For the second time in a month, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has canceled a concert due to slow ticket sales. But June’s cancellation was for a “community concert” featuring Jubilant Sykes — an astounding singer, but not exactly a household name. And it came with two weeks’ warning. But today’s…
Competition: bad for girls, good for boys. Girls, delicate flowers that they are, get sad and mopey when they don’t play nice, while boys become robust like bear. This is science, per SiFy News (which is I think where Stephen Hawking gets most of his science news), not to be…
Your Dallas Mavericks are pondering an O’Neal, but not that one. Team source told me last night that the Mavs acquiring former Superman center Shaquille O’Neal is “a long longshot,” but that Miami Heat center Jermaine O’Neal is a real possibility. Honestly, neither name gets me too excited. Ten years ago? Maybe…
What you see above is the new bike rack in front of Dude, Sweet Chocolate in the Bishop Arts District — which I mention because, as Bike Friendly Oak Cliff points out this morning, it’s made from 107-year-old streetcar rail. So it’s, ya know, art. Writes Jason Roberts in the…
From time to time, downtown-dwelling Friends of Unfair Park will ask: What’s up with the Continental Building? Not much, of late: Forest City, also behind the Merc overhaul, had been hoping to begin work in ’09, but last May Jim Truitt, Forest City’s vice president of residential development, told us…
The Texas Rangers – and the fan who tumbled over the railing and fell 30 feet into a lower deck while chasing a foul ball – were lucky last night at the ballpark in Arlington. As Cleveland Indians manager Manny Acta said, “A fatality could have happened there.” The adult…
On Monday I recounted my late-night, pepper-spray-scented trip to Lowest Greenville Avenue. Since then, I’ve been trying to get some response from Dallas Police Department. But yesterday DPD spokesperson Janice Crowther said, in short, there was nothing to respond to: She told Unfair Park that if an officer fired pepper…
In the four years since Farmers Branch has been trying to get that ordinance barring illegal immigrants from renting apartments to stick, the suburb’s racked up $3.4 million in legal fees. And so far, all it has to show for its efforts is, well, an enormous legal bill. But SMU…
Maybe you noticed — over under our Slideshow banner we just posted 14 more photos Justin Terveen took last night at Fair Park … from the roof of the Centennial Building, no less (daring!). Some are of the fireworks filling the sky above the Hall of State; others, of the…
Again, this is Candy Evans’s beat — why, just today she noted over on D’s DallasDirt that the former manse of Eleanor and Nicky Sheets is selling at half off the original asking price after it failed to move at an IRS auction in February. Nevertheless, this just in from…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, just sent word that the mayor has tapped the city’s “homeless czar,” Mike Rawlings, to head the Park and Rec board. (The board president position is, at present, vacant.) Nothing’s official till council OK’s the nomination upon its return in August –…
If I can sneak away this afternoon, I’m gonna cross Oak Lawn and visit Heritage Auction Galleries HQ — just so’s I can touch the hem of one Admiral James T. Kirk. The Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan costume worn by Bill Shatner, and since stored in the…
It was a far-fetched doomsday scenario. A pointed image intended to conjure just how weird it was going to be around here without Mike Modano. But I never expected it to become, gulp, reality? Mike Modano, Detroit Red Wings? Criiiiiiiiiiinge. On June 22 that was my wild-ass speculation. On July…
In our cover story on the local private spaceflight pioneers at Armadillo Aerospace, we mentioned that the team’s contract work with NASA included testing a set of legs for a lunar lander based on an Armadillo design. At the time, NASA’s big plans to return to the moon were all…
In advance of the Westboro Baptist Church’s planned return to Dallas Friday, the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with notices of counter-protests being planned. One Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the Facebook page for the Westboro Baptist Church “Welcoming” Committee – Dallas Chapter, where signs…
Through the years, I’ve attempted to defend Dallas Mavericks’ star Dirk Nowitzki. Praised him in columns. Put him atop underrated lists. The guy has done everything except win a championship. Points. MVPs. Guts. You name it. Now he’s gone an unprecedented step further. Name me another superstar that’s played in our…
As promised, the great Justin Terveen is forthcoming with pictures from last night’s jam-packed Fair Park FourthFifth. He’ll need a little while to sort through his estimable stack of photos, but sends in advance this teaser — the Esplanade Fountain filled with park-goers. Reports Justin, when he got there, ’round…
Two years ago, John Crowder was playing basketball for God’s Academy in Grand Prairie and considered one of the top talents in Dallas-Fort Worth. He was 15. Crowder came to the area to escape life in his native Baltimore, where, he says in a 2008 video on The Dallas Morning…
A couple of weeks back we took at look at City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed cuts for the Dallas Public Library system — fewer workers at the branches, shorter hours downtown and more, meaning, of course, less. But libraries are in trouble nationwide, besieged by budget cuts and encroaching technology…
While June begat nothing but good news and great play for your Texas Rangers, July so far is about as much fun as a Roman Candle to the belly button. They were thumped by the lowly Cleveland Indians Monday night and have now lost five of seven after that 13-1 stretch. Out of…
A few items of interest with which to belatedly kick off your work week (lucky):On Thursday we noted that Dallas Independent School Board trustee Carla Ranger has found a new obsession: banishing the minimum-grade policy that disallows teachers from handing out grades lower than 50. This morning, she continues her…
After the jump is a press release that just popped up in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy one Kevin Sullivan, ex-Mavs man and Bush man now doing the talking for Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, who’ll be danged if some auction — which they agreed to for reasons explained below…
