Probably need to workshop that headline. Till then, here’s Angela Hunt’s perspective on Saturday’s festivities along Greenville Avenue: “better than last year.” And she’s got the video and photos to prove it.2009.03.14 – St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party from Angela Hunt on Vimeo…
Till late last week, the formerly prolific Carla Ranger hadn’t posted to her blog for most of 2009. But the Dallas Independent School District board member has returned, and today she points our attention to state Rep. Yvonne Davis’s H.B. 3532 introduced late last week, which calls for “the abolition…
We were asked not to say anything till later this week, but the full-page ad in yesterday’s paper ran a week too early yesterday and jumped the starter’s gun … so, we’re off. As it said in the AFI Dallas International Film Festival spread on Page 18A, this year’s Star…
I give up. I admit, I expected the Dallas Mavericks to lose at Phoenix, lose at Portland, beat Golden State and get blown out by the Lakers. I went 0-4. In typically unpredictable, unsettling fashion, they went 2-2. I’ll go on Channel 52 tonight at 6:30 – fingers crossed -…
Back in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that “at one of those big office parks on International Parkway” in Carrollton, “a whole bunch of people got really mad” and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related the story to Granberry:…
Just noticed this on the Dallas City Hall Web site: the results of a recently taken survey of more than 1,600 Dallas households, who were asked about their thoughts about the city — everything from “Perception of the Overall Quality of Life in Dallas” to “Ratings of Dallas As a…
In no particular order … 10. A Honey Bun (wrapped) 9. A marshmallow (sticky) 8. Multiple jello shots (thanks) 7. Beads (catch and release program?) 6. Half of an apple (that’s just wrong)…
More photos from the parade and the mess that followed, in our slide show here.Once a year in Dallas, we come together to celebrate the common heritage that binds us all, whether we spent our formative years at frat parties, Uptown bars or the clearing down by the lake.We dress…
Friend of the show and local photographer Danny Hurley spent the day at the Dallas All-Con 2009 at the Crowne Plaza, where it’s been quite the hodgepodge of sci-fi fans wee, womens and way otherwise since yesterday’s kickoff. The caper wraps tomorrow but goes all night till then, which is…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have gotten the jump on their Sunday New York Times and found within two stories with local ties. Chief among them: the magazine story about George W. Bush’s Freedom Institute on the SMU campus. Much of it rehashes the last two-plus years’ worth of controversy,…
As promised this morning, here’s Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore — though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke’s in the thing for all of the one scene, so how’d he get…
This week’s cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park profiles Mesquite’s Kim Rivera and her fellow Iraq war deserters fighting for refuge in Canada. Because many of them are facing deportation, the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign dubbed late January “Let Them Stay Week.”Our accompanying slide show by…
On a lunchtime errand, I tool down Hall Street, look over at the field across from Lee Park and notice there’s a sign I haven’t seen before. I immediately flip on the hazards, pull over and grab my phone to snap this photo of what is, quite possibly, the worst…
Andrea Buchanan didn’t know when she began writing Note to Self two years ago that the book would be released during the country’s darkest hour in decades. Not bad timing for a compilation of tales about women transcending tough times. The award-winning writer, producer and director — best known for…
Courtesy our historian Justin Cozart, yet another page out of history — this one from 1930, to be exact. He explains:This is an early map of Dallas displaying the belt parkways from the first city plan in 1911 along with parkland designated for the new levees being built. It seems…
Few days back we peeked at Carolyn Davis and Dwaine Caraway’s what-updates as served up on Dallas Delivers, the city’s riotous no-holds-barred talk show served up on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Alas, some of us don’t have the cables, so the city’s been posting throughout the week the entire…
When the pro-hotel group kicked off its campaign at City Hall, they touted the 195,000 room nights and more than $200 million in economic impact booked by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau resulting from the city council moving forward with plans to build a convention center hotel. Led by…
I remember seeing this live, then rewinding the TiVo over and over and over again until I was in tears. It’s old, but it never gets old. Ya know? Staged racks on America’s Funniest Videos: Insulting. Raw, real racks: Priceless. The Mavs are yucking it up on the bench, just seconds…
The Ninth Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held last night on the site of the old Austin airport, was quite the damp, frigid shindig — part all-star love-in, part call to arms. Amidst the inducting — and feted this year were the likes of Powers Booth (SMU’s…
Pardon, but light of yesterday’s announcement that American Eagle has flown the coop at Dallas Love Field till the dust settles, city officials would like to clear up any misconceptions concerning the forthcoming extreme makeover scheduled at the airport. Construction’s scheduled to occur sooner than later and end just in…
The Enclave at Arlington apartment complex touts itself as “within walking distance of the Texas Rangers Ballpark, Hurricane Harbor, and Six Flags,” and is now more or less a next-door neighbor of Jerry Jones’s Enormodome. And, courtesy the Courthouse News Service, we find that the owners of the complex filed…
Saturday is one of my favorite days of the year. A day when you can drink beer in public without threat of a ticket. A day when you can demand ask random gals to flash their assets without threat of a sexual harassment lawsuit. A day when you can mix,…
