Put your popcorn down, the wicked witch is dead. Late on March 4 Terrell Owens sent a bulk text message that read, simply: “I’m no longer a Dallas Cowboy.” Rejoice, Dallas! It’s again safe to like your local football team. Without the sabotaging, self-aggrandizing receiver who for the last three…
Crazy talk: As much as Buzz would prefer to ignore anything Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow says, it behooves us to respond to his Sunday column in which he basically calls the Dallas Observer’s own Jim Schutze a conspiracy-minded, tinfoil-hat-wearing nut job. It behooves us because when we told…
Just 5 feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago she was a Texas private in the War on Terror, guarding a gate with an M4 rifle and frisking Iraqi civilians at a base…
Look, I can be as jaded as anyone. Cynical. Smartassy. Surly. Down right skeptical. Especially – in case you haven’t been paying attention – when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks. But tonight’s last night’s 93-89 victory in Portland, on the heels of Tuesday’s victory in Phoenix, should serve as a…
Mayor Tom Leppert and Anne Raymond of Crow Holdings and Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel made another campaign stop at the Bachman Recreation Center in front of approximately 40 people eager to hear the pros and cons of building a convention center hotel. Although Leppert is always an active speaker…
What you see below is a time-lapse video of Los Angeles-based Steven Lopez painting Erykah Badu’s portrait — something the artist did for his “After Midnight” series that also includes the likes of Tina Turner, Minnie Ripperton and Aretha Franklin. Comes word today, via Paul Levatino, that Lopez and Badu…
On Tuesday evening, Mike Graham, a tall and wiry 50-year-old, hopped off the bus with just his instrument in tow and walked over the red bricks to the corner of Ross Avenue and Market Street. He took the saxophone out and left the case propped against the picturesque streetlamp in…
Yet again, our old friend Justin Cozart has just posted some essential must-sees to the Dallas Urban History page on Flickr — this time, a series of before-and-after photos featuring some of the city’s more recognizable streets and intersections. Among the lot: Blackburn Street and Oak Lawn Avenue (in 1925…
For the first time in a long time – at least away from American Airlines Center – the Dallas Mavericks played like a team that wanted in the NBA Playoffs. And wanted to avoid a first-round matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. Their reward: With only 18 games remaining in the…
Elizabeth Villafranca entered the limelight in 2006, as Farmers Branch began its illegal-immigrant battle that rages to this day. As we mentioned earlier this week, the Cuquitas co-owner has decided to run for city council in the FB. Unfair Park caught up with her yesterday for a Q&A — during…
In light of Neiman Marcus reporting a quarterly net loss of $509.2 million this morning, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the high-end Dallas-based retailer is attempting to survive what remains of the economy — besides laying off employees, reducing its inventory and writing down the value…
Psst, hey buddy. Can I interest you in this Terrell Owens fake Cowboys’ locker room name plate sticker affixed to my wall? Merrily I don’t need thee anymore. What I will cling onto – perhaps forever – are artifacts I rescued from my closet from Cowboys who wouldn’t look right in…
Back in September, as city officials were offering the contents of Reunion Arena in an everything-must-go auction, Patrick Michels and I were given a tour of the joint by Randy Barner, the facility’s operations manager since 1983 and, now, the last man standing at the venerable facility. Among the items…
On Monday, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 has hired Kristin Mitchell as a co-host on Good Morning Texas — making that show a threesome now, as the former St. Louis anchor joins a set already populated by Gary Cogill and Amy Vanderoef. A Friend of Unfair Park is not…
The Irving-based Republican Victory Committee sure sounds like something associated with the Republican National Committee — which is why, in June 2004, the RNC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Because, see, the official arm of the Republican Party has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Victory…
For his first long-form, post-Terrell Owens interview, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones chose … 105.3 The Fan. In appearing on the newbie station with Ben and Skin yesterday afternoon, Jones is hinting loud and clear that his team has all but shaken hands with The Fan as the team’s new flagship radio station. And…
Just noticed this heads-up on the Dallas City Hall Web site, which may be of interest to those headed down to the 30th Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday morning. It’s more or less a checklist of what to expect before, during and after the shindig, including the…
More photos here in our slideshow.For most fans, there isn’t much of the last Cowboys season that’ll be remembered too fondly — but for the team’s cheerleaders, who gathered up for one last time for a year-end performance last week, 2008 drew a tearful adios. The crew of dancers, some…
So says a worker for Balfour Beatty Construction we ran into this afternoon whilst nosing around the corner of Market and Young Streets. The parking structure is currently closed off by red “DANGER” tape as the construction crew cleans up around the site and surveyors make their final calculations. Demolition…
You’ll no doubt recognize the headline as one of Chuck Norris’s favorite Chuck Norris Facts. Which I don’t mention solely because today happens to be Walker, Texas Ranger’s 69th birthday, but because of a freshly minted Chuck-penned essay on the conservative Web site World Net Daily. It was forwarded our…
John Wiley Price said recently he’d like the Dallas Independent School District to rename North Dallas High School in honor of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, among the school’s most famous grads. And if that doesn’t happen, well, Price has a number of other facilities from which to choose: The DISD…
City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall announced the ballot positions for the May 9 city council elections, as Billy MacLeod, Victoria Walton, Tiffinni Young, John Jay Myers and Anita Dade gained an early leg up on the incumbents in their…
