Three years ago to the day I loved Josh Howard. But this morning I’m thrilled that he’s no longer a Dallas Maverick. Why? Because lost in the parties and record-setting crowd of NBA All-Star Weekend was a seven-player trade that both re-shaped the Mavs’ roster and re-booted their hopes for contending…
Ran into some acquaintances Sunday afternoon and into the evening who were still without electricity following Thursday’s snowstorm; several of them packed up the kids and were forced to take refuge in Plano hotels, since Dallas was all booked-up for the All-Star festivities. Angela Hunt posted several items yesterday, back…
A Friend of Unfair Park intimately familiar with the doings at Southwest Airlines says, yeah, today was hell at the Love Field-based airline, but Monday’s sure to be worse as SWA attempts to overcome the PR nightmare caused when director Kevin Smith got kicked off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight yesterday. The…
10. As if Cowboys Stadium needed validating, the moment occurred two hours before tonight’s tip-off when two of the wealthiest, most powerful personalities in sports shook hands at midcourt. “Jerry Jones … nice to meet you.” “Lebron James … the pleasure’s all mine, Mr. Jones.” 9. When it comes to…
It’s been exactly two months since Unfair Park broke the news that the Dallas Independent School District had purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street with the intention of razing Charles Bulger’s nearly century-old structure to build tennis courts, most likely, for the new-and-improved Adamson High School…
If today’s University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll — which had former Houston Mayor Bill White with a whopping 50-11 lead over Farouk Shami (30 percent claimed to be undecided) — wasn’t enough to hand the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to White, Shami ensured that the 10 million bucks he vowed to…
Every now and then I check in on Hurst’s Jessica Peters to see how her Elliott Smith doc is coming. It would appear her film about the singer-songwriter, who lived here from the time he was 5 to 13, remains a work-in-progress. Fingers crossed she gets it done sooner than…
As the city digs out from under a record snowfall — and with the forecast calling for below-freezing temps and a freezing fog advisory — it’s hard not to think about the city’s homeless population as Dallas attempts to move ahead with its plans to establish 700 units of permanent…
Blanketed by a fresh coat of snow, the hole three hilltop at Stevens Park loomed like an Oak Cliff Matterhorn this morning, and for the lucky ones in the neighborhood with nowhere else to be, it was home to the sweetest sledding in town.A few kids got to show off…
The great George Gimarc sends word: “I was playing around with a new scanner and decided to test it on some old slides. Here’s some pix of the Statler Hilton under construction in September of ’54 and May of 1955. Thought you might enjoy.” Why, George, whatever gave you that…
No doubt you had one eye on the radar and the other on the doings outside your window late yesterday, so maybe you missed an interview with DowntownDallas president John Crawford about the need to “drill down” into the subject of downtown parking. Crawford, though, didn’t really speak in specifics…
First thing yesterday, I buried a reference to The Basketball Jones’s first video from NBA All-Star Weekend. The kid liked it far more than I — he’s a sucker for wacky. Here’s the second installment, a marked improvement.TBJ Does Dallas: Where Winter Happens from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo…
Jane McGarry, who’s been at KXAS-Channel 5 since 1982 and was named our Best Local Anchor in ’01 (really?), is out at 10 p.m. beginning tonight. Meredith Land will be named her permanent replacement. KXAS news director Susan Tully just sent The Official Word:Jane McGarry will co-anchor NBC 5 News…
From the looks of this sneak peek at a presentation Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, is giving the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee on Tuesday, that $3 mil earmarked for the so-called Loop 12 Gateway will most likely wind up being spent on Trinity River Audubon…
It’s obvious, apparently even to Debra Medina, that her three-paragraph explanation following her disastrous interview with Glenn Beck yesterday wasn’t enough to put the wheels back on her campaign. So Medina has decided to face the music, or in this case, a group of reporters anxious to hear WTF she…
Unfair Park may be a bit delayed this morning. Blame it on Oncor, which spent an hour last night trying to restore power at our NW Dallas outpost before, apparently, giving up. We’ve had juice maybe six hours on and off out of the last 24 and none at all…
One of the two parking-garage exits here at Unfair Park HQ’s frozen over; explains why the office is now holiday empty. But before I quit it, a few items of interest to keep you warm:USA Today profiles NBA All-Star Weekend co-host Mark Cuban, who’s, like, mellowed in recent years; hence…
I see here that on Tuesday, the city council’s Economic Development Committee has on its agenda a proposed downtown parking study. Since City Hall’s more or less closed between now and Tuesday (for, in order, a All-Star snow day, a furlough day and President’s Day), and since the briefing docs…
This weather update from Unfair Park HQ: Yes it’s still snowing. Walking through downtown this morning was like taking a stroll around Minneapolis: steaming, snow-caked trucks kicking up road slush and huddled smokers hiding under umbrellas and office building overhangs.In a Dallas kind of way, though, the sidewalks this morning…
It’s the Omni downtown, silly — you know, the convention center hotel? Justin took this two days ago. Fine, but where the construction cam? (Speaking of, why doesn’t the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge cam work anymore? It robs Schutze of one of his hobbies.)…
What the what? There’s a mammoth blizzard in the northeast. There’s a – relatively speaking – mammoth blizzard outside your window. I got plans tonight, man. Big plans. Party plans. If you’re brave enough to get out and about tonight, I got your party hook-up right here …..
Just when it looked like Debra Medina could maybe possibly somehow sneak her way past Kay Bailey Hutchison into a runoff with Rick Perry for a chance to grab the Republican nomination in November’s gubernatorial election, she melted down during an interview this morning with Glenn Beck, who questioned Medina…
