No doubt you got a nasty wake-up call in the wee small hours of the morning from the storms that rumbled through; chances are there’ll be some kind of a repeat this evening. But Brother Bill Holston wanted to make sure we noted that the great Justin Terveen was out…
Here at day’s end, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the just-and-I-mean-just-launched Bike Friendly Dallas, which, from the looks of it, is intended to serve as a sort of round-up for news, notes and two-wheeled events ’round town — not just in Oak Cliff, where BFOC’s long…
Much has been made about how former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle has raised and spent pennies on the dollar compared to Multi-Millions Mike Rawlings, and most recent docs filed with the City Secretary’s Office show that in the days leading up tomorrow’s run-off election, Kunkle has spent just $53,891.77,…
Oh, right — the Texas Rangers, now but half a game up on Seattle in the American League West after losing five straight and eight of their last 10, three of those to the New York Yankees, including yesterday’s gut-punching 3-2 loss in 12. The local sports spotlight is all…
Pardon me as we take a brief detour from the parade route for just a moment, but Texas Monthly’s just posted its latest list of the best and worst state legislators — and Leo Berman made worst? No way. Anyway. The preview’s here, sans further categories awaiting their print and…
Some of the staff’s already downtown for the parade — along with the thousands already on hand both at Victory Park and behind the barricades stretching back to the Dallas Convention Center starting point. And, this just in from Dallas City Hall:Accommodations will be made for people who are handicap…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a handful of emails from KERA-FM supporters wondering what the heck happened to 90.1’s lineup in recent days. Because as of Saturday, there’s been a significant shakeup to the programming schedule: Out, for instance, are Tell Me More, To the Point, The…
Happened to be down in Victory Park for drinksa meeting during Game 2 of The Finals. Got there well before tip-off, and a small line was already beginning to snake around the American Airlines Center; folks were also starting to congregate in the plaza. By the time we left midway…
In the midst of all the chaos, clutter and claptrap that is a FOX4 news broadcast, the station found time last night to devote close to eight entire minutes to the fight amongst the Dallas County Commissioners over the redistricting map unveiled at Tuesday’s meeting, which caused Maurine Dickey to…
Speaking of over-the-weekenders, the morning paper had a pay wall piece Saturday about Governor Rick Perry’s “call to prayer for a nation in crisis” scheduled for August 6 in Houston, otherwise known as The Response. Perry’s invited the nation’s governors to join him; doesn’t sound like the RSVPs are flying…
Cash Sirois just sent this local sports-star-studded pep talk, which played on the American Airlines Center’s big-screen before the second quarter of Mavs-Heat Game 3. This proved much easier to watch than Mavs-Heat Game 3. Among those making an appearance: Troy Aikman, Mike Modano, Roger Staubach, Ron Washington and a…
That’s a mighty nice piece about The Kessler in The New York Times this morning; nice illustration too, courtesy the great Paul Rogers. The story’s by local boy Ben Fountain, the att’y-turned-author who wraps up his semi-regular from-the-mean-streets-of dispatches with a trip to the Oak Cliff venue — the polar…
That’s how CBS News’s Don Teague recaps yesterday’s good news for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, which, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, added more jobs between April 2010 and April 2011 than any other part of the country — 83,100, to be exact. Teague’s report, which aired this…
Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find — a 42-clip collection consisting not only of…
Old trailers fill the lot in front of Gary Buckner’s West Dallas workshop. Two are almost completely gutted and ready for refurbishing, and one silver Airstream is nearly ready for the move-in of a fairly unlikely tenant. In less than two months, this trailer will be home to an insurance…
About half an hour ago, Richie posted an item on the Sportatorium: John Rhadigan, hired in January to replace Josh Lewin as the Texas Rangers’ TV, play-by-play announcer, is already out. Moments ago, the team confirmed with an Official Statement that follows in full. But long story short: Beginning with…
Since Janine Turner didn’t get that spot on the next-gen Dallas reboot for TNT, she’s turned her attention elsewhere — late-night weekend AM radio. Had no idea. But, sure enough: The former Northern Exposure star with the ranch outside of town launched her right-wing radio hour last Saturday from none…
What you see above is the official “The Time Is Now” video made last week for the Mavs’ postseason run, which continues in two hours, give or take, but you knew that. Oh, right: Go, Mavs. Cash Sirois, weekend talk-show host and Dallas Mavericks creative director, was in charge of…
A few Friends of Unfair Park find those Dirk Nowitzki videos cute … or something? But, writes one, “They’re missing Dirk.” Fair enough. This one, provided by the NBA and submitted by a reader, is all Dirk — in slow mo, no less, his Game Four heroics augmented by a…
Back in April of last year some Oak Cliff-dwellers introduced that “Think Small” slogan, which was and is intended to counter Dallas’s “Live Large, Think Big” motto coughed up by The Richards Group in ’04 after six months’ worth of focus-grouping. A Friend of Unfair Park points out that on…
Add City Manager Mary Suhm to the list of folks lined up to bury the so-called Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as the downtown tunnels. But two days ago she told the DSpotters that those inhabiting the maze of passageways beneath the downtown skyscrapers ain’t nothing but “a community of…
Two small but important bits of information from a long U.S. Army Corps of Engineers press gathering this afternoon: First: In order to fix the Trinity River levee system, Dallas will have to build an impervious concrete-like barrier between the levees and the river. Second: The barrier will have to…
