The Senate Committee on Finance doesn’t have Ron Kirk’s confirmation hearing penciled in on the schedule; so, for now, Bush appointee Peter F. Allgeier is the acting U.S. Trade Representative, the position to which then-President-elect Barack Obama appointed Kirk last month. But the former Dallas mayor took at least one…
Intended to post this early, but got otherwise distracted — was too busy answering the age-old question, WWJD? Alas, the delightful Adam McGill has reminded me of something I thought I only hallucinated last night during a midnight-thirty Comedy Central tune-in: Pastor Ed Young, Fellowship Church’s “sexpert” (ewwww), appeared on…
Unfair Park just received this brief, sad missive from Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knopf:It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. He was one of our greatest writers, and he will…
View Larger MapAs mentioned last week, the Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Committee is scheduled to discuss this morning offering $50,000 in historic tax incentives to three buildings, one of which is the Masonic Temple at 507 S. Harwood Street. Shortly after posting that tidbit, a Friend of Unfair Park…
Since there’s nothing to do today other than stay inside and pray for these glaciers of ice to somehow melt by Spring Break, let’s take a look at the Cowboys shall we? Remember what owner Jerry Jones said immediately after his team’s 44-6 season-ending loss in Philadelphia? I do. “Where…
Been a while since we’ve heard about Tom Hicks’s adventures in Liverpool — where he’s headed this week, matter of fact, in advance of Liverpool FC’s weekend’s shoot-out with Chelsea. And depending upon which UK paper you read, the owner of Your Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars is either looking…
You pick — the long version or the short. The long version is an eight-page article from the most recent issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes titled “Elapsed Time in Emergency Medical Services for Patients With Cardiac Complaints: Are Some Patients at Greater Risk for Delay?” Tufts researchers looked…
Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty, perched at the top of Reunion Tower, doesn’t officially make its bow till February 10’s grand opening. (It began its soft opening last week.) But Brian James has posted to Flickr a photographic tour of the rehabbed eatery, which is well worth a peek for those…
Over the weekend, Martellus Bennett posted this video in which he’s sporting a Dallas Cowboys helmet while throwing down some decidedly NSFW rhymes that are, let’s face it, not terribly tight for a tight end. Only way it coulda been worse? If he’d been sporting Mom jeans, which are worth…
In an effort to make some of us wonder what treasures we might have in our dry-walled apartments — or perhaps to rub salt in the wounds of those who unsuccessfully submitted their antiques to the appraisers at Dallas Convention Center last summer — PBS is airing the first of…
Couple of weeks ago, word was that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was talking to Dallas Independent School District board president Jack Lowe about renaming North Dallas High School for one of its most famous graduates, Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who died in September. So happens that only yesterday,…
I know. I know. Any station that will have me on – even sparingly, and tucked away on the weekends – has lots of room from improvement, right? Well, 105.3 The Fan just got better. In the coming weeks expect the announcement that The Fan is the new flagship radio…
Last city council committee item of the day, swear. But it’s certainly worth a look-see as the Quality of Life Committee this afternoon gets an update on The Bridge. It’s very much a case of good news-bad news for the homeless assistance center on Corsicana Street: Almost 500 folks have…
… it’s good enough for Terrell Owens. Only days after the former Cowboys receiver announced his reality show, brought to you by the folks responsible for The Biggest Loser, the current (?) Cowboys receiver and VH1 offer news concerning Owens’s program, which doesn’t have a debut date as of yet:The…
Seems only appropriate to follow our dead-tree item from Friday with this bit of news: Today, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee will take up two urban forestry items, one of which suggests that perhaps it’s time for the City of Dallas to create an “an Office or Division…
Approximately 5,000 fans braved freezing temperatures and decades of losing at Saturday’s Rangers Fan Fest in Arlington. I was one of them. The highlights: *General manager Jon Daniels says he’s recently talked to shortstop third baseman Michael Young and that their relationship is on the mend. “If we have a 15-year marriage…
This morning, Bloomberg News pays a visit to Preston Center, where a certain former president is about to set up shop, and finds that it’s quite “popular with lawyers who don’t want to be downtown, small accounting firms seeking proximity to wealthy clients, and investors who need office space outside…
View Larger MapFour years ago, Home Depot shuttered four of its five EXPO Design Centers in Texas, leaving only the behemoth on Dallas Parkway near the Galleria. And in coming days, that one will no longer exist either, as Home Depot this morning issued a media release announcing that it’s…
Schutze’s fourth-favorite subject, streetcars, goes before the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environmental Committee this morning, where council members will be joined by Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors. They’ve got a lot to consider, as in: Where will the streetcars go, who’ll govern the operation, how much will…
The girls from the Dallas Academy basketball team who were on the wrong end of that now-infamous 100-0 score have been making the national TV rounds; after the jump is their appearance on CBS’s The Early Show on Saturday morning, where they were introduced as “the exact opposite” of losers…
Jeff Liles, whose can’t-miss trip down Amnesia Lane this week features a visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Theatre Gallery in 1985, has had another flashback, this time concerning a former Decadent Dub Team-mate. And it’s quite the fashionable flashback, as Jeff sends word this evening that…
As noted yesterday, the Dallas City Council will, on Wednesday, consider expanding Central Expressway downtown in order to turn it into a two-way street, a plan that’s been in the works, at least conceptually, since 2005. But as a Friend of Unfair Park notes in the comments, “one of the…
