We called it almost one year ago to the day: Bob’s Steak & Chop House will be the anchor eatery in the convention center hotel. No surprise there: After all, Omni, which will operate the hotel, owns a 50-percent steak (see what I did there?) in the chain, which is…
The very helpful humans at WFAA-Channel 8 aired a segment full of protect-yer-pipe cold-weather tips during the 5 p.m. newscast. I missed it then, but caught the 10 p.m. rerun. And now it’s after the jump, for those trying to keep these frigid temps from penetrating their entrances…
No doubt you’ve already heard: On New Year’s Eve the Irving city council voted to let Kraft Macaroni & Cheese blow up Texas Stadium in exchange for $75,000 cash money. And now, Kraft’s NYC-based publicist sends word that “one lucky kid (ages 9-12) who has made a positive, explosive impact…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Over on Craigslist, someone’s trying to offload hundreds of old Video Bar videotapes for the low, low price of $1,000. That’s quite the flashback for those of us who (barely, because we were very underage) remember Bart Weiss’s former Deep Ellum hot…
Hat tip, of course, to Mr. Spock for the headline suggestion — what, you’ve never heard the ancient Vulcan proverb? Shame. Anyway. Yes, looks like the former Dallas Maverick is headed to China, if this crudely interpreted Web site is any indication. Jerry Stackhouse, who said in October he wasn’t…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word this morning that Leppert and Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (awesome) have made a bet on Saturday night’s Cowboys-Eagles game. But, blessedly, they’ve dispensed with the wackiness (no jerseys worn to council meetings) and gone straight for the sincere: “The…
Perhaps you saw the story in the morning paper: According to the state comptroller’s office, Dallas pulled in sales tax revenue totaling $14.5 million in November 2009. And while that’s a considerable plunge from same-time-last-year’s intake ($18.34 million), that’s really not the number to focus on. You need instead to…
For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne’s 1993 novel Youth in Revolt—which, actually, was three novels collected under one title. In 1996, Fox filmed a pilot starring Chris Masterson as Nick Twisp, the 14-year-old “I’m Single, Let’s Mingle” T-shirt-sporting, foreign-film-watching, Frank Sinatra-listening, Oakland-stuck virgin from Payne’s book. Jane…
Oak Cliff’s own Jeff Liles is out in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church at this very moment, and he reports that workers for Ponce Contractors are inside the 104-year-old 10th Street church removing asbestos. And, sure enough, the man in charge of the remediation tells Unfair Park that…
And, speaking of Mark Birnbaum …When last I spoke with the Dallas-based doc maker, he was out and about filming Mayor Tom Leppert and other council members for a short promoting the new convention center hotel. He hasn’t seen the finished film yet — he was but a shooter on…
Speaking of Kettle Art …I noticed that on his blog yesterday, U.K.-based illustrator Damien Weighill posted a note that he’s all set to make his Dallas debut at Frank Campagna’s Deep Ellum gallery. The exhibition runs January 28 through February 2, but on the 30th, Weighill will be joined by…
In case you missed Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza’s mini-doc Dig Deep — about the keeper of Kettle Art, Frank Campagna, and his work on Deep Ellum murals extinct and extant — when it debuted at the Dallas Video Festival in November, Mark was kind enough to post it to…
On Monday, we directed your attention to The Times’s tale of Sergio Kindle, the Woodrow Wilson High School grad one day away from playing in The Only College Football Game That Matters. A fellow Woodrow grad and good Friend of Unfair Park also directs our attention to an ESPN piece…
On New Year’s Eve we heard from one poor Pearl at Commerce patron, “Never Parking In a Pay Lot Again,” who claims to have gotten the boot even after paying to park in the lot across the street. And, according to Pearl at Comemrce’s Tracy Yost, our Friend wasn’t the…
A couple of weeks back, GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina was demanding she get an invite to KERA’s January 14 debate at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the University of North Texas campus. KERA spokesperson Meg Fullwood told us, look, she just needs to be patient: “We do not…
As usual, friend of the show Justin Terveen was out and about shooting the city this week when he discovered that part of Little Baghdad in the Cedars is being torn down. And by Little Baghdad, I mean, of course, the small patch of Alma Street and Cockrell Avenue made…
Four years ago we were writing about the race for Dallas County Precinct 5 constable: Mike Dupree v. Jaime Cortes. Ah, the good ol’ days; how things have …. changed? Now, it’s Jaime Cortes v. a handful of comers looking to snatch away his job, which he only got after…
It’s been rumored for weeks, but KTVT-Channel 11 made it official this afternoon: Starting Monday, it’s expanding its 4 p.m. newscast by another half hour, with Keith Garvin and Tracy Kornet holding down the anchor desk. That means, sorry, no more Inside Edition on Channel 11; it moves to TXA…
While Pete’s giving away a suite to see Lil Wayne over on DC9, you’ll pardon this musical interlude over here on Unfair Park. But this morning’s mail brought a most pleasant surprise: the debut disc from Shoot Low Sheriff, which marks Erik Swanson’s return to his perch upon the Western…
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in ’99, he was director of communications — which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a…
View Larger MapThe northeast corner of the North Dallas Tollway and Arapaho Road is a parking-lot wasteland, thanks, in large part, to that abandoned OfficeMax. For going on two years, Rosebud Properties has been trying to redevelop the land; there was a proposal before the City Plan Commission in April…
Right before Christmas, Dallas Independent School District board president Adam Medrano told Unfair Park he is “not sure what can be done at this point” to save the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which DISD purchased in the fall to make way for some piece of the new Adamson High School…
