Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find — a 42-clip collection consisting not only of…
Old trailers fill the lot in front of Gary Buckner’s West Dallas workshop. Two are almost completely gutted and ready for refurbishing, and one silver Airstream is nearly ready for the move-in of a fairly unlikely tenant. In less than two months, this trailer will be home to an insurance…
About half an hour ago, Richie posted an item on the Sportatorium: John Rhadigan, hired in January to replace Josh Lewin as the Texas Rangers’ TV, play-by-play announcer, is already out. Moments ago, the team confirmed with an Official Statement that follows in full. But long story short: Beginning with…
Since Janine Turner didn’t get that spot on the next-gen Dallas reboot for TNT, she’s turned her attention elsewhere — late-night weekend AM radio. Had no idea. But, sure enough: The former Northern Exposure star with the ranch outside of town launched her right-wing radio hour last Saturday from none…
What you see above is the official “The Time Is Now” video made last week for the Mavs’ postseason run, which continues in two hours, give or take, but you knew that. Oh, right: Go, Mavs. Cash Sirois, weekend talk-show host and Dallas Mavericks creative director, was in charge of…
A few Friends of Unfair Park find those Dirk Nowitzki videos cute … or something? But, writes one, “They’re missing Dirk.” Fair enough. This one, provided by the NBA and submitted by a reader, is all Dirk — in slow mo, no less, his Game Four heroics augmented by a…
Back in April of last year some Oak Cliff-dwellers introduced that “Think Small” slogan, which was and is intended to counter Dallas’s “Live Large, Think Big” motto coughed up by The Richards Group in ’04 after six months’ worth of focus-grouping. A Friend of Unfair Park points out that on…
Add City Manager Mary Suhm to the list of folks lined up to bury the so-called Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as the downtown tunnels. But two days ago she told the DSpotters that those inhabiting the maze of passageways beneath the downtown skyscrapers ain’t nothing but “a community of…
Two small but important bits of information from a long U.S. Army Corps of Engineers press gathering this afternoon: First: In order to fix the Trinity River levee system, Dallas will have to build an impervious concrete-like barrier between the levees and the river. Second: The barrier will have to…
I knew where I’d be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we’ll get…
Earlier this week we received word that some parents sending their kids to the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul downtown are concerned about plans for a piece of property adjacent to the school. Seems they just discovered that developer Larry Hamilton and John Greenan, executive director…
Just remember: A grand total of 235 people voted to make Wade Emmert the new chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party. But 33,000-and-still-rising have now watched his rival Debbie Georgatos’s film-school thesiscampaign video on YouTube — and far more saw it last night on MSNBC, as Rachel Maddow and…
Since it’s Follow-Up Wednesday here, may I direct your attention to a piece Jason Roberts posted this morning on Go Oak Cliff, which is more or less a response-slash-reaction-to Schutze’s piece yesterday about that Oak Cliff Walmart planned for Fort Worth Ave. Not to reopen Tuesday’s still-fresh can o’ worms,…
Visited the SMU website today only to discover that two Denver-living Mustang grads have kicked in $5 mil toward what the Hilltop’s calling the Residential Commons complex, a years-in-the-making project designed to keep sophomores on campus — so they can “live” and “learn” together. Ah, so that’s what they’re calling…
Speaking of tomorrow’s to-do list …It’s true — Sam Merten doesn’t live here anymore. He up and split a couple of weeks back, all on his own. He can now be found wandering the countryside playing the role of George Armstrong Custer in Civil War re-enactments; he recently wrote from…
Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Back in June of last year we took a look at the state of Denton’s Golden Triangle Mall, which, at the time, had fallen into foreclosure and was being put up for auction. Like Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall and Valley View, it’s seen better times. But per a piece on…
I called John Crawford, president of Downtown Dallas Inc., on Monday morning, about something — can’t remember, not important. But in between my leaving a message and his calling back, I received a press release: TM Advertising, which moved from Irving into the Comerica Bank Tower at 1717 Main Street…
Two years ago I posted a lengthy excerpt from the 1962 book The Prairie’s Yield – Forces Shaping Dallas Architecture from 1840 to 1962, published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Among its authors was Hal Box, who, at the time, was…
While I was sad to see my old partner Newy Scruggs leave 105.3 The Fan last week, I’m thrilled to have another familiar voice on board. Back in April 2010 — in the wake of Chris Arnold’s departure from K104 — I wrote that radio was volatile and that you…
While we await some return phone calls: Twice today I’ve had occasion to dial up various local projects’ construction webcams, including our old favorite the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge — and this was before Mary Suhm acknowledged that, yup, you can cross that October opening off your to-do list, making…
Haven’t yet had a chance to check out the work of WFAA’s new morning-show co-host, New York transplant Ron Corning, but several Friends of Unfair Park direct our attention to this clip in which he makes a cameo, courtesy Alexa Conomos’s Mayfest gaffe. Turns out, Corning tweeted the clip this…
