Unfair Park may be a bit delayed this morning. Blame it on Oncor, which spent an hour last night trying to restore power at our NW Dallas outpost before, apparently, giving up. We’ve had juice maybe six hours on and off out of the last 24 and none at all…
One of the two parking-garage exits here at Unfair Park HQ’s frozen over; explains why the office is now holiday empty. But before I quit it, a few items of interest to keep you warm:USA Today profiles NBA All-Star Weekend co-host Mark Cuban, who’s, like, mellowed in recent years; hence…
I see here that on Tuesday, the city council’s Economic Development Committee has on its agenda a proposed downtown parking study. Since City Hall’s more or less closed between now and Tuesday (for, in order, a All-Star snow day, a furlough day and President’s Day), and since the briefing docs…
It’s the Omni downtown, silly — you know, the convention center hotel? Justin took this two days ago. Fine, but where the construction cam? (Speaking of, why doesn’t the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge cam work anymore? It robs Schutze of one of his hobbies.)…
Friend of Unfair Park Gabe Edgar was kind enough to send us the entirety of the late Lillian Moore Bradshaw’s essay “The 3 R’s of Censorship vs. The 3 R’s of Freedom to Read,” written in 1967. It’s after the jump and worth your time — especially when you consider…
Forget what Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons said on Tuesday. He sends word this morning that DART has decided to go even deeper into the wee small hours of the morning during NBA All-Star Weekend: “We’re extending DART rail service even later, until 3 a.m. on Friday and…
Unfair Park’s Northwest Dallas outpost lost power about 20 minutes ago — which frankly comes as no surprise given that the nearest suggestion of a springtime sprinkle often times causes electrical darkness. (Just as well, the Dallas Independent School District kept the doors open — hard for the kid to…
As a Friend of Unfair Park points out below, Mayor Tom Leppert speaks today to Emily Ramshaw, the former Morning News-er, now with the Texas Tribune. It’s only a brief audio interview — a little shorter than nine minutes — and he doesn’t say anything particularly shocking: Crime’s down, and…
So, Mark Cuban’s interested in biting off a piece of that Dallas Stars Popsicle — not the whole thing, mind you, just a taste. So he told Randy Galloway yesterday: “I have talked to somebody who is interested in buying the team, and I told them I would try to…
John Mayer clearly had too much Lagavulin whilst talking to Playboy; hence, the daylong deluge of news stories about his interview with the magazine, which appears in the March issue and is now available online. While the media wrings its hands over Mayer’s more racially charged comments, we will instead…
Didn’t see this coming: Jibreel Rashad’s guilty! Rashad, of course, was among the myriad defendants named in the feds’ indictment in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, and, like those who came before him — those who pleaded guilty or those who were convicted — he’s looking at a stay…
If you loved American Airlines’ decision to charge for blankets and pillows, you’re bound to go nuts over today’s announcement: Starting with tickets bought on February 22, you won’t be able to fly stand-by on the Fort Worth-based carrier unless you’re willing to pony up $50 for a confirmed seat…
A very amused Friend of Unfair Park sends word: The four Democratic candidates for Texas governor not named Bill White or Farouk Shami have sued KERA and North Texas Public Broadcasting in federal court down in Austin because they didn’t get invited to Monday’s debate held in Fort Worth and…
When last we looked in on the old Luna’s Tortilla Factory, it was joining the old Dallas High School, the Statler Hilton, Deep Ellum and other local historic landmarks on Preservation Dallas’s most-endangered list. But it appears to be imperiled no more: Today at 3, the Landmark Commission’s Central Business…
After the jump you’ll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year’s Dallas International Film Festival — you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International Formerly Known as the Deep Ellum Film Festival. Two of them — I Am Love (with Tilda Swinton)…
Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano got today what they requested last week: immediate implementation of the citywide parking-boot ordinance, which prohibits parking-lot operators from booting vehicles unless they provide paper receipts either handwritten or machine-made. Only four of their colleagues voted against moving up the July 1 deadline: Sheffie Kadane,…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK wondered if I’d received the vintage Dallas cop photo he found for sale on eBay. Nope, had not. Which got me to looking. And, voila: I found this original cabinet card (taken at a photo studio downtown) featuring a Dallas Police officer that dates…
I mentioned over the weekend that while at Fair Park for Code 58 media day I stumbled across a Biggest Loser shoot at the Swine Building, where contestants were ushered into the arena and made to wrangle cattle into pens. Turns out, the NBC reality series was here for five…
Dolphin Heights Initiative: Holding House Design – Part 2 from bcCorps.org on Vimeo.A few weeks ago we introduced you to the bcCorps, an army of volunteers giving nine homes in Dolphin Heights extreme makeovers a la bcWORKSHOP’s work along Congo Street. John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development…
I’ve spent the better part of the morning trying to get to know Lillian Moore Bradshaw, who has died at the age of 95. The memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the mayor and city council last night is brief, a few sentences containing a few notable accomplishments –…
Hard to say how seriously to take the results of today’s Public Policy Polling press release that says Debra Medina’s becoming quite the player in the GOP gubernatorial race; after all, this is the same company that asked America the other day, “Saints or Colts?” (Saints all the way, but…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park remember this picture — it was taken a little over one year ago, just as Washington Mutual’s box on Greenville Ave. was put on the market after JPMorgan Chase said, “Nah, we’re good.” A busto bank sitting on the former home of a strip club…
