On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece headlined “The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund,” which detailed how Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd. — described in the story as “a Bermuda-chartered fund run from Plano and Dallas by the Perot family” — saw its assets dwindle from…
The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I’ll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you’re in need of a full schedule — the official Web site’s still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks…
Just hours after releasing its first radio ad, featuring Roger Staubach, the Enough is Enough’ers unleashed their first TV spot. Dunno how effective it’ll be, though I do know of at least one 5-year-old who thinks it’s a riot.Enough is Enough Convention Center Hotel TV Ad from Dallas Observer on…
The American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report this morning — and, sorry, Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton counties, but when it comes to smog, the report card still reads “F.” Indeed, notes the report, while many cities around the country have seen their ozone levels…
Yesterday, I noted how the city of Dallas spent $3.2 million in order to lure but a single new tenant to Shed 2. Last night, this laundry list of excellent ideas landed in our suggestion box. I’ve forwarded them along to Janel Leatherman, the market’s administrator, and to Frank Poe,…
I like the title of the first Enough is Enough radio ad: “Really.” Oh, really? Really. Anyway. As we’ve noted before, Roger Staubach’s part of this pro-hotel group, and his is the voice heard at the end of the 60-second spot. But before you get to Captain Comeback’s pitch, there’s…
I don’t know — stripped of Rage Against the Machine, the latest R.I.P. Dallas ad doesn’t have the, ya know, punch. Still, though, I’d be interested to hear how the pro-hotel group came up with its second choice: Cincinnati-born Christian artist Nicole C. Mullen’s “I Have a Dream,” off her…
Friend of the show PeterK, who diligently scours eBay for old Dallas photos so I don’t have to, sends this gem that’s up for grabs till May 2: a photo of 1925 Miss Dallas Ruth Jernigan. And, so happens, that was the year Texas had four reps in the Miss…
As the boss pointed out in his first-episode review yesterday, Dallas DNA debuts tonight at 9 p.m. on Investigation Discovery. So happens that those who attended Central Dallas Ministries’ 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast last week got a sort-of sneak preview of tonight’s premiere: Before the breakfast, where Dallas…
Over the weekend, the rumors started mounting: Tom Hicks had approached Grandhi Mallikarjun Rao — a builder of Indian infrastructure whose wealth ranks him among the world’s wealthiest 200 — about buying at least a piece of Liverpool FC. Folks close to the owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas…
Last night, Governor Rick Perry served as moderator for a most special event at the Special Events Center in Garland: a conservative three-way during which radio chat-show hosts Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher rated and debated Obama’s First 100. (High marks and high fives all ’round, though there’s…
Remember that headline back in March, “The First Christian Book Expo May Wind Up Being the Last Christian Book Expo”? At least one Friend of Unfair Park remembers it well, because that Friend — who had a wonderful bar mitzvah long, long ago — sends along this Christian Retailing item…
We’ve been hearing in recent days that Del Taco is looking to move into the Dallas-Fort Worth area; sources say their business folks have been scouting would-be sites around town, as the Lake Forest, California-based chain considers — yet again — making its return to Texas. Barbara Caruso, Del Taco’s…
Perhaps, for its next ad, the R.I.P. Dallas folks could use a Woody Guthrie song — “This Land is Your Land,” maybe. Or Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction.” Or The Specials’ “Ghost Town.” Till then, bulls on parade through Victory Park…
This morning, I had a long chat with Janel Leatherman, the Dallas Farmers Market administrator, concerning the dearth of vendors in Shed 2 — which, as you no doubt recall, was enclosed and air-conditioned at the cost of $3.2 million,and which quietly reopened at the end of ’08. Since construction…
Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, says it took all of “five, six weeks, maybe” for station management to decide to drop The Bone and rechristen its classic-rock outlet as “FM93.3 Quality Rock.” Says Catlin, The Bone “had needed a face lift for some time” — because, well,…
This morning, The Dallas Morning News released its circulation stats covering the last six months, and, as to be expected, they’re down: “Daily circulation in the same period was 331,907 and 474,923 for Sunday, representing a reduction of 9.9% and 8.7% respectively, compared with the six-month period ended March 31,…
Dr. John Carlo has better things to do this morning than talk to Unfair Park: As medical director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, Carlo has spent the last several days tracking the “three probable cases” of swine flu in Dallas County while also “gathering more information and being…
Last night, at 7:48 to be precise, a certain Eleventy Billionth Blog’er sent me a note in which she posed the question: “Is it just me, or is this weird?” The this, in this particular case, was a link to the Vote No Dallas, where, Bethany noted, Angela Hunt’s mug…
George Gimarc called yesterday — and, look, if you would have told me when I was 13 that one day I’d grow up and be friends with the voice behind The Rock and Roll Alternative … well, anyway. He told me about something he’s been planning for months now: a…
In May of last year, CNN went looking for Wiley Fountain who, in 2003, received a full pardon from Gov. Rick Perry after DNA evidence revealed Fountain did not commit the aggravated sexual assault of which he’d been convicted in 1986. But the network’s Ed Lavandera couldn’t find the 52-year-old,…
The home page for Diandra Leslie-Pelecky’s research group in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas isn’t altogether exciting — though, late some nights, I will feel absolutely qualified to discuss the studying of nanostructured magnetic materials to understand their fundamental properties, as well as potential…
