Feels like forever since we’ve posted one of Justin Terveen’s photos on Unfair Park, and that, right there, that’s too long. And so, on this holiday Monday, here’s quite the gift for the Friends of Unfair Park — four from The Urban Fabric taken last night from high atop the…
This morning, I opened my in-box to find a lengthy retrospective put together by KXAS-Channel 5 for last night’s farewell to Mike Snyder, whose 30-year run as reporter and anchor for the NBC owned-and-operated has come to an end. It is, of course, narrated by the only person suited for…
‘Bout one month ago today, over on Sportatorium, Richie called it: Russ Martin would be taking over as morning-show host on KEGL-FM (97.1) some time this month. J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s market manager, just made it official: The one-time Observer cover boy begins July 12 at 6 a.m. The full…
Six years ago I wrote a cover story about Jamey Newberg, a Dallas attorney better known for being the namesake and main contributor to The Newberg Report, which covers the Texas Rangers “from top to bottom.” Then and now, the Web site and the books Newberg publishes each season are…
Steve Blow is exceedingly good at his job, which is to reach new heights in daily journo banality as a columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has seriously got it down. There is real talent in saying absolutely nothing of interest or consequence for years on end. Which is…
Over the weekend — and, really, for the past several days — the admin side of Unfair Park and the other Observer blogs has been acting a bit wonky. Which is to say, one minute it’d work just fine; the next, it became inaccessible. We couldn’t post; you couldn’t comment…
I called Jim this morning at 6:30 — wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning’s “topping-off” ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too…
Nice to see someone’s found a use for our former home at 2130 Commerce: Reid Slaughter, founder of Park Cities People and former Cowboys & Indians publisher, and Jeff Hinson’s YouPlusMedia, whose local offering is essentially the “YouTube for Dallas,” in the words of our own Daniel Hopkins — who,…
Richard Hunter has a new member of his household. That’s him, quivering in the corner. Shaking uncontrollably. Convulsing. The 4-year-old is scared shitless. “He lives in fear,” Hunter says of his new best friend, Mel. “You would too if you’d been beating and traumatized your whole life.” Michael Vick is…
Jim’s office has been dark all day. I called him earlier, to see if it he was OK. He spoke in a whisper, sounded down. I told him he was missing it — from the office window we could see them placing the first curved piece on the center arch…
No doubt by now you’ve heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington (who has a 2 p.m. meeting scheduled with Mayor Tom Leppert on Monday) telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is — how so so so so so sorry he is — that President Obama…
Several Friends of Unfair Park are wondering this morning when Jim’s going to weigh in on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison added to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 two exemptions that will make it easier for the city to build the Trinity River toll road between the levees,…
Last night, I ran into noted doc director Mark Birnbaum at a little shindig Lodge owner Dawn Rizos threw in conjunction with the release of good friend and once-and-future Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman’s latest tome, the autobiographical Black Cracker. Mark — who’s directed such films as Larry v. Lockney,…
So says a press release just in from KTVT’s Lori Conrad, who says the CBS owned-and-operated will bump up CBS 11 News This Morning half an hour beginning Monday. Interesting move, considering that KDFW-Channel 4 just did the same thing with Good Day two months ago. Scott Sams and Ginger…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders if the rumors are true — if Mike Snyder is indeed out at KXAS-Channel 5 by month’s end. Why, yes, yes they are: Snyder tells Uncle Barky that his 30-year-run with the NBC owned-and-operated will end on July 1, when he retires. So, did…
Per the e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, tomorrow Dallas gets yet another all-sports sports site: a local iteration of SB Nation, which promises a “revolutionary grassroots approach to sports coverage [that] places the fan first, with compelling local content.” In other words, from what I can…
It’s been interesting this morning, trying to piece together exactly what Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is telling Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith. At this very moment they’re doing a TT sitdown at the Austin Club, and I’ve been following along via Twitter. The Southern Shift, thus far, is…
KRLD-AM (1080)’s home page still touts News and Views with Ernie & Jay weekdays from 10 a.m. till noon. But one good Friend of Unfair Park says that couple’s been d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d as of yesterday. And, sure enough, the program schedule reveals that after almost five years as one half of…
Vibe’s touting the cover of its June/July issue as “controversial” and “iconic.” Not hardly. There have been plenty more naked magazine covers than the one seen here. Like this. And, this. And, all of these. Still, the Lady of the Lake continues to reap the benefits of a nude springtime…
Late yesterday, Jim was standing at an Observer newsroom window staring, yet again, at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site as crews began putting in place the opposite side of the center arch. Jim was eating from a plate of ginger snaps resting on the windowsill, one after the…
During our server outage of the last hour, several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we noted David Dillon’s death at his home in Amherst, Mass. He suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 68. Dillon, who was among those who took a buyout from the…
Two radio industry sources say that CBS Radio and Clear Channel Communications are in negotiations on a deal that could bring controversial and wildly popular radio host Russ Martin back to Dallas radio early this summer. The sources indicate that, should an agreement be reached, Martin — whose Russ Martin Show was taken off…
