From Baron James’s autobiography on the KDFW-Channel 4 site: “I look forward to years of public service here in the Lone Star State and at FOX 4 to bring you the news stories that matter most to you — especially good news!” But Uncle Barky comes bearing only bad and…
Scared to flash your wallet this holiday season at the mall for fear somebody might nab it? Hate leaving your goodie bags in the car will result in a smashed-in window? (No, we’re not talking to you, NorthPark Center. Why do you ask? Oh … right.) Look, don’t worry: The…
Two brief football notes of interest, the first involving SMU, where there’s been little interesting football of note in recent years. The Honolulu Advertiser is reporting today that David Matlin, the Hawaii Bowl’s exec director, will be at Gerald J. Ford Stadium this Saturday when the Mustangs play Tulane. Just…
Preservation Dallas has never been able to positively ID who built the so-called Round House on Baxtershire Drive — which, as we mentioned in May of ’08, was on the market for $1,075,000, though, most recently, the asking price for the ca. 1961 Bond-ian palace was knocked down to the…
Schutze clearly has some issues with the Woodall Rodgers deck park, currently under construction. Which is why I am sending him togoing to beg him to attend Monday’s site press conference with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who just confirmed that he’s dropping by the construction site to see…
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff draws our attention this morning to a report released last week by, among others, Transportation For America, which rates how dangerous big cities’ streets are for those who walk near them. In the study, titled Dangerous By Design, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington comes in at No. 13, with…
The turkey. The dressing. The relatives and the heartburn, neither of which will leave. The red kettle. The grandiose halftime show, this year featuring Daughtry. The – usually anyway – Cowboys’ victory. Ah, Thanksgiving. The elements are similar, but tomorrow will be the first Thanksgiving Day game in Cowboys Stadium. Should…
While we’re looking ahead at City Hall meetings, says here that the Park and Recreation Board will be briefed next Thursday on the Turtle Creek Master Plan. Which is …? Well, specifics are hard to come by: City Hall’s closed till Monday, and Katherine Kosut at Booziotis & Company Architects,…
It’s never too early to look at next Wednesday’s city council briefing, especially when one of the subjects on deck is where and how Dallas will get its water beyond 2035. Because, see, we’re all good for the next years, give or take, but according to the briefing, “Even with…
As we mentioned this morning, Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s pulling his anti-sagging campaign up a notch. Two years after Caraway’s “man’s law” garnered national attention, his target audience is no longer just young men who sport oversized pants, but young women who bare skin. Whether it’s saggy pants…
A technical malfunction on our end delayed our receiving Justin Terveen’s photos from Friday night’s light show downtown, both in Main Street Garden and next-door Neimans. But, better late than never; a slide show’s forthcoming. And, hey, good timing: DowntownDallas just posted a trippy, holly-jolly time-lapse video from Main Street…
View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience…
Well, the former Dallas Cowboys head coach and current Fox NFL analyst didn’t say exactly that this morning with Newy Scruggs and me on 105.3 The Fan. But he did – once and for all, 12th verse – emphatically deny that he’d ever consider returning to the Cowboys. “No, I love…
Comic Book Resources directs our attention this afternoon to the Twitter account of Zeus Comics owner Richard Neal, where he sent word this morning about an overnight smash-and-grab at the Lemmon Avenue shoppe. From the sound of it, someone kicked in the front window with a “steel toed boot” and…
Yesterday, after practice at the American Airlines Center, the Mavs hosted their 13th annual Turkey Dunk, attended by some 125 homeless and “at-risk” kids. We sent the great Hal Samples to the shindig, during which the team partnered with Rainbow Days and put on a clinic for the kiddos, which…
Couple of weeks back we broke the news that Fox TV Studios had decided to shoot Jack and Dan — a new hour-long buddy-cop action-comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks — in Dallas. Pre-production’s well under way, with shooting set to begin in January. Don’t know how we missed…
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…
Looks like 7-Eleven’s new private-label wine is but the beginning of the Dallas-based convenience-store chain’s plan to conquer the world. Mark Herron, the senior product director for all things private label, tells Convenience Store News there’s more to come: “By developing a global brand, 7-Eleven can better leverage our brand…
Last night, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sent word that before everyone at 1500 Marilla Street goes on extended holiday vacay — tomorrow’s a furlough day — there’s one last press conference on the schedule. And it’s quite the all-star jam session: Expected to attend the noontime presser are…
Attorney William O. Holston Jr.’s a good Friend of Unfair Park and a very good guy who does considerable pro bono work representing political and religious asylum applicants to this country, much of it through the Human Rights Initiative. I bring it up this morning because Brother Bill has contributed…
The latest news about The News should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who’s listened to the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, since at least February, when he told Unfair Park that, yes, sooner or later A.H. Belo would “experiment” with finding out how much online readers were…
Jason Garrett is clueless. Roy Williams is a bust. Martellus Bennett is a non-factor. Felix Jones has lost a step. Nick Folk has the yips. Marc Colombo is hurt. Ken Hamlin can’t tackle. Anthony Spencer doesn’t have a sack. Dave Campo and Terence Newman had to be seperated on the sidelines. And Bobby Carpenter gets…
