Yesterday we received word that the locally made doc A Fair To Remember — about, yup, the State Fair o’ Texas — received a Golden Eagle Award from Washington, D.C.-based CINE, a rather prestigious infotainment organization that boasts Ken Burns, Al Maysles and Steven Spielberg among its honorary board members…
This morning comes word from the Army that a 26-year-old PFC from Duncanville, David W. Webb, died over the weekend in Germany — though no one yet knows why. Reports the Associated Press, Webb was taken on Sunday night to the Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt — where Webb was stationed…
Best line from this brand-new travel video courtesy the folks at HowStuffWorks: “Dallas has become a center of culture with institutions such as the Sixth Floor Museum and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.” Nailed it. And here’s that travel guide too, which, all things considered, ain’t that bad. –Robert…
Brian Harkin Ah, well, Rudy — we’ll always have Wild About Harry’s. John Edwards is out, as of moments ago. Rudy Giuliani is out, as of last night’s Florida juicing, which should give Tom Hicks a little more free time to further ruin his various sports franchises. And Hillary Clinton’s…
Nothing to see here, sure — move along, because, like I said yesterday morning, you’re better than this. Tony Romo, not so much as he revisits the scene of the February ’07 crime against classic rock, this time with Yoko in tow for a very classy rendition of “Sweet Child…
KXAS-Channel 5 In case you didn’t know, it’s dangerously windy outside — either that, or my trees are just randomly shedding giant limbs and the stop lights in Deep Ellum just decided to take the afternoon off and grass is spontaneously combusting all over the DFW. To that end, the…
Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher The Federal Reserve’s beginning a two-day sitdown in D.C., during which the Federal Open Market Committee’s expected to cut interest rates again — by half a point, according to best guesses. And among the committee’s voting members is Richard Fisher, president of Federal Reserve Bank…
A month ago we mentioned that Neil Young’s Greendale, already an album and movie, would be getting the stage treatment, courtesy the Undermain Theatre via a special partnership with Wixen Music Publishing. The production, a world premiere, previews at the Undermain March 26-28, then runs March 29 through May 3,…
Back in May ’06, Andrea Grimes covered for Unfair Park the ExxonMobil protest outside the shareholders meeting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Yesterday best-selling author David Sirota was pre-selling his forthcoming book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington over on…
Already folks are lining up for next month’s special screening, with George Romero, of Night of the Living Dead. Texas Frightmare Weekend — which bills itself as “the Southwest’s premier horror convention,” and who am I to argue — takes place February 22-24 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference…
Do you really wanna see Jason Kidd as a Maverick again? Depends on what Dallas has to give up, doesn’t it? While one familiar face is departing, two more may be returning. President Bush delivered his seventh and final State of the Union last night, prompting interruptions for applause a…
Back in May we mentioned that five women who were treated at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas for anorexia and bulimia were suing the hospital and doctors who treated them. The women, who had participated in Presby’s Eating Disorder Program, claimed “the hospital and doctors there took part in a fraudulent…
Olympia Dukakis, in the role for which she’s perhaps best known. Or, like, not. In just-announced news sure to tickle my mother, Olympia Dukakis is coming to Dallas on February 28 to take part in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSalon chitchat. The cousin of at least one failed presidential candidate,…
Till this morning, I only vaguely recalled the time Dallas Cowboys great Ed “Too Tall” Jones guested on a March 1981 episode of Diff’rent Strokes — the Season Three premiere, actually. Thanks to the magic of the Interwebs, now I will never forget it. –Robert Wilonsky…
Terrell Owens might be a Dallas Cowboy, but according to The Philadelphia Inquirer today, he owes the Philadelphia Eagles about $800,000. Turns out an arbitrator ruled Friday that the Eagles could indeed collect on some of that signing bonus Owens’ former team claimed he forfeited in 2005, when he was…
Parkland Memorial Hospital Trauma Room No. 1, buried but not forgotten A very significant piece of Parkland Memorial Hospital now resides in Lenexa, Kansas, just slightly south of Kansas City. Only, you will likely never again see this bit of Dallas history: The former Parkland trauma room has gone underground,…
Jennah Durant, Dallas’ latest Jeopardy contestant A Friend of Unfair Park who works for Dallas County sends word that a pal of hers makes her bow on Jeopardy this week — though whether she’s a big winner, well, we won’t say, lest it spoil the surprise, surprise, surprise. The contestant…
This building, at Cockrell Avenue and Alma Street, is among the properties to be considered in the Urban Land Institute’s contest involving the Cedars neighborhood. So far as I can tell, there’s been no mention elsewhere of the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in…
Back in 1999, Josh Hamilton was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with the No. 1 pick in the draft. He was fresh out of high school, where he dominated at the plate, and on the mound Hamilton had all the tools, including a mid-90s fastball. All I ever…
A hell of a place to hold a film school, but this is where the young filmmakers behind Wade in the Water learned their craft — in Central City’s Life Insurance Building Over the weekend, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal took home the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for…
Just saw this moments ago, about how some 30-50 members of Dallas-Fort Worth’s Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now chapter were ushered out of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Dallas offices this a.m. I called ACORN’s local offices on Maple Avenue, and there was indeed a march on the senator’s…
Assistant City Manager Ramón F. Míguez delivered some bad news to the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee on Friday. Sam Merten’s heading to City Hall this afternoon for the 2 p.m. Transportation and Environment Committee get-together. Thrilling, yup. Only, there is an item of considerable interest on the agenda: Michael…
