After the jump, SMU professor of economics and prophet Ravi Batra’s five-point plan for fixing the U.S.’s busted economy. No doubt, the sixth point of that plan involves writing books about the busted economy, then sending out press releases promoting one of those books exactly two years after its publication…
There’s some kind of football contest on the television tonight. But for those not in a Longhorn state of mind, this programming option courtesy KERA-Channel 13: Tonight’s Frame of Mind, which airs at 10 p.m., will feature a series of shorts about Deep Ellum, among them Alan Govenar’s Deep Ellum…
Guess we’d best get used to it — probably gonna need to come up with a “The Bush is Back” category or somesuch. Till then, though, this sneak peek at the soon-to-be-ex-president’s plans for his return to Dallas at the end of the month:President George W. Bush’s “after-life,” as Laura…
A week into the healing process, how are your wounds? Mine are as raw and nasty as today’s weather. Had lots of Cowboys-related thoughts while examining Dallas’ autopsy and consuming Wild Card Weekend. Like: *Special teams coach Bruce Read was fired. Better late than never, I guess. *Jason Garrett and Ray…
Friend of Unfair Park “Peterk” forwards along this item from this morning’s National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the “law of unintended consequences” created by smoking bans — like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before Christmas. Writes…
Malls are lacking tenants; so too are offices. And, says this morning’s New York Times, it’s going to get worse — even in a market like Dallas, “which had been shielded from the economic downturn until recently by skyrocketing oil prices and expanding energy businesses.” One real-estater quoted in the…
Some days I worry about Avi Adelman’s safety. This video, shot at 2:30 a.m. yesterday on the mean streets of Lower Greenville (ya think?), shows why. NSFW, as always. Incidentally, there’s some exciting cop-on-drunk action in this video Avi also shot over the weekend. Side note: Avi, why have you…
See what I did there? “Appealing”? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week — luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya…
City Hall clearly didn’t want a repeat of the Texas-OU towing fiasco, which is why it had extra parking enforcement officials out and about Fair Park today for the Cotton Bowl adios. After the jump, the city’s media release documenting the 10 citations doled out to folks directing game-goers into…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us an eBay item being offered by a disgruntled former Dallas Cowboys “Super Fan”: himself. (At least, I think it’s a “himself.” Has to be.) Says the want ad:You are bidding on behalf of your favorite NFL football team, to acquire a new Super…
Congress gets back to business on Tuesday, and if Texas Republican John Cornyn has anything to say about it, Minnesota will only have one senator seated. That’s because Cornyn, about to be installed as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, vowed today to keep Al Franken out of the…
A good Friend of Unfair Park shot me a photo this week of an SUV parked in Lakewood sporting an advertisement for www.MenarcheParty.com, which helps you “Celebrate Girlhood to Womanhood.” Which, of course, sent me directly to the Web site, to which the missus responded with a bemused, albeit slightly…
So, one of those “Welcome Home, George & Laura” signs popped up in my neighborhood this week — because, right, he will totally see it and appreciate the awesome gesture. And since we are days away from George and Laura’s move to the ‘229, I thought it best to see…
Maybe you saw this story in the paper this a.m. concerning the 55-unit Shelby apartment building that Prescott Realty’s putting up on SMU Boulevard, just east of North Central Expressway. (It’s actually been online for a couple of days, but whatever.) A colleague who lives nearby reminds that this is…
Newcomers (and everyone else, let’s face it) probably don’t recall that when the Dallas City Council passed the Juvenile Curfew Ordinance in 1991, it was a long, contentious process that wound up in court, courtesy some teenagers’ folks who thought keeping 17-and-unders off the city streets after 11 p.m. was…
The Dallas Municipal Building on Harwood and Main streets is a historic heap o’ mess — one short short of a full-blown catastrophe, according to this story and friends who work out of the building. And it has the University of North Texas, which hopes to turn the former Dallas…
Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 — what you get when you combine a…
Meet the new year, same as the old year — at least when it comes to a certain resident of the Dallas Zoo. I so totally meant to make it out to the zoo this morning for the 11 a.m. Concerned Citizens for Jenny press conference (no kidding, 11 a.m.),…
Pass the Advil and crank up the wayback machine. Let’s kick off 2009 with one last, long, loving look back at the Cotton Bowl. Oh, the refurbished stadium will still be around, but its namesake game is moving to Arlington after tomorrow’s Texas Tech-Ole Miss curtain closer and, other than Texas-OU,…
I didn’t believe I was going to jail—actual jail—until the door to the women’s holding tank in the Denton City Jail shut behind me and I stood there facing a room lined with slim metal bunks, two occupied by my cellmates. I sat down on an empty bunk, clutching the…
“Sweating Equity,” by Jim Schutze, December 11 Don’t Blow It Jim Schutze’s question in the December 11-17 issue is a valid one: “Why is Commissioner John Wiley Price trying to sandbag a big business venture that has such clear benefit to his own constituency?” The Allen Group appears to be…
Buzz’s mother had three essential life lessons she attempted to impart to her son: 1) Shut up; 2) Show some respect; and 3) God help you if I ever catch you hanging around that pool hall. Despite her best efforts, delivered with the loving strokes of a left hook that…
