OK, fair warning: This is going to be one in a series of items over the next couple of days dealing with Crozier Tech (or, as long-timers know it, the 103-year-old city-designated landmark Dallas High School or Central High School) on Bryan Street. It’s been cropping up in the comments…
Late last night, after grocery Aldi released its list of local locations and opening dates, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered how oh how we and everyone else missed this interview with H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt that ran in the San Antonio Express-News last weekend. In it, Butt…
Don’t remember if the Texas Rangers have ever had an owner with as grand of a vision as Chuck Greenberg. Have no idea if it will help them pitch, hit or finish better. But, regardless, it’s nice to hear an owner recognize where he is and what his should strive…
Today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released its 125-page final report on the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility out at Valley Ranch on May 9, during that surprise spring storm that left special teams coach Joe DeCamillis with crushed vertebrae and scout Rich Behm permanently paralyzed…
Mark your calendars now: Mardi Gras Oak Cliff takes place February 7 in the Bishop Arts District, with a morning 5K run and a nighttime masquerade ball bookending a February 6 pre-game. Which I mention only because I see that Jeff Liles, who’s been recording musicians in the Kessler Theater…
Public meetings often take on the tone of the most disgruntled citizen present, and last night was no exception. However, City Manager Mary Suhm tried to pretend she was genuinely interested in hearing from the 25 folks who showed up at Dallas City Hall last night to participate in the…
Ya know, before Pete came along, I was doing a fine job of writing about St. Vincent all by my lonesome. So, don’t tell, but a Friend of Unfair Park sends along these MP3s featuring Annie Clark and Bon Iver performing at Saturday night’s Haiti benefit concert at Brooklyn’s Music…
Wade Phillips is back. Miles Austin will be (fingers crossed) back. The Dallas Cowboys will enter the 2010 season with momentum, eight Pro Bowl players and high expectations. But how high? This year they won a division title and their first playoff game in 13 years. Next year … …
From April 1985 till May of ’08, Barbara Nestel was a secretary for the Boy Scouts of America. Among her duties: reconciling financial accounts and processing payments for the National Catholic Committee on Scouting for merchandise and expenses. Which is how she could defraud the Boy Scouts out of $350,000,…
Speaking of financial obligations …Schutze will be along shortly to explain what this means, exactly — after all, he’s the expert when it comes to all things related to Richard Allen, the man behind the Inland Port, and he just got off the phone with Allen. The reason: The breaking…
Perhaps I missed this elsewhere, but in the wake of Saturday night’s announcement concerning Tom Hicks’s having hammered out a deal with Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan — otherwise known as the Rangers Baseball Express — there’s news that the deal’s anything but done. It comes from the…
Praise Jehovah and Marconi, we finally moved offices at 105.3 The Fan. From the desolate, drab, dripping joint once soiled by Russ Martin at 183/Mockingbird, over to the plush penthouse at CBS headquarters at 75 and Fitzhugh. We’re on the 12th floor, in the same offices where Q102 used to shape…
Given all the money I’ve spent on Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” books about Ye Olden Dallas, it was mighty nice of the company to mail Unfair Park its two latest titles: Historic Dallas Hotels (which has an accompanying postcard set) and White Rock Lake, both of which are in…
I know you know better, still …This morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along an e-mail he received from a rather legit-looking company based up north promising that it can take care of all your ticketing and hotel needs for the Super Bowl when it comes to Cowboys…
Some Tuesday morning odds and sods:First, from The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed from Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who tells the Senate to lay off his boy Ben Bernanke as he tries to re-up his position as Fed Chair. Spoiler alert: Warns Fisher, my…
I don’t watch American Idol because I don’t believe in American Idol. Other than Carrie Underwood and (sorta) Daughtry, the “winners” don’t really become rock stars. Simon’s about to leave for Ellen. What the what? But mostly, I just think the show jumped the shark when it started fabricating contestants. I…
The boy and I wound up spending several hours wandering Fair Park Saturday and yesterday, and he came away from the experience obsessed with a single building: the so-called Swine Building. It’s the lone structure from the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 that hasn’t been retouched whatsoever, according to Nancy…
As if to underscore the fact that he’s a guy who can do it all for the team, Dirk Nowitzki took a seat in the American Airlines Center ticket booth this afternoon to sell the first tickets to next month’s NBA All-Star Jam Session.After contributing 20 points to the Mavs’…
OK, let’s circle around to the Continental Avenue bridge again. We must, if only because it’s on the city council’s agenda for Wednesday and because, on Friday, I had a long talk with Jim Parrish of CH2M Hill. Parrish is the Dallas-based project manager for the project, which will entail…
The Buried Life – MTV ShowsTonight MTV’s The Buried Life — a show about four Canadians, I believe, crossing things off their to-do list — takes a detour to Dallas, where the lads meet up with artist Sam Fuller, who, at the time, was living on the streets while bouncing…
Craig Cunningham of Dallas has an interesting way of dealing with debt collectors: He sues them, as documented in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park. While only a small number of debtors file such lawsuits, the debt collection industry isn’t waiting for such behavior to become popular. Which is…
Went on a date. To re-boot my chivalry, I let her pick the movie. Nine. Oh boy. She says, “It’s about a guy who fantasizes about hot chicks.” I say (fingers crossed), “I’m in. Are we talking porn?” So we go to Magnolia theater in West Village, have a drink…
