Couple of weeks ago, word was that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was talking to Dallas Independent School District board president Jack Lowe about renaming North Dallas High School for one of its most famous graduates, Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who died in September. So happens that only yesterday,…
I know. I know. Any station that will have me on – even sparingly, and tucked away on the weekends – has lots of room from improvement, right? Well, 105.3 The Fan just got better. In the coming weeks expect the announcement that The Fan is the new flagship radio…
Last city council committee item of the day, swear. But it’s certainly worth a look-see as the Quality of Life Committee this afternoon gets an update on The Bridge. It’s very much a case of good news-bad news for the homeless assistance center on Corsicana Street: Almost 500 folks have…
… it’s good enough for Terrell Owens. Only days after the former Cowboys receiver announced his reality show, brought to you by the folks responsible for The Biggest Loser, the current (?) Cowboys receiver and VH1 offer news concerning Owens’s program, which doesn’t have a debut date as of yet:The…
Seems only appropriate to follow our dead-tree item from Friday with this bit of news: Today, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee will take up two urban forestry items, one of which suggests that perhaps it’s time for the City of Dallas to create an “an Office or Division…
Approximately 5,000 fans braved freezing temperatures and decades of losing at Saturday’s Rangers Fan Fest in Arlington. I was one of them. The highlights: *General manager Jon Daniels says he’s recently talked to shortstop third baseman Michael Young and that their relationship is on the mend. “If we have a 15-year marriage…
This morning, Bloomberg News pays a visit to Preston Center, where a certain former president is about to set up shop, and finds that it’s quite “popular with lawyers who don’t want to be downtown, small accounting firms seeking proximity to wealthy clients, and investors who need office space outside…
View Larger MapFour years ago, Home Depot shuttered four of its five EXPO Design Centers in Texas, leaving only the behemoth on Dallas Parkway near the Galleria. And in coming days, that one will no longer exist either, as Home Depot this morning issued a media release announcing that it’s…
Schutze’s fourth-favorite subject, streetcars, goes before the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environmental Committee this morning, where council members will be joined by Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors. They’ve got a lot to consider, as in: Where will the streetcars go, who’ll govern the operation, how much will…
The girls from the Dallas Academy basketball team who were on the wrong end of that now-infamous 100-0 score have been making the national TV rounds; after the jump is their appearance on CBS’s The Early Show on Saturday morning, where they were introduced as “the exact opposite” of losers…
Jeff Liles, whose can’t-miss trip down Amnesia Lane this week features a visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Theatre Gallery in 1985, has had another flashback, this time concerning a former Decadent Dub Team-mate. And it’s quite the fashionable flashback, as Jeff sends word this evening that…
As noted yesterday, the Dallas City Council will, on Wednesday, consider expanding Central Expressway downtown in order to turn it into a two-way street, a plan that’s been in the works, at least conceptually, since 2005. But as a Friend of Unfair Park notes in the comments, “one of the…
Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who’s 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart — five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake…
I appreciate Baby Dolls. I appreciate Baby Doll’s business, as, last time I checked, it was an advertiser on this here blog. What I don’t appreciate is Baby Doll’s, um, “customer relations”. Consider this not a blanket condemnation of the joint on Shady Trail, but merely a review of my visit last Sunday…
By now, Meridian Room regulars know that the joint quietly reopened a few weeks back, as we promised in October following news of its demise a month earlier. And with not too many changes — some updates in the kitchen and two or three labels added to what co-owner Vince…
Southwest Airlines’s stock is taking a beating today — down $1.90 at last check, to $7.91, following an analyst’s decision to downgrade the stock to “sell” from “underperform.” That follows yesterday’s announcement that, for the second quarter in a row, the Dallas-based carrier posted a loss — even though it…
Not worthy of the “BREAKING NEWS” banner ‘cuz, really, you read this about three months ago. Remember? In the final analysis, these were strange bedfellows from the outset: The Cowboys, who rely upon an expansive signal, jumping under the sheets with a station that built its legacy in part by…
Steven Johnson, grandson of Robert Johnson, contacted Unfair Park today after reading this week’s cover story concerning the fate of 508 Park Ave. downtown, where the Mississippi bluesman recorded in June 1937. Says Johnson — vice president of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation in Crystal Springs, Mississippi — this was…
Give me “Alternate 2”. You? Thumbs up or down? Home Uniform…
Jeff Catlin just sent Unfair Park a press release proving Richie was right when he predicted the Dallas Cowboys and KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) would be parting ways sooner than later. Officially, the deal was up and into its option phase, and Catlin says the Ticket actually opted out of…
This Dallas Mavericks promo was just posted to YouTube, and the Unfair Parkers who semi-regularly attend home games say they haven’t yet seen this at the American Airlines Center. The joke, such as it is, works only when the vid’s viewed in high-quality mode. Still, not even in the same…
I bet there were times over the last month when you read Tony Romo’s “sun’ll come out tomorrow” quotes and profanely muttered, “Man, he needs a $%&*$#@ publicist!” Well, he’s got one. Same one he’s had since – before, actually – he ascended to the throne of starting quaterback of…
