Feels like forever since we’ve posted one of Justin Terveen’s photos on Unfair Park, and that, right there, that’s too long. And so, on this holiday Monday, here’s quite the gift for the Friends of Unfair Park — four from The Urban Fabric taken last night from high atop the…
Maybe you find Martellus Bennett’s video offensive. Or not. He’s dancing around in a fake beard exclaiming to be Osama Bin Laden and saying “I’m here … making bombs.” If you lost a loved one in 9/11 or in the armed forces overseas in pursuit of Bin Laden and his…
I did indeed let the boy loose with our in-need-of-replacing Canon PowerShot in the Dallas Cityscapes exhibit at NorthPark Center Saturday. We walked right past it at first — it’s tucked away inside the old Robb & Stucky next to Barneys on the second floor. But once in, well, sure,…
I spent Saturday night — and the wee small hours of Sunday morning — riding shotgun with a certain Barking Dog as he kept watch over his favorite “scumbars,” as he likes to call them. And I got a little more than I’d bargained for: a nose and throat full…
Happy Birthday, America. Like tonight’s July 5th fireworks show in Dallas, it’s better late than never. Right? Our country turned the ripe old age of 234 on Sunday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I tried to spend some time remembering how friggin’ fortunate we are to have…
I’ll save the boy’s picture of Dallas-done-in-LEGO for tomorrow morning; so too tales of our trip to the crowded-ish Sixth Floor Museum + Cafe, which is far more surreal in person than Andrea describes below (she said nothing of being able to eat in the cafe while watching footage of…
With an extra day this weekend, an extra night: Blondie on December 1, 1979, from an unspecified Dallas venue; and Frank Zappa at the Dallas Convention Center Arena on October 17, 1980. Both, revolutionary in their own right.They’re both flawless recordings — Blondie because it was for radio. As for…
Our weekly rock-and-roll-and send-off will have to wait till tomorrow morning, as, at long last, Andy Siegel has filed that long-promised writ of mandamus in which he contends that the organization formerly known as Progress Dallas didn’t get enough valid signatures to call the November 2 election that could make…
Last night we told you that City Manager Mary Suhm’s considering letting someone else manage Dallas Farmers Market. And, well, news of the market going private, just maybe, is news to the farmers. “Are you serious?” said J.T. Lemley when we asked him how he felt about the idea. Lemley’s…
Finally, the city of Dallas sends word. It has no Official Comment on the federal suit Robert Groden filed against the city on Wednesday, in which he says he was jailed for nine hours in mid-June for selling his Kennedy conspiracy-theory wares in Dealey Plaza — something he’s done for,…
A Friend of Unfair Park points out that William M. Tsutsui started his new gig yesterday as the dean of SMU’s Dedman College. OK, then. But then I read the release and discovered that the Princeton-, Harvard- and Oxford-educated Tsutsui is “a specialist in the business, environmental and cultural history…
Joanna Singleton, who handles PR for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, was kind enough to send us this photo of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park fabricated, as you can see, out of LEGO bricks. (I like it better than the actual thing myself.) It made its VIP bow last night…
The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up with reminders from DPD in advance of the July 4 weekend, chief among them that by-now familiar heads-up concerning the department’s long-standing No-Refusal DWI Initiative. Which is to say: Beginning tonight at 6, if you’re pulled over from driving while intoxicated and…
“Life’s too short to be serious.” Printed on a tiny, squishy yellow pillow. For sale at the Sixth Floor Museum Store + Cafe. You know, the one that caters to patrons of the Sixth Floor Museum, the museum that features exhibits about the untimely death-by-assassination of our 35th President, John…
As we noted yesterday crews have finally begun cleaning up that block of Greenville Avenue claimed by that early-morning blaze in March. But shortly before the bulldozers got to work, contractors allowed Melissa Davis Hennings, of The Kessler, behind the chain-link fence to document the debris. She was kind enough…
Dirk’s back in town and ready to meet with the Mavs, for whom there’s no Plan B if he doesn’t re-sign. (Cuban’s back too, following a trip to shoot an episode of Entourage.) And so begins Keep Dirk in Dallas Week: Lost amongst all the breaking news of Thursday was…
This morning, I opened my in-box to find a lengthy retrospective put together by KXAS-Channel 5 for last night’s farewell to Mike Snyder, whose 30-year run as reporter and anchor for the NBC owned-and-operated has come to an end. It is, of course, narrated by the only person suited for…
After 70 years of municipal control, it now sounds like City Hall could be handing over the management of the Dallas Farmers Market, as well as Fair Park, to the loving hands of the private sector. City Manager Mary Suhm confirmed for Unfair Park today that the city is requesting…
‘Bout one month ago today, over on Sportatorium, Richie called it: Russ Martin would be taking over as morning-show host on KEGL-FM (97.1) some time this month. J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s market manager, just made it official: The one-time Observer cover boy begins July 12 at 6 a.m. The full…
Blame it on the rain or the full parking lot, but just about 30 folks packed into the auditorium at Skillman Southwestern Branch Library last night to hear SMU’s presentation on its plans to expand south of Mockingbird Lane on a seven-acre plot of land that includes not only the…
In about an hour, Blockbuster will release a second press release concerning, well, what we’re not quite sure — more than likely, though, it will deal with the fate of CEO Jim Keyes, whose contract with the company expires today. And, perhaps, it will address whether or not the downtown-based…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s Strategic Plan 2011-2015 isn’t due to the governor’s office till tomorrow. But I noticed that the Austin American-Statesman just posted an excerpt relevant to our November 2 beer-and-wine referendum, in which writer Eric Dexheimer theorizes that a sharp decline in the success rates of local…
