When I saw that Jane McGarry had posted a comment to Unfair Park yesterday, I felt a tingling sensation in my Carly box. And with that, we present, in its entirety, the KXAS-Channel 5 anchor’s interview with Lady Bush.Update: Since, yet again, some Friends of Unfair Park are having issues…
This morning’s New York Times says that The Building Formerly Known as San Jacinto Tower at 2100 Ross Avenue is among several of Joseph Moinian’s holdings placed on a credit agency’s “watch list,” along with buildings in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Chicago. It may be no big deal, cautions the…
This just in from the Associated Press, which updates us on the plans of one Nastia Liukin:Back home in Dallas, she will enroll at SMU, where she plans to take a limited course load so she can free up time to resume her training. The next U.S. team training camp…
It was bound to happen eventually: Rebecca Aguilar, suspended (and eventually fired) by KDFW-Channel 4 in October 2007 following her parking-lot interview with James Walton, has finally sued the station on the ground that the Fox station terminated “her employment based upon her race.” Her attorney, Steve Kardell, tells the…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill, guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. In the photo above, that’s Hill at far left, along with Neal Caldwell and, at the drums, Randy Caldwell. Dennard…
Rick’s Cabaret issued a press release today concerning its new all-nude joint on Stemmons Freeway: XTC Cabaret, so named for its playlist. (No? My bad.) As we noted yesterday, the Houston-based chain of stripperterias is rebranding its current tops-off, bottoms-on joint due to its poor performance.And now it claims that…
Realtor Candace Rubin asks that we out Harvey Gough as a kindly soul lurking beneath a crusty burger, which is why, yesterday, she sent along the link to Steak Team Mission, which is a self-proclaimed “group of Dallas-based restaurateurs and supporters capable of providing food and supplies for soldiers’ benefit.”…
On Thursday, Neiman Marcus revealed that it had suffered a miserable Christmas, posting a 30-percent drop in revenue compared to December 2007 sales figures. Which is among the reasons Neimans yesterday began laying off 374 employees, about 100 of those in Dallas. As far as Neimans president and CEO Burt…
KXAS-Channel 5 has wisely — nay, brilliantly — posted the entirety of Jane McGarry’s sit-down with President Bush. You know how sometimes, 10 minutes isn’t long enough? This is one of those times. A question, though: What is she saying at the start of the video? And what does it…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will vote on an ordinance that targets “apartment complexes with excessive crime rates,” as the council considers revising Chapter 27 of the Dallas City Code, which deals with code compliance in multi-tenant units. It’s an extensive overhaul that was first presented to the council’s Public…
Right before Christmas, Dallas County revealed that it just might consider lifting the condom distribution ban enacted in 1995, when then-County Commissioner Jim Jackson told The New York Times, “Sodomy is still against the law in Texas. I hear people say the government shouldn’t be in the bedroom. This isn’t…
View Larger MapUnfair Park has learned that Glazer’s Distributors — owners of 508 Park Avenue, the building in which Robert Johnson recorded 13 songs that changed the music world — has filed with the city a permit that would allow them to tear down one of the most historic structures…
It’s been a little more than a month since a few dozen urban planners, architects and city officials gathered at City Hall to discuss turning two blocks of downtown in a self-sustaining mixed-income “community,” as part of RE:Vision Dallas. Ostensibly, the folks behind the project are off collating their findings…
A self-proclaimed “Unfair Park reader/air breather” sends this link to Midlothian council member Ken Chambers’s blog — or “Personal Convictions” page, which sounds even better — where Chambers has opted to take on TXI and Ash Grove Cement Company. Writes Chambers, “There are now developing countries like Vietnam and Uzbekistan…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word that at 3 p.m. today, Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Standric Choice and two other men are due in U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney courtroom to face allegations that the trio were involved in a steal-to-deal cocaine arrest on Friday. The feds’ allegations follow…
Houston-based and publicly traded Rick’s Cabaret bought two local topless joints last year: the former Executive Club on Stemmons Freeway and the late Platinum Club II off Northwest Highway. Dunno how the latter, rebranded Club Onyx and “catering to African-American gentlemen,” is doing. But the former’s not raking in the…
The USA Today headline’s a little misleading: “Economy prompts more calls to suicide hotlines.” Because six paragraphs in, the story notes: Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline jumped 36% from 2007 to 2008, totaling 545,000 last year, says director John Draper. But callers were increasing before the economic collapse,…
… like these folks. Because, at last, something interesting on the Dallas City Council’s Wednesday agenda: Bushgate. No doubt the council will approve President Bush’s request for a security gate on Daria Drive and Meaders Lane, site of George and Laura’s new home near Preston Hollow. (That’s where Dubya expects…
When the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meets today, it’ll get a sneak peek at the new and improved IH30-U.S. 80 — the so-called “East Corridor,” or at least the concept of it. For now, of course, this proposal — the brainchild of Friends of Fair Park’s Craig…
A decade ago, I interviewed Kevin Sullivan on his last day as the Dallas Mavericks’ vice president of communications, a job he’d held for 18 years — since the team’s inception in 1980. It seemed like a good idea to do another exit interview today, because Sullivan, pictured above with…
Tomorrow up in Plano, animal-rights activists are scheduled to bark at Petland, which is being accused of selling dogs bred in puppy mills. The exact location’s 340 Coit Road near the Bush Turnpike, if you’re in the area and wondering about the barking. (No word about plans for the Preston…
