Yesterday, after practice at the American Airlines Center, the Mavs hosted their 13th annual Turkey Dunk, attended by some 125 homeless and “at-risk” kids. We sent the great Hal Samples to the shindig, during which the team partnered with Rainbow Days and put on a clinic for the kiddos, which…
Couple of weeks back we broke the news that Fox TV Studios had decided to shoot Jack and Dan — a new hour-long buddy-cop action-comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks — in Dallas. Pre-production’s well under way, with shooting set to begin in January. Don’t know how we missed…
Looks like 7-Eleven’s new private-label wine is but the beginning of the Dallas-based convenience-store chain’s plan to conquer the world. Mark Herron, the senior product director for all things private label, tells Convenience Store News there’s more to come: “By developing a global brand, 7-Eleven can better leverage our brand…
Last night, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sent word that before everyone at 1500 Marilla Street goes on extended holiday vacay — tomorrow’s a furlough day — there’s one last press conference on the schedule. And it’s quite the all-star jam session: Expected to attend the noontime presser are…
Attorney William O. Holston Jr.’s a good Friend of Unfair Park and a very good guy who does considerable pro bono work representing political and religious asylum applicants to this country, much of it through the Human Rights Initiative. I bring it up this morning because Brother Bill has contributed…
The latest news about The News should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who’s listened to the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, since at least February, when he told Unfair Park that, yes, sooner or later A.H. Belo would “experiment” with finding out how much online readers were…
It has been seven months since Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the lineup for DTC’s inaugural season in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, during which time the venue’s been finished and feted and Moriarty wove a month-long Midsummer Night’s Dream that ended its run yesterday. It…
Forthcoming shortly, Patrick’s account of his day spent amongst the John F. Kennedy in-crowd on the 46th anniversary of the president’s fateful trip to Dallas. Till then, though, this preview: Patrick happened upon Joey Granati performing his epic rendition of “The Torch is Passed” shortly before the 12:30 p.m. moment…
Five years ago, Brad Blauser of Grapevine landed in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Though his family remains here, Blauser has stayed in Baghdad. But he quit his job in 2005 in order to focus full time, and without pay, on securing wheelchairs for disabled Iraqi children, to whom he…
John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer city…
According to the University of Texas at Dallas’s own press release, more than 80 percent of students surveyed want the school to sell beer and wine at The PUB in the student union — which seems shockingly low, you ask me. Nonetheless, that’s why the school has asked Chartwells, which…
Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Ron Natinsky are wrapping up their trade mission to China today; alas, no flaming statues for the mayor, only the hope that a Shanghai company will bring one of its LED manufacturing facilities to Dallas. Leppert and Mayor Ji Jianye of Nanjing also signed…
The missus, the wee one and I are presently sucking in the ’70s downtown, where Effects, a riff-rockin’ import from Nashville, is warming up the chilly throng-lite for Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights with decent Plant and Page and Joe Walsh offerings original and otherwise. The Dallas Chop House, due to…
No Roky Erickson freak-outs this Friday; no KNUS odds, sods or seeds and stems for you, dear Friends. Instead, George Gimarc offers something even more lost from the Dallas radio lost-and-found. As in? Well, let’s let the rock and roll alternative explain:Once upon a time there was a program called…
Earlier this week, state Sen. Royce West sent to Dallas County Democratic Party precinct chairs a missive beneath the subject heading “From One Democrat to Another.” It has become, during the last 48 hours, a subject of much conversation among those who received it. (Well, that’s not entirely true. Some…
KXAS-Channel 5 was supposed to go off the air at 11 this morning — there’s still much repair work to be done after last night’s electrical fire that knocked the 10 p.m. newscast off the air. But staffers are still awaiting the outage, which is forthcoming … any … second…
The Washington Post’s The League blog wonders this morning, “Why are the Cowboys So Hated? How does ‘America’s Team’ remain one of the most loathed franchises in sports?” To which the responses, including essays from Eagles and Giants bloggers, have been varied and nasty. (Something about Cowboys fans being “soulless”…
Right now, the closest H-E-B gets to Dallas is Waxahachie — if, of course, you don’t count H-E-B-owned Central Market. But a few days ago, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that H-E-B had quietly opened an office in his Northwest Dallas building — maybe, he speculated, the San…
The folks at the AT&T Performing Arts Center picked quite the inaugural concert for the Wyly Theatre: The Flatlanders, otherwise known as Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. No doubt they’ll break in the joint Tuesday night with the first song on their first album, recorded in 1971…
Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, Economic Development honcho Karl Zavitkovsky and the rest of the Dallas delegation presently in Asia have moved onto Beijing, where last night they toured a plant that manufactures wind-turbine blades — and to think, for that they missed a council briefing on drainage…
I sent Hank Stuever, author of Tinsel, an e-mail this morning to see how his trip back to Frisco had gone this week (he wraps up a three-day stay with a signing in Fort Worth tonight before he heads down to Austin). He responded thusly: “It was great — no…
No, not that one. The one featured in this video the Dallas Police Department just posted, in which a Big C convenience store at 2240 Irving Boulevard is robbed at gunpoint by two men, one of whom is a 21-year-old named Anthony Romo. (His accomplice is, thus far, unidentified by…
