The Rangers are back in the playoffs. The Cowboys are back in the race. And look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are back in training camp. Yes, already. Just five months after they walked off the court in the wake of another disappointing first-round playoff loss (this one to the San…
Way back in January we noted that Fair Park was in the market for a vintage car museum; in July we added that all systems were go following Park and Rec’s green light, which gave the joint a lease in the 50,000-square-foot Grand Place exhibition hall through at least August…
Photos by Chris HowellMarc Ribot and his latest collaborator, a filmmaker named Charlie ChaplinMarc Ribot’s performance at The Kessler Saturday night was one for the ages — proof, if nothing else, that it is indeed possible to get a free-jazz sax skronk out of an acoustic guitar. Ribot, whose estimable…
Usually by the time we start feeling fall, your Texas Rangers have long since raised the white flag. But I’ll be damned, tonight in Arlington they’re going to raise a championship banner. Cue Prince, it is indeed time to party like it’s 1999. When Nelson Cruz nabbed a lazy fly ball…
For those who like to plan ahead (or for those of us who need a few weeks to, oh, I dunno, stop smoking and pump up their tires and generally reconsider several other unhealthy life choices), this heads-up: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff this morning released the details for Cyclesomatic 2010,…
Jeff Carlton at the Associated Press was the one who, in July, first offered the story of Stephen Brodie — the deaf man who, in 1991, was detained by Richardson police for stealing quarters out of a soda machine and ended up pleading guilty to the unsolved sexual assault of…
Sunandan Subramaniam/AirNet.comI live in the Love Field flight path — have all my life. So, you say, there’s more noise than usual coming from the airport? OK, then. Me, I can’t tell. But Angela Hunt has one explanation: construction on Runway 13R-31L, which runs parallel to Denton Drive. It was…
10. Oh ye of little faith. If you listened to me or read me last week I toldja this was coming. Negate some penalties, some missed field goals and some turnovers – tweak things – and the Cowboys would be fine. Way I remember it, I called for more Dez…
The great Chris Howell promises to share with us later in the day a photo from Marc Ribot’s breathtaking Saturday-night show-and-tell at the Kessler — truly a once-in-a-lifetime event, since the guitarist has played Texas but once (last night) in his storied career. In the meantime: A good Friend of…
Two weeks ago The Wayback Machine landed us at the Music Hall at Fair Park on December 11, 1970 — site of The Doors’ almost-farewell gig, one night before ” it finished in the voodoo juju” of a warehouse in New Orleans, as Ray Manzarek put it. At the time…
The year-old faith network Greater Dallas Justice Revival threw its weight behind the push for more permanent supportive housing around the city at a boxed-lunch get-together at Cliff Temple Baptist Church this morning. “This really is a historic day,” Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance president Mike Faenza told the gathered homeless…
Billboard’s account of Willie Nelson’s all-star homecoming concert in Abbott in the fall of ’73This is not your work-week rock-and-roll-and adios — that’ll more than likely come tomorrow morning. But this’ll do. While we await a piece from Patrick Michels about some doings at Cliff Manor this afternoon, I wanted…
Down below, in the comments, we somehow got to talking about Forest and Marsh and how maybe that part of town — my part of town, from the day I was born till this very moment — could use a Better Block Project of its own. Which got a few…
Courtesy Lower Oak Lawn/Kendall ShifflerShooting an art auction scene with Jon Voight for Lone Star at ARTability on Oak Lawn last monthThanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve directed my attention to this blog post from Kyle Killen, the creator of Lone Star, which, as we noted Tuesday,…
Photos by Danny FulgencioBack when we officed downtown — man, those were good times — I looked forward to today: the annual State Fair of Texas kick-off parade, which rolled down Main Street but a few short yards from our Commerce St. HQ front door. Alas, a former publisher rained…
By which I mean: your “potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.” That’s per the Dallas Police Department’s release, sent moments ago, in which it says the DPD and Drug Enforcement Agency will be celebrating Prescription Drug Take Back Day tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are…
Flickr user: John McStravickLast December, Maria Munoz-Blanco, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, told Unfair Park that she had hoped to have in place a new operator for the Majestic Theatre by mid-May of 2010 at the latest. Requests for proposals were out, and, fingers crossed, the city…
Justin TerveenClick to embiggen Justin’s picture of the State Fair-grounds last nightRick Perry’s a disappointment, Craig Watkins is a “demagogue,” Jason Roberts is a fixer — all the name-calling you fit whilst awaiting your first Fletcher’s corn dog of the fall season …Following an outing to Fair Park, speaking of,…
Dallas city officials haven’t even begun to grapple with questions of how quickly they can implement the Dallas Bike Plan or where they’ll find money to pay for it, as consultant Peter Lagerway readily concedes. But if time and money are problematic, Lagerway has good news on the space front…
A Texas Ex-girlfriend forwards along the link to a site called Move Texas vs. OU Weekend, which is a petition crafted by The University of Texas at Austin Student Government demanding school officials reschedule next year’s Red River ShootoutRivalry. At the moment, and probably for good, Texas-OU’s scheduled to take…
The picture of Tom Hicks Jr. and his old man that spurred this morning’s front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.That Reds fans loathe Tom Hicks — and have almost from the moment he bought Liverpool FC in August 2007, then began making promises he couldn’t afford to keep –…
One of the officers in this picture was fired yesterday. (Hint: the one in the middle.)Dallas Police Chief David Brown isn’t messing around: Late yesterday the DPD sent out yet another laundry list of officers being terminated, the third such release in the past few days, bringing the total of…
