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Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm City Manager Mary Suhm today provided the city council — and the media, including Unfair Park’s brand-new Intern Courtney — with a sneak peak at the “recommended” 2008-’09 budget, which the Dallas city council won’t approve for another few weeks. Courtney brought back Suhm’s summary,…

If you’ve wondered where I’ve been with all the snips, clips and blow-outs — and, from the deafening cries of outrage, not so much — I took a two-week hiatus from Shear Genius coverage because, well, nothing was really happening when it came down to our primary interest: co-owner of…

Dunno? Well, let’s find out, courtesy CNN, which was in town this week to meet and greet a most interesting assemblage of folks hanging out in front of City Hall. –Robert Wilonsky…

A good Friend of Unfair Park named Bob J. yesterday noted in the comments section to this little-commented-upon item that, well, the Dallas Theater Center’s not playing fair with folks looking for seats in the DTC’s under-construction home at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Notes our Friend, who’s been…

A Friend of Unfair Park living in Denton sends along this warning, which greeted Pineapple Express riders yesterday at the Cinemark on Wind River Lane. “Water damage.” You mean, like this? –Robert Wilonsky…

What some Morning News readers are apparently discovering for the very first time today — T. Boone Pickens is really, really into money! — Los Angeles Times readers figured out, like, nine days ago in this opinion piece about who, precisely, will fund Pickens’ Plan: Well, Californians can clarify exactly…

On his blog last week, Carl Ichan noted that it was his idea to install Jim Keyes as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster and that Keyes “has saved approximately $100 million in operating costs over the past year, a laudable result.” Keyes has also managed to increase the Dallas-based company’s…

Wall Street Journal “Cheapskate” Neal Templin writes today about trying to ditch his Dallas house in a down market, in advance of his family’s relocation to the East Coast. In short, a house that went on the market in February for nearly half a mil didn’t get a single nibble…

Shocking: Like many of you, Buzz recently received our electricity bill for July. Don’t ask us how much it was; just picture a middle-aged man doing the bulging-eyes thing you see in old Warner Bros. cartoons, accompanied by the sound of a horn blaring, “Aaahoogaa!” Not a pretty sight. So,…

“The Caretaker,” by Jesse Hyde, July 31 Accentuate the Positive I read with interest the story of Haseeb Chishty by Jesse Hyde. As the previous superintendent of the Denton State School, I did not appreciate the implication that I resigned from my position because of the abuse of clients at…

It was a hot morning in July at the Lake Park Golf Course in Lewisville, and the teenager known as Tank had a choice to make. It was an 8-foot putt, breaking right to left. The 16-year-old conferred with his caddy, argued briefly about the proper line and then stepped…

Twenty bands on three stages? That adds up to a lot of metal. How much? Well, this field guide should help. Below you’ll find the set times for every band on Ozzfest’s bill—along with a 0-10 rating on the band’s metal cred and a brief explanation of why that number…

How about we rename Ross Geller? He seems to like the idea. Issues like the renaming of streets tend to give me tired head, and, honestly, I never saw a need to start “branding” swaths of cement in the first place. But the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s suggestion yesterday…