So says this morning’s blog entry from Best Buy’s chief marketing officer, Barry Judge, who notes we’re one of two markets in which the big box will dip its toe in the video-game trade-in business, a la Grapevine-HQ’d Gamestop. KioskMarketplace tips us to the entry, which reads, in full:As we…
Back in April, the Dallas City Council agreed to spend $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute could “assess redevelopment options” at Southwest Center Mall, formerly known as Red Bird. Only Mitchell Rasansky opposed the expenditure — the now-former council member didn’t like the idea of…
And, in international headlines this morning, Dirk Nowitzki wants to play with the German national team in the EuroBasket2009 tourney in Poland, which runs September 7-20. At least, if I read my Babel Fish translation correctly: “I believe already that it tingles/swarms.” He needs to get that checked. Oh, my…
Must be love this morning, as two Friends of Unfair Park who more often than not vote “D” sent along this link to the new issue of The Texas Observer (unrelated), in which the staff ranks “The People’s Friends and Foes” coming out of the 81st Legislature. And topping the…
Every so often, just for grins, I check out the auctions at Lone Star Online, which the city of Dallas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the Dallas Independent School District and other municipalities use to move surplus merch. Only, turns out the city of Dallas isn’t offloading flat-tire forklifts or Reunion…
Saturday afternoon, friend of the show Danny Hurley sent word that they were offering quite the Father’s Day gift out at Addison Airport — flights on a B-24 Liberator, where everyone calls shotgun. (Pretty cool too, as only two Liberators are still flying). Danny wanted to go out and shoot…
Turns out, after months of trying to come up with some solution for Deep Ellum and downtown’s parking-lot boot boom, the Dallas City Council’s ready to vote on the issue after all. A proposed amendment to Chapter 48C of the Dallas City Code has been added to this week’s council…
Back in June 2007, a Dallas man named Bruce Kahn agreed to buy perhaps the most famous brothel in the world — the Chicken Ranch, ’bout 60 miles outside of Las Vegas — for a reported $15.2 million. But Nye County, Nevada, officials denied his application — said he didn’t…
This morning, a Very Special Unfair Park Correspondent — which is to say, Herschel Wilonsky, my dad — found himself in U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom for Don Hill’s contempt of court proceedings. Lynn didn’t rule this morning, except to say last night’s prayer vigil didn’t violate her initial…
‘Round 3 yesterday, one of my oldest friends called from Dallas Love Field with the breaking news: The airport was shut down, no one allowed in our out — including my friend, who’d put his son on a Southwest flight bound for Corpus Christi mere moments before Dallas police descended…
Family obligations kept me away from the official groundbreaking at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, about which we first told you in early May. But something tells me the shindig, attended by Mayor Tom Leppert, will be well documented. Jeff Liles’s TheKessler2010 YouTube page features, for now, this delightful…
Back when we posted our pics from the debut of the MonstoTron in Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, a few Friends of Unfair Park wondered if that sucker could be used for gaming purposes. Turns out, why, yes. Very much so, as evidenced by the photos taken by Jonas Brothers video director…
While on PACER this morning, I came across a lawsuit against the Dallas Independent School District about which not one word has been written: 55-year-old Lilia Gutierrez, a former principal at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, is suing the district, claiming, among other things, that she was wrongfully demoted in…
So, the city still hasn’t figured out the whole to-boot-or-not-to-boot parking-lot problem — but, look, it’s only been an issue since January, and, well, what do you expect? If nothing else, the briefing docs get thicker and thicker — here’s the 50-page package prepared for this week’s Economic Development Committee…
A Friend of Unfair Park points out that I’m not the only one collecting Re:Vision Dallas cast-offs. So too is the ArchDaily blog, which, earlier this week, posted PIKL Studio’s Commonwealth development for that block behind Dallas City Hall, where Central Dallas Community Development Corporation’s exec director, John Greenan, and…
Whilst on the city of Dallas Web site for an entirely unrelated matter, I espied this notice of interest to bargain hunters in search of property at low, low prices: a July 16th-scheduled offloading of foreclosed properties, most of which are vacant and some of which are ironically listed under…
If you haven’t registered for TwiCon — the Twilight fetishists’ orgy that runs July 30 through August 2 at the downtown Dallas Sheraton — you might wanna hurry, as the shebang gets a shout-out in the Entertainment Weekly hitting subscribers’ mailboxes today and tomorrow. It merits a mention on the…
For those who missed the Rangers-Astros broadcast last night, the Texas Rangers’ Web site has 33 adorable seconds from the second inning, during which a certain former president and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington owners’ suite namesake realized he was on the center-field video screen and maybe needed to put down…
Last we saw Charley Pride he was the high point of my friend Elvis Mitchell’s made-for-HBO documentary The Black List, Vol. 2. But this morning in a brief concert preview, the Edmonton Journal provides further proof, if any is necessary at this late date, of his greatness. Tomorrow, the 71-year-old…
Thursday morning, I asked publicist Ken Carter — who, very helpfully, has been sending out press releases on former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s behalf in advance of his corruption trial — if he thought doing so violated U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s gag order, which is now one…
Ever since last week’s storms, something’s been up — which is to say, down — with the power in our Northwest Dallas neighborhood. On Monday night, ’round midnight, a transformer behind the house blew — a few crackles; a brief flicker; then, all dark and quiet for but a few…
I finally got a hold of that letter the South Dallas pastors sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder concerning Don Hill’s case, scheduled to go to trial next week. In the missive, they demand “FAIR JUSTICE” for the former mayor pro tem. “We find this case appalling,” they write…
