Over the weekend, The Dallas Morning News blessed us with a pay-walled profile of First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, no stranger to the Friends of Unfair Park. And while briefly touching upon some of the pastor’s more, oh, let’s say controversial offerings in recent years, for the most part Scott…
Spurred by that for-sale Byrds concert poster dating back to an all-but-forgotten June 1, 1968, concert at the Forest Theater, I drove by the place a few days ago to see if the historic haunt had found any takers. But, no: The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard landmark built in…
As Merritt noted on Mixmaster earlier, The Dallas Morning News will no longer publish Quick after its August 4 issue, bringing to a close the free weekly’s 8-year-long run. Jim Moroney, the publisher and CEO at The News, tells Unfair Park he broke the news to its staff at around…
And so it begins continues. Actually, it’s been going on for years now. The slow, excruciatingly painful death of the newspaper, that is. I meet twentysomethings, even thirtysomethings every week who listen to the radio, who read blogs, who Tweet and Facebook and Skype and … who shrug and giggle at…
A few weeks ago I was talking to Office of Economic Development head honcho Karl Zavitkovsky about something unrelated when he mentioned the petition drive aimed at convincing Trader Joe’s to open a location at the Lake Highlands Town Center, where the city’s kicking in millions in extra TIF funding…
Late Tuesday I got an email from Jonathon Hetzel of Madison Partners, which is trying to roll out that bowling alley on Lowest Greenville that once more goes in front of the City Plan Commission tomorrow. He noted the myriad comments accompanying yesterday’s item and said perhaps he could lend…
Haven’t you heard? There’s gas in them thar shale formations. And if the parking lot outside of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison was any indication this morning, a goodly number of the players are in town, looking to make fat deals. You could tell because parking was spilling out into…
I see Avi’s posted a piece to Barking Dogs wondering whether a Walmart will take over the old Whole Foods on Lowest Greenville. Writes Adelman, yesterday “teams of inspectors — electrical, structure, property, roofing — swarmed all over the building, taking photos, comparing architectural drawings to reality, and deciding what…
I was talking to George Gimarc last night (more about that later … ish) when he mentioned that the Texas Radio Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 class of inductees. Among them is a local great who won’t be able to attend the October ceremony: the great Cuzzin’ Linnie,…
There is, of course, the significant local tie to one Kenny Powers: David Gordon Green, the Richardson High School grad and former ticket-taker who’s show-running HBO’s Eastbound & Down and introduced Danny McBride to the world in his 2003 film All the Real Girls. But, perhaps you’ve heard, tomorrow night…
We’ve known for a couple of weeks that Glenn Beck was eying a Westlake manse, but this morning on his radio show he made it official. Let’s go to the “fusion of entertainment and enlightenment” hisself for the official what-for:”I’m moving to Dallas, Texas, and my family is there now,…
We were driving through downtown yesterday, on our way to Dallas Farmers Market, and passed by First Baptist Dallas’s under-construction “spiritual oasis,” sweet fancy Moses. Which reminded me: At week’s end, FBD sent the heads-up that its new-campus webcam is up and running, or at least walking on water, and…
One week ago this morning, KNON’s Warren Harris passed along the news that local radio icon Linwood Henderson, better known as Cuzzin’ Linnie, died in his sleep after a lengthy illness. Henderson, long considered the disc jockey who broke Dallas radio’s color barrier by being the first to play soul…
A little while ago I saw this lengthy and occasional inside-baseball Q&A with Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney in which he insists that life behind the pay wall’s just fine, thanks for asking. Sorry — that’s “subscriber content initiative.” Anyway. Says Moroney, since the pay wall was erected a…
So, the feds want Pettis Norman and Jon Edmonds to appear before a grand jury on July 20 — can’t imagine why. Oh, wait. My bad. And speaking of the Inland Port, for those who knocked off early for the Christmas holidays in ’08, after the jump is a doc…
It’s likely you never knew Linwood Henderson by his real name; few did. For decades, since the late 1960s, he was better known by his other name: Cuzzin’ Linnie, or Cousin Linnie to the uninitiated. His was an estimable career that stretched all the way from KLIF (when it was…
In this week’s Paper Version of Unfair Park, you’ll find a story about underage sex trafficking from the Village Voice, our big sister in New York (she’s very sharing, that sister). The story details the recent fascination of the media and Hollywood with the plague of sex trafficking — and…
At some point the conversation below, concerning the plan to create a so-called quick-win trail that would link Bishop Arts to the Katy Trail across the Trinity, took an odd swerve, with someone insisting that Jason Roberts, Andrew Howard and the rest of the Better Block-ers are trying to “kill…
Late last summer we caught wind of First Presbyterian’s plans to purchase 508 Park Avenue, the former Brunswick Records regional office near Dallas City Hall in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and others once recorded. Yesterday, after myriad stops in front of the Landmark Commission, where the church had to…
As we noted just last month, a group of parents with kids at the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul are upset that a permanent supportive housing project (PSH) for the chronically homeless may be going up next door to the school. They’re especially concerned that parts…
No doubt you got a nasty wake-up call in the wee small hours of the morning from the storms that rumbled through; chances are there’ll be some kind of a repeat this evening. But Brother Bill Holston wanted to make sure we noted that the great Justin Terveen was out…
Here at day’s end, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the just-and-I-mean-just-launched Bike Friendly Dallas, which, from the looks of it, is intended to serve as a sort of round-up for news, notes and two-wheeled events ’round town — not just in Oak Cliff, where BFOC’s long…
