The Hard Rock Cafe is finishing up its preparations for a soft opening next week, but invited press to take a look around their new digs today, at the south end of Victory Park — or, as we’ve noted before, but one block from the House of Blues.While the kitchen…
It happened yet again. Late last week, a Friend of Unfair Park in the retail real-estate business heard that California-based In-N-Out Burger was “finally coming to Dallas.” It was ’round this time last year that D’s Nancy Nichols heard the same thing via a commenter on SideDish. Wasn’t the first…
As Barry Horn mentioned about an hour ago, as of this afternoon Ben and Skin are no longer your drive-time hosts at 105.3 The Fan. After almost a year of station name changes and philosophical tweaks, in the end their unconventional show – heavy on basketball and hip-hop and unique guests…
Just two doors down from where I took this picture back in January, I discovered this commode — a neighbor’s art installation that’s doubling as fund-raiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Apparently, you pay so much to have it removed permanently, or a slightly smaller amount to…
We can no longer confuse the Dallas Mavericks’ silence with inactivity. Let’s hope we never confuse Marcin Gortat with the franchise’s legacy of Great White Nopes. The Mavericks last night agreed to re-sign 36-year-old point guard Jason Kidd to a three-year, $25 million contract and inched closer to landing a new starting…
It’s awfully difficult at this late date to recall when last we heard the name Quincy Carter — he was either getting arrested or signed to yet another team, hard to say. But this much is certain: The former starting quarterback for Your Dallas Cowboys is no longer an Abilene…
All apologies to the Friends of Unfair Park trying to post comments — the server decided to take a late holiday break, and, for two hours, well, that was that. (And, no, we didn’t shut ’em down, as many of you have wondered.) So, that said, back to business.The Dallas…
Sunday’s instant classic Wimbledon final was one of those magical moments that only sports can provide. As Roger Federer and Andy Roddick battled past four hours and into the longest fifth set in Grand Slam history, you forgot about the second wife and the third mortgage and those post-Fourth of…
Morgan Lyons at Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today of a new cell-phone “customer service tool”: the “Where’s My Bus?®” app, which allows bus-riders to track their rides to and fro with “a near-real time estimate.” Lyons tells Unfair Park it was an in-house creation — “so we’re pretty…
We’ve seen plenty of conceptual renderings of the Re:Vision Dallas finalists, but this morning, North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting provides us with a very impressive video showcasing their self-sustaining downtown block, The Entangled Bank. Should Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and bcWORKSHOP proceed with this project — which envisions…
More than a week later, the Rainbow Lounge raid continues to make national headlines.Yesterday, The New York Times revisited the Rainbow Lounge raid; this morning, the Los Angeles Times pays a visit to Fort Worth, where residents are still coming to terms with the impact of the incident. Making a…
Till he gets his new SMU digs are done, George W. Bush is keeping his stuff in storage in Lewisville, and along with his futon, “grown-up” dresser and collection of framed mid-’80s Tom Cruise movie posters is Saddam Hussein’s pistol — quite the keepsake, as this is the very (unloaded)…
Let’s play three strikes with your Texas Rangers. Your first-place Texas Rangers. Yes, I am surprised. And impressed. Steeeriiiike One – Chris Davis demoted. Davis is a good guy with a great glove, but the Rangers could afford to be patient with him no longer. You can swallow a .200-hitting Gold…
A handful of parades and fireworks displays marked the country’s birthday around Dallas last night, the largest of them at the Cotton Bowl, where folks piled in to the watch the annual Fair Park Fourth pyro-spectacular.As paddling in the swan boats gave way to lounging under the exploding night sky,…
National Public Radio’s Wade Goodwyn headed out to Southfork Ranch yesterday for America’s Tea Party — alas, no Janeane Garofalo, though. Or Rick Perry either, though the governor did put in an appearance at a tea party out in Rockwall (hope he had time to grab a bite at the…
One week later, word of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Fort Worth Police Department’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge has reached Page A16 of this morning New York Times. The piece recaps for a national audience what the locals already know about the incident that has prompted TABC and…
Two hours into Stardate 0704.09 (so sorry), and the die-hards are still putting the finishing touches on our street’s entry in the annual neighborhood parade, for which everyone goes all-out days in advance till the final sprint into the wee small hours of the Fourth. What you see above is…
In the paper version of Unfair Park this week, I make mention of my interview with Willie Hutch, the Carrollton-born great who, during our 1998 chat at his Cedar Hill recording studio, recounted how he came to write the Jackson 5’s immortal “I’ll Be There.” The story about The Mack,…
Mitchell Rasansky, who served with Don Hill on the Dallas City Council for six years and is listed as a potential witness in Hill’s ongoing federal corruption trial, says any direct ties between Hill and developer Brian Potashnik weren’t apparent to him because the majority of the city’s affordable housing…
More questions than answers remain about the future of Paul Quinn College a week after its president announced the institution’s loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Michael Sorrell last Friday explained to gathered students, alumni and reporters that he would be unable to discuss specifics…
Beginning in 2006, ’round the time Rex Tillerson replaced Lee Raymond as CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the company said it would cut funding to public-policy groups whose policy it was to deny in public the existence of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, matter…
