Elaine’s year-in-local-theater piece runs in the paper version of Unfair Park on stands tomorrow. Till then, then, this sneak peek from Theater Jones, where our theater critic and Mark Lowry look back at the highlights of the year (and decade) that was…
While waiting for Macerich officials to return our calls concerning Valley View Center, where I spent some of this afternoon, there’s this story out of Phoenix worth a look-see, if only as a cautionary tale. Because if the movies have taught us anything, it’s that couples stopped by the police…
Much thanks to Friend of Unfair Park “Mike,” who, in the comments to the Greggo item below, directs our attention to a podcast by a certain Kimball High School and SMU grad best known, perhaps, as Ned Ryerson. He’s been at it for two months, looks like, but Stephen Tobolowsky’s…
Reason No. 239 blog comments are a good thing: On Christmas, Friend of Unfair Park “whiskey a go go” posted a note to the Hawaii Bowl item that said, simply, “Here’s a link to greggos show from last week.” And, sure enough, one click later there was The Hammer on…
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff sends word this morning of a plan intended to turn Seventh Street into a “pedestrian/bicycle boulevard.” It’s among several bits of heads-up offered this morning, along with further promise of pedicabs courtesy Eno’s.Heads of Winnetka Heights home owners association, local business owners, and property owners are…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park was in Deep Ellum last night and noticed the sign: The King Bucks and The O’s at La Grange on December 30. Turns out, tomorrow is opening night for the latest Deep Ellum venue, to which we introduced you in October. It’s a…
Your Dallas Cowboys’ guaranteed trip to the NFL post-season prompts Bill Rhoden to visit with Jerry Jones in this sports pages of this morning’s New York Times. Much of the content feels reheated; most of the opinions, rehashed. (To wit: “Jerry Jones — owner, president and general manager — is…
GlobeSt.com takes a longish, hardish look at the Dallas’s apartment market and says, yeah, that sure feels like the bottom, so let the good times roll in 2010. But locals who buy and sell multifamily units aren’t sure this will be The Year of the Rebound: Says Will Balthrope in…
One down, three to go as the Old 97’s work their way through a four-night stint at the Sons of Hermann Hall, which is being recorded for some future use. Pete runs down last night’s “informal” opener (so, no ties or tails?) over on DC9, while one Jeb Matulich serves…
Says one baton-lovin’ Friend of Unfair Park, Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden received some early New Year’s best-wishes courtesy the Los Angeles Times, which named him a classical-music “face to watch” in the coming year. Writes Mark Swed of the conductor unknown to locals a mere two…
On Wednesday, the city of Dallas gave John Greenan the good news: The executive director of the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation was told that, yes, finally, he could begin moving people into 511 N. Akard Street, otherwise known as Citywalk @ Akard. More than four and a half years…
On Christmas Eve I was looking for something to post on a snowy, slow news day. I stumbled across a video posted late last week: a flashback to 1997, when the Dallas Diabolicrats pranked Grassy Knoll visitors on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Kinda remembered that. Went over to…
Jody Rikhilal’s family has been selling its curry powders, herbs and masalas downtown for 18 years, and remained at Dallas Farmers Market during Shed No. 2’s $3.2-million overhaul a few years ago. But they decided last week that they’d had enough of dealing with the city of Dallas to remain…
An op-ed, co-written by SMU President R. Gerald Turner, has been circulating through the nation’s newspapers in recent days; here’s yesterday’s pit stop in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which Turner and William Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland system, argue that college athletics’ business model is “on a path…
The new issue of New York magazine profiles Larry Kramer, whose actions on behalf of the gay community have spoken louder than his words, themselves a boisterous collection of plays, novels and journalism. In particular, the magazine is interested in the state of his decades-in-the-writing gay history-of, The American People,…
Sorry, but one last bit of bookkeeping before I hit the nog: We’ve known for a while when Don Hill and the missus, former City Plan Commissioner D’Angelo Lee and two others found guilty in the federal City Hall corruption trial are being sentenced; we’ve had February 26 circled on…
The freakishly steady snow outside the office, and the absence of a staff inside the office, suggests that perhaps it’s time to head on outta here. And so I leave you with this: Polyphonic Spree performing John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” at the Lakewood Theater in ’07, during…
This may or may not be our last post before we call it quits (I’ve got to prep for my Christmas Day job, besides). Still, I meant to mention this yesterday: On his way out the door to West Conshohocken, PA, Dallas News columnist Rod Dreher discovered that Schutze is,…
At some point today we’ll shut down Unfair Park for Christmas. But as long as there’s someone at Dallas City Hall, well, might as well keep on keepin’ on with this sneak peek at the Park and Recreation Department board’s meeting agenda for January 7, during which Daniel Huerta, executive…
The SMU contingent stationed in Waikiki this holiday week appears to be having a fine time, judging by director of media relations Robert Bobo’s ecstatic Aloha SMU blog. Tonight’s the big game: the Hawaii Bowl, kick-off 7 p.m. Maybe not big to most, but huge to some — say, SMU…
In Preston Royal Shopping Center, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by a handful of customers—high-schoolers grabbing a game, a middle-aged mom checking to see if Julie & Julia’s out yet…
Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise—Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, to name a few—and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw…), our three critics each pick three favorites of the ’00s. Who’s ready for There Will Be…
