Something to listen for in about 60 minutes courtesy National Public Radio’s Day to Day: a segment titled “Living the California Dream in Texas.” Which is about what, exactly? We asked listeners to tell us about how their California Dreams have changed in the rough economy. Listener Brian Keller wrote…
Just got off the phone with Marc Andres, who walked us through the deal that’s bringing a Sunflower Farmers Market to 1800 N. Henderson Avenue by the beginning of ’09. Turns out, the deal went down awfully fast: “60 days from start to finish,” Andres tells Unfair Park, “which is…
View Larger Map Yet another outsider’s moving into Oak Cliff: About three months after Boston investors took over the Wedgewood Towers with an eye toward a hipster redo, unnamed Vancouver investors have bought a chunk of apartment complexes more or less situated between the Trinity River Greenbelt Park, Lake Cliff…
Sean Avery and his ex, Elisha Cuthbert Really, the Dallas Stars’ acquisition of Sean Avery last week will go down as the Best Thing to Happen to Local Sports since, oh, Alex Rodriguez got married here in 2002, aw. Today, the Canadian National Post ran a Q&A with the Stars’…
Curtain pulled back in T-Minus 2 days. Local author Jim Dent penned award-winning stories while living a nefarious night life. Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen has been known to have a drink between the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has admitted to smoking pot in…
So, now we know what’ll become of the contentious former Carnival at 1800 N. Henderson Avenue: It’s going to be a grocery store again. Months after brothers Marc and Roger Andres withdrew their zoning request that would have transformed the site from an abandoned grocery to a multi-use residential-retail development,…
Spencer Campbell Last week, when Dillard’s announced it was shuttering its Valley View Center location by the end of August, Intern Spencer went over with his camera to shoot the other vacant storefronts in the once-popular mall at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Preston Road, formerly the site of…
All the best book titles are taken. Victor Horadam’s an oncologist who offices out of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas on Walnut Hill Lane. He’s also the subject of an Associated Press story that’s been circulating since July 4, concerning a battle over the rights to and royalties from the novels…
Merritt Martin Above, one of Merritt’s photos from the Fair Park Fourth — a review of which is available here, where, um, “Pdiddy” deems the event’s debut a success but also “a mixed bag.” Some of us opted for a less stressful in-and-out: the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Preston…
Murphy Martin Everything you need to know about former WFAA-TV and ABC News anchor Murphy Martin, my late grandfather’s favorite local newsman and the gent known to most as The Voice of Texas Stadium from 1975 through ’98, you’ll find in Charlie Van Dyke’s introduction of Murphy recorded for his…
Spencer Campbell At Fair Park today, the Gruccis gave a sneak peek at the stuff they’ll blow up tomorrow night. And they say Fair Park is dying. Why, just this weekend — we’re counting today as the weekend, and judging by traffic, you are as well — two high-profile events…
Frisco’s Daniel Lewis Um, so Green Peridot Salon co-owner Daniel Lewis totally took over the drama on Shear Genius last night. It all started when, after having won immunity in last week’s challenge, he also got the privilege of choosing his client first for the shortcut challenge … which actually…
Good Friend of Unfair Park William O. Holston Jr. sends his fellow Park-ers a sneak peek at his commentary scheduled to air tomorrow morning on KERA-FM (90.1). The title: “Fourth of July & Freedom.” ‘Preciate it, Bill. –Robert Wilonsky…
Happy Birthday! Our country turns the ripe old age of 232 tomorrow. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, let us not forget how fortunate we are to have a variety of sports and the freedom to choose which ones we love and loathe. In honor of the Fourth of July…
While the All-Star Game is two weeks away, Your Texas Rangers are officially past the halfway point in the season and sit seven and a half games back of Los Angeles in the American League West following last night’s drubbing at the hands of the New York Yankees. Which means…
As getting someone from Google to respond to a media query is nigh upon impossible, for the moment we’ll have to take Philipp Lenssen’s word for it, which oughta be good enough. He’s the German-based bossman behind Google Blogoscoped, which today is reporting that Google is shuttering its Dallas office…
Yesterday, Allstate released its 4th Annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™,” which manages to get pretty specific — not only are cities ranked according to traffic safety, but also by such categories as “Males” vs. “Women,” “Pre Baby Boomers” vs. “Baby Boomers” and “Generation X” vs. “Generation Y.” But when…
Last night I took a shower with Shawn Williams of Dallas South — no, wait, that did not come out right. Let me rephrase: Last night at 9, KERA-FM (90.1) got around to airing Wednesday’s episode of National Public Radio’s News & Notes, during which Williams joined host Farai Chideya…
We’re the first, because we’re the best! Coming to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in August: “Baggage Carousel advertising.” Or, as it’s more commonly called, “screw-you money.” AdWeek’s blog is much more sensitive: “More reasons to be annoyed at the airport.” –Robert Wilonsky…
After last night’s debut, I hope he didn’t throw away this jacket. As I’ve mentioned a couple times this week, the Rangers are suddenly watchable again. Fun, even. But last night’s 18-7 loss to the Yankees proves why their still not legit contenders for anything more than a healthy appetizer…
On the occasion of Ghostbar’s second anniversary, the folks at N9NEGroup Dallas posted to Vimeo what must be the world’s longest video slide show — I bailed at the 12:47 mark (and stopped paying attention long before that), which isn’t even halfway through the epic. Though, really, I’d have ended…
Daniel Rodrigue Ray Hunt The Dallas Morning News’ A1 story concerning a Congressional committee’s investigation into the Hunt Oil Company’s controversial deal with the regional Kurdistan government is a fine summary of yesterday’s revelations. But The New York Times had Jim Landers outnumbered five-to-one, and it shows in a detailed…
