Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who directed my attention to the Daily Mustang piece about the long-gone Honest Joe’s Pawn Shop in Deep Ellum — must have been something familiar about the “Herschel Wilonsky” briefly quoted therein that caught this particular Friend’s attention. Figured I might as…
Early on during the FY2009-2010 budget process, City Manager Mary Suhm made it clear: She was going to close most of Dallas’s neighborhood pools — which she did, shuttering next summer all but seven of the 21 operated by the city. There was also much talk of cutting in half…
It’s not an uncommon scene: A Christian pop band plugs in and coos about Jesus’s love to the faithful flock, which sways with arms raised to the heavens. Last night, that scene replayed itself in Dallas as Sojourners, the Washington D.C.-based social ministry, kicked off its Justice Revival event. The…
…. tonight’s your lucky night. Mavs man Matt Miller sends word that just in time for tonight’s face-off against the San Antonio Spurs, Your Dallas Mavericks are launching what the team calls a “first-of-its-kind live game companion designed to enhance the television viewing experience for fans.” Which is …? The…
For a couple weeks I coughed and sneezed and hacked and blew and … denied. Last night I gave up and went to the doctor. Sure enough: Swine Flu. AIDS. Walking Pneumonia. Sorry, but today I gotta make this – ahhhhhchooooo! – short and sweet: *Rick Carlisle gets mad and…
The Dallas Fed head spoke to the Austin Headliners Club yesterday where, yet again, he boiled down “The Current State of the Economy and a Look to the Future” into language easily understood by those of us who were told there would be no math. The man also manages to…
I’ve learned quite a bit about Ed Malouf this morning — like the fact that all nine of his children with wife Marie, and three of their 23 grandchildren, went to Bishop Lynch, where Ed is said to have literally built the field house with his bare hands while Marie…
When Dallas County Republican chair Jonathan Neerman told us that the election of Cathie Adams as the state party’s new chair “set the party back five years,” even the editorial board at The Dallas Morning News took notice. A few days later, DMN’er Gromer Jeffers tried to make peace between…
Turns out, Blockbuster really doesn’t have much to say about its decision to partner with NCR to test-market those digital kiosks that allow users to download movies to SD cards. Randy Hargrove, the company’s spokesman downtown, called back today only to say that “they’ll be in our stores and be…
The Deep End’s extras casting director sure knows how to butter up the Friends of Unfair Park. Tara Di Leva, from 20th Century Fox, sends word that the ABC series, currently shooting at The Studios at Las Colinas and around town (saw signs around Victory Park yesterday), needs extras for…
… a behind-the-scenester was there to capture the whole thing, from pre-game to big finish. Here’s the formal how-do, featuring Voice of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Followill introducing Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (who has “instituted many policies that have dramatically improved the quality of life in Dallas,” says the play-by-player),…
Yesterday word started circulating that Elm Street-based Blockbuster had found yet another way to combat RedBox: by offering downloads via SD cards, which users can stick into a kiosk that’s loaded with about 1,000 titles from which to choose. It’s the second time in a little more than a year…
The Dallas Cowboys are 6-2. Your glass of blue Kool-Aid is more half-full than half-empty. Wade Phillips is Coach of the Year, Tony Romo’s in the Pro Bowl, Keith Brooking is Badass of the Decade and you’ve got the Cowboys penciled in for Super Bowl XLIV February 7 in Miami. Question: Who…
At this very moment, Matt Miller, executive director of the Institute for Justice Texas Chapter, is driving from Dallas back to Austin — only after he made a pit stop downtown to file a federal lawsuit against the city of Dallas over last year’s ordinance that prohibits store owners from…
The director of Clerks and Chasing Amy was in town over the weekend, doing one of his evening-withs at the House of Blues. One local in attendance shot a good hunk of the show, including a bit during which Smith addresses, among other things, why he can’t get Red State…
Back in March, I came across a quite hard-to-find, hand-colored page from the American Architect and Building News from November 21, 1896: the “Dallas Flats,” about which we still don’t know much. A Friend of Unfair Park, recalling that historical gem, sends word of another American Architect page for sale,…
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…
The Institute for Justice — which bills itself as the “nation’s only libertarian public interest law firm” — sends word this morning that it’s unhappy with the city of Dallas’s year-old law that prohibits business owners from covering their storefront windows with signs. How unhappy? Federal-lawsuit unhappy. The suit was…
At 10 this morning, the state Senate Committee on Criminal Justice will have a little face time with John Bradley, the newly appointed chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, created in 2005 to see whether Texas should have executed Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004. (Probably not, said the August…
[jump] If imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery, The Ticket should be feel complimented because ESPN is basically The Ticket West. The station had a run with Williams, with Dale Hansen and now employs assistant program director Mark Friedman, Scott and B&S. On Dallas Mavericks game nights – like…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked if I wouldn’t mind mentioning Bill Minutaglio’s appearance at Legacy Books in Plano this Saturday, when the ex-DMN’er heads up north to sign copies of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, which he co-wrote with W. Michael Smith. Sure; happy to. Which reminds me: The…
Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall directs our attention to the winning photos from the Trinity River Photo Contest, for which our pal Allison V. Smith was one of the four judges. You can view as either a PDF or a PowerPoint. Schutze’s entries failed to win, place or show;…
