Long story short for those without short- or long-term memories: After Garland-based video game developer Apogee Software/3D Realms took forever developing and never delivering Duke Nukem Forever (12 years, to be precise), the company funding the project — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., responsible for Grand Theft Auto and the millions…
Apparently not, at least according to this sign on Walnut Hill Lane. Still, what say you, demons of rock?…
A couple months before Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle took over for Terrell Bolton, the city council approved a $485,000 efficiency study of the department to be conducted by Berkshire Advisors, which, in September 2004, recommended the reallocation of officers and reorganization of management. Kunkle ultimately civilianized approximately 160 sworn…
The city’s love-hate relationship with the Statler Hilton’s been well documented here, so no need to rehash that never-ending story. But there is this bit of news concerning the Hotel Conrad Built on Commerce Street: Mayor Tom and the DowntownDallas-ites would love that sumbitch covered, if’n you don’t mind, before…
It looks like this, courtesy John Benson, a passenger on that Southwest Airlines 737 that made an emergency landing Monday night when a hole suddenly appeared in the fuselage, prompting the Dallas-based carrier to inspect 200 planes overnight. Benson shot the video with his cell phone, but you get the…
A couple of weeks back, Todd Hignite — Heritage Auction Gallery’s consignment director and a scholar on the subject of illustration and comic art — was kind enough to give Unfair Park a tour of the room in which the Oak Lawn auction house is storing but a fraction of…
Late last year, Blockbuster introduced its first on-demand delivery system: the 2Wire MediaPoint Digital Media Player, about which critics weren’t wild but oh well better than nothing and well at least the company’s trying. Then came the TiVo deal in March, which did nothing to stop the company’s stock from…
More than two weeks after Southern Association of Colleges and Schools removed Paul Quinn College from its membership list by revoking its accreditation, the school now has the support of city and state political leaders who cheer its decision to appeal the move. So said members of the Texas Legislative…
After taking heat for being “invisible” while Governor Rick Perry rallied liberty-loving Texans with talk of secession and tax parties, Kay Bailey Hutchison declared today at Dallas County Republican Party Headquarters that she and not the governor stands poised to “rejuvenate” the Texas GOP. “That’s exactly why I’m running for…
Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, whose Q&A with the editorial board at The News can be read in yesterday’s Points section, confirmed rumors that he’s considering a run against Democrat Allen Vaught for Texas House District 107. “I’ve heard the same rumors,” he tells Unfair Park. “I’m looking…
As hot as it was downtown at Taste of Dallas last weekend — we warned you — plenty of food-lovers, balloon animal enthusiasts and Disney Channel superfans turned up in the West End to join the party.You’ll find more shots from Taste of Dallas here in our slide show…
Thanks to the surprisingly large number of Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded along this People story concerning Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s apparent break-up, which, the mag reports, happened on Thursday — the night before Jess turned 29. So, who says they’re busted up? “A source close to the…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us Money magazine’s latest list of the Best Places to Live, and Keller’s the closest ‘burb to rank in the Top 10. So, what makes this Tarrant County town bestest enough to snag the No. 7 spot? (It came in at No. 50 but…
That’s what her campaign communications director, Hans Klingler, just told Unfair Park: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s going to be at Dallas County Republican Party HQ on N. Central Expressway to “announce when she’s going to announce” her run for Texas governor. That’s just a brief peek at her remarks,…
Six paragraphs into this Burnt Orange Report item this morning, which deals with the dwindling number of reporters covering State Capitol doings, there’s this intriguing nugget:Sources say publishers and editors have ratcheted up their efforts to come up with news while cutting staff. Additionally, word that Austin investment guru and…
Back in April, GlobeSt.com crunched the Dallas apartment-rental numbers and found that vacancies were on the rise; said one analyst at the time, “Dallas is likely to see the most decrease in occupancy, due to the large number of units under construction.” Three months later, GlobeSt.com follows up and finds…
Those who haven’t been following the latest iteration of the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry will find a good primer here this morning, three days after Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked a federal judge to toss the Tarrant Regional Water District’s 2-year-old lawsuit concerning Texas’s alleged right to buy water from Oklahoma…
After the jump you’ll find KXAS-Channel 5’s video tribute to Brett Johnson, the 13-year station veteran who died Sunday at the age of 48. The NBC affiliate reports that Johnson — whose affinity for Texcentric tales made him the station’s down-home-style version of Bob Phillps — died of pancreatitis, for…
Couple of weeks back, Patrick Michels was down at DART’s West End Station when sculptor Erik Blome parked his bronze Rosa Parks in advance of tomorrow’s opening. But on Saturday, Patrick was down in the West End for Taste of Dallas and noticed that Parks was covered by a tarp…
I did not know Travel Channel host Samantha Brown was born in Dallas. And I did not know she’d filmed an episode here till this evening, when, while killing a few minutes with a World Poker Tour rerun, I spied a promo for tonight’s visit to the DFW scheduled to…
Last summer, we took a peek at the Dallas Police Department’s murder stats and suggested you were best served by staying home between 6 p.m. and midnight on Wednesdays, the prime time for murder. As we just got our hands on the latest batch of stats — and already warned…
Karen Rayzer, director of the city of Dallas’s Environmental and Health Services, called this afternoon to offer further details concerning the $7.2 million in federal stimulus money the city’s set to receive sometime in the fall. Says Rayzer, 14 local organizations submitted to the city proposals that had to fall…
