Liz Mikel, a member of the Dallas Theater Center’s resident ensemble and, from 2006 through ’08, a co-star on Friday Night Lights, was among those who lost everything yesterday when the Holly Hills apartment complex near Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane caught fire. As she told KXAS-Channel 5, “Memories…
It may take a while to get a response from DISH Network; a spokesperson tells Unfair Park most of its higher-ups are at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. Till we get a response, then, this is Fox Sports Southwest’s side of the story.This year, the network upped the…
After the jump, in its entirety, is a release we just received that offers sketchy details involving 19 people — most of them locals — who were indicted by a federal grand jury this week for their involvement in what the U.S. Attorney’s Office calls a “massive cybercrime conspiracy.” We…
As you’re no doubt aware by now, the City Plan Commission yesterday voted unanimously to change the name of South Central Expressway downtown, between Pacific and Grand Avenues, to César Chávez Boulevard (not Parkway, as originally proposed). The council will now get to vote on the name change, which was…
You may spot more than a few out-of-towners wandering ’round our frigid climes this a.m.: The Association for Convention Operations Management is holding its annual conference at the Westin City Center today through Sunday, and among the opening events are optional sightseeing tours of the city, the convention center or…
With five blankets and a parka separating her from the toughest cold Dallas has seen in years, May Davis figured she’d spend last night like all the others she’s spent on the street in South Dallas. Around 9 p.m., though, as the temperature sunk into the mid-20s, a city of…
Henry Spruiell does not disagree with the city of Dallas: The house he owns at 500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District does indeed pose what’s known as an “imminent threat to public health and safety” and probably should be torn down. “It’s terrible,” Spruiell says, “and…
Mike Rawlings and Mike Faenza of the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance briefed the City Plan Commission this morning regarding the city’s goal of diverting those living in homeless shelters into 700 new units of permanent supportive housing. Their appearance was timely after last night’s brutal weather caused the city to…
As I didn’t back in 2006, I still don’t get Dallas’ obsession with the University of Texas. I know there’s tons of alumni and it’s the big state university and lone star pride and yadda, yadda and more yadda. But it’s Commerce Street, not Sixth Street. It’s Reunion Tower, not…
Maybe you recall that back in November, we heard from Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney about the company’s decision to pack up and abandon its Southern Dallas packaging facility near the intersection of Interstates 20 and 45 on Langdon Road. Reason we e-mailed Moroney was because some folks wondered…
We called it almost one year ago to the day: Bob’s Steak & Chop House will be the anchor eatery in the convention center hotel. No surprise there: After all, Omni, which will operate the hotel, owns a 50-percent steak (see what I did there?) in the chain, which is…
The very helpful humans at WFAA-Channel 8 aired a segment full of protect-yer-pipe cold-weather tips during the 5 p.m. newscast. I missed it then, but caught the 10 p.m. rerun. And now it’s after the jump, for those trying to keep these frigid temps from penetrating their entrances…
Miles Austin has overcome being from Monmouth College. Miles Austin has overcome being an undrafted free agent. Miles Austin has overcome being buried on the bench until Week 5. Miles Austin has overcome playing receiver opposite Roy Williams. But … …
No doubt you’ve already heard: On New Year’s Eve the Irving city council voted to let Kraft Macaroni & Cheese blow up Texas Stadium in exchange for $75,000 cash money. And now, Kraft’s NYC-based publicist sends word that “one lucky kid (ages 9-12) who has made a positive, explosive impact…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Over on Craigslist, someone’s trying to offload hundreds of old Video Bar videotapes for the low, low price of $1,000. That’s quite the flashback for those of us who (barely, because we were very underage) remember Bart Weiss’s former Deep Ellum hot…
Hat tip, of course, to Mr. Spock for the headline suggestion — what, you’ve never heard the ancient Vulcan proverb? Shame. Anyway. Yes, looks like the former Dallas Maverick is headed to China, if this crudely interpreted Web site is any indication. Jerry Stackhouse, who said in October he wasn’t…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word this morning that Leppert and Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (awesome) have made a bet on Saturday night’s Cowboys-Eagles game. But, blessedly, they’ve dispensed with the wackiness (no jerseys worn to council meetings) and gone straight for the sincere: “The…
It all started with a phone call to 105.3 The Fan’s Sybil Summers. A tip that the Philadelphia Eagles’ web site was posting something or other about Cowboys Stadium’s sacred star. A little investigative digging and – voila – Cowboys-Eagles III just got more interesting. The Bounty Bowl. Randall Cunningham’s fake…
Perhaps you saw the story in the morning paper: According to the state comptroller’s office, Dallas pulled in sales tax revenue totaling $14.5 million in November 2009. And while that’s a considerable plunge from same-time-last-year’s intake ($18.34 million), that’s really not the number to focus on. You need instead to…
In our effort to get some last-minute extra reporting into this week’s cover story, “High Time For Change” by Dave Farrell, about how, just maybe, there’s a bright future ahead for those pushing for the legalization of marijuana, the Observer managed to misquote Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle. When you…
It last happened about 4,500 days ago. So far, far in the distant past that the Macarena was the rage, the Internet could barely walk and Tiger Woods had yet to win a PGA tournament. So long ago that the Dallas Cowboys were defending Super Bowl champions. Saturday night in…
Good grief: Buzz just loves shenanigans, so it’s no wonder we found ourselves roped in by claims from Eric Johnson’s campaign that some of the petitions attached to state Representative Terri Hodge’s ballot application didn’t pass the smell test. It appeared as though Hodge, who submitted 610 signatures from registered…
