On Wednesday, the city of Dallas gave John Greenan the good news: The executive director of the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation was told that, yes, finally, he could begin moving people into 511 N. Akard Street, otherwise known as Citywalk @ Akard. More than four and a half years…
On Christmas Eve I was looking for something to post on a snowy, slow news day. I stumbled across a video posted late last week: a flashback to 1997, when the Dallas Diabolicrats pranked Grassy Knoll visitors on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Kinda remembered that. Went over to…
The defense is excelling. The December Demons are exorcized. The Dallas Cowboys are in the playoffs. But is head coach Wade Phillips back next season? I’m sticking to Phillips being a Dead Man Coaching, short of a trip to the Super Bowl, but it’s sounding more and more like owner…
Jody Rikhilal’s family has been selling its curry powders, herbs and masalas downtown for 18 years, and remained at Dallas Farmers Market during Shed No. 2’s $3.2-million overhaul a few years ago. But they decided last week that they’d had enough of dealing with the city of Dallas to remain…
While we’re trying to figure out Florida coach Urban Meyer (one day it’s his health; the next he just doesn’t want to cede control) and muster up interest in this afternoon’s Independence Bowl (Texas A&M and Georgia are a combined 13-11), let’s again daydream of a world void of the BCS and…
An op-ed, co-written by SMU President R. Gerald Turner, has been circulating through the nation’s newspapers in recent days; here’s yesterday’s pit stop in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which Turner and William Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland system, argue that college athletics’ business model is “on a path…
The new issue of New York magazine profiles Larry Kramer, whose actions on behalf of the gay community have spoken louder than his words, themselves a boisterous collection of plays, novels and journalism. In particular, the magazine is interested in the state of his decades-in-the-writing gay history-of, The American People,…
10. I’m not ready to pronounce it Doomsday III just yet, but that’s some impressive defense being played by your Dallas Cowboys. The team’s first shutout in six years on the heels of holding the San Diego Chargers and New Orleans Saints to a combined 37 points? Two games against…
Sorry, but one last bit of bookkeeping before I hit the nog: We’ve known for a while when Don Hill and the missus, former City Plan Commissioner D’Angelo Lee and two others found guilty in the federal City Hall corruption trial are being sentenced; we’ve had February 26 circled on…
The freakishly steady snow outside the office, and the absence of a staff inside the office, suggests that perhaps it’s time to head on outta here. And so I leave you with this: Polyphonic Spree performing John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” at the Lakewood Theater in ’07, during…
At some point today we’ll shut down Unfair Park for Christmas. But as long as there’s someone at Dallas City Hall, well, might as well keep on keepin’ on with this sneak peek at the Park and Recreation Department board’s meeting agenda for January 7, during which Daniel Huerta, executive…
The SMU contingent stationed in Waikiki this holiday week appears to be having a fine time, judging by director of media relations Robert Bobo’s ecstatic Aloha SMU blog. Tonight’s the big game: the Hawaii Bowl, kick-off 7 p.m. Maybe not big to most, but huge to some — say, SMU…
Next time I start to criticize your 2009 Dallas Cowboys, remind me that these are the dorks I used to root for. Jeff Rohrer … Danny White … Ron Fellows … Gordon Banks … Bill Bates … Everson Walls … Steve Pelluer … Mike Saxon … Steve DeOssie … Todd…
1 The Hurt Locker: The decade’s strongest Iraq movie is also the year’s finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow’s personal best. Working from Mark Boal’s knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old-school in its construction of suspense and character, and horrifically topical in its depiction of…
Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise—Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, to name a few—and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw…), our three critics each pick three favorites of the ’00s. Who’s ready for There Will Be…
On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city’s busy waterfront, the players of South Africa’s national rugby union team—the Springboks—go for a training run. On this particular morning, there’s…
In Preston Royal Shopping Center, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by a handful of customers—high-schoolers grabbing a game, a middle-aged mom checking to see if Julie & Julia’s out yet…
Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. “If we were in a small town, you’d call me a ‘townie.’ I’d be the guy who’s always lived within a mile of the house he grew up in,” the…
Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children’s movie Surf’s Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn’t need to work that hard: An avid surfer, Bridges has…
Let’s see, in the last week we’ve been blessed with a Dallas Mavericks victory sans Dirk Nowitzki over an elite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers), a passionate, purposeful Dallas Cowboys win over an elite NFL team (New Orleans Saints)—in December, no less—and a record snowstorm veering out of our way. Even…
Brand control: Self-restraint has never been high on Buzz’s list of virtues, as anyone who has ever seen our nicotine-stained fingers and fat gut can attest. Still, we appreciate virtue in others when we (very rarely) see it, so we kind of admire Eric Johnson, the lawyer running in the…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along an update from the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League: “A Glimmer of Hope for Oak Cliff Christian Church.” That, of course, is a reference to the 1905 building recently acquired by the Dallas Independent School District for the Adamson High…
