Pardon, for a moment, as we take a pause for something musical and decidedly non-local — though Tommy Stinson did used to have a Dallas girlfriend, so there is that, and the 32nd-best best ‘Mats show I ever saw was at an old roller-skating rink off Northwest Highway and Abrams…

Had a hell of a time just now trying to make the 0.8-mile drive from Oishii to Unfair Park HQ. Outta nowhere, Dallas police officers brusquely blocked off Wycliff Avenue from the Dallas North Tollway to Maple Avenue; officers also closed off Maple, back to God knows where as it…

Amid headlines about record-high crude prices, strained airlines and a deepening housing slump, True.com’s Herb Vest has some rosy news: Apparently, the crap economy isn’t dissuading daters from their zealous quests for love, no matter the cost of their sushi dinners, movie dates and weekends away. Vest, founder and CEO…

Last night, in advance of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Jon Stewart hosted Barack Obama on The Daily Show. Which is so not what gives this clip its local flavor. For those so interested, scroll to the 4:22 mark, when Stewart asks Obama to “hope up” a “very common phrase” that…

Incidentally, those wondering what will replace the Fare East, formerly on Greenville Avenue and Milton Street, need wonder no more. The city’s Office of Economic Development kindly dug through its records for us this a.m. and found a permit for new construction for … you guessed it, no fair …..

View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park, no doubt a little beaten down by the 2505 Turtle Creek talk, sends along this photo of another recently demolished local “landmark” about which no one’s said boo … or boob, teeheehee. Because as of last week, there ain’t no more empty…

Katherine Seale, executive director of Preservation Dallas Reaction’s mixed, to say the least, concerning yesterday’s surprise demolition of 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard. Some of the Friends of Unfair Park are saddened and sickened that a Canadian developer without concrete plans for the site bulldozed Harwood K. Smith’s building anyway; others…

Angela Hunt talks arts in a city-produced film to air on City Channel 16 in June. Or on your computer right now. Says The Dallas Morning News today, the City of Dallas is all set to debut a show called Dallas 360° on City Channel 16. Only those of us…

I Love Dallas from Guy Montag on Vimeo. Found this on Vimeo — ya know, the cooler YouTube? And says Guy Montag, the photographer responsible for the Koyaanisqatsi-like time-lapse video, “It took 3,134 still frames to make this — phew!” Which is putting it mildly. –Robert Wilonsky…

John Wheeler The above photo of 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard was sent to us by architect John Wheeler in February, when word first leaked that Toronto-based developers Great Gulf Group was looking to raze the Harwood K. Smith-designed building, constructed in 1959, and replace it with a luxury hotel-spa with…

Cultura Advertising, a Bryan Street-based agency that markets such clients as Mercedes-Benz, Presbyterian HealthCare System and M&Ms to a Spanish-language audience, is shutting down — and moving about 200 miles down the highway. Today, downtown Austin-based LatinWorks announced that it has bought Cultura, which also handles the likes of Shell…