Mark Taborn is 37. Lives in Los Angeles. Works in the corporate world. And is a hack of a golfer carrying a 23 handicap. Weird, because not a single day passes that he isn’t confused for Tiger Woods. I spent my blogless vacation doing some productive things: Jumping on the P90X…
I tried to retrieve something from Dallas County’s Web site this morning only to discover that, sorry, it ain’t responding. Two seconds later, I found this Associated Press story explaining why not: The county’s Records Buildings is underwater — at least, the basement is following a downtown water main break…
This morning in the Sports Business Journal, Daniel Kaplan recounts the wild doings in the Fort Worth courtroom where, at the end of last week, the Texas Rangers, their creditors and Major League Baseball squared off in Round One of the Chapter 11 Showdown. Unless you were in the courtroom,…
It’s too late to bid on the photo above — it’s a couple days past closing time. But good news for those of who don’t tire of these detours into Dallas’s ancient history: No one bought this picture (going for a lousy $24.99) of a grocery I’d never heard of…
Yesterday — which is to say, shortly before The Dallas Morning News ran this press release fromprofile of Tom Hicks — Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directed our attention to the Facebook page Liverpool FC Is Being Bled Dry – You Can Do Something About It. There I found, among…
Upon hearing the news of Dennis Hopper’s death from prostate cancer at the age of 74 this afternoon, I dug up a 1990 Daily Texan interview I did with the writer-director-actor upon his return to the USA Film Festival, where he was being feted as its Master Screen Artist. He…
In July of last year, and again last January, we mentioned SMU’s partnering with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image — a device otherwise known as “Panoptes,” short for “Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce…
As we head into the long, steamy three-day weekend (for some), let me make good on a promise: In advance of Rhino Records’ June 8 release of the three-disc Disintegration: Deluxe Edition, The Cure is now streaming a hunk of its September 15, 1989, Prayer Tour stop-over at Starplex. And…
… which is, you gotta move it from where it currently sits at 3909 University Boulevard. That’s right smack next to the parking lot at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, which has big plans to make its parking lot, well, much bigger — plans that call for paving over not just…
What you see above are crews using a big-ass crane and a specially made “sling” to set in place the center arch for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Oh, and the view? It’s from high atop Unfair Park HQ. But you can see it right outside our editorial-side windows. Schutze…
As if the fear of wrong-way drivers, fiery crashes and wheelie-poppers wasn’t enough to put you in the bike lane, the North Texas Tollway Authority has released video from a Wednesday-morning crash near the Belt Line Road exit in which no one, astoundingly, was seriously hurt. Yet one more reason…
The Dallas Independent School District’s designs on land around O.M. Roberts Elementary School may be on a time-out for the next six months, but the folks who stand to lose their homes and jobs aren’t stepping down their protest. They staged yet another protest outside 3700 Ross Ave. last night…
Ten minutes before the 5 o’clock kick-off of last night’s 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House, there were already some 100 folks milling about City Hall’s 6th Floor Flag Room. And by the time officials busted out the PowerPoint at 6, all but a handful of the seats in the…
While browsing the Heritage Auction Galleries site late last night, in search of something entirely unrelated (this, if you must know), I came across a most estimable offering from the June Signature Photography Fine Art Auction: 17 rarely seen photos taken inside the Mercantile Bank Building shortly after its ’58…
The June/July Esquire arrived at the house yesterday — the How to Be a Man 2010 issue, thank God. And contained therein is the fifth annual rundown of the magazine’s Best Bars in America, two of which are in stumbling distance courtesy the contributions of my friend Adam McGill, who…
The city’s more or less shut down till Tuesday, what with a furlough day and Memorial Day on the schedule. Which is why City Hall has early-posted its Wednesday council briefing agendas on two subjects near and dear to every citizen: water and trash. At least one of ’em is…
Just returned to the office from an interview to find three press releases in the Unfair Park in-box worth noting. As always, let’s start with the unusually chatty Tom Hicks, who spoke today with, among other media outlets, Business Week and the UK Guardian. To the former he reiterates what…
The second meeting of the city council’s Love Field Concessions Committee is underway, and co-chair Ron Natinsky just told Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, who was giving the committee an “easel presentation,” that his posters were merely larger representations of last week’s briefing that he gave to the committee. As…
In a sweltering outdoor ceremony that would have slowed down a lesser showman, Mayor Tom Leppert reveled in his latest ribbon-cutting duties this morning, unveiling the Dallas Zoo’s new Giants of the Savanna exhibit. He’s been through the routine more times than we can count, but Leppert was enthused at…
A little while ago AMC Entertainment Inc. sent out a press release announcing that come November 30, it will “vacate the premises” at the 24-screen AMC Grand off Stemmons Freeway and W. Northwest Highway. But it’ll be dead long before that, as AMC has to get 24 screens and 15…
So, if you’ve got a child in the Dallas Independent School District, as I do, and he or she comes home this afternoon with the wowee-zowee good news that their campus has been ranked, oh, let’s just say exemplary by the Texas Education Agency, don’t get too excited just yet…
Surely you need no reminder to attend the Dallas Bike Plan Open House this evening at City Hall — 5 to 8 p.m., if you haven’t already written it on the cover of your Trapper Keeper. By way of a ramp-up, I direct your attention to Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy’s Web…
