Say it is so. And, I’ll be damned, it is. Taking three of four at Fenway for the first time in 15 years is impressive and acquiring Cliff Lee is intriguing, but the Texas Rangers luring Mark Cuban as a potential new owner is down right life-changing. (All I had…
Friend of Unfair Park and downtown denizen Noah Jeppson got into the Atmos Complex over the weekend thanks to an invite from John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, who never asks us anywhere. With a nod to the controversy surrounding the properties, which Forest City handed…
Seldom is Tom Hicks drawn offside. There’s been hardly a peep from Hicks whilst attorneys battle it out over the auction, or not, of Your Texas Rangers — even after JPMorgan Chase filed a separate suit yesterday contesting Hicks Sports Group’s right to sell Rangers Ballpark as part of the…
Last year, the anniversary was a big one: 40 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and for Dallas’s sizable network space industry alums, Moon Day was a reunion of sorts at Love Field’s Frontiers of Flight Museum. The turnout was so good, in fact, museum director Bruce…
For the past week — which is to say, ever since Bronx bomber Harry Niko Celentano sent a letter to Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes demanding an emergency stockholder meeting — I’ve been trying to get an Official Response from the downtown-based company; so too Celentano. And, for the past week,…
In the last few weeks, before and after the early July 4 pepper-balling incident on Lower Greenville, we’ve had many late-night, mostly curbside conversations with folks who manage, own and work at the establishments down under. These bars, clubs and restaurants will be affected by the proposed city ordinance to…
Texas Supreme Court Judge Harriet O’Neill told 560 of her fellow lawyers at the Dallas Bar Association today that she’d rather be called “hon” than “ho.” She was referring to the use of her initials when she was appointed to the court, and her quip set the tone for the…
While his political future remains unclear, Mayor Tom Leppert raised a combined $243,000 in donations in the first half of this year, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday. Meanwhile, his officeholder account and two specific-purpose committees — Friends of Tom Leppert and Re-Elect Tom Leppert — netted only $86,000,…
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters. Before he grappled with Important Things on Comedy Central, even before he took The Daily Show Trendspotting, Demetri Martin was an NYU Law dropout working off a hunch that he’d rather spend time writing quick…
Each summer the Festival of Independent Theatres puts Dallas’ hottest stage actors in a bunch of short one-act plays in rotating rep over four weekends. The 12th annual FIT fest, as it’s redundantly nicknamed, goes up tonight at the Bath House Cultural Center on the east side of White Rock…
Beginning at 9 Sunday morning, three students from W.T. White High School will drive to Colorado in that very ride you see above: a $30,000, corporate-sponsor paid-for experiment nicknamed Quetzalcoatl. (Kids today — what’s wrong with a ’66 Chevelle SS 396 with a a 360 hp, 396 cubic inch engine?)…
Yesterday Luke Metzger at Environment Texas passed along the group’s latest look at the good things DART’s doing for the air. The most interesting nugget’s right there in the lead: the group calculated that DART’s annual ridership accounts for 8.8 million gallons of gasoline saved — as much as 15,000…
After the jump is the city’s 25-page motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Robert Groden on June 30, in which alleges, among myriad other things, that the city and the Dallas police are harassing him and violating his First Amendment rights because they won’t let him sell his conspiracy-theory-pushing…
Villain Max Mencken’s tired vocal cords forced the cancellation of last night’s performance of It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman! at the Dallas Theater Center. Actor Patrick Cassidy, who plays Superman’s nemesis, was ordered by a doc to go on “vocal rest” for a couple of days. With…
Late yesterday afternoon, John McCall Jr. — the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and its current attorney — sent word that the future of the old Oak Cliff Christian Church is looking bleaker than ever. Not that the building’s fate has been anything but bleak as…
In 1997, Jacob Whitt was a 21-year-old anxious to get out of his tiny Central Florida hometown and start a life somewhere new. Truckers passing through told him Dallas was the place to move if he wanted to make some money, so that August he headed west, moving in with…
Some of the winners of the 21 National Endowment for the Arts grants handed out Thursday know precisely how — and where — that money will be spent. In Los Angeles, the $100,000 awarded through the Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative will go toward the mixed-use Broadway…
We’d just pulled up to the corner of Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Southwest Dallas this afternoon when a guy in a black Ford Escort rolled down his window to talk to a pony-tailed undercover vice cop. She’d been milling around outside a car wash in a swimsuit and…
Hello, Unfair Park. It’s nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Sorry to say, though, it’s just a short stay–a follow-through on a promise I made yesterday to Robert, y’know. That promise? That I’d roll on through to this side of the fence for a moment to tell you…
Arizona’s new immigration law has been a polarizing political issue to say the least, with President Obama challenging its constitutionality through the Department of Justice by launching a July 6 lawsuit against Arizona and Governor Janice Brewer. So it was only a matter of time before Republican heavyweights Rick Perry…
Thanks to Mayor Tom Leppert’s push for a lobbyist registration ordinance, we’re now privy to the lobbying efforts of City Hall insiders like the mayor’s top South Dallas consultant, Willis Johnson. And with quarterly reports due by the end of today, we figured it was a good time to see…
Of all the didn’t-quite-make-it-into-the-story facts I discovered while researching the botánica biz for this week’s cover story on Chango Botánica in Oak Cliff, one of the most interesting discoveries was that many of the candles sold on the shelves of area botánicas are made right in our own backyard at…
