The South Dallas home Brent Brown and his UTA students rehabbed in 2007, for Frazier Revitalization Inc. Three years ago, Dallas architect and UT Arlington School of Architecture adjunct professor Brent Brown created something called buildingcommunityWORKSHOP — or bcWORKSHOP. Brown’s perhaps best known for getting some of his students to…
Lily Tomlin won’t appear on HBO as Dallas real estate giant Amelia Shakespeare after all So, turns out we might never see the HBO series 12 Miles of Bad Road after all — a shame, I guess. The show, which is set in Dallas but shot mostly in Los Angeles,…
One industry clearly not worried about a recession: the video-game bidness. That’s clear from this morning’s news that Grapevine-based GameStop posted first-quarter earnings of $189.8 million — up, oh, just 46 percent from last year’s earnings during the same period. And the reason? Guess. Fine: “New videogame software sales rose…
Target’s big boss — guy name of Robert Ulrich, who was amazing on Vega$, no? — is about to step down, which, says a Fortune cover story not yet online, is a big deal. (The headline: “Target’s Inner Circle.”) Like, it’s a very big deal: “Target enters what promises to…
For those following, but not too closely, the saga of the shuttered Sloppyworld, last night the mighty John Freeman posted word on Unfair Park that the highly anticipated Negativland show originally scheduled for the Expo Park venue has a new home. Says the Dutch Treat, Negativland will now perform at…
Josh Hamilton, with his last stop before Arlington Josh Hamilton, among your newer Texas Rangers, was huzzahed this a.m. in Dallas’ Only Daily — appropriate, given that the oft-suspended, formerly addicted outfielder who once wore Cincinnati red is batting .600 during spring training. Evan Grant’s profile (his second in two…
Cars, women and beer — the age-old, ah, booby-trap never fails to ensnare a certain college-boy consumer. Now, three local brosefs are capitalizing on the golden trio with Fort Worth’s first and only female-staffed beer barn, located just half a mile from the Texas Christian University campus. The brainchild of…
If you were a fan of the local wrestling scene in the 1980s (hand raised high), you know the name Gary Hart — man was larger than life, even when standing alongside the likes of the Fritz von Erich and his big boys. Hart was danged near responsible all by…
So, do we want to carry KTVT-Channel 11’s news, weather, sports and so forth on Unfair Park? Because, see, the CBS affiliate is offering to do all the heavy lifting — it’s one of only four nationally to do so, with more markets forthcoming in coming weeks. It’s part of…
On Friday we showed you the Bedford Police Department’s recruitment video — seems only fair, then, to post today the Dallas Police Department’s help-wanted ad, posted this morning to YouTube. Among the endless advancement opportunities: You get to ride bikes, ride horses, wear dreads and buy drugs. Where do I…
UTA Mavs UTA’s Anthony Vereen, who scored 25 points during yesterday’s Southland Conference championship game in Katy Not those Mavs, though they did too. These Mavs. The never-ever-ever been to the Big Dance and hey-that’s-my-alma-mater Mavs. Our area’s big boys can’t win a lick with a Doherty or a Dougherty,…
Sure, you’ve already forgotten about the United Football League — it’s already a distant memory, less than a year after The New York Times broke the news of the upstart football league set to bow this August with eight teams in non-NFL towns. Turns out, it’s not dead — it’s…
Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s in town today — which is swell, because we all remember what happened when he spoke in Dallas in April ’06, right? At 2 p.m. he’ll be at the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas on N. Lamar…
Ghostland Observatory’s playing Greenville Ave. tomorrow — and now, for you, it’s absotively free. For thems in need of some gratis Ghostland Observatory ducats for the Austin band’s show that follows the 29th Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade, here’s a treat for the Friends of Unfair Park: We’ve…
A scene from Lake Highlands grad John Magary’s award-winning short The Second Line Shawn Mahan, general manager at the Magnolia Theatre, sends a friendly reminder for those of who didn’t pay enough attention to our inbox earlier this week: At the just-wrapping South by Southwest film fest, 1996 Lake Highlands…
Maybe you read a little something about a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol car getting a love tap Tuesday night from a drunk driver. Happened around 8 p.m. on State Highway 310, just north of Interstate 20. Thankfully, the Associated Press is distributing, courtesy the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, a…
Looks like The Hammer’s almost ready to emerge from the toolbox. According to two local radio industry sources, Greg “The Hammer” Williams is deep into negotiations for a permanent gig at ESPN 103.3 FM — negotiations that are so serious, in fact, that sources say Williams will be at the…
ABC News ABC’s Nightline was all set to do a puff piece on Southwest Airlines — “the all-too-rare story of a U.S. airline that has been so successful, so profitable, so relentlessly cheery that practically no one who works at the airline ever quits.” Only, that was before word broke…
The Washington Blade today looks into the rift in the gay community between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supporters — and it specifically deals with the how the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas have had to deal with the fact that president Jesse Garcia lists Clinton as a “political hero” while…
Mark Graham High school sweethearts Amber Burden and Jacoby James A few months ago, I got a call from an editor at Seventeen who‘d come across a story I wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park about a female-to-male transgender teen who began living as a boy while attending…
See, you coulda stood in this line to see Vampire Weekend at SXSW. Or you could just click your mouse right now. Good call. Gettin’ old. See, I wish I’d stayed an extra night in Austin — woulda been nice to hear R.E.M. at Stubb’s, where they played the opening…
It’s very exciting to be a police officer in Bedford — like a C.S.I. episode scored by Trevor Rabin, from the looks of the recruitment video below. I mean, that S.W.A.T. scene? Sign me up. Which is precisely the point of this five-minute help-wanted pitch — the theme of which…
