Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment—and be grateful. This is blockbuster porn absent even the suggestion of care or concern for anything that…
So confirms The Los Angeles Times, and on the same day Farrah Fawcett dies, no less. While we and the rest of the known universe gather our thoughts and Jackson Five greatest-hits collections, here, from the Victory Tour, is Michael in his prime. Locals will recall well the three days…
Estela Hernandez in the city’s Public Information Office broke our hearts with the following e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. Read it for yourself.Re: Reunion Arena Demolition Scheduled implosion of upper concrete seating decks demolition-CanceledSTATEMENT: Upon further review of the arena structure, A&R Demolition has found an…
School’s out for summer, but the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees has one hellacious evening ahead of it, beginning with a 5 p.m. public hearing at 3700 Ross Avenue concerning the proposed 2009-’10 school year budget. After that’s done, it’s down to big business, some of which has…
Corpus Christi native Farrah Fawcett, who died today at the age of 62 following a lengthy and very public battle with cancer, will be remembered for many things: Charlie’s Angels, her hair, that pin-up poster, The Burning Bed (she could act!), her David Letterman appearance. But locals who actually saw…
Forbes today is but the latest in a long line of media outlets to celebrate Big in Japan’s made-in-Dallas ShopSavvy app, currently available only for the T-Mobile Android. The Stemmons Freeway-based developers are rushing as fast as they can to get their bar-code-scanning, price-checking app to the iPhone, but noted…
The Deep Ellum Community Association’s membership is concerned that what with all the talk of parking boots this week, the neighborhood’s other big story kinda got lost this week. Which is? The Deep Ellum Mural project, to be spearheaded by the great Frank Campagna (Tiffany Kieran of the DECA refers…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends this, via SMU’s Twitter account:Alert: SMU Main Campus Only: There is an emergency on campus. Please shelter in the nearest building now. Do not go outside. Will update.Just checked The News site, where it notes only that “a student says a professor has told…
Out this week is a report that notes the following: Patients spent “an average of four hours and three minutes” waiting in the emergency room in 2008, a slight decrease from the ’07 average but an enormous jump from the ’02 numbers. (In Texas, the average wait is 258 minutes,…
Pete reminded me late yesterday that I hadn’t mentioned the press release we received earlier this week from the Hard Rock Cafe’s New Jersey-based publicist concerning the joint’s opening date in Victory Park. So here ’tis: July 15. Can you smell the excitement? No? Maybe that’s just the $14.95 burger.We’ll…
Pardon the early-a.m. geekout; no doubt, there will be real news to follow shortly. But first this announcement: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen are making their way back into theaters on Friday, July 17, in but four cities — Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and, of course, Dallas. But…
A motion was filed in federal court today in the Dallas City Hall public corruption case in which developer Brian Potashnik’s high-priced, high-profile attorneys tell the feds that their client’s all good and really doesn’t need to see their evidence, but thanks. Brian and Cheryl Potashnik, of course, weren’t in…
Seconds ago, literally, Angela Hunt posted to her blog an explanation concerning what went down at Dallas City Hall this morning, when she and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano convinced the council to yank from today’s meeting agenda a vote on the proposed parking boot ordinance. As Sam mentioned…
We’re awaiting our very copy of John F. Wasik’s new book Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream, due to arrive shortly, in which he documents how the housing boom went bust and how walkable cities died a slow death, surprise surprise. And while Dallas and the surrounding suburbs…
View Larger MapNoticed this interesting item on the City Plan Commission’s agenda for tomorrow: a specific use permit renewal application “for an Alcoholic beverage establishment limited to a Bar, lounge or tavern and a Commercial amusement” for a property located on the northeast corner of Greenville Avenue and Lewis Street…
Technically I shouldn’t even be posting here–too old, so I’m told. So I’ll keep this quick and just tell Jeff Liles thanks for posting Spyche’s rendition of Slobberbone’s “Get Gone Again,” a standout from the band’s ’97 sophomore effort Barrel Chested. The clip was recorded, natch, at the Kessler Theatre…
Should be an interesting Dallas City Council meeting today — if, that is, the Deep Ellum Association knows it needs to send its people to City Hall before 1 p.m., as the council will vote on the parking-boot ordinance well before lunch break, according to city officials to whom we…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this front-page Wall Street Journal story about Cyrus Hassankola, who moved to Dallas to open a business that always appears on the verge of closing — the oriental rug shop at Preston Road and Royal Lane formerly known as “Going Out of Business.”…
The watch-listed Danny Hurley sends the sad news: Joe Christ — filmmaker, musician, provocateur, parent and all-’round hell-raiser — died on Father’s Day. According to the Facebook memorial page to which the faithful have been posting fond memories and farewells, he passed away in his sleep — heart attack, three…
If you’re unaware for whom Young Street downtown is named, here’s a brief history lesson courtesy the Texas/Dallas History & Archives at the Dallas Public Library:Young Street was named for Methodist minister Reverend William C. Young. Young had served as a chaplain in the Arkansas Confederate regiment under the command…
I was just on the SMU Web site and noticed that yesterday, the university announced the complete roster for the 2009-10 Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series, which tends to sell out fast — as evidenced by the fact that the first installment (featuring Pultizer winner Thomas Friedman, CNN’s Fareed…
Angela Hunt’s been hearing it from supporters who’ve wondered in recent weeks why she shifted gears so suddenly on the convention center hotel. Once among the most vocal opponents of the city owning a hotel, she was among the council members who voted unanimously last week to fund the project…
