View Larger MapEarlier this week, in the comments of this particular item, we played a little game of Local Real Estate Catch-Up, and one Friend of Unfair Park asked what’s become a fairly frequently asked question: What’s up with the former Hard Rock Cafe site on McKinney Avenue? No need…
Downtown Dallas denizens might be a little confused by the sign above, which our Patrick Michels found at the intersection of Akard and Main Streets. But fret not, as the Dallas Police Department has not outsourced its prying eyes. Friends of Unfair Park no doubt have a pretty good idea…
PETA vs. the Pope. Any time a hot, naked chick riles up the religious I’m intrigued. Especially if it’s Joanna Krupa. Who? In theory, there’s supposed to be some sports angle to this. Even, dare I say, a Dallas perspective. Okay, here goes: There are hot chicks and Catholic churches and…
Late this morning, Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong called Unfair Park to discuss, at great length, Wednesday’s memo in which Mong formalized what he refers to in the missive as “business/news integration,” which involves some section editors reporting directly to advertising-side general managers. He says this arrangement has been…
Despite the length of our cover story on the GOP gubernatorial primary, my discussion with former city council member Donna Blumer about Republican Party of Texas chair Cathie Adams didn’t make the cut. Knowing Adams would become newsworthy again in short order, I tucked away my notes, and sure enough,…
I have great parents. As a kid, they provided for me and poured the foundation for me to grow into a decent – I said decent – human being through principles, rules and accepted boundaries. My parents raised me. But Bjorn Borg molded me. I’d be home by my 10…
After the jump, you will find a memo Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong and senior vice president of sales Cyndy Carr sent to everyone at A.H. Belo Corp. Wednesday afternoon outlining what they call a “business/news integration.” Which means? As of yesterday, some section editors at all of the…
Speaking of old local cases involving schoolchildren sitting in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit …On Tuesday, the court handed down an opinion in that years-old case involving a Plano Independent School District third-grader and other PISD-off kiddies told by district officials that, no, they couldn’t hand…
Simple: Do you want Wade Phillips back as the head coach of your Dallas Cowboys next season? And beyond? I’ve asked owner Jerry Jones several times in several different ways about Phillips’ job status. The coach’s 3-year contract expires at the end of the season. Jones has an option to extend it,…
Aside from that unsolicited non sequitur intended to illustrate Americans’ lack of faith in the judicial system, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s tête-à-tête with Stephen Colbert last night was notable only for how relatively straight it played. Colbert tried to draw Watkins offside early with a comment about his…
Pay to stay: If Emma Lazarus were alive and living in Dallas these days, she’d probably throw up. Lazarus—for those of you who were sleeping in civics class—is the author of “The New Colossus,” the poem that adorns the Statue of Liberty. Why would she be a nauseated Dallasite? Well,…
At long last, football season has arrived. The draft? Organized team activities? Training camp? The NFL schedule’s first three months? Bah humbug. As far as Dallas Cowboys fans are concerned, it’s all one big glob of coagulated, repetitive foreplay without any hint of climactic payoff. Once upon a time Debbie…
There’s a big plaster duck in the driveway of Rick Orr’s mobile home in Scottsdale, Arizona. If you know Rick Orr, you know this can’t possibly be just any plaster duck; it’s almost certainly one of the world’s rarest plaster ducks, probably worth tens of thousands of dollars and crafted…
In Sergeant John M. Russell’s chaotic Army world the morning of May 11, the enemy was closing in. For the previous several days at sprawling Camp Liberty outside Baghdad, the big Texan from Sherman had talked of conspiracies, woken up from constant nightmares and broken down in tears, wishing someone…
Remember when David and Shannon Croft sued the state because they didn’t want their kids, then enrolled in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district, to recite the Texas Pledge of Allegiance? Yup. Totally forgot about that one. That was two long years ago — back when the Crofts also sued the…
Fair Park’s latest additions — which is to say, sculptor David Newton’s recreations of Lawrence Tenney Stevens’s nine-foot-high Contralto and Countertenor statues perched at the ends of the overhauled-for-$12-million Fair Park Esplanade — make their formal debut Sunday, during Fair Park Holiday. (And, look, I’m going to warn you now:…
CNNMoney.com directs our attention this afternoon to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s first-ever report documenting how many Americans are “unbanked.” Says the study, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington boasts an awfully high percentage of households who don’t use a bank — 10.9 percent, to be precise, which is well over the national average…
While peddling around in search of something unrelated, I came across Third Coast Fixed’s item concerning a two-part short film made by University of Texas at Dallas Emergent Media & Communication grad student Lacy Mahone. It’s a beautifully done, straight-forward summation of some of the issues Kim touched on in…
Not, that is, if online fan voting is any indicator of things to come. In NFL.com’s online voting that ends Dec. 21, only one Dallas Cowboy leads his position – linebacker DeMarcus Ware. Jay Ratliff, Tony Romo, Miles Austin and Jason Witten? Not among the top two of their respective…
After we watched the county commissioner’s temper tantrum yesterday (again and again and again), Patrick “Buzz” Willliams declared it awfully “bush league.” We talked about how it was like one of those council meetings you see excerpted on newscasts across the country during which the anchor stares at the Teleprompter…
The Wall Street Journal reports that downtown-HQ’d AT&T dropped its suit today against Verizon concerning those “There’s a Map for That” ads in which Verizon says AT&T’s 3G coverage is, um, lacking. AT&T filed the suit a month ago, claiming in court documents that “the ads mislead consumers into believing…
One week ago today, Shawn Williams at Dallas South News broke the news that council member Vonciel Jones Hill sent Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway a memo telling him to stay the hell out of her district, which would be District 5. Caraway, chairman of the council’s Public Safety Committee…
