So says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won’t play in Waco, as…
A Friend of Unfair Park who wonders where all the Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo talk’s done gone to passes along a link to Joe Simpson’s Twitter page, which he used earlier this week to refute a National Enquirer story that claims he’s been trying to bust up the Dallas Cowboys QB’s…
Friends of Unfair Park first met Hal Samples’s harmonica-playing pal Benjamin Ford — better known as ScrapIron — back in November 2006, when we posted an excerpt from Hal’s doc-in-progress Dreamtown, about the homeless in Dallas. But earlier this month, ScrapIron died — without a cent to his name, without…
Yet again, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK is kind enough to point our attention to a vintage Dallas photo selling for pennies on the dollar on eBay. This one’s an especially action-packed shot taken on January 14, 1950, when the H.L. Green Department Store in the Wilson Building suffered a…
I was glancing at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ meeting agenda for Thursday when I espied this intriguing item: Acceptance of Donation from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas in the Amount of $1,005,000 to Support Destination: Graduation. Seems awfully generous, which is why I called United Way…
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the mayor’s looking to get Dallas residents to turn out the lights for a solid hour Saturday night, beginning at 8:30, as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009. Initially, only the downtown skyline was scheduled for the blackout, but Meranda…
It’s new-comics Wednesday … not so’s I’d know, um, swear. But it does provide this opportunity to point out that Lone Star Comics’ general manager Chris Powell is among those cited at length in a new Publishers Weekly report from the just-wrapped ComicsPRO convention in Memphis, where comic-book retailers insisted…
Last time we mentioned Blockbuster — on Friday, when CEO Jim Keyes was overheard lamenting the poor product Hollywood puts on its shelves — Friends and strangers used the opportunity to bash the business model. Chief among the complaints: historically high rental prices, it ain’t Netflix, time limits on rentals,…
Dustee Tucker, spokesperson for Victory Park, forwards along a statement from Hillwood Investments CEO Todd Platt, who addresses — sort of — that German Financial Times story that reports Hillwood is close to defaulting on a $185 million loan:Hillwood operates several highly diversified, well capitalized groups of companies with many…
The case of Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew — so named for the two men fighting over the infamous “sniper’s perch” long ago removed from the Texas School Book Depository — was scheduled to go to trial last month. But as you may recall, it was delayed until April…
A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten…
The short film below, posted to YouTube by Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall, isn’t actually a city-made production. Rather, Librio tells Unfair Park, Destination Dallas is a Quin Matthews Films production made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which touted corporate relocations to the city during a recent power luncheon…
In recent days — at least, ever since this item ran — I’ve gotten, oh, maybe 15 e-mails from so-called Neiman Marcus insiders claiming the company’s close to collapse and, at the very least, preparing for yet another round of deep, painful layoffs. Someone posted such a comment to Unfair…
Our AFI Dallas International Film Festival sneak peek runs in the paper version of Unfair Park tomorrow, and, admittedly, it’s woefully incomplete: so little space, so many movies worth recommending from an impressively strong roster of offerings this third go-round. So over the course of the fest’s run, we’ll post…
YouTube’r “pmichaelsummer” has tips, many tips for folks looking to bike Dallas without getting smooshed by speeding cars. Hence, this page of “vehicular cycling techniques” from such hotspots as Lemmon-McKinney, East Dallas, Deep Ellum and elsewhere. The following one’s a significantly abbreviated version of a longer downtown trek, culminating with…
Some random notes this a.m. — so till Merten decides to get back in gear with his Virtual Coffee, how ’bout a First Smoke of the Day? Like this puff (piece) from New York magazine concerning New York City Opera’s new director, some guy named George Steel … sounds familiar,…
At 6 p.m. on Sunday, the Dallas Galleria will have a vacancy: Mark Shale, which once spread over two floors of the mall till a recent redo, will be closing up shop altogether. This morning, its parent company — the Al Baskin Company — filed for Chapter 11 and announced…
Out of the Dallas County’s 44th Judicial District Court comes this swig o’ news, courtesy the Texas Attorney General’s Office: Never again will you find Cocaine on your local soft-drink shelves. Greg Abbott and his staff, including Dallas-based ADA Joyce Iliya of the Consumer Protection and Public Health Division, has…
As promised yesterday, here are Danny Hurley’s photos snapped during his weekend ridealong with Rockers vs Mods. Which reminds me: I haven’t seen this in way too long. Soon as I finish watching all these danged AFI Dallas movies …..
Had totally intended to attend this weekend’s Christian Book Expo at the Dallas Convention Center, if only for the cameo appearance by the godless Christopher Hitchens. Alas, my weekend got away from me, and, sadly, no expo for me. Or for most folks, as it turns out: Publishers Weekly today…
Saturday morning, from the South by Southwest shindig down in Austin, Pete wondered over on DC9 whether Erykah Badu would be playing Auditorium Shores, as expected, or Malaysia, as pictured. Turns out, she was heading to Austin after all — but only after being delayed in Dallas, where police were…
Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall was kind enough to pass along this a.m. the latest report from the Office of City Auditor, which has determined that the city’s been losing a small fortune in muni court revenue since 2006. Why come? A bunch of reasons, actually, all of which…
