Power Outage

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…

No, This Isn’t a New News Building

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.)…

Whiteout? Blackout!

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…

Wherein Jessica Simpson Gets a New Nickname Courtesy John Mayer

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…

Luna’s Tortilla Factory Lives!

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…

City Council Reboots Parking Ordinance

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,…

The Cop ‘Stache, Already In Vogue in the 1890s

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…

Dallas, a Big Winner on Biggest Loser

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…

Hard bcCorps: Back to Dolphin Heights

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…