Yet again, our old friend Justin Cozart has just posted some essential must-sees to the Dallas Urban History page on Flickr — this time, a series of before-and-after photos featuring some of the city’s more recognizable streets and intersections. Among the lot: Blackburn Street and Oak Lawn Avenue (in 1925…
For the first time in a long time – at least away from American Airlines Center – the Dallas Mavericks played like a team that wanted in the NBA Playoffs. And wanted to avoid a first-round matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. Their reward: With only 18 games remaining in the…
Elizabeth Villafranca entered the limelight in 2006, as Farmers Branch began its illegal-immigrant battle that rages to this day. As we mentioned earlier this week, the Cuquitas co-owner has decided to run for city council in the FB. Unfair Park caught up with her yesterday for a Q&A — during…
In light of Neiman Marcus reporting a quarterly net loss of $509.2 million this morning, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the high-end Dallas-based retailer is attempting to survive what remains of the economy — besides laying off employees, reducing its inventory and writing down the value…
Psst, hey buddy. Can I interest you in this Terrell Owens fake Cowboys’ locker room name plate sticker affixed to my wall? Merrily I don’t need thee anymore. What I will cling onto – perhaps forever – are artifacts I rescued from my closet from Cowboys who wouldn’t look right in…
Back in September, as city officials were offering the contents of Reunion Arena in an everything-must-go auction, Patrick Michels and I were given a tour of the joint by Randy Barner, the facility’s operations manager since 1983 and, now, the last man standing at the venerable facility. Among the items…
On Monday, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 has hired Kristin Mitchell as a co-host on Good Morning Texas — making that show a threesome now, as the former St. Louis anchor joins a set already populated by Gary Cogill and Amy Vanderoef. A Friend of Unfair Park is not…
The Irving-based Republican Victory Committee sure sounds like something associated with the Republican National Committee — which is why, in June 2004, the RNC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Because, see, the official arm of the Republican Party has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Victory…
For his first long-form, post-Terrell Owens interview, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones chose … 105.3 The Fan. In appearing on the newbie station with Ben and Skin yesterday afternoon, Jones is hinting loud and clear that his team has all but shaken hands with The Fan as the team’s new flagship radio station. And…
Just noticed this heads-up on the Dallas City Hall Web site, which may be of interest to those headed down to the 30th Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday morning. It’s more or less a checklist of what to expect before, during and after the shindig, including the…
More photos here in our slideshow.For most fans, there isn’t much of the last Cowboys season that’ll be remembered too fondly — but for the team’s cheerleaders, who gathered up for one last time for a year-end performance last week, 2008 drew a tearful adios. The crew of dancers, some…
So says a worker for Balfour Beatty Construction we ran into this afternoon whilst nosing around the corner of Market and Young Streets. The parking structure is currently closed off by red “DANGER” tape as the construction crew cleans up around the site and surveyors make their final calculations. Demolition…
You’ll no doubt recognize the headline as one of Chuck Norris’s favorite Chuck Norris Facts. Which I don’t mention solely because today happens to be Walker, Texas Ranger’s 69th birthday, but because of a freshly minted Chuck-penned essay on the conservative Web site World Net Daily. It was forwarded our…
John Wiley Price said recently he’d like the Dallas Independent School District to rename North Dallas High School in honor of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, among the school’s most famous grads. And if that doesn’t happen, well, Price has a number of other facilities from which to choose: The DISD…
City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall announced the ballot positions for the May 9 city council elections, as Billy MacLeod, Victoria Walton, Tiffinni Young, John Jay Myers and Anita Dade gained an early leg up on the incumbents in their…
A month back we sneaked a peek at the CBS fall line-up and found Big D, a Warner Bros. Television production about “a New York couple who moves to the man’s hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast wife.” Right — awesome. Now,…
When the Dallas City Council started the process of selecting a site for the convention center hotel in August 2007, it was stressed that the location “foster economic development in the downtown core through retail and entertainment establishments.” Sure, it needed to be within 1,000 feet of the convention center…
Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson and their posse are but bit players in this legal drama. But courtesy Courthouse News comes the tale of Jessica Hardwick, who yesterday filed suit against Blackfinn Restaurant and Saloon in Dallas County District Court. Her claim? That on August 23, 2008, one of the…
In January, as Neiman Marcus was reporting dismal Christmas numbers and laying off nearly 400, the retailer’s CEO and president, Burt Tansky, insisted a rebound was around the corner: “Luxury is not dead,” he insisted. Perhaps not — maybe it’s merely comatose. So notes this morning’s New York Times in…
This morning, the National Center on Family Homelessness made it official: Texas has more homeless children than any other state in the union, and significantly more needs to be done to care for them. Says the center’s new 220-page study, America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, of…
The Dallas Mavericks can clinch a playoff spot tonight. Plain and simple. Leading the Suns by a full four games in the race for 8th in the NBA’s Western Conference, if the Mavs win in Phoenix tonight they’ll own a considerable – insurmountable? – gap heading into the season’s final…
It says on iTunes that Carter Albrecht’s solo album Jesus is alive … and living in London has been available since February 9. Carter’s father, Ken, and Robert Jenkins, whose Summer Break label is co-releasing the disc in conjunction with the Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, say that’s wrong, and that…
