I was in the KERA studios earlier this week, the guest of station contributor and Friend of Unfair Park Rawlins Gilliland as he bravely plowed through a 10-hour marathon pledge drive on behalf of the station. We did our segments in the KXT studios, where, for the first time, I…
Sam’s World Series Game 1 preview-open thread’s upcoming any minute now; start polishing your bats. Till then, this: The governor’s office sends word that Rick Perry has, but of course, made a wager with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon concerning the outcome of Rangers-Cardinals. And it’s not a terribly thrilling wager…
Speaking of Southlake …Huffington Post this afternoon directs our attention to something called the Southlake Journal, which, turns out, is actually the Star-Telegram, which pointed out on Monday that Glenn Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts production company, which employs ’round 100, is eying the former Gateway Church building on Southlake, which…
Years ago, when writing about efforts to revitalize a neighborhood near Fair Park, I came across the building you see above: the former Pete’s Sandwich Shop at 4702 Baldwin, sandwiched between Starplex and Julia Frazer Elementary. At the time, Habitat for Humanity was building new homes nearby, on Jamaica, but…
Twice in recent weeks the Dallas Police Department has dispatched surveillance footage of a bald, back-packing man creeping around homes near Midway and Walnut Hill in Northwest Dallas — the man initially ID’d only as the Lively Lane Prowler. He now has a name, according to an email we just…
TNT’s crack publicity department sends word: Production began on that next-gen Dallas this week — 21 hours ago, or thereabouts, from the looks of Jordana Brewster’s tweet. And despite Larry Hagman’s cancer diagnosis, revealed late last week, J.R. Ewing was indeed there for first call; so too brother Bobby, Patrick…
Had a brief chat with Mayor Mike Rawlings last night concerning what appears to be the never-ending process of redistricting, about which the city council will get an earful this morning from Latino leaders who insist they’re not properly represented on the map the council approved to send to the…
Earlier today, an item appeared on The Poynter Institute’s website in which Mark Medici, vice president of audience for The Dallas Morning News, is quoted as saying that within the next three years, “we won’t have a seven-day paper.” Medici allegedly delivered that shocking bit of news during a conference…
What’s that? You want another redistricting item? Well, then, you are so in luck. Anna too, since she’s got some place to be at 9 tomorrow morning.The city has not yet sent to the Department of Justice the new map of council districts approved by the council — just barely…
A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band’s Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the “London Green Shoed Cowboys.” It will screen simultaneously on 300 screens nationwide before going international,…
Here’s the boring truth behind Stephen Colbert’s WFAA rant last night: The reason our ABC affiliate didn’t air Colbert’s Super PAC spot about the NBA lockout was “garden-variety human error,” according to the station’s veep, Dave Muscari. Nothing more, nothing less. “The spot,” he tells Unfair Park, “wasn’t rejected.” Matter…
A couple of months back, ABC News noted that even in the midst of Texas’s historic drought, Houston was seeing a “sudden surge” in the number of mosquitoes carrying West Nile. Why? Because it’s Houston. But now, it’s Dallas’s turn — or, at least, your turn if you live in…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, in the comments below and via email, that Stephen Colbert last night tackled the NBA lockout … and, while he was at it, WFAA-Channel 8, for refusing to run his latest Super PAC ad in support of NBA owners working hard to…
Last night, in the comments below, a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned that Tom Leppert made Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Persons in the World” round-up for his End Occupy website. Sure enough — finally, some national pub for the former Dallas mayor and candidate for U.S. Senate, for whom a crazy-lefty…
Over the weekend I espied the deconstruction site you see here, across from Bachman Lake at Northwest Highway and Marsh. The new Sam’s right there took me by surprise — so too did the disappearance of the landmark Whirly Ball, which I knew was coming … but, still. It’s never…
OK, so maybe stench is too strong a word. (Schutze is shaking his head no.) This is actually what council member Jerry Allen said when kicking off today’s meeting of the council’s Budget, Finance and Audit Committee: There’s an “image problem” at City Hall, which has been “tainted by ethical…
No doubt you recall the bald-headed, back-packing gent last seen peering into a Northwest Dallas home — the so-called “Lively Lane Prowler,” per Dallas PD’s heads-up at the beginning of the month. Well, he’s back in the sequel you see above, which was just dispatched by the police department:Turns out,…
I see there’s a special called meeting tonight of the Dallas Independent School District school board, where there’s a single item on the agenda: “Discussion of Options to Deal with Excess Chapter 21 Employees.” And what are Chapter 21 employees? They’re the folks under contract with the district — teachers,…
If Tom Leppert were still mayor, rather than a candidate for U.S. Senate, it’s possible the city might not have been so accommodating with those presently occupying the parking lot behind Dallas City Hall. I knew we forgot to mention something Friday, when I first espied this on the former…
Once again Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries finds itself caught between two parties claiming to own historical missives — in this case, letters written by John Quincy Adams, which are currently being kept in a vault on Maple Ave. Four months ago the U.S. Attorney’s Office asked a…
We’re still waiting to see with which concessionaires the city will fill a Distinctively Dallas Love Field, which is in the process of being modernized from now till 2014ish. But this afternoon, the council’s newly resurrected Arts, Culture & Libraries Committee will get a sneak peek at the $3.284 million…
After the jump, a curio stumbled across this morning while looking for something else related to the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park: the romantic comedy called Hats Off, the first offering from short-lived Grand National Films and one of the first films in which John Payne (Miracle on…
