Marcus House I finally spoke this afternoon with Debbi Head, spokesperson for the Texas Historical Commission, who says the state’s historic preservation agency was stunned to receive at the end of July Mark and Patty Lovvorn’s request to demolish the 70-year-old Marcus House. “This came as a real surprise to…
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Leon David Dorsey IV Leon David Dorsey IV will likely be executed tomorrow for shooting to death on April 4, 1994, two East Dallas Blockbuster clerks for $392 in the cash register — a crime to which he admitted four years later, while serving 60…
Because Dallas’s residential electric power prices are much, much cheaper than Houston’s. So chronicled the Houston Chronicle yesterday in a feel-good story that notes: Houston’s residential electric power prices are consistently higher than in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ranging in recent years from about a half-cent per kilowatt-hour higher to…
Mark Graham Fred Baron Moments ago, the Houston Chronicle reported that John Edwards has decided to, like, pass on delivering his speech to the Harris County Democratic Party during its September 20 fund-raising gala. Cannot imagine why. Also noted in the story: Harris County Republican Chairman Jared Woodfill’s demand that…
Among those scheduled to speak at the Dallas Security Traders Association wingding early next month at the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas is The Man Called Large, best known for penning the Web site Take a Report. Whilst there, you will find, oh, a photo of…
The Marcus House, as it looked during construction in 1938 Much of what you should know about Stanley Marcus’ former house on Nonesuch Road can be found on the Texas Historical Commission’s Web site, which notes that in the mid-1930s, the man who turned Neiman Marcus into a retail empire…
Silver medals never tasted so bitter. Get those cards, flowers and strip-o-grams coming, I need a lil’ pick-me-up. Not because the Cowboys lost or the Rangers’ annual summer fade is in hyper-drive. Alas, my tennis team came this close to winning the USTA 3.5 Texas sectional championship and advancing to…
Right about the time I was posting this, I got an e-mail from a good Friend of Unfair Park, who noted, simply, “I’m starting to love Mondays.” Why come? Because if it’s Monday, that means Avi Adelman spent the weekend trolling the mean streets of Lower Greenville with his Handycam…
The latest issue of The New Republic wonders, quite simply, “What will happen when America can’t afford to fly?” And no, surprisingly, the answer isn’t, “Transporters.” It’s a little more doom-and-gloom-scented, as Bradford Plumer takes a look at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and portrays it as the center of an…
Hell of a weekend: Bernie Brillstein, Bernie Mac and now Isaac Hayes — all late greats now, all well before their time. Of Bernie Mac, I was a big fan (NSFW, incidentally, not at all); “15 roles to remember,” which is a legacy. Brillstein I got to know a few…
Dallas trial attorney Fred Baron, who’s a very, very good friend So, yes, Fred Baron, former finance chair for John Edwards presidential bids, is indeed the “super-rich pal” and “rich retiree in Dallas, Texas” who’s been giving money to Rielle Hunter, with whom John Edwards today admitted having an affair,…
From the Courthouse News Service, this bit of legal ephemera out of Denton County, where Jeff Soele Real Estate alleges that Lake Lewisville’s Xtreme Marine and salesman Mike Flowers are just a little too extreme for his tastes: DENTON, Texas (CN) — The “new 2006 demo boat” a customer bought…
Then you won’t want to miss Barry Switzer on Monday night’s episode of Saving Grace, which, apparently, airs on TNT or something? Really more for Boomer Sooners than Cowboys fans, but holyhelldamncrap, that still looks awesome. A bigger version’s available here, by the way, for those who need their OU…
James Randi, who, apparently, is the final frontier Last Friday, Unfair Park treated you to a video of Dr. Colin A. Ross demonstrating his professed ability to shoot beams of energy out of his eyes. But every guy with superpowers knows he’s only as good as his arch enemy. This…
Wasn’t all that excited about watching the Beijing 2008 Olympics opening ceremony on tape delay tonight, till I stumbled across this extraordinary 93-photo slide show courtesy a German newspaper — which, of course, features a couple of photos of Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki, tapped a few days back as his…
Tony Bones’ Breakfast Bunch The great Tony Bones, whose artwork has decorated the likes of Zac Crain’s mayoral CD fundraiser and Unfair Park HQ and countless exteriors from here to NYC, will debut plenty of new work beginning tomorrow night at The Public Trust in Deep Ellum; opening-night reception runs…
View Larger Map You probably don’t to want to drive between Dallas and Fort Worth this weekend — at least, not on I-30. Because beginning at 7 p.m. tonight, and lasting through Sunday night, the Texas Department of Transportation is going to reduce both eastbound and westbound I-30 to a…
Well, it might be a bad head — a bad cow’s head, to be more specific. Because, see, yesterday Dallas City Packing, Inc., located just south of downtown, recalled nearly a million pounds of cattle heads after the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service noticed that the company hadn’t completely…
For those concerned about the fate of Dallas-based Reddy Ice, which had its offices raided by in March by Department of Justice officials looking for evidence of price fixing, this morning The Wall Street Journal provides an update. Looks like the FBI discovered, via wiretapping, that some ice industry execs…
Far as folks in Huntsville are concerned this morning, Dallas is back in the junk business. Walker County Sheriff’s Department deputies yesterday stopped a car loaded down with about $600,000 worth of black tar heroin, and while it was likely intended for Houston, chances are some it may have been…
Tomorrow night this officially becomes last season. With about 50 of the team’s 53 roster spots locked in, there’s been little competition at Cowboys’ training camp. With coach Wade Phillips’ “Camp Marshmallow” approach, there’s been little hitting. And with team leaders like Terrell Owens, Tony Romo and DeMarcus happy, healthy…
On Tuesday morning, we received a rather unremarkable e-mail from Gary Underwood, spokesman for Time Warner Cable North Texas, in which he noted that the company’s main customer care telephone number (972-PICK-TWC, and how adorable is that?) was kaputs. Few hours later came another missive: Service has been restored. Only,…
