It’s not exactly Calvin Watkins’ expose in Dallas’ Only Daily featuring five sources detailing the Cowboys’ anarchy at Valley Ranch, but NBA.com’s Art Garcia – formerly of your Fort Worth Star-Telegram – stirs your Mavericks’ pot a bit this morning. Garcia writes that Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t exactly “connected” with head…
Will Dallas’s convention center hotel get a Bob’s Steak and Chop House? Fair question this morning, as Irving-based Omni Hotels — which the city council tapped to operate the convention center hotel — announced this morning that it has acquired a 50-percent stake in the brand name, with plans to…
Jeremy Gerard, a theater critic for The Dallas Morning News some two decades ago, is now a New York-based editor for Bloomberg News, the first media outlet to which George Steel denied he was leaving his new Dallas Opera gig for an opening in New York. This morning, Gerard weighs…
While thumbing through the final agenda for next Wednesday’s city council meeting, I came across Agenda Item No. 53 — which, to be honest, I thought had been ditched altogether, till Merten reminded me this morning it had merely been deferred. So, say hello to this ghost of Christmas past:…
Both have more money than Sri Lanka, wealthy enough to buy this blog with the change in their car’s ash tray. They are each passionate, energetic, innovative, way smarter than me and absolutely consumed, dare I say obsessed, with bringing a championship to Dallas. In the last couple years their teams coughed up No…
Robert Wilonsky BUZZ Switch and bait: OK, before any of you fine weapons-owning people out there in Internet-land get all huffy and write in to tell Buzz that we’re an idiot, let’s be clear on one thing: Buzz knows we’re an idiot. Thank you. We say this because the last…
I”Going green” used to be considered a luxury, especially in a faltering economy. But as the Legislature convened last week amid a budget squeeze, a determined coalition of lawmakers and lobbyists acted on the premise that conserving energy is nothing less than an absolute necessity, especially in rough financial times…
It stands at the end of a short, out-of-the-way dead-end street a few blocks from City Hall: 508 Park Ave., where a man and a guitar more or less invented rock and roll 72 years ago. The building is vacant and decaying, but not alone. On a recent Saturday afternoon,…
“The Prodigal Son Returns,” by Jim Schutze, January 8 Call Him Ishmael It appears that Jim Schutze may be going a bit over the deep end on W’s return to Dallas, like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner. Jim, channel your good mother, breathe deeply and remember every mother’s good…
Just when you think Mark Cuban has mellowed, he shows a pulse. And just when you think he has tired of his tribulations, he shows some heart. The Dallas Mavericks’ owner—hip-deep in stock controversy and baseball snubbing and a fresh fine from the NBA—struggles these days to give his basketball…
Josh Alan Friedman, who penned an amazing piece about the Texas Tenor for the paper version of Unfair Park long ago, brings sad news today: Corsicana-born, Dallas-raised sax great David “Fathead” Newman died yesterday. There’s only been one obituary, but a call to David’s wife and manager Karen offers further…
All that land you see at right marked “SITE” was supposed to be the location of Irving-based JPI’s Trinity River development — about 60.5 acres’ worth of residential, retail, offices, restaurants and everything else you could stuff into a billion-dollar mixed-use development. The city was counting on the project to…
Earlier today, Unfair Park learned that chef Kent Rathbun would be opening a new restaurant in Preston Center, next door to Shannon Wynne’s Flying Fish in the space formerly occupied by Carrabba’s, among others. I called Rathbun’s publicist Ariana Hajibashi-Martin to confirm, and she was very noncommittal: “Nothing’s been completely…
Long-time Norm Hitzges sidekick and 1310 AM The Ticket assistant program director Mark Friedman confirms this afternoon that he has left the station to take a similar role with rival sports-talk station 103.3 FM ESPN Radio. Friedman will next week begin his new role as ESPN’s APD and producer for The…
Give the Rangers credit. They are trying. With the Cowboys imploding and the Mavs and Stars wallowing in mediocrity, our local baseball team has a prime opportunity to earn some much-needed love this winter. Texas hasn’t done diddly-poo as far as free agency, bringing in only reliever Derek Turnbow, pitching…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the Dallas Cowboys’ official Web site, which published a Q&A with owner and general manager Jerry Jones last night. It’s not exactly the most illuminating interview — lots of assessing and evaluating going on, which is only, what, six months too…
Last week, while working on this week’s cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park, I discovered that the owners of 508 Park Ave. have filed with the city a permit to tear down the former Warner Brothers Film Exchange, built in the late 1920s. Long story, available soonish…
Got a product for Mike Modano to endorse? Because, clearly, he’s on the market. Last week, he was spotted looking bored to death in a new N9NE Steakhouse ad. And today comes word that the Dallas Star is shilling for a Grapevine-based “super-nutritious health drink” called VaNu, which, he says…
Justin Cozart’s been busy updating the Dallas Urban History page on Flickr, and among his recent finds is this 1945 map created for the Dallas City Plan Commission (speaking, as we were earlier, of city planning). Writes Justin, it shows “areas of urbanization in the city and certain obstacles to…
Dallas City Council candidate Ann Margolin, who’s already raised something like $328 trillion as she looks to replace Mitchell Rasansky as George W. Bush’s council member, has created the niftiest little game: “Rank the Top Five Issues Facing Dallas.” Problem is, she’s already chosen the issues for you: traffic, crime,…
This morning’s Dallas City Council briefing should be more interesting than most — thing’s almost like a meeting of a book club where the topic is urban design and development, which is perhaps why the council’s moving out of City Hall and across the street to the J. Erik Jonsson…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Zach Thomas. Unlike Brad Pitt in the movie, Zach didn’t exactly grow younger as he got older. But boy did he grow sick and tired in a hurry. This is how it was supposed to work: After a successful, yet ultimately unfulfilling career in Miami,…
