View Larger Map After reading yesterday’s story about the new aloft (yes, it’s a lowercase “a”) hotel project near the convention center, we called developer Larry Hamilton, founder and CEO of Hamilton Properties Corporation, to get the scoop on his latest project — and, just maybe, shoehorn in some questions…
Amid headlines about record-high crude prices, strained airlines and a deepening housing slump, True.com’s Herb Vest has some rosy news: Apparently, the crap economy isn’t dissuading daters from their zealous quests for love, no matter the cost of their sushi dinners, movie dates and weekends away. Vest, founder and CEO…
Last night, in advance of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Jon Stewart hosted Barack Obama on The Daily Show. Which is so not what gives this clip its local flavor. For those so interested, scroll to the 4:22 mark, when Stewart asks Obama to “hope up” a “very common phrase” that…
This is how ugly it’s gotten for Tom Hicks: U.K. cops have begged the co-owner of Liverpool FC to stay away from tonight’s Champions League semi-final match against Chelsea, set to start shortly at Anfield. According to myriad reports from England, Merseyside Police warned Hicks and co-owner George Gillett, with…
Incidentally, those wondering what will replace the Fare East, formerly on Greenville Avenue and Milton Street, need wonder no more. The city’s Office of Economic Development kindly dug through its records for us this a.m. and found a permit for new construction for … you guessed it, no fair …..
Till there’s fresh meat, courtesy tonight’s Mavs-Hornet’s Game 2 tipoff set for 6 p.m. , plenty of folks are still gnawing on Saturday night’s leftovers. The question remains, apparently: Should Dirk Nowitzki have socked David West, after the Hornet stung Dirk with a love tap, or did he do the…
View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park, no doubt a little beaten down by the 2505 Turtle Creek talk, sends along this photo of another recently demolished local “landmark” about which no one’s said boo … or boob, teeheehee. Because as of last week, there ain’t no more empty…
Katherine Seale, executive director of Preservation Dallas Reaction’s mixed, to say the least, concerning yesterday’s surprise demolition of 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard. Some of the Friends of Unfair Park are saddened and sickened that a Canadian developer without concrete plans for the site bulldozed Harwood K. Smith’s building anyway; others…
Angela Hunt talks arts in a city-produced film to air on City Channel 16 in June. Or on your computer right now. Says The Dallas Morning News today, the City of Dallas is all set to debut a show called Dallas 360° on City Channel 16. Only those of us…
Action figure … or study aid? Shaun Treat’s a Visiting Professor of Rhetoric at the University of North Texas — and, no, I have no idea what that means, not exactly. But just in time for the onslaught of super-hero movies crashing into multiplexii this summer, UNT today has announced…
For those who weren’t here way back when, Charlie Rose actually started his chat-show career at KXAS-Channel 5, where his first gabfest ran from 1979 till ’81, when it was picked up for syndication after Rose moved to D.C. It’s that long-ago and admittedly tenuous link to Dallas that allows…
Robert Decherd This line from A.H. Belo Corp. bossman Big Bob Decherd’s Monday-morning missive to stockholders is attracting quite a bit of attention today: The Dallas Morning News’ recently spun-off mother company’s “1st quarter financial performance will be substantially below our expectations.” Which explains why shares of A.H. Belo stock…
I Love Dallas from Guy Montag on Vimeo. Found this on Vimeo — ya know, the cooler YouTube? And says Guy Montag, the photographer responsible for the Koyaanisqatsi-like time-lapse video, “It took 3,134 still frames to make this — phew!” Which is putting it mildly. –Robert Wilonsky…
John Wheeler The above photo of 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard was sent to us by architect John Wheeler in February, when word first leaked that Toronto-based developers Great Gulf Group was looking to raze the Harwood K. Smith-designed building, constructed in 1959, and replace it with a luxury hotel-spa with…
Jamey Newberg, the Texas Rangers’ official blogger The New York Times this morning weighs in not only on Mark Cuban’s recent flipping and flopping over allowing bloggers access to the Dallas Mavericks’ locker room, but on the larger issue of how pro sports franchises are limiting media access in order…
Cultura Advertising, a Bryan Street-based agency that markets such clients as Mercedes-Benz, Presbyterian HealthCare System and M&Ms to a Spanish-language audience, is shutting down — and moving about 200 miles down the highway. Today, downtown Austin-based LatinWorks announced that it has bought Cultura, which also handles the likes of Shell…
Thanks to Stephane Robidas’ broken nose, the Dallas Stars finally broke their streak. Robidas, playing with a bulky cage protecting his injured nose, tied last night’s Game 6 and then set up Stu Barnes’ game-winning goal 52 seconds later as the Stars — I hope you’re sitting down — actually…
Robert Decherd In advance of A. H. Belo Corporation’s first-quarter financials conference call next week, chairman of the board, president and all-’round CEO Robert Decherd has sent a good news-bad news missive to stockholders today. Writes Decherd concerning the state and fate of The Dallas Morning News’ parent company: “Looking…
Daron Tapscott At 8 a.m., demolition crews began tearing down 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard. The neighbors knew something was up yesterday: Workers were in and out of the building, removing whatever they could salvage. But no way did they ever imagine that come 8 a.m. today that 2505 Turtle Creek…
Kaitlin Ingram If you have no plans this weekend, let me suggest something we did last weekend. Because a few of us here at Unfair Park headed down to Cedar Hill State Park last Friday for a camp out near Joe Pool Reservoir, hoping to enjoy the final few days…
The mailman delivered a most unexpected and unusual parcel today: a package from Pennsylvania-based Schiffer Books containing two of its latest releases, Famous Texas Men Paper Dolls and Famous Texas Women Paper Dolls. Both were authored and illustrated by Beaumont’s Tom Tierney — who, says the Famous Texas Men’s back…
Pope Benedict XVI, like you didn’t know that Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States has provoked an examination of the relationship between Roman Catholics and evangelical Christians, who share a similar social agenda. Southern Baptist scholar, author and commentator Al Mohler points respectfully to the continuing, seemingly insoluble…
