Hurry, there’s only 380 available! The first sip: Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start filling out your Christmas wish list. And, as a reminder, who wouldn’t love a Cowboys end zone in their backyard? Yup, for a mere $500,000, you’ll get your very own…
Patrick Michels Up in smoke. Remember that hotel on Central Expressway, up around Meadow Road? The one with a big red “Dallas Demolition” banner hung across the top? Well, now it’s gone. Six floors stacked like pancakes in a heap of rubble are about all that remain of the once-proud…
Mark Walters Much more in coming hours and days from the Dallas reunionclusterfuckubration last night out at Southfork Ranch in Parker — the most muddled, exhilarating, disastrous (for some), astounding (for others) W-in-TF night in the history of the 30-year-old TV show, putting it mildly. (Seriously? Riots are better organized.)…
The folks at Queerty have taken national the sign outside the First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas — you know, the one pictured above advertising Sunday’s sermon “Why Gay Is Not O.K.” Dallas Voice first mentioned it yesterday, noting that Sam Fulcher is planning a protest in conjunction with the…
You’ll get to vote on this in May. Not like it’ll matter by then. Is that an injunction we smell? Like cookies! Not particularly surprising, but moments ago, Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel sent out a missive announcing that, yes, matter of fact the City Secretary has in fact verified…
From the book: “Storey Stemmons, Trammell Crow and John Stemmons pose prayerfully as L. G.Rainey of Equitable prepares to take over the permanent financing from J.D. Francis of the Mercantile Bank.” After the jump, the full press release announcing the publication of THE BOOK — Dallas/Fort Worth Commercial Real Estate…
I don’t believe in ghosts. Skeptical about spirits. But something about this car just ain’t right. In fact, I had to watch it twice just to make sure I thought I saw what I think I was seeing. Don’t want to spoil it, but I’ve never seen a vehicle do…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story out of Fort Worth concerning the Star-Telegram’s likely collaboration with rival The Dallas Morning News. Says Startlegram exec editor Jim Witt: “There is absolutely no intention of diluting the powerful individual brands of these two papers. We just want to find…
“So you know J.R.?” Seriously, we heard that every single time some Israeli kid found out our group of Texas Jewboys and Jewgirls hailed from Dallas, namesake for what was easily the most popular teevee show in all of Israel in 1984 — well, that and WKRP in Cincinnati, which…
Take me out OF the ball game. If the report in this morning’s Chicago Sun-Times is true, Mark Cuban won’t be buying the Chicago Cubs. Won’t be allowed to, in fact. Says the story: “’There’s no way Bud (Selig) and the owners are going to let that happen,”’ a Major…
Could she have given our hockey team the Kiss of Death? Dunno, have to ask the Republicans I guess. Compared to the Dallas Stars, the Cowboys are as harmonious and giddy as a group of true-blue Democrats. Maybe you’ve been too worried about your football team’s implosion to notice, but…
We called it: Mark Cuban will not be getting the Chicago Cubs. Well, to be accurate, we didn’t call it — our psychic friend Valentina Burton did, when she told editor Mark Donald that “someone tries to find a way to keep things in the family, he is blocked from…
Frisco’s Bookworm sounds like my kind of bookstore — family-owned, “intimate,” has a fireplace, serves coffee, good to go. Only, the worm has turned: Its Web site is currently advertising an everything-must-go sale in advance of its going out of business. In fact, Publishers Weekly this morning takes note of…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger can’t understand why the district doesn’t make superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s contract available online. Because, see, the Texas Administrative Code says that really oughta be available to anyone interested in taking a peek at the document. And…
Does Dallas’s adorable recycling-bin character have a name? Because he looks like he could use one. A month ago, members of the Dallas City Council, among them Linda Koop, balked at the idea of doing away with retailers’ plastic bags — ain’t gonna tax ’em, ain’t gonna ban ’em. Not…
The first sip: After all the media hype surrounding the increased turnout in this year’s election, national numbers show it wasn’t really much different from 2004. The second sip: “So less than 48 hours after Democrat Barack Obama was elected president, Craig went out to buy an M-4 rifle.” The…
Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Ron Kirk, speaking briefly at Gilley’s on Tuesday night before heading home to celebrate his friend’s election in private On Tuesday night, Ron Kirk dropped by Friendship-West Baptist Church on Wheatland Road to address the Obama faithful, then drove to Gilley’s, where he spoke yet…
It’s not one of your more dramatic, studio-pitch press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office; it’s no Freddy Lee Foots armored-car narrative, that’s for sure. Still, I did think today’s missive from The Man — concerning a big Ecstasy bust involving 13 folks from Dallas, Plano, Euless, Arlington, Grand Prairie…
As we mentioned yesterday, the Dallas Video Festival kicks off its 21st, um, festival tonight at 7 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station — and, as always, founder Bart Weiss and his crack staff have assembled an eclectic, exciting lineup. It’s truly a best-of-the-best this year, as Weiss…
the urban fabric (Justin Terveen) Halloween Night outside Mantus Ultralounge Good news for Unfair Park readers this afternoon, as longtime friend of the blog, Justin Terveen, whose lens always seems to catch downtown Dallas in its best light, has sent along his favorite shot from Halloween night. With any luck,…
The Wall Street Journal today has a story about insurance companies hiring “outside firms to help rein in the skyrocketing costs of imaging scans like MRIs.” Included in the story is a Dallas man, S. Blaine Porter, who was treated in 2006 for aggressive lymphoma. Porter says his insurer, Blue…
The Fox-y Daryl “Moose” Johnston tells the New York Post today that the city of Dallas — and, one assumes, the surrounding cities, including the one in which the Cowboys actually play — has turned on his former team, good God. And he’s shocked, I tellya, shocked! “It’s unbelievable. The…
