For all those Friends of Unfair Park who were convinced juror Nedra Frazier’s interview with Sam would get Don Hill and the others convicted in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case a new trial, per a motion filed by Sheila Hill’s attorney, guess again. U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn…
As we mentioned yesterday, Neiman Marcus’s downtown flagship will formally unveil this year’s Christmas window display Friday night, just before they light the big ol’ Christmas sculptree in Main Street Garden. But downtown denizens have already had their sneak preview: Justin Terveen was downtown yesterday as set decorator Ignaz Gorischek…
Late yesterday Tom Hicks made it clear: He intends to keep majority ownership of the Texas Rangers, despite all that danged debt. Three would-be buyers have already traipsed through Arlington to meet with Jon Daniels and Nolan Ryan, more parties may join the fray before the deadline, but Hicks ain’t…
So, you don’t like The New Official License Plate of Texas, hunh? Well, then: There’s always MyPlates.com, which went live today and offers extremely personalized plates via the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s amazing the stuff they let you get away with…
Back in January, a Dallas-based company that sells bottled water — pardon, a “natural spring water … created from all natural ingredients including extracts of alfalfa stems and leaves, milk whey and enzymes from pineapple and papaya” — asked the University of Texas’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center if it wouldn’t…
Those proclaiming this album the Booker T. grad’s “departure” have clearly listened to their Norah Jones solely whilst sipping frappucinos between penning fan fiction in a Starbucks. Missed her giddy honky-tonk detour, The Little Willies, did you? Or El Madmo, her smirky, smart-ass punk-pop time-kill? Or “Sinkin’ Soon” off 2007’s…
As I wrote Friday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission tomorrow for permission to demolish the building, after the Landmark Commission and its Central Business District Task Force already told Bennett Glazer to put down the wrecking ball and back away slowly. But as…
You watched it fall — all that tension leading to a sudden, violent demise. Now, courtesy the great Justin Terveen, the peaceful aftermath in a series of photos he took Tuesday evening. The last photo of Reunion Arena we’ll ever post on Unfair Park…
As we were leaving Main Street Garden Friday night, the 6-year-old who lives in my house wondered what the what was under the tarp covering Neiman Marcus’s storefront. I told him: They’re building a tunnel for kids to crawl in. He didn’t believe me. I lifted him up to peek…
In advance of a formal presentation today on the SMU campus, USA Today sneak previews architect Robert A.M. Stern’s conceptual renderings for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Yes, but will there be “freedom” involved?One feature of the library will be a “freedom collection” with videos of testimony from “freedom…
The chief and council member attended a little meet-and-greet in Northwest Dallas last night — big turnout too, about 150 folks who didn’t come for the way-too-early-for-those Christmas cookies but to talk crime. Margolin, though, spent much of her time talking about ethics reform at Dallas City Hall — “a…
Patrick spent the better part of the morning watching A&R Demolition crews claw at the “legs” of Reunion Arena’s roof in the anticipation that the sucker would lean into a controlled drop rather than just, ya know, collapse. But, as evidenced by this video from Friend of Unfair Park “Human…
A couple of months, Schutze was all jacked up because someone on his street got a ticket for being parked the wrong way on a two-way street. Don’t look now, but seems the city’s done figured out that’s an awful easy way to make $45 a pop during these lean…
Just spent the better part of an hour watching a rough cut of National Geographic Channel’s The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a found-footage doc that makes its debut Monday at 8 p.m. C.S.T. Those burned out on Last Day of JFK documentaries need to take note: It’s not another…
I’ve got a few issues with KXT-FM (91.7) — chief among ’em, the KERA offshoot boasts the smallest play list in the history of broadcasting. And what in the what is up with all the mysterious blackouts? But, I know, growing pains and patience … got it.For now, then, I’ll…
Otto Lang and Frank Witchell built this city, more or less. Let’s catalog, shall we: the Dallas Power & Light Building, the Lone Star Gas Company HQ, the Sanger Bros. Department Store, the Fair Park Music Hall, the Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Catalog Merchandise Center (now known as the Southside…
Governor Rick Perry stopped by DISD’s Emmett J. Conrad High School on Fair Oaks Ave. yesterday to tout the Texas Workforce Commission’s $1 million investment in expanding robotics education programs across the state. Conrad, of course, boasts an estimable robotics club — the RoboChargers — that, for the last three…
Blockbuster’s torn: Stores or kiosks? Kiosks or stores? Says one analyst this week, Not stores, no friggin’ way. But how else will the Dallas-based videotailer host a release party? Our Gloria Levario was out and about early this a.m. and happened by the Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray shindig at…
It’s been a year since the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee got word that Dallas had plans — and $300,000 courtesy the Regional Transportation Council — to update The Greater Dallas Bike Plan, created in 1985 and updated, barely, only a few times since. According to a memo sent…
The front page of this morning’s New York Times Arts section draws our attention (heh) to the treasure trove of comic-book art sitting directly across the street from Unfair Park HQ: 83-year-old comic-book artist Joe Kubert has decided to sell off his collection of originals via Heritage Auction Galleries, beginning…
So, how to end a Monday: with a Justin Terveen photo snapped downtown over the weekend, or with Gordon Keith and Rhett Miller performing the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song in a video sent to me by a Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my affection for WKRP, the…
Speaking of local landmarks getting adiosed …Reunion Arena!Finally!After the jump, the release from Dallas City Hall regarding the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end for the arena, which has cost a little more and taken a little longer than A&R Demolition and the city expected. But…
