Back in May, Robert Miller — the attorney representing building owner Jon duPerier in the litigation brought in April by Gregg Merkow, the insurance-less owner of Greenville Bar and Grill and Hurricane Grill — told Unfair Park he didn’t know when crews would begin clearing out the charred remains of…
I was always jealous of Hank Haney’s gig. Being Tiger Woods’ swing coach, I surmised, was about as difficult as being Megan Fox’s beauty consultant. Boy was I wrong. The Dallas-based golf guru rips Woods in a Golf Digest article, saying of his relationship with Tiger: “It didn’t get dysfunctional; it always…
Still waiting for Official Word from the city concerning Robert Groden’s lawsuit filed yesterday concerning his ability — or, in this case, inability — to sell his conspiracy-theory publications in Dealey Plaza. But when we went down to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, we left behind one significant…
Back in October, the Trinity Trust ponied up $2 mil for the creation of the City Design Studio, to be based out of Dallas City Hall and run by, among others, bcWORKSHOP’s Brent Brown. Larry Beasley, an urban planner known as the man who built Vancouver, was also tapped to…
Some ignoamus loyal reader on this here blog recently theorized that the Dallas Mavericks sans Dirk Nowitzki could still make the NBA Western Conference playoffs. It’s July 1, not April 1. Quit your kidding. Because the Mavs realize that Dirk is priority No. 1 this summer – and perhaps vice-versa…
At this very moment, beleaguered Blockbuster’s PR peeps are preparing a statement to explain why, moments ago, its stock stopped being traded on the New York Stock Exchange. At present, it’s stuck at a whopping 23 cents. NYSE spokesperson Mirtha Medina sends this brief note: “BBI was halted today at…
That’s quite the hodgepodge. Nonetheless, to the briefs …Avi Adelman, first to the story despite what you read elsewhere, brings the latest news concerning Lost Society on Lower Greenville Avenue: The landlords have done put a padlock on the place. And that’s not all: Co-owner Brightman Nwatu, already faced with…
Three years ago, or shortly before the Dallas Independent School District introduced its “effort-based” grading policy, the school board reminded teachers: They were not to give students a grade lower than a 50 for any one grading period. As the great Kent Fischer noted, “The reason given was that students…
Your Texas Rangers enter July with the best record in baseball. And a new starting catcher. While rookie pitcher Omar Beltre surrendered a homer to the first Major League hitter he faced and lasted only four innings, Vladimir Guerrero turned a game, a series – and perhaps a season – with…
Majorly strange: Thanks to another delay by the city council, the question of whether to open up bidding for all the food and retail concessions at Love Field won’t be decided until August 11. That’s fine with Buzz. We get to poke around this subject for another month. Who knows…
It began as a cold that Julia Amparo-Alvarado couldn’t seem to shake. One January night in 2003 when her boss called, asking her to come in for a night shift of janitorial work at the Brooklyn Con Ed building, Julia protested, complaining of a fever. But with an eight-year-old son…
Cops approach domestic disturbance calls with an abundance of caution, knowing that these situations are highly unpredictable and can escalate quickly, turning dangerous, even deadly. When an officer pulls up to a residence, they don’t know who’s armed. Who’s on drugs. Who’s been drinking. And who’s so pissed off they…
When you awoke Thursday morning, something probably felt weird. It should’ve, because—barring a last-minute contract agreement—for the first time since the spring of 1998 Dirk Nowitzki isn’t a Dallas Maverick. After a 12-year career, the greatest player in the history of the franchise is a free agent. As of Wednesday…
Maybe you heard: A couple of weeks ago, Dallas police began cracking down on vendors at Dealey Plaza selling maps, magazines, books and other conspiracy-theory whatnots. Deputy Police Chief Vince Golbeck said some folks down there were cussing at and spitting on visitors to the Kennedy assassination site, and “that’s…
I was looking for something entirely unrelated on LoopNet this afternoon when I came across this: The family trying to sell the former St. John’s United Methodist Church on East Side Avenue has come off its asking price of $2.4 million, mentioned in The News back in February. It’s now…
Everybody loves Woot. Everyone I know and everyone you know has bought something from Woot (hmmm, I don’t really need that fifth-gen 8G iPod Nano, but, still …). Not for nothing did it top Inc.’s list of the Top 100 Retail Companies a couple of years ago. Or, if nothing…
Two quick items whilst I try to clean up some breaking news:ESPNDallas asked Mayor Tom Leppert to provide 10 reasons why LeBron James ought to sign with the Dallas Mavericks. The mayor, being a good sport, complied. Examples: “Great airports at both DFW International and Love Field. Central location makes…
A couple of days ago I happened to find myself, during the waking hours of business, standing in front of Dallas City Hall, where the only person in sight was the one half-submerged in the reflecting pool. In black hip-waders and a Parks & Recreation baseball hat, Jose Peña was…
For the first time in a long time, Darren Oliver sucked. For the first time since June 11, the Texas Rangers lost a road game. Not to panic, but a lot of things that have gone right lately for Texas went wrong in Tuesday night’s 6-5 loss to the Angels…
On Monday, we told you about an e-mail we received from Mayor Tom Leppert’s campaign thanking his city council mates for agreeing to defer the vote on two concession contracts at Dallas Love Field Airport so city staff could cook up some new options to consider at the council’s August…
The Dallas Mavericks will re-sign Dirk Nowitzki. General manager Donnie Nelson is flying to Germany as we speak to make sure of it, with a plan to be on Dirk’s doorstep at 11:01 tonight when NBA free agency commences. But a couple of developments have me thinking that might be…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent days: When’s Andy Siegel filing that lawsuit in which he, and a coalition of businesses and clergy (and suburbs?) opposed to the pending wet-dry referendum in November, will insist Progress Dallas didn’t collect enough valid signatures to get it on the…
