Dallas-based 7-Eleven’s in the midst of a major expansion in Northern California, and, last we looked, the oh-thank-heavens was looking “to accelerate store development over the next several years through organic growth” in the DFW and elsewhere cross the country. (In ’08, shortly after the chain shuttered its Knox-Travis hot…
Just got around to reading the latest issue of Wired, which details the myriad delays that made the title of Duke Nukem Forever painfully appropriate. The Garland gaming developers at 3D Realms wouldn’t talk — there is, after all, that mammoth lawsuit pending, in which publisher Take-Two, which fronted 3D…
Maybe you heard a few days back that Van Morrison had another kid. Except, whoops, no, he most certainly did not: “The comments which appeared on my website did not come from me. They are completely and utterly without foundation.” Wouldn’t even mention it except the woman at the center…
As I said last week on 105.3 The Fan, the winner of Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles II would be the favorite entering the NFC Playoffs. No reason to alter that after Dallas’ dominating 24-0 victory. The Cowboys have a hot quarterback, a Super Bowl-caliber defense and a home game looming. They’re also…
10. Uh oh, Shaun Suisham misses a 30-yard, chip-shot field goal from right between the hashmarks. Okay, so the victory over the Philadelphia Eagles wasn’t perfect. But it was dang close. 9. I respect Eagles’ head coach Andy Reid, but I also question his strategy. He’s taken Philly to five NFC…
It’s no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year’s Day. Wouldn’t make sense — the Cotton Bowl’s now in Arlington, in case you missed that breaking news. And so it was the rebranded Comerica Bank New Year’s Day Parade that had downtown tied up…
Woke up this morning to find in the in-box this six-minute blast from the past courtesy — who else? — the great George Gimarc, who’s got a treat for every occasion. It’s a New Year’s Day in the life of KAFM in 1973, shortly before the then-year-old progressive-rock outlet perched…
No doubt we’ll call it an early day — I can tell the Friends of Unfair Park have better things to do, and good for you. But before we say, “Till next year,” a few words, very few, about a night spent in Deep Ellum — my first since, well,…
On Tuesday, state Senator John Carona said he’d “give consideration” to a mayoral run should Tom Leppert vacate office early in pursuit of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat. A top Republican in the state and one of several names included among Leppert’s potential would-be successors in Sunday’s story in…
As it’s the last day of the year and all, let’s wrap up some unfinished business — like, oh, the fact your gas bill is going up in the spring of 2010, in part thanks to City Hall. Maybe you remember: Back in September, when the city was trying find…
I could wax poetic about what a great year it was in 2009, or I could half-ass it on New Year’s Eve and just remind you of the people and purposes I found intriguing over the last 12 months. Yeah, that’s what I’m gonna do. 10. Dead Man Coaching. 9…
Is it safe to come out yet? Is this horrifying, recessionary, alien-anal-probe of a year finally—finally!—over? Whew! It is! We made it through the last year of a less-than-auspicious decade. Let’s all get some “I Survived ’09” T-shirts and have a party. Maybe while we’re all together, we can make…
Word that a contractor working for Atmos exposed a water pipe (which eventually ruptured) at Olive Street and McKinney Avenue was enough to convince me to head over there to chronicle the chaos — most notably a traffic clusterfuck on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway service road. Vehicles dodged gushing waters…
Several years ago, out of nowhere, a reader sent me a copy of the four-disc Rock and Roll Cowboy collection, which consists of Neil Young live tracks spanning ’66 to ’94. It was an astoundingly kind gesture: The set had been compiled by an industrious (Italian?) bootlegger tired of waiting…
In some parts of town, you can tell when the calendar needs flipping when the guns start firing; apparently, nothing says “Happy New Year!” like shooting a pistol in the air. And while there haven’t been any serious injuries due to the celebratory pop-pop-pop in recent years, according to Dallas…
I went over to the Dallas Public Libraries’ Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division Web site in search of something entirely unrelated to this post. (Hint: It has to do with this photo taken by our pal Justin Terveen.) There, I noticed that the department was still in the process of…
It’s always a good idea ’round this time of the year to make a list of accomplishments, if only to figure out what you need to get done in the coming year. So happens, of course, that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins needs to get re-elected in 2010, and,…
Texas Tech fires head football coach Mike Leach. Two words: Holy. Shit. A saddening, maddening day for Red Raider Nation. My take: It took two to tango, and both Leach and the James family are at fault. Both Texas Tech and Leach will ultimately regret letting this spark burn out of control…
View Larger MapWhile we’re on the subject of North Dallas shopping malls, this significant bit of real estate news: Around this time next year, Crate & Barrel’s leaving its Alpha Road location, across the street from the Galleria, and heading further north up the Dallas North Tollway. Quite a bit…
TRAILER and INTRODUCTION from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.The folks at the Thin Line Film Fest in Denton, an annual affair devoted to documentaries, send word of a major premiere scheduled to open the festival on February 17: Gasland. Formerly known as Rage of Nature, as evidenced by the trailer above, this…
Christine Romero, spokesperson for Valley View Center owner Macerich, called back to say, well, she doesn’t have much to say about the state or fate of the beleaguered mall at present: “We don’t have any final plans to share,” she tells Unfair Park. “We plan to take our time to…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
