And, speaking of Mark Birnbaum …When last I spoke with the Dallas-based doc maker, he was out and about filming Mayor Tom Leppert and other council members for a short promoting the new convention center hotel. He hasn’t seen the finished film yet — he was but a shooter on…
Speaking of Kettle Art …I noticed that on his blog yesterday, U.K.-based illustrator Damien Weighill posted a note that he’s all set to make his Dallas debut at Frank Campagna’s Deep Ellum gallery. The exhibition runs January 28 through February 2, but on the 30th, Weighill will be joined by…
2009 was a rough year for Terry Glenn. 2010 apparently none too better…
In case you missed Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza’s mini-doc Dig Deep — about the keeper of Kettle Art, Frank Campagna, and his work on Deep Ellum murals extinct and extant — when it debuted at the Dallas Video Festival in November, Mark was kind enough to post it to…
On Monday, we directed your attention to The Times’s tale of Sergio Kindle, the Woodrow Wilson High School grad one day away from playing in The Only College Football Game That Matters. A fellow Woodrow grad and good Friend of Unfair Park also directs our attention to an ESPN piece…
Andy Reid, the guy who has taken the Philadelphia Eagles to five NFC Championships and a Super Bowl this century? Or Wade Phillips, who doesn’t have a playoff win on his resume but is 33-16 in Dallas and has his defense playing at a Super Bowl level? NBC analyst Rodney…
On New Year’s Eve we heard from one poor Pearl at Commerce patron, “Never Parking In a Pay Lot Again,” who claims to have gotten the boot even after paying to park in the lot across the street. And, according to Pearl at Comemrce’s Tracy Yost, our Friend wasn’t the…
A couple of weeks back, GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina was demanding she get an invite to KERA’s January 14 debate at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the University of North Texas campus. KERA spokesperson Meg Fullwood told us, look, she just needs to be patient: “We do not…
Temperatures Saturday night in Arlington could dip into the teens. If local ticket brokers are any indication, the mood inside Cowboys Stadium might be a tad chilly as well. With tickets and party passes still available through the Cowboys and TicketMaster and almost 10,000 seats floating around StubHub, Cowboys-Eagles just…
As usual, friend of the show Justin Terveen was out and about shooting the city this week when he discovered that part of Little Baghdad in the Cedars is being torn down. And by Little Baghdad, I mean, of course, the small patch of Alma Street and Cockrell Avenue made…
Four years ago we were writing about the race for Dallas County Precinct 5 constable: Mike Dupree v. Jaime Cortes. Ah, the good ol’ days; how things have …. changed? Now, it’s Jaime Cortes v. a handful of comers looking to snatch away his job, which he only got after…
It’s been rumored for weeks, but KTVT-Channel 11 made it official this afternoon: Starting Monday, it’s expanding its 4 p.m. newscast by another half hour, with Keith Garvin and Tracy Kornet holding down the anchor desk. That means, sorry, no more Inside Edition on Channel 11; it moves to TXA…
We just love shenanigans, so it’s no wonder why we found ourselves roped in by claims from Eric Johnson’s campaign that some of the petitions attached to state Representative Terri Hodge’s ballot application didn’t pass the smell test. It appeared as though Hodge, who submitted 610 signatures from registered voters…
While Pete’s giving away a suite to see Lil Wayne over on DC9, you’ll pardon this musical interlude over here on Unfair Park. But this morning’s mail brought a most pleasant surprise: the debut disc from Shoot Low Sheriff, which marks Erik Swanson’s return to his perch upon the Western…
So, yes, the Dallas County Commissioners Court did discuss privatizing security at all Dallas County courthouses and other county-owned-and-operated buildings. Problem was, the commissioners couldn’t agree on what to do.Commissioner Maurine Dickey, who made the proposal last month, emerged, of course, as the strongest advocate for privatization. But she could…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in ’99, he was director of communications — which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a…
View Larger MapThe northeast corner of the North Dallas Tollway and Arapaho Road is a parking-lot wasteland, thanks, in large part, to that abandoned OfficeMax. For going on two years, Rosebud Properties has been trying to redevelop the land; there was a proposal before the City Plan Commission in April…
Right before Christmas, Dallas Independent School District board president Adam Medrano told Unfair Park he is “not sure what can be done at this point” to save the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which DISD purchased in the fall to make way for some piece of the new Adamson High School…
We’ve written quite a bit about the Dallas Police Department’s efforts to treat prostitutes not as criminals, but as victims: In ’06, Jesse Hyde profiled the so-called “whore cop” who works truck stops; two years later, he wrote about the Letot Center, where minors on the run from their pimps…
Flipping through the agenda for today’s meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court, I came across an interesting item on page 193 concerning potential plans to privatize “all security functions in the County.” What the …? Because last I remembered reading, the county was going to put the Sheriff’s Department…
See, that’s the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they’re 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night’s game was a…
