Think that whatchamacallit to the right looks like crap? So does the Deep Ellum Foundation, which has been trying to get money from the Farmers Market Tax Increment Financing District to fund a redo of the artwork in the so-called “art park” and Deep Ellum Dog Park along Good Latimer…
Over on the Reuters environment blog, Ed Stoddard sings the praises of the Trinity River Audubon Center, to which he paid “an eye-opening visit.” Writes Stoddard:This is a “good news” green story that shines a spotlight on many different issues: the environmental costs of poverty (no illegal landfills in affluent…
Dunno why a Friend of Unfair Park would send me this heads-up (oh, wait, yes I do), but, indeed, George Takei will be in town in but 11 days to speak at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, in conjunction with The Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of…
The Dallas Independent School District has just posted to its Web site a report titled Staffing Levels in the Dallas Independent School District Report, which was compiled on the school board’s behalf by the Council of the Great City Schools. The board wondered, quite simply, Is the district overstaffed? The…
Speaking of the Bush library at SMU and all the stuff they gotta stick in it some day, a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this link to the George W. Bush Presidential Librarium, created by the guys responsible for Goodnight Bush for whom “themed attractions provide more entertainment than…
A Friend of Unfair Park with an eye for a deal points our direction to this item up for grabs in a Dallas Independent School District surplus-item auction: three pallets of band uniforms and hats. Hell of a deal: Two bids have raised the asking price to a lousy 15…
On Monday afternoon, a Chicago man named Dennis Sneyer found a bag filled with a camera and thousands of digitally stored photos lying in the middle of a busy intersection. After a little sleuthing — which is to say, going through some pics and finding amongst the popular backdrops the…
Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein’s unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush’s SMU library, and a week after Pulle’s piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisville…
So reports the Associated Press, which got a sneak peek at a Texas A&M-based Texas Transportation Institute study being released tomorrow that ranks the DFW as the sixth-most traffic-jammed-up metropolis in the country behind Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Houston and San Francisco. That said, the report also counts Dallas among…
Well, none of them are building wind farms in West Texas. Two have known the soft touch of Mike Modano. Three are former or current Disney Channel stars. All are enamored of copious amounts of free publicity. Two have posed nude. And all have been named one of the “25…
Last December, Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program, took nine students from the university to a frigid Poland, where they visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, Stutthof and Treblinka, among several other Nazi concentration camps. (Halperin has led such sojourns for the last 13 years.) One of his students wrote…
The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP’s first-place prize-winners was a four-minute “travel and tourism” entry commissioned by the DC&VB titled “When I’m Big.” It sounds amazing:Description:…
Perhaps you heard Mike Snyder and Jane McGarry’s tearful parting of ways this morning on Dunham and Miller, where the closing segment of Monday’s 10 p.m. KXAS-Channel 5 newscast seemingly played on a loop. The station’s story concerning Snyder’s new deal with the NBC affiliate — as mentioned in May,…
GlobeSt.com’s Amy Wolff Sorter asks Mark Fewin, senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, and Matt Heidelbaugh, senior director with Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, for their takes on the Dallas-Fort Worth commercial real estate market, and neither like what they see in the second quarter: an enormous jump in…
Around the same time the folks at the Hard Rock Cafe were showing local media the new Victory Park digs, Hillwood was handing over the development’s keys to US Treuhand — the German investors who, back in March, warned that Ross Perot Jr.’s company was in danger of defaulting on…
Alas, Pussy Soup is the rather unfortunate translation for the delightful-looking manga-to-movie Neko Rahmen Taisho, one of the films in this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off July 17 at the Magnolia Theater. The fest is in its eighth year now, and though it doesn’t get the…
It happened yet again. Late last week, a Friend of Unfair Park in the retail real-estate business heard that California-based In-N-Out Burger was “finally coming to Dallas.” It was ’round this time last year that D’s Nancy Nichols heard the same thing via a commenter on SideDish. Wasn’t the first…
Just two doors down from where I took this picture back in January, I discovered this commode — a neighbor’s art installation that’s doubling as fund-raiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Apparently, you pay so much to have it removed permanently, or a slightly smaller amount to…
It’s awfully difficult at this late date to recall when last we heard the name Quincy Carter — he was either getting arrested or signed to yet another team, hard to say. But this much is certain: The former starting quarterback for Your Dallas Cowboys is no longer an Abilene…
All apologies to the Friends of Unfair Park trying to post comments — the server decided to take a late holiday break, and, for two hours, well, that was that. (And, no, we didn’t shut ’em down, as many of you have wondered.) So, that said, back to business.The Dallas…
Morgan Lyons at Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today of a new cell-phone “customer service tool”: the “Where’s My Bus?®” app, which allows bus-riders to track their rides to and fro with “a near-real time estimate.” Lyons tells Unfair Park it was an in-house creation — “so we’re pretty…
We’ve seen plenty of conceptual renderings of the Re:Vision Dallas finalists, but this morning, North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting provides us with a very impressive video showcasing their self-sustaining downtown block, The Entangled Bank. Should Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and bcWORKSHOP proceed with this project — which envisions…
