It’s always a good idea ’round this time of the year to make a list of accomplishments, if only to figure out what you need to get done in the coming year. So happens, of course, that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins needs to get re-elected in 2010, and,…
Texas Tech fires head football coach Mike Leach. Two words: Holy. Shit. A saddening, maddening day for Red Raider Nation. My take: It took two to tango, and both Leach and the James family are at fault. Both Texas Tech and Leach will ultimately regret letting this spark burn out of control…
View Larger MapWhile we’re on the subject of North Dallas shopping malls, this significant bit of real estate news: Around this time next year, Crate & Barrel’s leaving its Alpha Road location, across the street from the Galleria, and heading further north up the Dallas North Tollway. Quite a bit…
TRAILER and INTRODUCTION from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.The folks at the Thin Line Film Fest in Denton, an annual affair devoted to documentaries, send word of a major premiere scheduled to open the festival on February 17: Gasland. Formerly known as Rage of Nature, as evidenced by the trailer above, this…
Christine Romero, spokesperson for Valley View Center owner Macerich, called back to say, well, she doesn’t have much to say about the state or fate of the beleaguered mall at present: “We don’t have any final plans to share,” she tells Unfair Park. “We plan to take our time to…
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…
Another day, another bike plan for Oak Cliff. But Jason Roberts, founder of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, says the Seventh Street proposal and another for Bishop Avenue are all part of efforts to brand the neighborhood “a major bicycling corridor.” The Bishop Ave. concept is this: Install bike-only lanes connecting…
The New York Times gives you $600,000 and three homes from which to choose: a 172-year-old hacienda in Pomona, California; a one-bedroom condo in Boston; or a 105-year-old, four-bedroom craftsman on Swiss Avenue near Fitzhugh voted Preservation Dallas’s top redo of ’07. And … go…
Punter Mat McBriar (he’s forced a league-high 23 fair catches) seems a thorny omission and a case can be made for quarterback Tony Romo (five less touchdowns than Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, but 18 less sacks), but the Dallas Cowboys should be pleased to have landed six players on the…
When I was a kid, Valley View was my mall — bought my first skateboard (a Powell-Peralta purchased at the stand beneath the escalators), my first album (KISS’s Double Platinum at the Disc Records) and my first guitar (thanks, McCord’s) there. But now it’s a ghost of a ghost of…
Elaine’s year-in-local-theater piece runs in the paper version of Unfair Park on stands tomorrow. Till then, then, this sneak peek from Theater Jones, where our theater critic and Mark Lowry look back at the highlights of the year (and decade) that was…
While waiting for Macerich officials to return our calls concerning Valley View Center, where I spent some of this afternoon, there’s this story out of Phoenix worth a look-see, if only as a cautionary tale. Because if the movies have taught us anything, it’s that couples stopped by the police…
Much thanks to Friend of Unfair Park “Mike,” who, in the comments to the Greggo item below, directs our attention to a podcast by a certain Kimball High School and SMU grad best known, perhaps, as Ned Ryerson. He’s been at it for two months, looks like, but Stephen Tobolowsky’s…
Mayor Tom Leppert isn’t an easy interview to snag these days. At least, not for us here at the Observer. But that doesn’t stop us from catching a glimpse of the man whenever we get the chance, and, of course, capturing snapshots along the way. Yup, we’ve developed quite a…
Reason No. 239 blog comments are a good thing: On Christmas, Friend of Unfair Park “whiskey a go go” posted a note to the Hawaii Bowl item that said, simply, “Here’s a link to greggos show from last week.” And, sure enough, one click later there was The Hammer on…
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff sends word this morning of a plan intended to turn Seventh Street into a “pedestrian/bicycle boulevard.” It’s among several bits of heads-up offered this morning, along with further promise of pedicabs courtesy Eno’s.Heads of Winnetka Heights home owners association, local business owners, and property owners are…
A very good Friend of Unfair Park was in Deep Ellum last night and noticed the sign: The King Bucks and The O’s at La Grange on December 30. Turns out, tomorrow is opening night for the latest Deep Ellum venue, to which we introduced you in October. It’s a…
I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. “I’ve had to hook my delay back up,” says Williams’ new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. “This guy makes me want to cuss.” Wolfe, who happens to…
Your Dallas Cowboys’ guaranteed trip to the NFL post-season prompts Bill Rhoden to visit with Jerry Jones in this sports pages of this morning’s New York Times. Much of the content feels reheated; most of the opinions, rehashed. (To wit: “Jerry Jones — owner, president and general manager — is…
GlobeSt.com takes a longish, hardish look at the Dallas’s apartment market and says, yeah, that sure feels like the bottom, so let the good times roll in 2010. But locals who buy and sell multifamily units aren’t sure this will be The Year of the Rebound: Says Will Balthrope in…
One down, three to go as the Old 97’s work their way through a four-night stint at the Sons of Hermann Hall, which is being recorded for some future use. Pete runs down last night’s “informal” opener (so, no ties or tails?) over on DC9, while one Jeb Matulich serves…
Says one baton-lovin’ Friend of Unfair Park, Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden received some early New Year’s best-wishes courtesy the Los Angeles Times, which named him a classical-music “face to watch” in the coming year. Writes Mark Swed of the conductor unknown to locals a mere two…
