Speaking of the O.C. …We were in Bishop Arts over the weekend when my 6-year-old espied this “sad sign,” as he called it, affixed to a telephone poll at the N. Bishop Avenue-W. 8th Street intersection. ‘Tis the season. My son, blog editor in training (poor kid), thought I should…
Good Lord. Here we go again: Project Runway, which just ended its lifeless run on Lifetime, returns January 14 and brings with its two homegrowns. One’s 40-year-old Mila Hermanovski, who boasts what’s clearly become the favorite hairstyle among locally grown reality-TV show contestants (cf. Louise Black, Lisa Garza). She writes…
Those following along Monday read Jim’s account of the council committee meeting during which members debated regulating neighborhood farmers markets, in part to protect the city’s investment in the downtown Dallas Farmers Market. Over on the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff blog there’s this response:As Oak Cliff slowly shakes off the…
With our alternative to the BCS offered up, nothing else to do than to let it play out. Food expert/football junkie Dave Faries, take it away … Given its record in other matters, it’s unlikely Congress can solve the BCS mess and put in place a viable playoff system. And…
It’s been more than a year since Microsoft shuttered Dallas-based Ensemble Studios, which was responsible for, among others, such top-selling titles as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology and Halo Wars for Xbox 360. From that wreckage emerged two offshoots, both locally HQ’d: Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, neither of…
Last night, Texas Rangers exec VP of communications John Blake sent the word since heard ’round the sports world: Tom Hicks has 30 days to get a deal done with Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan before asking MLB (and his myriad creditors) if it’s OK, pretty please,…
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o’-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics’ polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow the National Board…
With his decision to sell the Texas Rangers to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg, long-time owner Tom Hicks will willingly, yet grudgingly step into the shadows of Metroplex baseball. But how will he be perceived? While Greenberg, 48, and his group seek approval from Major League Baseball, Hicks might actually…
When last we spoke to Tom Keen, the Plano attorney who counts among his clients the Hong Kong-based owners of the old Statler Hilton downtown, it was one long year ago. And, as far as Keen was concerned back then, Hamsher International just wanted out: “Our preference,” he told me,…
A few hours before Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk health care yesterday, he held a briefing in the Judiciary Committee hearing room to discuss “the human sex trafficking crisis.” Among the invited speakers was Dallas Police Department Sgt. Byron Fassett, who,…
The Cypress Waters Municipal Management District officially became the city’s first such district — that is, one with the power to levy taxes and issue bonds — this afternoon at the management offices of the Billingsley Company as its board appointed officers for the MMD and instructed the city and…
For the past few weekends, Cathedral Guadalupe’s had this enticing spread by Ross Avenue and Pearl Street, and last Sunday longtime Friend of Unfair Park Justin Terveen was there to catch this shot.Sometimes it’s good to know relief is just footsteps away, but it also makes us wonder: With City…
The reason I called Steve Leach, the so-called “buy guy” at Half Price Books, yesterday was because I was wondering: What’s up with the expensive assortment of signed tomes sitting under glass at the Northwest Highway mothership? I was there Sunday morning and noticed, among other things, a John F…
That question, of course, is a trick ’em, dick ’em way of telling you – psst! – here’s what’s on my list. What I don’t want in my stocking this Christmas: Coal. A Snuggie. Tiger Woods’ sloppy seconds. Swine Flu. Wade Phillips’ resume. What has caught me eye this season…
A few week back Schutze wrote about Adamson High School alums’ efforts to spare their old school from the wrecking ball as the Dallas Independent School District makes way for a new campus. (In the words of DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander, the district “plans to build a replacement school on…
As I’ve said since since, oh, I dunno, last January, this Dallas Cowboys’ season was doomed the moment owner Jerry Jones decided to bring back head coach Wade Phillips. There were times when his promises to be tougher and hold players more accountable almost tricked me, but ultimately this Cowboys’ season -…
Randy Galloway, Evan Grant and I received an e-mail at 4:20 this morning from Spirit of Shankly organizer Paul Gardner, in which he writes that a fans’ protest before Liverpool FC’s Sunday-afternoon match against Arsenal kept the owners out of Anfield: “Tom Hicks was turned away a few hundred yards…
So here’s the crime-stats story Dallas First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans warned the city council about Friday evening. Looks like he had good reason to want to get ahead of Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer, who looked at a single week’s worth of police reports — July 1 through…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
The running of this year’s White Rock Marathon, as in past years, was rich with stories of inspiration, endurance, and, um, weather.But here at Unfair Park we’re much more interested in the real story: the balloon-breasted, the beer-swilling, and the folks dressed like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or pieces of…
One minute he’s making fun of you; the next, it’s a bona fide bromance. But one question: Was that Eminem talking to Tony Romo before yesterday’s loss to the Chargers or Princess Leia? What up the headphones, Marshall?…
But a month after Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith’s book about the late, great Molly Ivins hit stores comes word of a stage production based on the Dallas Times Herald columnist’s life: Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, scheduled to debut March 19 on the Philadelphia…
