At this very moment Preservation Dallas executive director Katherine Seale is at the Women’s Museum in Fair Park formally presenting its annual list of properties, neighborhoods and “historic resources” that are among the “most endangered” in the city. Even the most casual Friend of Unfair Park will recognize, perhaps, all…
Six years ago I wrote a cover story about Jamey Newberg, a Dallas attorney better known for being the namesake and main contributor to The Newberg Report, which covers the Texas Rangers “from top to bottom.” Then and now, the Web site and the books Newberg publishes each season are…
Still trying to wrap my tiny, admittedly perverted sports brain around the Dallas Stars without Mike Modano. Or, even weirder, Modano in another team’s sweater. He is now – and perhaps forever – undoubtedbly, undeniably, unequivocally the face of the franchise. Right? Unless, of course, you want that honor to go…
Courthouse News has the suit filed in Austin federal court: More than a dozen veterans and fraternal organizations, including VFW Texas and Dallas-based Amvets Dept. of Texas, Inc., are suing the Texas Lottery Commission and its commissioners over “the future of bingo.” Which is to say: Each of the plaintiffs…
True story. I just got through watching the trailer for Twelve, starring Chace Crawford as a drug dealer (hey now), when an e-mail from Sharon Parker, Six Flags Over Texas’s publicist, arrived in the Unfair Park in-box. Headline: “Tony Romo Spends the Day at Six Flags Over Texas.” She sent…
Jeffrey Thorn joined the Dallas Police Department in December 2008. During his probationary period, he was assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division. But, at this very moment, Thorn is in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after having been arrested by Dallas police on a sexual assault charge today. Lt. Andy…
Since March, Brett Ferdinand — till days ago, a senior at Cedar Park High School outside of Austin — has been among six students blogging for The New York Times about their efforts to get into college. Most of the stories aren’t especially extraordinary — most, in fact, are about…
In advance of its public meeting tomorrow concerning plans for the former Mrs. Baird’s site at Mockingbird and Central, SMU has posted yet another notice — this one complete with a FAQ. As in: “I thought you planned to put residence halls on the Mrs. Baird’s site?” and “What about…
Steve Blow is exceedingly good at his job, which is to reach new heights in daily journo banality as a columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has seriously got it down. There is real talent in saying absolutely nothing of interest or consequence for years on end. Which is…
The Texas Rangers lead the Anaheim Angels by 4.5 games. They also owe them a biiiiiiig thank you. Where would the Rangers be without former Angels Darren Oliver and Vladimir Guerrero? Tonight in California the Rangers try to validate their unprecedented hot start in a three-game series against the team…
Speaking of planned protests …A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the Westboro Baptist Church is making a return visit to Dallas next week — including, yet again, a stop at the Jewish Community Center right around the time summer camp lets out a week from Friday, which shouldn’t…
iPhone 4 Launch in Dallas from Victor Rosas on Vimeo.By day, Victor Rosas is a photographer, often shooting weddings and engagements. But he’s also an aspiring filmmaker as evidenced by his rather prosaically titled but crisply edited short “iPhone 4 Launch in Dallas” just posted to Vimeo, in which Rosas…
Strangely successful season for your Rangers so far. In spring training manager Ron Washington admitted to using cocaine. Their catching tandem is Matt Treanor-Max Ramirez, instead of the planned Jarrod Saltalamacchia-Taylor Teagarden. Chris Davis is gone, and forgotten? Their elite closer (Neftali Feliz) was auditioned as a starter back in…
Will Mike Modano play hockey next season? Maybe. Will he play as a Dallas Star? Nope. It’s official, the Stars no longer want the long-time face of their franchise. As predicted, this is sad…
When I spoke with Mike Modano in April, he didn’t know what the future held — if he would be retiring following the season, if he’d move into ownership or if he’d come back and play one final season with the Stars or, God forbid, someone else. But he was…
Mark Ball, Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman, sends word this morning that Americans for the Arts has selected the 40 finest public-art installations, in the U.S. and Canada, that made their bow in ’09. And the only two local works to make the list, out of 300 contenders culled through…
On May 23, workers at the Mott’s plant in Williamson, New York, went on strike — the company’s owner, Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, is demanding workers take a $1.50-an-hour pay cut and a reduction in benefits. Say union reps, “With unemployment rates high in the Williamson area, Mott’s continues…
The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world’s most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with…
The story of Lost Society co-owner Brightman “Brian” Nwatu hit The Dallas Morning News this morning, but it’s nothing new to Avi Adelman. Soon as I saw the tale of the Lower Greenville bar owner who’s been evading deportation for five years, I went over to Barking Dogs, where, sure…
In September of ’08 I wrote about Scott Beck’s big idea to save Deep Ellum, which involved buying up 14 acres of Elm, Commerce and Main streets from Good-Latimer Expressway to Malcolm X Boulevard and gentrifying the whole lot of it. Only, word kept slowly leaking out: The cratering economy…
In the comments to yesterday’s item about stumbling upon those streetcars in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s rail yards, a few Friends of Unfair Park got to wonderin’ about McKinney Avenue Transit Authority’s plans for a downtown extension. Which, turns out, was also on the o’ my mind after having…
I was out of the office Friday evening when the e-mail from City Manager Mary Suhm first came in alerting media to the fact several Dallas police officers had been called in by Deputy Chief Julian Bernal to provide a funeral escort for DPD Chief David Brown’s son. By now…
