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Justin Terveen It took a year, but I now feel the way this woman looked in downtown Dallas last New Year’s Eve. You’re now free to get your drink on — oh, little late for that, never mind. Regardless, we come now to the final posting of the year, a…

Survey says — this one, anyway — that people from outside of Dallas wouldn’t mind living in Dallas. In fact, it’s No. 8 out of the Top 10 cities in which folks have searched for new homes, right between suburbs in Seattle and Chicago. (Seattle, I can see that.) That’s…

Amy Severson, keeper of The Dallas Cook Book, has done her good deed for the year — which year, you decide. Today she writes of a very special something she received from City Hall: “a City of Dallas Special Recognition for Helen Corbitt, with a gold seal, red ribbons, the…

Before you muffle your “Happy New Year’s” wishes with tired, old criticism, notice I said “Memorable” and not “Best”. Got it? In lieu of Dick Clark, let me start these balls dropping. 10. Byrd Watching. 9. A National (Anthem) Embarrassment. 8. Jivin’ at the Joule. 7. Morrow’s First/ Avery’s Sloppy Seconds…

The announcement came three weeks ago, but I just noticed on SMU’s Web site that National Film Preservation Foundation has given the university a generous donation so it can do the Lord’s work — in this case, preserving a pioneer filmmaker’s work about, well, the Lord. The G. William Jones…

And here we thought Dallas had the lock on red-light camera drama — damn you, Houston. On December 26, two men filed suit against the City of Houston claiming it was withholding a Rice University professor’s study concerning the efficacy of the city’s red-light cameras. Two days later, a version…

To be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of year-end wrap-ups. We’ll have a couple tomorrow — enh, it’s the law — but Friends of Unfair Park know by now that when I look back, it tends to be way back. Hence, this post courtesy the Red Oak Kid, who…

The City of Dallas has maintained for years that it needs the proposed Fastrill Reservoir in East Texas to meet the city’s future water needs; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists looking to protect the Neches River disagree. Hence, the lawsuit filed by the city in January 2007,…

Good and trustworthy Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston directs our attention to a new biz in Deep Ellum he says is worth a look-see: It’s a Grind Coffee House on Indiana Street, which opened its doors about a month back. It’s especially notable, says Bill, because its a venture…

In keeping with our “Best of … ” programming this week, I’ll provide the most memorable Metroplex sports moments of 2008 on Wednesday. Until then, a look back at what you guys clicked on/commented on the most in the past year. The Sportatorium’s version of The People’s Choice Awards, if you will…

This morning’s Wall Street Journal ticks off “plenty of unusual ailments that are quite real,” with Foreign Accent Syndrome topping the list. And, as it turns out, there’s a significantly local connection to this rare ailment, which involves folks with brain injuries (most of the time, anyway) rather suddenly and…

The graphic accompanying the release of the October 2008 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices looks like a country in free fall — home prices down some 20 percent from this time last year, sweet fancy Moses. Of course, locals will take cozy comfort in this paragraph from the morning news release:Dallas…

On Friday, the very fashionable Nathan Branch posted to his blog several photos snapped during a Christmas Day walk through Highland Park Village. Branch, who kindly allowed Unfair Park to run the picture above, took note of the deep discounts being offered in almost every newly polished window and wondered…