Up in my swatted-neck of the woods, the city’s preparing to kill mosquitoes dead, dead, dead thanks to the first positive West Nile test of the summer. (Yes.) Says this city of Dallas press release, folks who live in an area boundeded by Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, Dallas North Tollway,…
Back in November ’07, two-time Irving school board candidate Manuel Benavidez sued that city, claiming its at-large voting method violated the Voting Rights Act. Today, U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis, in Dallas federal court, issued a judgment in which he said, in short, Yup, it sure does. The order, in…
Just by looking at this Web site, U.S. News & World Report’s Liz Wolgemuth figured out that Dallas ranks as one of the “10 Best Cities to Look For Creative Jobs.” Such as …?According to the Wanted data, it would be a good idea for chefs, writers and authors, singers…
Just two months ago, Jennifer Miller, the spokesperson for Colorado-based Smashburger, told Unfair Park that the chain’s anticipated expansion into Dallas, announced ’bout a year ago, didn’t happen for one simple reason: “In Dallas, we’re just waiting for the right partner at this point.” Looks like they found one: Dallas…
I was just on my favorite auction site (still kicking myself over not hustling to pick up those DISD band unis last week), where I noticed that Dallas County’s selling off … four horses, perhaps to accompany these gents? Their names: Bo, Bay, Skipper and Doc, whose prices are still…
Greg Janda at KXAS-Channel 5 sends word that the NBC affiliate’s Web site is carrying live Brett Johnson’s funeral in its entirety; you can watch it here. Services for the 48-year-old Fort Worth native — who died suddenly Sunday of pancreatitis after being admitted to the hospital one week ago…
Yesterday I got a call from Todd Howard — namesake of t. howard + associates, president of the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter and former board member of the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund (with my dad, full disclosure). Turns out he wanted to address some of the Friends…
Says so right there on The Dallas Morning News’s “Problem Tracker” Web site…
Art Conspiracy has raised a tall pile of cash in recent years for the likes of Preservation LINK, La Reunion TX and St. Anthony Community Center; now it has set its sights on Resolana, a nonprofit with an outpost in the Dallas County Jail that uses art “to empower women…
Tony Romo: Product Spokesman from Tony RomoVia Just Jared, we find this brand-new Funny or Die exclusive: Tony Romo as a pitchman for “over 50,000 products,” among ’em yarmulkes, gas that tastes like chocolate and something called a “ball-pen hammer,” sigh. In short: The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is no Peyton…
Don’t know what’s more interesting: This morning’s Wall Street Journal story that ties together Dallas’s efforts to take a long drink from the Neches River and Oklahoma’s water supply, or the comments attached to the story. Let’s start with the story, in which outgoing assistant city manager Ramón Míguez acknowledges…
Just today, the Dallas Police Department posted to its YouTube page — which, till about a month ago, hadn’t been updated in ages — a “training video for convenience store robbery prevention.” (The pre-title sequence, which continues at around the six-minute mark, is amazing.) Ironically, at about the same time…
In this photo, I mean, apparently taken last night near the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard, scene of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback’s Metal Skool performances with Mr. Belding and Jessica Simpson, awwww…
In the memo below, written by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and sent to Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council (as well as other city officials), you’ll find a list of all Assistant City Manager Ramón F. Míguez’s accomplishments — as well as a breakdown of how the remaining…
Long story short for those without short- or long-term memories: After Garland-based video game developer Apogee Software/3D Realms took forever developing and never delivering Duke Nukem Forever (12 years, to be precise), the company funding the project — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., responsible for Grand Theft Auto and the millions…
Apparently not, at least according to this sign on Walnut Hill Lane. Still, what say you, demons of rock?…
The city’s love-hate relationship with the Statler Hilton’s been well documented here, so no need to rehash that never-ending story. But there is this bit of news concerning the Hotel Conrad Built on Commerce Street: Mayor Tom and the DowntownDallas-ites would love that sumbitch covered, if’n you don’t mind, before…
It looks like this, courtesy John Benson, a passenger on that Southwest Airlines 737 that made an emergency landing Monday night when a hole suddenly appeared in the fuselage, prompting the Dallas-based carrier to inspect 200 planes overnight. Benson shot the video with his cell phone, but you get the…
Late last year, Blockbuster introduced its first on-demand delivery system: the 2Wire MediaPoint Digital Media Player, about which critics weren’t wild but oh well better than nothing and well at least the company’s trying. Then came the TiVo deal in March, which did nothing to stop the company’s stock from…
Thanks to the surprisingly large number of Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded along this People story concerning Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s apparent break-up, which, the mag reports, happened on Thursday — the night before Jess turned 29. So, who says they’re busted up? “A source close to the…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us Money magazine’s latest list of the Best Places to Live, and Keller’s the closest ‘burb to rank in the Top 10. So, what makes this Tarrant County town bestest enough to snag the No. 7 spot? (It came in at No. 50 but…
That’s what her campaign communications director, Hans Klingler, just told Unfair Park: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s going to be at Dallas County Republican Party HQ on N. Central Expressway to “announce when she’s going to announce” her run for Texas governor. That’s just a brief peek at her remarks,…
