Legendary Dallas architect Herbert M. Greene built Proctor Hall 85 years ago. Today, a California health-care provider’s having it torn down. By the end of the day — hell, by the time you read this, most likely — the 85-year-old Proctor Hall on Haskell Avenue will be no more. “It’s…
In a dark, smoky room echoing with the Euro-pop stylings of girl group T.A.T.U., I look up from my beer to see two hot girls making out. Buxom, blond women really sucking face like they mean it. And in schoolgirl uniforms! But these aren’t the half-assed snogs of girls hoping…
Thank you, Tony Romo. For an imperfect end. To a perfect season. Sure, the quarterback/holder’s Seattle slip cost the Dallas Cowboys a late lead in last Saturday’s playoff game against the Seahawks. But that’s it, nothing more. Were you watching the game? Were you watching the last month? Even if…
On a sunny September morning in 2005, Preston Hollow Elementary School hosted Bike to School Day. Dozens of grinning children with fair skin played and talked outside in the courtyard, relaxing happily after rides through their North Dallas neighborhood of garish mansions and stately brick homes. Parents shared tea and…
Imagine that sneezing, coughing, fever and just plain achy allover feeling. You know it’s the flu coming on. You want to take some medication and crawl into bed until you feel better. Now imagine that you have no medication nor money to buy it. You don’t have a bed nor…
Road to hell: Buzz is going to let you non-white, non-liberal readers in on a secret of the pasty, lefty tribe. It’s called the “white liberal rule,” a term coined by a friend who went through various machinations to keep his daughter in a high-performing public school that she wasn’t…
Three is supposed to be the magic number, and the third time’s reportedly the charm, so when an asbestos-related wrongful-death lawsuit makes its third turn through the Dallas County courts this year, maybe the verdict will finally stick. The suit, which blames Atlanta-based building materials manufacturer Georgia-Pacific for the 2003…
Stone Cold Out of the frying pan: I found your story “Cold as ICE” (by Matt Pulle, January 4) most disturbing. The whole time I was reading the article I had to remind myself that I was not reading a national tabloid. Mr. Dupree states that he was merely looking…
Word is Mark Mulder has re-signed with his former team and not, yup, Your Texas Rangers. Our pal Jamey Newberg, of The Newberg Report, sends word of an odd happening tonight: a Texas Rangers Town Hall Meeting. It’s taking place at the Academy Sports & Outdoors location on Forest Lane…
Rocky Presley’s the artistic director and founder of Life in Deep Ellum, which opens January 20. Speaking of Life in Deep Ellum — well, we were Monday, anyway — they’ve just announced their box office is now open. OK, so their box office is Good Records and any Frontgate Tickets…
This 1920s manse near Fair Park can be yours cheap — if you hurry! Among the other items we found up for grabs on eBay today: a house in South Dallas. It’s on Frazier Street, actually, near Fair Park. And if you want it, you have about 40 minutes to…
Are you still lamenting a New Year’s spent at another lame party, drunkenly arguing with friends over board game rules? Or perhaps you didn’t even make it that far, passing out on the couch some time during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special? Well, next year, make sure to…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda It seems like just yesterday that Farmers Branch passed a slew of anti-illegal immigrant measures, but, no, it’s been nearly two months, and still people are shouting at one another outside City Hall. Forced by a grassroots petition to either repeal the ban on renting to…
You have four days left to bid on this: a custom-made (ya think?) Tony Romo action figure, prepped and packaged so it resembles the Cowboys QB’s failed goal-line dive after the game-losing snap during Saturday night’s wild-card game. The seller comes from South Carolina, and so far 23 bidders have…
This Arlington attorney is one of the most powerful Christians in the country. Who, just who is Frank Sommerville? Keep readin’. Five folks with local ties — well, six, if you count Your President — have made The Church Report’s list of the “The 50 Most Influential Christians in America.”…
Jerry Jones kinda, sorta blew up on The Ticket this morning. But he’s still in love with Tony Romo, Bill Parcells and Terrell Owens. That’s so cute. Let me start off by apologizing to the herd of elementary school kids and the wide-eyed crossing guard I scared the bezeevers out…
Yesterday, Kenny Brattain, the owner of Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack in Lewisville and the man who plans to re-open Trees as a live-music venue some time this spring, sent to a few local media outlets a missive in which he kinda knocked around a city official and city procedures he…
From a press release just sent out: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS – News), a premier provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions, announced today that it will host the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) to promote…
Bill Parcells says he wasn’t looking for a Giants job. Dang. We were so hopin’. I once had a helping of Irate Tuna at a Japanese restaurant; little too pink and puffy for my tastes. But Irate Tuna’s on the menu today in the New York Daily News, where the…
Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead As you Friends of Unfair Park should know by now, the residents of the Ash Creek Mobile Home Park are supposed to be out of their homes by February 9 — the date set by owner Steve Crossett in an eviction letter…
The comments posted on Unfair Park are always fascinating; keep ’em coming, unless they’re libelous, in which case, keep ’em coming. But this one, posted to Grimes’ Visual Dictionary item, merits a special mention: As the taker of the Dallas photo (and a native Dallasite), I have to say that…
So, guess this is gonna be a Very Special Deep Ellum Episode of Unfair Park. Just moments ago, Kenny Brattain, the owner of Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack in Lewisville and the man who plans to re-open Trees as a live-music venue, sent to Unfair Park and other local media outlets…
