You won’t have difficulty finding ducats to tonight’s Police gig at the American Airlines Center; plenty of ’em can be had here, many at face value or even a touch under. That fact, coupled with the set list from last night’s show at the AAC, has me and the missus…
Mazel tov, In Fair Verona, as you are clearly among God’s favorite pop-punk bands in the Arlington area! Congratulations are in order for four local bands, culled from the never-ending rotation of emo, screamo, hardcore, Christcore, metalcore, toastercore bands that frequent The Door and similarly teen-targeted venues about town. In…
Yeah, it’s all the way up in Michigan, but them folks up at the Interlochen Arts Camp wanted to remind us to remind you that about 30 “of Dallas’ most talented youngsters” will be attending its prestigious, star-making Summer Arts Camp, joining about 2,500 other kiddos who just wanna sing…
From Fort Worth’s Robert McKee (via Dallas Morning Views’ Rod Dreher) comes this seven-minute video — a short film, really, to which I give two thumbs up — documenting his seven-hour sit on the the JFK Airport tarmac two days back. Seems Delta just didn’t want to get McKee and…
Dr. Norman Borlaug has a Congressional Gold Medal he can now hang around his bust. Though he didn’t live to see it, golf legend Byron Nelson picked up a gold yesterday — that is, a Congressional Gold Medal. But buried 20 paragraphs or so down in this DMN piece –…
On Monday, a group of Dallas investors represented by Crescent Court-based hedge fund HBK Investments L.P. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission documents in which it was revealed that a bunch of locals were buying up Steak n Shake — and not their excellent burgers and fries, mind you,…
Though it’s yet to be officially announced, we feel very comfortable saying Dave Neumann will be the chair of the council’s Trinity River Committee. Well, he’ll probably be the chair. Hedge bets much? A very good Friend of Unfair Park sends this morning a report from last night’s Trinity Trust…
You know Tom Hicks owns the Texas Rangers, the Dallas Stars, the biggest house in town and yet only a smidgen of sports savvy. What you didn’t know is that he initially intended to short sell the Stars for profit, was one of Mark Cuban’s original Internet investors and thinks…
People get arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport all the time. Like, just last Saturday, former Miss USA Shannon Marketic was arrested at DFW on a public intoxication charge. Three years back, a 57-year-old woman was booted out of the airport for flashing anti-war placards. And last summer, you recall,…
You might not know this, but Donn Nelson was a pretty good college ball player too. Last week, Tom Hicks re-signed wonderboy Jon Daniels to run the Ranger’s sinking (though surprisingly more buoyant of late) ship through 2009, even though the team has one of the worst records in baseball…
Virginia Postrel, PC World loves you — well, your blog, at the very least. PC World has just its list of “100 Blogs We Love,” and included therein is Blog Maverick, the daily musings of Mavs Man Mark Cuban, whose last two posts reveal his wide-ranging interests: Hedge Fund IPOs…
For a Cowboys franchise that’s always played under a hole in its roof, Wednesday marks the beginning of the end. At 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, the team’s new Arlington stadium will commence installation of the first piece of the monumental arch truss structure. In numbers that I can’t come close to…
In my mail this morning I found this jes-released “special edition” DVD of the subtly named Terrorstorm, the rocku-shocku-documentary from Dallas-born, Austin-workin’ syndicated radio show host Alex Jones, who never met a September 11 conspiracy he didn’t peddle to the metal. Here’s the trailer — and, yeah, I do think…
Pardon me if I’ve somehow missed this, but after scouring the Interwebs and Lexis-Nexis I’ve found no local mention of this national story with legally binding local ties. On Saturday, The Los Angeles Times reported that sprinter Marion Jones — the darling of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, a breaker…
Unfair Park was told this morning by a local government official that on Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau will officially release its list of the most populous cities in the U.S. Some media outlets already have theirs (don’t look at us), so they can prep pieces for their Thursday editions,…
If so, we have just the news for you: On July 8, the Washington-based nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations is kicking off “a nationwide discussion of ‘Islamophobia,’ or fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims” with a panel discussion at the Crowne Plaza Park Central — same place where the…
OK, so maybe we aren’t looking forward to all the “The Rocket Summer Blasts Off” headlines that are no doubt being typeset as we speak, but we must admit we’re impressed with the early success of Fort Worth’s Bryce Avary, 24, who goes by the moniker The Rocket Summer. After…
Only a few weeks into her Anchorwoman gig in Tyler, and already everyone’s giving Lauren Jones a hard time. A few media tid-bytes this a.m.: ESPN is launching ESPN Deportes Radio, an all-Spanish-language radio network making its bow in three hot spots: Dallas, Knoxville and New Jersey. Says here that…
We have a few questions about Tom Leppert’s inaugural speech, delivered yesterday at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and reprinted in its entirety after the jump (courtesy the city’s Web site). But chief among them is this: Why did Leppert say, “A well-known philosopher once said, ‘What is a…
First, Roky Erickson announced a local show. Then, Jandek. Who’s next — the ghost of Townes Van Zandt? Lots of local music news floating around today — some good, some bad. First off, Austin-via-Denton folk-rockers Cartright are calling it quits. Anyone who’s seen their incendiary live shows around town in…
Unfair Park has learned that the U.S. government is going after the Downtown Dallas Improvement District and its parent nonprofit, Dallas CBD Enterprises, claiming they owe the Internal Revenue Service $48,072.48 plus $24,036.24 in penalties. That’s according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday, in which U.S. Attorney Richard Roper…
This is the view from Unfair Park HQ, facing downtown — specifically, Victory Plaza and the West End part of town, where a thick cloud of smoke’s filling the partly cloudy sky. By the time you read this we will no doubt know what’s on fire; but at the moment,…
