Ten months ago, Mark Cuban dismissed Bob Ortegel as the Dallas Mavericks’ color commentator, insisting, “Sometimes you’ve just got to freshen things up and try some different things.” Ortegel, who had more or less been the voice of the team for the past 23 years, handled his firing with great…
I seem to recall there was some discussion in October about West Dallasites famous enough to include in that parade of giant puppets scheduled to march across the Margaret Hunt Hill during opening-weekend festivities planned for early March — ah, yes, there it is. So happens the West Dallas Chamber…
If, by some chance, you have not seen Dale Hansen’s annual “Thank God for Kids” segment that aired last on Channel 8, it’s above. It began making the rounds early this morning, in large part because of what Hansen acknowledged a few minutes into his essay about how children who…
Back in June, the plot of land near the Cityplace DART station at Haskell and N. Central Expressway was a vacant lot with a big hole and a big plan. It would be the future site of a trolley turntable, a novelty attraction to be sure, but with the purpose…
Speaking of your deep-felt desire for retro arcading …Well, I was going to give Steve Brown the credit, till a quick search reveals it was former Observer-er Merritt Martin (sniff) who actually broke the news two days ago that Austin-based Kung Fu Saloon is due to take over the former…
As blogs go, Unfair Park is a mostly safe, well-lit space, free of the black-hearted cynicism that infects so many other blogs. (Except when Rick Perry parts his lips.) (Oh, and when Schutze shows up.) (And Patrick! Can’t forget about Patrick.) (Anna and Brantley have a little darkness in their…
At long last, Crescent Holdings has decided how to fill that property at McKinney and Olive, which, per its announcement this morning, the Crescent has been sitting on for more than 15 years with the intention of developing “when we believed the market was ready,” in the words of bossman…
That was quite the Heritage Auctions infomercial ABC aired during prime-time last night: Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor got a shout-out during The Great Big American Auction every, oh, 23 seconds, by my count, as folks in need used the local auction house to sell off rare family heirlooms, including Ty…
First, he restored honor; then, he restored courage. Now — well, next summer, actually — Glenn Beck sets about “Restoring Love,” the moniker he’s bestowed upon his next rally announced on his now-locally based webcast yesterday. Long story short: It’s a community-service thing scheduled to be capped with “speakers, music…
I asked Schutze yesterday: “You know what tomorrow is?” His response: “Um, Thursday?” Well, yes, that — and the 20th anniversary of the death of the Dallas Times Herald, which was bought by The Dallas Morning News on December 8, 1991, for $55 million, and then shuttered after 103 years…
That structure you see at left is called a Pallet House, made out of … aw, you cheated. Anyway: It was initially built in Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens as part of a sustainability confab, and on Friday it’ll find its way to the SMU campus, perhaps as future housing for…
Sylvan Thirty, the planned mixed-use development for Fort Worth Avenue in West Dallas, has received more attention than any development project in recent memory — especially given the fact it’s nothing but a barren patch of land where once sat at motor hotel. The $47-million project, still closer to concept…
Speaking of the Dallas Grand Prix at Fair Park …I see that someone has just posted 30 minutes’ worth of highlights from that brutally hot July 1984 to the YouTube. And it’s exceptionally classy footage too: It comes to us via the BBC with commentary by Murray Walker and James…
While sifting through Vimeo this morning I came across a Shops at Park Lane construction time lapse posted this morning by the good folks at Good Fulton & Farrell. Which led me to the video you see above: The Fairmount Street-based architectural firm’s entry in the city’s Complete Streets Visual…
It most certainly did not feel like Christmas: Seventy-four degrees and 85-percent humidity is no way to spend the Saturday night before Thanksgiving. It certainly sounded like Christmas: Main Street Garden was surround-sounded by KVIL-approved Christmas hits, turned up to 11, not for the easily humbugged. But at the City…
For close to two years we’ve written here and there (and there and there and …) about Tim Headington’s slow-but-sure downtown takeover via The Joule’s expansion, which, we recently learned, is the reason the Praetorian and those other old buildings along Elm are being razed. And now we know, in…
For days we’ve been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week’s worth of press releases, “a MAJOR announcement” would be made this morning. And even though it wasn’t exactly a secret by the time the press conference rolled around…
We were driving over Woodall Rodgers Sunday afternoon when the boy espied what he believed to be bags of dirt sitting on the one-day site of the deck park. “They’re gonna need more than that,” he opined. But, sure enough: Joanna Singleton said sooner than later just last week, and…
Above, of course, is Rick Perry’s appearance on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, where he attempted to yuck-yuck it past Wednesday’s night James Stockdale moment. But Our Governor dominated the airwaves yesterday, from sun-up till the midnight hour: On the other side are two of his morning-show appearances…
At least, that’s what the star-studded cast of bold-faced names says in the video you see above, which was just posted to YouTube by the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. This is the short film being used to raise money for the capital campaign — which, as we noted only yesterday,…
Wasn’t that long ago the Dallas Independent School District was fighting to keep W.H. Adamson High School off the city’s list of historically designated landmarks in order to raze the old Oak Cliff High School, part of the ’08 bond program. But in December the district backed off, and in…
There was a small wingding at Dallas City Hall this afternoon at which it was announced that the Rotary Club of Dallas is kicking in $500,000 for the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. For its donation, the Rotary International logo will be etched into the so-called Learning Tree Deck in…
