This morning, I took a drive with my favorite tour guide, Preservation Dallas’ honcho Dwayne Jones, who offered me a sneak peek at the list of Dallas’ 11 most endangered properties, which he is releasing tomorrow. Though it won’t be official till then–there are still facts to be checked, etc.–lemme…
You’ve seen the infamous pictures of Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash drunk in a bar with a pal taken way back in 2003. Now, I think, comes the unearthing of a tribute song to said friend. There is no way it’s real. But I know it’s real bad. Otherwise, I’m…
To provide a little context to Mayor Laura’s earlier missive about the fate of the Business Assistance Center in Oak Cliff and the future of others who come before the council to request federal block grant money, here’s a note sent along by one of Unfair Park’s favorite contributors, Lorlee…
Frank Bruni, dining critic for The New York Times, today posted the results of his nine-day, 42-stop, 3,650-mile journey to review and rate the best fast food in America. From the McDonald’s in Piscataway, New Jersey, to the El Pollo Loco in Torrance, California, Bruni subjected his stomach and the…
Dirk Nowitzki is humming David Hasselhoff. Steve Nash digs Nelly Furtado. And Michael Finley, well, he’s singing the blues. Those three once had perfect harmony as the Dallas Mavericks’ Big Three, but in a cruel act of irony it’s Finley–the one forced out of Dallas–who’ll be forced to watch as…
It hasn’t been a good month for the sheriff. Just a week after being taken to task by the Dallas County Commissioners Court over her department’s skyrocketing overtime costs, now comes the startling news that Sheriff Lupe Valdez flunked a state licensing test required of all law enforcement officers. Valdez,…
This morning, Mayor Laura sent this missive in response to FrontBurner’s unattributed item regarding her alleged attempt to kill the Business Assistance Center in Oak Cliff. Turns out, she says, not so much: “We are approving the project today as part of the city’s annual federal block grant budget. Business…
Lone Star Funds’ founder John Grayken, at a press conference in Seoul last month to defend his Dallas-based companies in South Korea We’ve noted a few times in the past how downtown Dallas-based Lone Star Funds wound up in trouble with the South Korean government, which raided Lone Star’s offices…
RealtyTrac, which publishes a database of foreclosure properties across the country (I know, sounds very sexy), yesterday released its list of cities in which folks are most likely to quit paying their mortgages, and Dallas didn’t fare too well. Turns out when RealtyTrac’s peeps poured over the books for the…
Sounds like a Dallas travel agency sure did screw a bunch of missionaries from Arkansas. Says here that Pride Travel “took more than $30,000 for airline tickets never purchased” from a group of kids who worked like hell to send some Cambodians to heaven. The kids, from Temple Baptist Church…
It’s safe to assume that not a soul dining at the Metro Diner in Preston Center this morning knew they were scarfing down eggs and bacon with punk-rock royalty, nor did they have any idea that sitting in their midst was an indie-filmmaking heroine who also has on her filmography…
Early this morning I was among the hundreds of fans waiting for the Dallas Mavericks’ team plane when it landed a few minutes before 1 at Love Field. KTCK-AM’s (1310, The Ticket) Ben and Skin post-game show issued the call for us to greet the team, and greet them we…
Apparently, there are two folks in this virtual world you don’t wanna cross: Mark Cuban and Austin American-Statesman columnist (and occasional Observer contributor) Michael Corcoran. On Sunday, the Statesman ran a lengthy profile on the Mavs owner written by film critic Chris Garcia. That very afternoon, Cuban sent Garcia a…
Lorlee Bartos, well-regarded local political consultant (she managed Harriet Miers’ sole political campaign, for a Dallas city council seat), sends this response to this morning’s post about Pat Cotton’s comments regarding Darrell Jordan’s mayoral bid. Bartos and Cotton worked with Jordan when he ran for mayor against Ron Kirk in…
Oh, God, does this make me giggle. Avery Johnson stars in Raiders of the Lost Trophy, with guest star Charles Barkley. I. Cannot. Stop. Watching. –Robert Wilonsky…
Damn the man, UNT. Damn him. It seems The Man and his penchant for something called “decency” (I asked around the office what that means, and nobody seemed to know) have shut down one of the best local-indie radio shows in town: Sunday nights with Frequency Down, hosted by comic…
Pat Cotton called yesterday to correct yesterday’s look back at Darrell Jordan and his mothballed plan from way back in ’98 to dome the Cotton Bowl. Turns out I was right to call him a former mayoral candidate…and also wrong: Cotton, among the city’s best and best-known political consultants, wanted…
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville’s party-pooper, shot us (and probably everybody else in town) an e-mail last night informing us (and you and you and you) that Dallas police Chief David Kunkle dismissed the ticket Adelman was given by a cop on Saturday night. Adelman got the ticket, oddly enough, when…
It was all slipping away. The seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series lead. The 20-point lead in Game 7. Both were gone. Happy was giving way to heartbreak. But on the brink of an embarrassing, debilitating loss to the San Antonio Spurs Monday night that would’ve stung for years, Dirk Nowitzki grew…
Darrell Jordan once wanted to dome the Cotton Bowl. Doesn’t seem so crazy anymore, really. Eight years ago, which is an eternity in a town where yesterday’s landmarks are tomorrow’s parking lots, attorney and one-time mayoral candidate Darrell Jordan had an idea. He wanted to dome the Cotton Bowl. People…
On Thursday, Jim Schutze broke the news that the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and the General Investigating and Ethics Committee asked the State Bar of Texas to investigate Assistant Dallas City Attorney Jennifer Richie, who’s been going after, among others, car wash owner Dale Davenport in South Dallas…
Can’t spell “smart-ass” without “sss.” Last Monday, we mentioned how the daughter of a well-known local attorney lost her pet chicken, prompting her to post a crude-but-cute sign at the corner of Walnut Hill and Strait lanes. Well, this weekend somebody posted another sign just beneath the original, this one…
