A couple of weeks back we noticed, courtesy some video from Central Dallas Ministries’ Larry James, that Paul Quinn College was in the midst of transforming its football field into a two-acre “urban farm,” in the words of school president Michael Sorrell. This morning, we received an announcement that fills…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to yet another Sports Business Journal story about Tom Hicks — this one, a massive profile that attempts to reconcile his personal wealth (“The Matisse on the library wall looks utterly appropriate”) with his professional woes (“his sports portfolio, once among the…
While you have been drowning your Mavericks sorrows, engaging in mosh-pit violence out at Edgefest 20 or keeping an eye on Dez Bryant’s wacko mom, the Texas Rangers have started doing something very strange. Pitching. Well. Don’t look now but the Rangers are now the first-place Rangers. During their four-game…
Seems like only yesterday we were at the grand opening of Kidrobot in Mockingbird Station; so too Erykah Badu. But less than a year later, it’s the grand adios: According to the store’s blog today, it’s closing at the end of the month.I spoke to someone there today, and The…
It’s been six months since Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle gathered up friends and family at police headquarters to announce he’d be leaving his post. This morning, after cramming a mile run and 15 man makers into one last CrossFit routine, the 59-year-old chief sounded more sure than ever when…
A couple of notable press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, the most recent of which has to do with a former Internal Revenue Service employee sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 months in the federal hoosegow for…
Speaking of the Trinity River and the levees (though, really, when are we not?) …Late Saturday afternoon, the 6-year-old who lives in my house and I were heading home after a long day spent digging through dusty relics in the Antiques and Design District. I’d wanted to check out Lula…
Ever since Mayor Tom Leppert, City Manager Mary Suhm and Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair Dave Neumann fired off a missive in which they claimed “public safety and flood control always come first,” we’ve been trying to track down Kevin Craig, director of the Trinity project for the U.S…
On Wednesday the council will get an update from Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the Office of Economic Development, about projects that may get an infusion of foreign cash via the City of Dallas Regional Center, which we told you about back in October. (Long story short: Foreign investors who sink…
Wade Phillips is an optimist. But you don’t hear him gush like this very often. “He’s an absolute talent. You don’t get to be around many players that come in and look that good that early. It’s been 33 years, and there aren’t many that I can say look that…
According to court documents, on the evening of September 23, 2005, Dallas Police officer Kent Wolverton received a call for help from a fellow officer at the Larry Johnson Recreation Center on Dixon Avenue near Fair Park. Wolverton would later insist “that he heard screaming in the background of the…
A couple of weeks ago Major League Baseball threw a brushback pitch at Tom Hicks’s head and told the for-now owner of the Texas Rangers: Do not foul up this sale to Chuck Greenberg by going behind our backs and cutting a side deal with Jim Crane, who’s offering more…
If you happened to be driving past the Fairmont Hotel before the big Sarah Palin fundraiser Friday night, and wondered why six people were out with signs complaining about “genetic secrets,” birth certificates and the Gladney Center for Adoption, well, that was the idea — particularly if you happened to…
Saw Blue October Friday night at House of Blues. Good. But not the best I’ve seen them. That would’ve been the show back in the summer of 2004 at the Lakewood Theater when lead singer Justin Furstenfeld – bum knee and crutches be damned – was as passionate as any…
We begin this week where we spent most of last week: at the Warrior Dash in Forney, where my fellow warriors and I spent the weekend traversing 14 obstacles from hell. We worried about parking, since that seemed to be an ongoing issue, but once we arrived it wasn’t a…
Every so often I’ll get an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park who wonders: What the what’s going on with Belo Garden? They ever gonna do that thing or what? To which I usually respond: I dunno. Because, if you recall, courtesy a fire ’bout 120 years ago, there’s…
I was really excited – re-invested, as it were – in the Dallas Mavericks and this year’s NBA Playoffs. The team was poised. The games are fun. The conversations about the games are entertaining. The city is empowered by the wins and somehow galvanized by the losses. But, alas, the…
Pretty sure at some point early yesterday there were more police than protesters downtown — the only time I had trouble navigating traffic was at the barricades set up at various intersections, where there wasn’t a soul or sign in sight. But the boy and I were our way elsewhere…
Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The PastGood Friend of Unfair Park “Spectator” forwards along this piece from the Onion News Network, sure to play like a Betamax at Renaissance Tower HQ. It’s a look inside the, ahem, Blockbuster Video museum — “a historically authentic…
So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audiobooks,…
Jeff Liles gave me a tour of The Kessler last week — hadn’t yet seen behind every door and corner. Workers were installing a new bar; a handful of 6- and 7-year-old girls were taking ballet lessons in the auditorium; their mothers were in the back, reading and knitting. Jeff…
While Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has cryptically blamed the refs yet again for his team’s fourth first-round exit from the playoffs in the last seven years, the Rangers haven’t even sniffed the postseason since the Y2K panic. Although Texas is stuck in last place at 10-12, it could be poised…
