We’ve been watching from Unfair Park HQ as pieces of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge have been lifted into place, and earlier today Mayor Tom Leppert and the rest of the City Council bunch saddled up to get their own up-close look at the construction. It’s a closed-off site, but…
Last night, I ran into noted doc director Mark Birnbaum at a little shindig Lodge owner Dawn Rizos threw in conjunction with the release of good friend and once-and-future Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman’s latest tome, the autobiographical Black Cracker. Mark — who’s directed such films as Larry v. Lockney,…
So says a press release just in from KTVT’s Lori Conrad, who says the CBS owned-and-operated will bump up CBS 11 News This Morning half an hour beginning Monday. Interesting move, considering that KDFW-Channel 4 just did the same thing with Good Day two months ago. Scott Sams and Ginger…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders if the rumors are true — if Mike Snyder is indeed out at KXAS-Channel 5 by month’s end. Why, yes, yes they are: Snyder tells Uncle Barky that his 30-year-run with the NBC owned-and-operated will end on July 1, when he retires. So, did…
Five months before their first dribble up in Frisco, the Texas Legends have already sold 13,000 tickets. Not bad for an NBA Development League franchise that doesn’t yet have any players and just a month ago unveiled a logo. “We have had an absolute blast and the response from our…
It’s been a busy year thus far for Clay Liford: His short film My Mom Smokes Weed played the Sundance Film Festival in January; two months later, his terrific, head-scratching first feature, Earthling, debuted at South by Southwest and, then, the Dallas International Film Festival before it began its currently…
Per the e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, tomorrow Dallas gets yet another all-sports sports site: a local iteration of SB Nation, which promises a “revolutionary grassroots approach to sports coverage [that] places the fan first, with compelling local content.” In other words, from what I can…
Good news: Your Dallas Cowboys will play in Super Bowl XLV right here in our back yard, Feb. 6, 2011 in Arlington. Bad news: They’ll lose to the New York Jets and – giggle – quarterback Mark Sanchez. So sayeth The Sporting News in its 2010 Pro Football Yearbook, which…
A few weeks ago, L.A.-based analyst Stan Manoukian told Bloomberg News that downtown-based Blockbuster “will cease to exist by 2013 for sure,” for the most part because its bondholders think the debt-ridden company’s worth pennies on the dollar. Now, according to Manoukian and Bloomberg, Blockbuster’s bondholders are looking to buy…
It’s been interesting this morning, trying to piece together exactly what Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is telling Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith. At this very moment they’re doing a TT sitdown at the Austin Club, and I’ve been following along via Twitter. The Southern Shift, thus far, is…
Since 1994 we’ve enjoyed the Big 12 Conference. Offices based here. Alumni living here. Championship games played here. Savor it. Because, perhaps as early as Friday, it begins to crumble. With the Big 12 having slapped a Friday deadline on Nebraska to essentially commit or quit, news comes from Omaha this…
Noah writes over on DC9 that Neil Young at the Morton H. Meyerson last night changed his life — why else would a grown man fess up to the fist pumps and teardrops? Brother Danny Hurley, a man with few heroes, seconds that emotion. Pete made sure Danny got this…
Eighty-two comments on this blog entry later, looks like friends and foes of Evans Wright, the man who was shot last week in a Lower Greenville parking lot, have finally said their various pieces. Figured so much interest deserves an update: The U.S. marshals have arrested a man named Maleek…
That Twitter feed of mug shots from Denton has been around for more than a year now, and online collections of goofy mug shots were all over well before that. But for dead-tree sentimentalists who love the feel of the newsprint as they flip through pages of miserable strangers, Dallas…
KRLD-AM (1080)’s home page still touts News and Views with Ernie & Jay weekdays from 10 a.m. till noon. But one good Friend of Unfair Park says that couple’s been d-i-v-o-r-c-e-d as of yesterday. And, sure enough, the program schedule reveals that after almost five years as one half of…
There are a couple of comments worth pulling out frrom yesterday’s item about Dallas Independent School District’s $23 million budget surplus. Among ’em: Mike MacNaughton, founding member of Dallas Friends of Public Education, recaps yesterday’s budget briefing at Albert Sidney Johnston Elementary School. Following Chief Financial Officer Larry Throm’s PowerPoint,…
In its Tom Hicks puff piece a couple of Sundays ago, The Dallas Morning News noted that Hicks expects to lose, oh, maybe a “couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. But no worries: Hicks told the paper he’d make up those losses when…
John Wooden had three golden rules that, come to think of it, would make us all better humans: Be on time. Don’t curse. Never criticize your friends. The legendary UCLA basketball coach left our planet a worse place over the weekend, leaving behind a legacy of 10 national championships and one…
Ron Natinksy’s comments concerning Valley View Center reminded me: We never did hear from a local Macerich rep concerning whatever kind of “plans” the mall owner may or may not have for North Dallas’s beleaguered mall. So I called around this morning without much luck: First I tried Rebecca Brownlee,…
While UT-Arlington outfielder Michael Choice was the 10th overall pick in Monday’s Major League Baseball Draft, your Texas Rangers went with a two-pronged philosophy: 1. Players who had character. 2. Players that were cheap. Not necessarily in that order. The Rangers, mired in unprecedented bankruptcy proceedings, drafted Georgia high-schooler Jake Skole…
I see here that tomorrow, the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force has but one item on its agenda: putting new row numbers and seat number tags on the wood benches in the Fair Park Band Shell. Which may seem like small progress, but it signifies significant strides in terms…
Tony Romo failed Monday in his bid to qualify for golf’s U.S. Open. But he succeeded as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. On December 28, 2008 after a 44-6 season-ending loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Romo infamously shrugged during his post-game interview and said: “If this is the worst thing…
