Never again let me criticize college football for rewarding 70 teams with bowl games. Because college basketball is now doing the same thing. And then some. This year – this week – March has increased, unprecedented Madness. Ohio State, Duke, Pittsburgh and Kansas are the No. 1 seeds as the NCAA…
The South by Southwest Film Festival is still underway down in Austin; awards won’t even be doled out till tomorrow night. But moments ago, the Dallas International Film Festival — which has already named a few films, not to mention Star Award recipient Ann-Margret — released its complete list of…
And just like that, the man who saved Nolan Ryan’s job with the Texas Rangers has been replaced. By Nolan Ryan. I heard rumblings about this a couple weeks ago. Even hinted in a Whitt’s End and on 105.3 The Fan that there were – seemingly out of nowhere -…
A federal lawsuit filed in Dallas on Friday has all the makings of a Vanity Fair feature story, down to the famous names who make cameo appearances — among them, President Franklin Roosevelt, Coco Chanel and Winston Churchill. But far more notable is what’s at stake: a signature collection of…
Forthcoming at some point this morning, a second slide show’s worth of photos from the festivities on Greenville Avenue Saturday. (Update: Check out Sam’s choice pics, including one of an arrest.) Till then, here’s the first 40. And Nick also shot some video that’s available on the other side, for…
Six months ago came word: Park Cities Bank, which had taken possession of circa-1925 807 Elm Street in the West End, wanted to raze the building, which sits in a parking lot across the street from El Centro and which one Friend of Unfair Park had pursued, briefly, as a…
Apparently, the Dallas Police Department is none too thrilled with how info is being disseminated about tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party along Greenville Avenue; what — this wasn’t as clear as green beer? Which is why Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, the department’s spokesman, forwarded a memo First Assistant…
In a crowded room deep within the substratum of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, team president-turned-CEO Nolan Ryan tried to cast Chuck Greenberg’s surprising departure this morning in a positive light heading into the new season. Leaving after only seven months with the organization, Ryan did little to answer questions about…
Over the years he lived in the Oak Lawn area, Mike Walker recalls the Turtle Creek Association’s annual Easter in the Park as an outdoor occasion for everybody and their dogs, a big event around both the Turtle Creek neighborhood and in the gay and lesbian community. “The fact that…
This week the Paper Version of Unfair Park’s cover is a profile of Al Armendariz, who took a leave from his gig as a Southern Methodist University engineering professor to run the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Dallas, stepping right into a simmering fight between the agency and Rick…
The majority of neighborhoods surrounding Fair Park are riddled with vacant, boarded-up homes and empty lots. Atlanta Street is no exception. Across from the Park South Family YMCA, Todd Russell bought a 672-square-foot house in June 2009 from the city to save it from demolition. But less than a month…
As the Japan-American Society of Dallas/Fort Worth’s website points out, “Dallas and Sendai became International Friendship Cities in August 1997, when Mayor Ron Kirk and Mayor Hajimu Fujii signed a formal agreement in Sendai.” Which is why, shortly after the 8.9-magnitude quake and tsunami struck off the shore of that…
Vanity Fair’s Jim Wolcott directs our attention today to a dispatch from Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat: “Disappointment at Dealey Plaza,” posted yesterday. Long story short: Barnat was in town during the Super Bowl and, like most visitors to our city, found himself at the corner of Houston and Elm…
Odd news to wake up to this morning: After being the man leading the charge to take control of the Texas Rangers last summer, and having been very much the public face of the franchise in the months since, Chuck Greenberg’s gone. Did he jump or was he pushed? According…
In the two months since Nigerian soccer star and Major League Soccer alum Uche Okafor was found dead in his Little Elm home, press from his home country has followed the blow-by-blow between the Little Elm Police Department, which has called Okafor’s death a suicide, and his family, who insist…
Wednesday night I scared my wife by shouting during a basketball game, which I rarely do, because I don’t watch basketball. I said: “Hey! I know that guy!” She watches basketball. She fulfills the role in our marriage of the normal person. I was walking through the room. I saw…
Superintendent Media Availability from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo.When I asked Jim for his take on yesterday’s board briefing at 3700 Ross Avenue, this was his initial pass: “My interpretation of the day’s events is that we are all dangling on the end of Rick Perry’s yo-yo string and…
With two years of construction and exhibit-building left before it opens its doors in Victory Park, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science got topped off this afternoon, with a ceremonial beam signed by Margot and H. Ross Perot and their sons and daughters who donated $50 million to the…
Yesterday we covered Dallas Mayor-turned-U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert’s position on National Public Radio. This afternoon, on the Facebook, I got this note from Not Mayor Tom:Excited to launch our new petition calling on President Obama to stop our dependence on foreign oil, boost natural gas production, and create jobs…
Jim — lucky — is at 3700 Ross at this very moment, where the trustees are doing a little math involving employees and enrollment. Moments ago, Carla Ranger wanted to know: If enrollment has dropped, why has the number of employees grown? She didn’t get the answer she wanted; she…
This here is Justin Wagoner. Maybe you’ve read his name this week in The News. Maybe you the name mentioned in HuffPo: “Justin Wagoner Reportedly Forms First iPad 2 Line In Texas.” Or on FrontBurner, “Apple-loving Justin Wagoner.” Justin Wagoner. Justin Wagoner. Justin Wagoner. Wagoner’s been camped outside Apple’s temporary…
Back on February 11, former four-term city council member Sandy Greyson told us that she was “seriously considering” a run for her old District 12 seat now occupied by mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky. The self-described “night owl” e-mailed us shortly after midnight Monday morning to let us know she was…
