Just a couple weeks since that really promising new Deep Ellum coffee shop made its explosive exit in the course of a Chase shoot, the empty storefront looked ready to rebound last week, all painted up as a Jewish diner — or maybe even a proper deli, at long last…
Be careful what you ask for. For the most part, seems like baseball fans in our parts feared the New York Yankees. Household names like Jeter and A-Rod and Pettite and Rivera and the 27 World Series have a way of intimidating opponents. Oh yeah, and the 1-9 playoff history…
10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I’m certain Texas was absolutely gutted — in emotion and field-position — by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1999. Seems like we’re…
On March 23, 2007, the Dallas City Council signed off on the anti-idling ordinance, which went into effect October 1, 2007, and penalized vehicles weighing more than 14,000 pounds from idling for more than five minutes between April 1 and October 31 — the so-called “ozone season.” Drivers caught idling…
The 90 wins (just the fourth 90-win season in the franchise’s 39-year history). The nine-game win in the American League West (largest ever). The claw. The antlers. The playoffs. The excitement. Let’s face it, without Josh Hamilton in the post-season it would all amount to tantalizing foreplay with no payoff. Seeing…
Andrea’s decided to spend some time at the city council’s Public Safety Committee briefing this afternoon, where she’ll learn a little more about iWatch Dallas, the DPD’s just-launched “virtual crime watch” that allows the citizenry to type in tips from their computers and cell phones. Says the DPD, “iWatch Dallas…
Sam MertenFor a long while during the auction of Your Texas Rangers on August 4 — and into the wee small hours of August 5 — it looked as though Mark Cuban and Jim Crane’s Radical Pitch LLC might indeed take possession of the team. Every time Chuck Greenberg and…
At right, that’s Amtrak’s Texas Eagle — or, at least, the coach car and first-class sleeping car that pulled into the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park yesterday. It’s part of what the museum calls “its long-standing partnership with Amtrak to re-introduce the benefits of rail travel to…
Joe Prock, courtesy George GimarcElvis Costello on stage at Faces, on Cedar Springs, on January 28, 1978I asked George Gimarc this evening: Where oh where was Faces?”Faces, Faces, Faces,” he said, trying to knock lose his memory. And there, amidst his estimable KZEW ad archive, was the precise address: 4001…
OK. So back to the Dallas Farmers Market for a moment …As promised, I spoke with City Manager Mary Suhm. I asked her, straight off: Did the Dallas Farmers Market in fact lose $800,000 during the fiscal year that ended, like, yesterday? Her answer: “It’s the end of the fiscal…
Team president Nolan Ryan predicted a World Series victory for the Texas Rangers during a rally held this afternoon at the home plate gate outside Rangers Ballpark at Arlington. After general manager Jon Daniels issued brief comments to the few hundred fans gathered for the “Rangers Red Rally,” which celebrated…
Click to embiggen the Daquiri’s To Go menuYou’ve been to Daiquiri’s To Go, no? Most of our staff has — something, methinks, to do with its proximity to Unfair Park HQ (it’s more or less at Oak Lawn and Market Center Boulevard). That, or there’s just something about booze in…
The Enforcement Expo wraps up its three-day stay at the Dallas Convention Center today, which means: There’s goes the Fear and Loathing coverage I’d planned for months. But that’s not important. What is? Yesterday’s presentation by a 21-year vet of the Texas Highway Patrol, during which the great Dub Gillum…
From time to time (to time to time) we write about Jason Roberts, who’s become synonymous in recent months with efforts to rejuvenate North Oak Cliff — without City Hall’s assistance (or, occasionally, OK). Hence this just-posted You+Dallas piece, from TEDxSMU, about the self-described community activist, in which he explains…
Justin TerveenHaven’t heard in a few weeks from our Friend looking to rehab 807 Elm Street, but I do know this much: The owners of the circa-1925 building really want to get that thing gone, the sooner the better. On Monday, matter of fact, it comes up before the Landmark…
I’ve spent the better part of the morning trying to find out some answers to the myriad questions raised by last night’s Channel 8 piece regarding the fate of Dallas Farmers Market. David Schechter points out: The city has said that the downtown was expected to lose $137,000 during FY2009-10…
Ran into my rabbi last Sunday — David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear — and asked him: “You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I’d like to post to Unfair Park.” He grinned and said sure — grinned,…
Moments ago, I heard some heroic music blaring from Schutze’s office. I walked in and found Jim inches from his computer screen, watching this video over and over and over again, as though it were a porn loop. It’s from Dallas City Hall, a just-posted teaser for the Margaret Hunt…
First off, apologies: Apparently, all this time there’s been another model on America’s Next Top Model from Arlington, which makes three. Or, now, two. I know, right? Clearly, she captured my attention for these last three weeks. Her name is Liz, and she’s a single mom.So, then. Last night’s episode…
Brion RandallBased upon the handful of comments that just popped up on this 4-month-old Unfair Park item, some of his victims already know and have been celebrating the news: Brion Randall — the Plano man who, from 2004 through ’09, screwed some 30 folks out of around $6 million –…
I hope you don’t need a face-to-face with Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia or Karl Zavikovsky, head of the Office of Economic Development, any time soon. They won’t be around — instead they’ll be in Madrid, Valencia and Paris between October 2 and 10…
Hundreds of art supporters and political types, from Ross Perot to state Rep. Dan Branch, strolled through the AT&T Performing Arts Center this afternoon for a look at the city’s newest outdoor stage at the just-finished Annette Strauss Square. The amphitheater — with a grassy grade leading down to its…
