That’s the word from Newsarama.com, which says that come November, the Arlington Convention Center will no longer be cram-packed with action figures, comic books and other fanboys favorites brought to the DFW courtesy the annual WizardWorld comic convention. Which comes as little surprise: Attendees of this year’s event say attendance…
(Helping Dallas secure a convention center hotel earned DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones a bonus larger than most people’s paychecks./Sam Merten) When Harlan Crow launched a petition drive to give Dallas voters a say in publicly financing a $525 million convention center hotel, proponents of the project cried foul,…
It’s gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain’t got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it’s time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That’s right, you’re spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with “Hopelessly Devoted to You II,” the second…
To quote Brad Sham: “What a pitiful display by the Dallas Cowboys.” And, to think, we thought they’d still be playing come 2009. – Richie Whitt …
Oxford University Press has just published Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, written by UT Southwestern Medical Center professor of cell biology Frederick Grinnell, pictured here. In the tome, Grinnell writes on his Web site, “I will suggest that science and religion represent distinct…
After the jump, meet Eclipse, the City of Dallas’s “Pet of the Week” — a chihuahua discovered while digging in the garbage who’s been “vaccinated, micro-chipped and sterilized” and is ready to roll if you’re looking to adopt a stray. Dallas Animal Services has turned to YouTube in an effort…
T. Boone Pickens, out peddling his plan to ween the U.S. off the foreign-oil teat since July, has long maintained that natural gas is the future. FedEx CEO Fred Smith says: Nope, sorry hybrids are the future. Notes this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the disagreement’s getting awful big and growing…
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What’d I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another unimpressive performance, this time barely outlasting the lowly…
View Larger MapI was at City Hall this afternoon, where I ran into City Plan Commission Neil Emmons, who reminded me, yet again, that there is no such thing as a slam dunk at City Hall. As it happens, that small street name-change I mentioned this morning — turning Shepherd…
As addressed in our March 2007 cover story, Senator Royce West is a powerful guy who makes a lot of dough collecting legal fees from the Dallas Independent School District. At the time, former Observer staff writer Matt Pulle reported payments of nearly $2.5 million from DISD to West in…
The cover story in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park is a look at Galveston months after Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc on Texas’s Gulf Coast. To accompany the piece, Daniel Kramer and editor Monica Fuentes offer this multimedia piece depicting the city as it (barely) stands today. –Patrick Michels…
First off, Unfair Park calls dibs on the movie adaptation of the story of Jorge Gomez Pinto Sr. Just so we’re clear. Because what follows, again courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is a crisply written tragicomic short story about a restaurant owner who’s due in Fort Worth federal court at…
UPDATE: Our Village Voice sister paper in Palm Beach will be live blogging from the game tonight. Pop Quiz: A) I’m jazzed about tonight’s BCS National Championship Game, pitting the two best teams in college football this season. B) I’m mildy interested, even though I think Southern Cal, Texas and Utah…
The next production at the Dallas Theater Center, In the Beginning (opening January 21), also marks the start of a new era for actors at the 50-year-old playhouse. It will be the first production to star all of the members of artistic director Kevin Moriarty’s new nine-member resident acting company:…
Not every day you get a press release about an law firm being sentenced in federal court. But such a missive just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office concerning yesterday’s sentencing of Trey Allen, P.C., the Firm Formerly Known as The Law Office of John…
If you’re a “tactical knife enthusiast,” then you’ll take particular interest in a federal class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against Wal-Mart, Cabela’s, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Dicks Sporting Goods and others retailers. Four folks, including one from Mesquite, are represented by Dallas attorney Allen Stewart, and in court documents they claim…
Jon Collins, the director responsible for the great Doug Burr’s new “Should’ve Known” video, today posted this promo for the Dallas Derby Devils. And, bless him, he’s used Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ “Bad Reputation,” which always reminds me of Freaks and Geeks’ title credits — and, now, roller girls…
This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only … Jim … Schuuuuuuutze! … O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I’m feeling kind of insecure…
First, you pick something short and out of the way — like, oh, I dunno, Shepherd Road, near Forest Lane and Greenville Avenue. Then you name it for a pastor who, in 2007, got a post office named for him, courtesy Pete Sessions’ bill two years earlier. (It’s for either…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends a heads-up for those with an hour to kill this morning: Dallas Independent Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will sit for a chitchat beginning at 9 a.m. with Fernando Romano of Dallas iMedia Network. If you’ve got any questions for the super, you can send ’em…
Flickr photo: Wednesday181 It was but a month ago that Neiman Marcus president and CEO Burt Tansky insisted that sooner than later, the “aspirational shopper” and “loyal customer” would once again stroll through the store’s doors with money to burn. At the time, the Dallas-based high-end retailer was reporting an…
Say what you will about Russ Martin – and, believe me, I’ve said a lot – the guy deserves credit for keeping his Listeners Foundation up and running even though his gig at Live 105.3 got axed. In keeping with a promise he made upon establishing the foundation after 9/11,…
