And the city council member’s willing to put her own money to prove it. Because shortly after we posted the video from the Texas Hydroponics parking lot, she added this comment: This makes me so mad I can’t even see straight. I just talked to Tom, the owner of Texas…
This morning, many photos of Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo snapped during the Mavs’ loss to the Lakers at the AAC are making the virtual rounds — like this one and this one, among others. But this one? The best, no question. Speaking of the Mavs, sort of, the team…
Dallas hotel developer and Bush “pioneer” Mark Langdale Big piece this morning in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the reopening of the legendary Bedford Springs Resort in Pennsylvania, which was built in 1796 and shuttered 21 years ago before undergoing a $120-million restoration and expansion. Turns out, the historic and faraway…
The owners of Texas Hydroponics on Elm Street — right next door to the Sons of Hermann, of course — are offering $300 to anyone who can ID the dumpster-defacing vandals seen in this 10-minute video. I’ll be honest: I didn’t think I’d make it through 38 seconds of the…
After the AT&T Cotton Bowl game packs up and leaves Dallas in January 2009, our grand old decrepit/refurbished Fair Park stadium will almost immediately host another college football bowl game. So says State Fair of Texas president Errol McKoy.”I’ll say it with certainty,” McKoy told Unfair Park Tuesday afternoon. “We’ve…
If you must protest, at least provide a decent soundtrack — today’s has Nathan Berg, at top, and the Halliburton(s) Might be a little commotion and congestion around Dealey Plaza this afternoon, beginning around 4: There’s a “Five Years TOO Long” peace rally scheduled till 6:30 p.m. — though, truth…
Dwaine Caraway told the media during the Shaws’ funeral: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” A week after Rufus Shaw shot his wife, Lynn Flint Shaw, then turned the gun on himself, approximately 500 people filled St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Oak Cliff this morning for their…
A couple of random notes to keep you dry. First off, turns out we now have some idea why Justice Department official raided the offices of Dallas-based ice maker Reddy Ice earlier this month. Something to do with, oh, allegations of price-fixing, revealed late last week in a federal lawsuit…
Build-A-Bear Just got back from Mavericks’ shootaround at American Airlines Center in preparation for tonight’s showdown against the Lakers, and I can report the following: 1. Commence your ark building. 2. It’s sad watching Phil Jackson walk with a cane. 3. This, my friends, is a huge week for your…
As noted before, HBO’s done gone and killed 12 Miles of Bad Road. But that didn’t stop someone from posting a sneak peek yesterday, complete with a phony billboard planted smack in the middle of the Trinity River bottoms. So, here ’tis — perfect entertainment for a rainy Tuesday afternoon,…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who will be honored by TCU March 28 A short while ago, Barack Obama delivered his speech on race and politics — you can read the entire speech here, where you can also view it in its entirety. During the speech, of course, he addressed at length…
If you’re planning to fly American Airlines in to or out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport today, well, no, you’re not. Friend of Unfair Park Tim Wagner, the Voice of American Airlines, was just on KRLD-AM (1080), where he said the airline has canceled its full schedule of flights to…
Deadspin wonders this morning: “Will Cuban Ban The Almighty ESPN?” And it asks only because ESPN’s True Hoop’er Henry Abbott is coming to town tonight, to cover Mavs-Lakers, and he’s spoiling for a fight with Mark Cuban, who decided last week to ban bloggers from the Mavericks’ locker room. Writes…
The South Dallas home Brent Brown and his UTA students rehabbed in 2007, for Frazier Revitalization Inc. Three years ago, Dallas architect and UT Arlington School of Architecture adjunct professor Brent Brown created something called buildingcommunityWORKSHOP — or bcWORKSHOP. Brown’s perhaps best known for getting some of his students to…
Lily Tomlin won’t appear on HBO as Dallas real estate giant Amelia Shakespeare after all So, turns out we might never see the HBO series 12 Miles of Bad Road after all — a shame, I guess. The show, which is set in Dallas but shot mostly in Los Angeles,…
One industry clearly not worried about a recession: the video-game bidness. That’s clear from this morning’s news that Grapevine-based GameStop posted first-quarter earnings of $189.8 million — up, oh, just 46 percent from last year’s earnings during the same period. And the reason? Guess. Fine: “New videogame software sales rose…
Target’s big boss — guy name of Robert Ulrich, who was amazing on Vega$, no? — is about to step down, which, says a Fortune cover story not yet online, is a big deal. (The headline: “Target’s Inner Circle.”) Like, it’s a very big deal: “Target enters what promises to…
Rufus Shaw Services for Rufus Shaw and Lynn Flint Shaw will be held tomorrow morning, during a funeral mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Oak Cliff scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. In addition to their son, Ian Shaw, surviving the couple is Rufus’ son, Rufus Shaw…
For those following, but not too closely, the saga of the shuttered Sloppyworld, last night the mighty John Freeman posted word on Unfair Park that the highly anticipated Negativland show originally scheduled for the Expo Park venue has a new home. Says the Dutch Treat, Negativland will now perform at…
Josh Hamilton, with his last stop before Arlington Josh Hamilton, among your newer Texas Rangers, was huzzahed this a.m. in Dallas’ Only Daily — appropriate, given that the oft-suspended, formerly addicted outfielder who once wore Cincinnati red is batting .600 during spring training. Evan Grant’s profile (his second in two…
Cars, women and beer — the age-old, ah, booby-trap never fails to ensnare a certain college-boy consumer. Now, three local brosefs are capitalizing on the golden trio with Fort Worth’s first and only female-staffed beer barn, located just half a mile from the Texas Christian University campus. The brainchild of…
If you were a fan of the local wrestling scene in the 1980s (hand raised high), you know the name Gary Hart — man was larger than life, even when standing alongside the likes of the Fritz von Erich and his big boys. Hart was danged near responsible all by…
