Oh, “Pole Position.” I Get It.

Methinks KXAS-Channel 5’s Susy Solis had a fit of the giggles while writing her story about Burch Management’s Jobless to Topless Job Fair, scheduled from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. tomorrow at Cabaret Royale for “North Texans who were stripped of their corporate jobs” and have opted to go topless…

The Yea and Nay of Angela Hunt

Had a couple of items related to the pro-hotel’ers yesterday; and we’re headed to another introductory how-do this morning at the Stoneleigh Hotel, where Enough is Enough makes its formal what-up — as if folks needed to be introduced to the likes of Ray Hunt, Roger Staubach, former city manager…

Seriously, What the What?

While we’re on the subject of confusing pro-hotel campaign efforts, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the Let Dallas Compete Web site — which demands you “Say Yes to Dallas” and vote against Proposition 1. It’s unclear who’s behind the site, which is registered through a proxy,…

Worst. Sign. Ever.

Maybe you too have spotted these anti-Proposition 1 signs in recent days — saw a couple in my Northwest Dallas neighborhood this morning, spied one near Fitzhugh and Capitol Avenues last night, and we found this one earlier today near One Arts Plaza downtown. And, sure, if you know what…

David Letterman’s So Messin’ With Texas

A Dallas-born Friend of Unfair Park figures that after all the fussin’ and fightin’ over this morning’s Texas secession (Texcession?) post we really oughta go ahead and show this David Letterman bit from last night. Sounds good to us. Bonus: features a cameo from a certain Dallas resident of some…

Oh, So I Didn’t Imagine Lightning Last Night

Yesterday, the skies over North Texas were filled with circumhorizon arcs — ooooh, pretty. Then, last night, downtown got a light show, as evidenced by the photo above (enormous version here). So, sure, it was either going to rain today — or this was gonna happen. Who knows. Still could…

No Need to Secede. Because, See, Texas is Already a Foreign Country.

Time magazine wonders this morning: “What’s All That Secession Ruckus in Texas?” Um, Governor Rick Perry, maybe? And, natch, his very vocal support for House Concurrent Resolution No. 50, which, as we pointed out in February, states that the “81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim[s] sovereignty under…

The Trinity River, 1908

A Friend of Unfair Park this morning was browsing the Library of Congress’s archives and came across this Henry Clogenson photo of the Trinity River in 1908 — “the flood of record,” as Schutze describes it. So happens Jim has been making open records demands from the U.S. Army Corps…

Carla Ranger Believes Targeting of DISD Learning Centers is “Racial Politics”

Yesterday, Tawnell Hobbs summarized the debate over the fate of the Dallas Independent School District’s learning centers, created by court order in the 1980s to “return disadvantaged, inner-city, minority students to their neighborhood schools and provide quality educational programs with supplementary funds,” as the district’s Web site puts it. District…