After Mayor Tom Leppert announced the need to pony up $29 million to study Dallas’s levees resulting from “unacceptable” ratings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a frustrated city official essentially blamed Hurricane Katrina for everything. “I think the corps is CYA’ing in the worst way,” I was told…
The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP’s first-place prize-winners was a four-minute “travel and tourism” entry commissioned by the DC&VB titled “When I’m Big.” It sounds amazing:Description:…
I appeared on NBC5’s Out of Bounds Sunday night with Matt Barrie and hosted Monday’s mid-day slot on 105.3 The Fan with NBC5’s Newy Scruggs, yet still was somehow clueless that we’re in the midst of a monumental alteration to our TV landscape. Was watching Channel 5’s newscast last night when…
Perhaps you heard Mike Snyder and Jane McGarry’s tearful parting of ways this morning on Dunham and Miller, where the closing segment of Monday’s 10 p.m. KXAS-Channel 5 newscast seemingly played on a loop. The station’s story concerning Snyder’s new deal with the NBC affiliate — as mentioned in May,…
GlobeSt.com’s Amy Wolff Sorter asks Mark Fewin, senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, and Matt Heidelbaugh, senior director with Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, for their takes on the Dallas-Fort Worth commercial real estate market, and neither like what they see in the second quarter: an enormous jump in…
With one All-Star back in the lineup and another shoulda-been All-Star on the mound, the Texas Rangers began their crucial three-game series in Anaheim last night by promptly taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. The next time there was good news for Josh Hamilton, Kevin…
Around the same time the folks at the Hard Rock Cafe were showing local media the new Victory Park digs, Hillwood was handing over the development’s keys to US Treuhand — the German investors who, back in March, warned that Ross Perot Jr.’s company was in danger of defaulting on…
Alas, Pussy Soup is the rather unfortunate translation for the delightful-looking manga-to-movie Neko Rahmen Taisho, one of the films in this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off July 17 at the Magnolia Theater. The fest is in its eighth year now, and though it doesn’t get the…
The Hard Rock Cafe is finishing up its preparations for a soft opening next week, but invited press to take a look around their new digs today, at the south end of Victory Park — or, as we’ve noted before, but one block from the House of Blues.While the kitchen…
It happened yet again. Late last week, a Friend of Unfair Park in the retail real-estate business heard that California-based In-N-Out Burger was “finally coming to Dallas.” It was ’round this time last year that D’s Nancy Nichols heard the same thing via a commenter on SideDish. Wasn’t the first…
As Barry Horn mentioned about an hour ago, as of this afternoon Ben and Skin are no longer your drive-time hosts at 105.3 The Fan. After almost a year of station name changes and philosophical tweaks, in the end their unconventional show – heavy on basketball and hip-hop and unique guests…
Just two doors down from where I took this picture back in January, I discovered this commode — a neighbor’s art installation that’s doubling as fund-raiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Apparently, you pay so much to have it removed permanently, or a slightly smaller amount to…
We can no longer confuse the Dallas Mavericks’ silence with inactivity. Let’s hope we never confuse Marcin Gortat with the franchise’s legacy of Great White Nopes. The Mavericks last night agreed to re-sign 36-year-old point guard Jason Kidd to a three-year, $25 million contract and inched closer to landing a new starting…
It’s awfully difficult at this late date to recall when last we heard the name Quincy Carter — he was either getting arrested or signed to yet another team, hard to say. But this much is certain: The former starting quarterback for Your Dallas Cowboys is no longer an Abilene…
All apologies to the Friends of Unfair Park trying to post comments — the server decided to take a late holiday break, and, for two hours, well, that was that. (And, no, we didn’t shut ’em down, as many of you have wondered.) So, that said, back to business.The Dallas…
Sunday’s instant classic Wimbledon final was one of those magical moments that only sports can provide. As Roger Federer and Andy Roddick battled past four hours and into the longest fifth set in Grand Slam history, you forgot about the second wife and the third mortgage and those post-Fourth of…
Morgan Lyons at Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today of a new cell-phone “customer service tool”: the “Where’s My Bus?®” app, which allows bus-riders to track their rides to and fro with “a near-real time estimate.” Lyons tells Unfair Park it was an in-house creation — “so we’re pretty…
We’ve seen plenty of conceptual renderings of the Re:Vision Dallas finalists, but this morning, North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting provides us with a very impressive video showcasing their self-sustaining downtown block, The Entangled Bank. Should Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and bcWORKSHOP proceed with this project — which envisions…
More than a week later, the Rainbow Lounge raid continues to make national headlines.Yesterday, The New York Times revisited the Rainbow Lounge raid; this morning, the Los Angeles Times pays a visit to Fort Worth, where residents are still coming to terms with the impact of the incident. Making a…
Till he gets his new SMU digs are done, George W. Bush is keeping his stuff in storage in Lewisville, and along with his futon, “grown-up” dresser and collection of framed mid-’80s Tom Cruise movie posters is Saddam Hussein’s pistol — quite the keepsake, as this is the very (unloaded)…
Let’s play three strikes with your Texas Rangers. Your first-place Texas Rangers. Yes, I am surprised. And impressed. Steeeriiiike One – Chris Davis demoted. Davis is a good guy with a great glove, but the Rangers could afford to be patient with him no longer. You can swallow a .200-hitting Gold…
A handful of parades and fireworks displays marked the country’s birthday around Dallas last night, the largest of them at the Cotton Bowl, where folks piled in to the watch the annual Fair Park Fourth pyro-spectacular.As paddling in the swan boats gave way to lounging under the exploding night sky,…
