Earlier this morning, those among Mayor Tom Leppert’s nearly 2,000 friends on Facebook were treated to a link to the city’s Web site where they could find an official response to a recent story in The Dallas Morning News about the Trinity River Corridor Project. Turns out the statement is…
It’s not often that community art, religion and public transportation overlap, but they will tonight as the DART Stations of the Cross marks Good Friday along the Red and Blue Lines. Last year’s ride was organized by a couple of Dallas churches — the Church in the Cliff and Journey…
Pete’s headed out to Dallas Police HQ for a 4:30 press conference, during which the department will announce that, sure enough, it’s charging Erykah Badu with something for that “Window Seat” striptease filmed in Dealey Plaza in mid-March.”Yes, we are going to charge her,” DPD spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse…
Jimmy Kuehnle, a one-man balloon animal, brought his inflatable suit-slash-portable art installation known as You Wear What I Wear to downtown Dallas today — either that, or Main Street Garden is under attack! Those unsure of the man or his demands were left to wonder, as one did, whether he…
I am finishing up a Buck Pets piece for the paper version of DC9 at Night in advance of the band’s reunion at Trees one week from tomorrow night. And, as I went to look for an old piece of video on YouTube (the “Iron Cock” performance at Trees in…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park probably don’t need a recap concerning the tragicomic goings-on at the former Bama Pie Co. building across the street from Fair Park. This blog is littered with stories about the more than $200,000 in city and federal money spent on a proposed “motorsports museum” and…
Is this indeed a Good Friday, Cowboys’ fans? It’s the end of “False Start. Offense. No. 76” as the Cowboys today released starting offensive left tackle Flozell Adams and starting free safety Ken Hamlin. Your starters, for now, are Doug Free at LT and Alan Ball at FS. Adams was a…
A couple of photo items of note on this Good Friday:Over on Boing Boing, former Newsweek senior writer Bill Barol celebrates the work of local shooter — and musician — Noel Kerns, who, on his Flickr profile, writes that he specializes “in capturing Texas’ ghost towns, decommissioned military installations, and…
According to the Internet Movie Database, there are three movies named Spooked: This 2004 entry starring Cliff Curtis (“… about the mysterious death of a New Zealander who happened upon international banking records after purchasing a used computer”), a 2005 short (about a teenager “spooked by a vision of his…
Ludacirs 2010 Census Dallas, TX from DTP TV on Vimeo.Christopher Brian Bridges came to town to a couple of weeks back to beg Dallas to fill out the Census — because, look, we clearly need the push. In this just-posted trip recap, he rolls by K104, hits Cowboy Bradie James’s…
On Wednesday, MPF Research released a press release touting the enormo bump in Dallas-Fort Worth apartment rentals: “During the first three months of the year, renters absorbed 6,520 apartment units, the best quarterly demand performance seen since fall 2007.” And, says Greg Willett, nearly 10,000 units have been taken off…
The Onion News NetworkThe Associated Press just posted its breathless report on the brouhaha over Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” striptease, which has become the Zapruder film of 2010. AP, why the headline: “Dallas Residents Stunned Over Erykah Badu Video”? Shouldn’t it have been: “Two Tourists Who Don’t Know Who Erykah…
For those who didn’t read our cover story last week, the Office of the Attorney General made a second attempt on February 23 to lend a helping hand to District Attorney Craig Watkins in a criminal investigation of the Dallas County constables. In August 2009, Watkins said, um, no thanks…
For his new piece about how ESPN’s locally focused Web sites are proof that the Worldwide Leader’s “thinking bigger than ever,” per GQ’s headline, New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman spent most of his time in Dallas with the likes of Calvin Watkins, Tim MacMahon and other ex-daily-newsers who’ve…
A few odds and sods on this Census Day:The fine folks at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff have posted a video follow-up to our post about plans to build The Better Block at the intersection of N. Tyler and W. 7th Streets on April 10 and 11. That’s it up top,…
From time to time over the years, we’ve perused the Library of Congress’s archives for photos of Dallas not seen since they were first taken decades ago. But Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who shares my love for these vintage pictures, sends word of myriad recent additions to the collection,…
Much like Richard Allen’s interview, our conversation with Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson didn’t make it into the cover story on Dallas County Judge Jim Foster appearing in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. But that’s not to say Jillson’s opinions about Foster, runoff candidate Clay Jenkins…
Five games. Three time zones. Two training camps. Your Dallas Cowboys are certainly expanding their brand as America’s Team. But is such nomadic pre-season good for them? The Cowboys will travel almost 5,000 miles this summer, compared to only 852 for the New York Giants. I think jet lag is…
Last night, the city of Dallas held a reception and dinner at the Trinity River Audubon Center where the six candidates to replace outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle underwent what City Manager Mary Suhm referred to as “speed dating.” Three of the would-be chiefs come from outside the DPD,…
Two months ago, Chase pledged $3 million to the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park — for, specifically, the crescent-moon-shaped, 15-foot-wide Promenade that will span the length of the 5.2-acre park currently under construction. But, as we noted two weeks later, there’s still much fund-raising left to do: The Woodall Rodgers Park…
Up, up and away with some breaking news concerning Dallas Theater Center’s forthcoming big-deal redo of It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman: Artistic director Kevin Moriarty has his Man of Steel. We go to the release from the DTC for some info about the Arkansas-born singing…
Dirk did it. Again. As he’s done for the last decade around here, Dirk Nowitzki snapped out of ugly shooting night just in time to lift the Dallas Mavericks to an improbable, pulsating victory. This time – mired in a 3-for-16 night – he hit two 3-pointers late in regulation and…
