming days, as the 62,000-square-foot behemoth prepares for its Monday-morning bow. Till then, sure, I could tell you all about the covered gardening center or how the supplements and cosmetics center looks like something…
Yesterday I called Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway to discuss the fate of the Dallas Convention Center Arena — otherwise known as Memorial Auditorium. Because it was Caraway who really pushed for its overhaul in the fall of 2008; matter of fact, he reminds, he only signed off on the…
SMU just sent word: Its seismologists, Brian Stump and Chris Hayward, joined by researchers from the University of Texas, have found evidence that could very well link those North Texas earthquakes in ’08 and ’09 to the re-injection of saltwater into natural-gas wells. From the report summary:The incidents under study…
One of my colleagues just flew in from Houston and couldn’t find a taxi at Love Field to take into the office — because the cabbies are on strike. Those waiting in line for taxis were instead ferried into shuttles and limos airport officials called in when they discovered the…
Back in November, Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned off a pile of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including a signed guitar, some autographed album covers and his fedora. Heritage says it got the stuff from a Los Angeles man named Benson Hopp, to whom Heritage says it advanced more…
Till now, this was only seen by those who trekked out to Fort Worth for Faith Hill’s February 6 howdy-do for the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s Kick-off Concert Series at Bass Hall. But the host committee has opted to share this all-star-studded butchering of Hill’s “This Kiss,”…
First, my apologies to anyone trying to access and leave comments on Unfair Park last night and into the wee small hours of this morning — a company-wide server issue led to some unexpected downtime. But this battle station is, once more, fully armed and operational. For now. Far as…
I guess this is one in a series: City-Owned Buildings Gone to Hell. Staying, for the time being, in Northwest Dallas, today’s stop is the former Walnut Hill Library on Marsh Lane and Northwest Highway, which has been replaced with the one-parking-lot-over Bachman Lake Branch Library.The Walnut Hill branch opened…
Courtesy Courthouse News today comes this lawsuit filed two weeks ago in Dallas County District Court: Bernard Veasley claims he wanted to be a Dallas police officer. Claims he was this close to suiting up in blue. That is, until his recruiting officer — who is not named in the…
