ESPN’s Ed Werder says today that your Dallas Cowboys are seriously considering releasing Terrell Owens. Dallas’ Only Daily’s Jean-Jacques Taylor says if T.O. goes, then Jason Garrett stays. Me? I say that the whole fiasco could be fixed by getting rid of Wade Phillips and hiring a real leader. But what do you say:…
… figured we might as well show you, without further comment, this official First Baptist Dallas video, which was posted to Vimeo yesterday. It’s otherwise known as the “First Baptist Dallas Brand Manifesto,” and it kind of reminds me of this DSpot promo. Has Robert Jeffress found his? First Baptist…
Bloomberg’s story concerning President Bush’s new office digs in Preston Center — first in Berkshire at Preston Center, before he moves into a larger space at Sherry Lane Place — contains an note of interest toward the end. But first, this relevant aside: Says here that taxpayers will pay $38.95…
Meant to mention this yesterday, when the press released landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but got otherwise sidetracked: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival has a new presenting sponsor, NorthPark Center. Which is a big deal because? Well, according to the release, the AMC NorthPark 15 — which, in…
Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer — a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas –…
Just because I’m dabbling on 105.3 The Fan doesn’t mean I’m going to neglect or be conflicted about my sports media duties. Not at all. In fact, just this morning I was driving the kid to school and listening to “Muse in the News” on 1310 AM The Ticket’s Dunham & Miller Show when it…
“You Call This Progress?” by Sam Merten, January 8 Money for Nothing I went to see the [Trinity] Outlook last week. I was stunned. Every taxpayer in the city should stop by to see how the city has spent our $136,000,000 and counting—you would have thought that we would have…
Who’s counting: Got a head for numbers? Recently laid off from your job in financial services? Well, Buzz has a hot job tip for you: Become a Dallas cop. By the time you read this, the city council likely will have considered an amendment to the city code that will…
In 2009, I’m going to change. Totally change. I know I’m 44 and have achieved moderate success by being set in my ways for two decades, but I think I can do it. I’ve got myself convinced I have to do it. I’m going to develop an appreciation for sour cream,…
Absurd as it sounds, he insists the culprit was a piece of plastic. Mark Orvik—small-town boy, high jinks master and improv imitator of sleazy rednecks, British barflies and ’80s rockers—was waiting tables at his day job last spring when he accidentally stepped on a plastic bib. It was small, he…
Nearly nine years after he was tried before a federal jury on 65 counts of alleged bribery and conspiracy, 84-year-old civil rights leader Al Lipscomb remains a prominent political icon in southern Dallas. He’s a fixture at Dallas City Council meetings, where he served as District 8’s council member from…
He denied and denied that he was taking the top spot at the New York City Opera, going so far as to tell Bloomberg News right before Christmas, “I’m not interested in the job at New York City Opera.” Well, so much for that. Because not five months after he…
When I spoke to Erykah Badu in February 2008, shortly before the release of New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), she strongly suggested all was not well with the Black Forest Theater, from which Badu had hoped to save the soul of her native South Dallas. “Financially, it’s a…
As President Bush packs up the White House in advance of his move to Dallas next week(ish), the National Archives and Records Administration is in the process of trucking loads of paper, electronic and audio-visual documents to a storage space in Lewisville so that when the time comes, the boxes…
Remember that Denny’s Super Bowl ad casting call last month? The one looking for “authentically weathered, tough, rugged” cowboys from Dallas? Right. That one. Anyway, today we get a peek at the ‘pokes Denny’s rustled up for its first-ever Super Bowl spot, which Denny’s spokesperson Cori Rice tells Unfair Park…
The council won’t be voting today on final arrangements for the convention center hotel project, which includes approval of the development agreement and Guaranteed Maximum Price with Matthews Southwest and the operator agreement with Omni Hotels, leading us to believe the final vote on this boondoggle will take place January…
As promised, I cleaned out my closet over the holidays. Hmm, what to do when it’s Jan. 14 and you’ve already aced your New Year’s resolution? I know, Show-n-Tell! As usual, the wittiest answers correctly identifying my closet’s contents in vivid detail win a free week’s subscription to both the Dallas Observer and this…
Yesterday at Nick & Sam’s on Maple Avenue, Weitzman Group held its annual Shopping Center Survey & Forecast luncheon, which GlobeSt.com reports was attended by a “standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people” straining to hear how 2009 was shaping up for the Dallas-Fort Worth retail real estate market –…
A) Flozell Adams and his 92 false-start penalties will make a trip to the Pro Bowl. B) Would-be robbers change their minds upon realizing their intended victim is a former player loaded with fame and fortune. C) Championship legacy be damned, these days your Cowboys are closer to the Clippers than…
When I saw that Jane McGarry had posted a comment to Unfair Park yesterday, I felt a tingling sensation in my Carly box. And with that, we present, in its entirety, the KXAS-Channel 5 anchor’s interview with Lady Bush.Update: Since, yet again, some Friends of Unfair Park are having issues…
If you haven’t carefully checked the fine print in the city’s proposed high-crime apartment ordinance, which the Dallas City Council will take up today, you might have missed this little gem: Apartment owners whose properties become too crime-ridden according to the city’s calculations will be required to collect credit reports…
This morning’s New York Times says that The Building Formerly Known as San Jacinto Tower at 2100 Ross Avenue is among several of Joseph Moinian’s holdings placed on a credit agency’s “watch list,” along with buildings in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Chicago. It may be no big deal, cautions the…
