Last time we mentioned Blockbuster — on Friday, when CEO Jim Keyes was overheard lamenting the poor product Hollywood puts on its shelves — Friends and strangers used the opportunity to bash the business model. Chief among the complaints: historically high rental prices, it ain’t Netflix, time limits on rentals,…
Dear LeBron James, Just ask, and I’m sure Dancing With The Stars will have you on their ridiculously cheesy show next season. I’m sure millions of potato-chip snackin’ housewives would be fixated on your every silly, pre-fabricated step. But as a basketball fan, I demand you immediately cease and desist with your…
Today Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price made some progress in his legal battle against Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, who has been ordered to submit to a deposition so that Price might investigate whether he wishes to pursue a defamation claim against Foster for statements he made to the…
Dustee Tucker, spokesperson for Victory Park, forwards along a statement from Hillwood Investments CEO Todd Platt, who addresses — sort of — that German Financial Times story that reports Hillwood is close to defaulting on a $185 million loan:Hillwood operates several highly diversified, well capitalized groups of companies with many…
The case of Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew — so named for the two men fighting over the infamous “sniper’s perch” long ago removed from the Texas School Book Depository — was scheduled to go to trial last month. But as you may recall, it was delayed until April…
A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten…
The short film below, posted to YouTube by Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall, isn’t actually a city-made production. Rather, Librio tells Unfair Park, Destination Dallas is a Quin Matthews Films production made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which touted corporate relocations to the city during a recent power luncheon…
A little radio industry birdie just chirped to me that the Dallas Mavericks and 103.3 ESPN have reached an agreement keeping the team in place through 2013. The Mavs would’ve become radio free agents after the current deal expired on April 1, but the sides finalized a new four-year contract on Monday…
In recent days — at least, ever since this item ran — I’ve gotten, oh, maybe 15 e-mails from so-called Neiman Marcus insiders claiming the company’s close to collapse and, at the very least, preparing for yet another round of deep, painful layoffs. Someone posted such a comment to Unfair…
More good news for Cowboys fans this morning comes courtesy of Julius Jones and Jacques Reeves. Remember them? Because the former Cowboys left via free agency and played kinda decent, the NFL has awarded Dallas compensatory picks in the fifth and sixth rounds in next month’s draft. The Cowboys, thanks…
Our AFI Dallas International Film Festival sneak peek runs in the paper version of Unfair Park tomorrow, and, admittedly, it’s woefully incomplete: so little space, so many movies worth recommending from an impressively strong roster of offerings this third go-round. So over the course of the fest’s run, we’ll post…
YouTube’r “pmichaelsummer” has tips, many tips for folks looking to bike Dallas without getting smooshed by speeding cars. Hence, this page of “vehicular cycling techniques” from such hotspots as Lemmon-McKinney, East Dallas, Deep Ellum and elsewhere. The following one’s a significantly abbreviated version of a longer downtown trek, culminating with…
Some random notes this a.m. — so till Merten decides to get back in gear with his Virtual Coffee, how ’bout a First Smoke of the Day? Like this puff (piece) from New York magazine concerning New York City Opera’s new director, some guy named George Steel … sounds familiar,…
The Dallas Cowboys and their new $1 billion stadium don’t have a corporate naming partner. (My idea looks better by the day.) Or, for that matter, an exclusive date with a TV network for the sparkling joint’s NFL debut. To which I say, fantastic! Let me repeat the off-season mantra I’ve encouraged…
With protest signs, stuffed animals and matching T-shirts, about 40 people — half of them kids — gathered outside Dallas City Hall this afternoon to shout down the daytime curfew proposed as a way to keep kids off the street during school hours.The ACLU and Citizens Against the Dallas Daytime…
At 6 p.m. on Sunday, the Dallas Galleria will have a vacancy: Mark Shale, which once spread over two floors of the mall till a recent redo, will be closing up shop altogether. This morning, its parent company — the Al Baskin Company — filed for Chapter 11 and announced…
Out of the Dallas County’s 44th Judicial District Court comes this swig o’ news, courtesy the Texas Attorney General’s Office: Never again will you find Cocaine on your local soft-drink shelves. Greg Abbott and his staff, including Dallas-based ADA Joyce Iliya of the Consumer Protection and Public Health Division, has…
As promised yesterday, here are Danny Hurley’s photos snapped during his weekend ridealong with Rockers vs Mods. Which reminds me: I haven’t seen this in way too long. Soon as I finish watching all these danged AFI Dallas movies …..
Had totally intended to attend this weekend’s Christian Book Expo at the Dallas Convention Center, if only for the cameo appearance by the godless Christopher Hitchens. Alas, my weekend got away from me, and, sadly, no expo for me. Or for most folks, as it turns out: Publishers Weekly today…
Give the Dallas Stars credit for being spunky and resilient and stubbornly fun to watch. But the season’s over, right? To me it ended Saturday in San Jose. Not just with the 5-2 loss to the Sharks, but more so with another major injury. This one to Brad Richards, who…
Saturday morning, from the South by Southwest shindig down in Austin, Pete wondered over on DC9 whether Erykah Badu would be playing Auditorium Shores, as expected, or Malaysia, as pictured. Turns out, she was heading to Austin after all — but only after being delayed in Dallas, where police were…
The publishers of D Magazine and the Advocate this morning are extolling the greatness of Michael Lindenberger and The News for making a fraud out of Mayor Tom Leppert. Me? I knew about Leppert’s tall tales 18 months ago and am tickled by the headlines from Wick Allison on FrontBurner…
