On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression — as though, really, there could be just one.Full disclosure: Most of mine involve early, awkward dates at…
It’s been 17 months since the city settled its legal dispute with developer Craig Hall over lease payments related to the Arts District parking garage on Ross Avenue — and then agreed to dole out up to $9 million from the Downtown Connection TIF if he ever got ’round to…
Andrea, Patrick and I just spent the last half hour getting baked in the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts parking lot on Fort Worth Avenue — sadly, not that kind of baked (though I guess we could have …). Broiled is more like it — that concrete alley is mothereffin’ hot…
After all the fussin’ and cussin’ accompanying yesterday’s item about ESPN’s decision to home-base in Sundance Square during next year’s Super Bowl, I thought it might be nice to talk to the very person who made that decision: Stephanie Druley. She’s the Worldwide Leader’s senior coordinating producer, and she oversees…
I signed up for LoopNet a while back to occasionally scout for some of the more intriguing spaces and businesses for lease or for sale in this town — like, oh, that East Side Ave. church-turned-house or Elliott’s Hardware. Which is why I just received in the Unfair Park in-box…
Can we quit being surprised about Deep Ellum being kind of awesome yet? Because between the group of excellent new bars and restaurants opening in the neighborhood, last Saturday’s downright packed Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and the first-ever Deep Ellum Outdoor Market, it appears as though the ‘Ellum is…
Beckett Media, HQ’d off Welch Road and LBJ Freeway, publishes monthly price guides for damned near everything you can buy, sell, trade and collect — from sports cards to Beanie Babies. And though business ain’t what it used to be — myriad titles have been dropped over the years as…
Friend of Unfair Park and downtown denizen Noah Jeppson got into the Atmos Complex over the weekend thanks to an invite from John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, who never asks us anywhere. With a nod to the controversy surrounding the properties, which Forest City handed…
Hello, Unfair Park. It’s nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Sorry to say, though, it’s just a short stay–a follow-through on a promise I made yesterday to Robert, y’know. That promise? That I’d roll on through to this side of the fence for a moment to tell you…
I have been a terrible former music editor. Here we are, but three days from the kick-off of the Dallas Observer Music Awards, and so far I’ve written not one word about so glorious an event as the one planned by Pete and our crack promotions staff. Pete has offered…
Texas Observer Forrest Wilder has been doing an occasional chat-with series featuring homegrowns “involved in issues of the environment and energy,” and for his latest installment he’s chatting up none other than our old pal Patrick “Car-Free in Big D” Kennedy. Not surprisingly, Patrick’s got plenty to say: Wilder sent…
Last night was The Big Night — Jerry Jones (and Rich Dalrymple, the Dallas Cowboys’ director of public relations) took his turn on HBO’s Entourage, where Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold tried to sell Jeruh and other NFL team owners on letting him broker the next round of TV rights. That…
Whilst combing through the Internets for an Unfair Park item, I just came across this job posting: “Host Ticket Top 10 (Full-time) Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket.” No kidding? I called Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, to see what the what — like, did Chris House get fired?…
Feels like forever since we’ve posted one of Justin Terveen’s photos on Unfair Park, and that, right there, that’s too long. And so, on this holiday Monday, here’s quite the gift for the Friends of Unfair Park — four from The Urban Fabric taken last night from high atop the…
This morning, I opened my in-box to find a lengthy retrospective put together by KXAS-Channel 5 for last night’s farewell to Mike Snyder, whose 30-year run as reporter and anchor for the NBC owned-and-operated has come to an end. It is, of course, narrated by the only person suited for…
‘Bout one month ago today, over on Sportatorium, Richie called it: Russ Martin would be taking over as morning-show host on KEGL-FM (97.1) some time this month. J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s market manager, just made it official: The one-time Observer cover boy begins July 12 at 6 a.m. The full…
Six years ago I wrote a cover story about Jamey Newberg, a Dallas attorney better known for being the namesake and main contributor to The Newberg Report, which covers the Texas Rangers “from top to bottom.” Then and now, the Web site and the books Newberg publishes each season are…
Steve Blow is exceedingly good at his job, which is to reach new heights in daily journo banality as a columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has seriously got it down. There is real talent in saying absolutely nothing of interest or consequence for years on end. Which is…
Over the weekend — and, really, for the past several days — the admin side of Unfair Park and the other Observer blogs has been acting a bit wonky. Which is to say, one minute it’d work just fine; the next, it became inaccessible. We couldn’t post; you couldn’t comment…
I called Jim this morning at 6:30 — wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning’s “topping-off” ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too…
Nice to see someone’s found a use for our former home at 2130 Commerce: Reid Slaughter, founder of Park Cities People and former Cowboys & Indians publisher, and Jeff Hinson’s YouPlusMedia, whose local offering is essentially the “YouTube for Dallas,” in the words of our own Daniel Hopkins — who,…
Richard Hunter has a new member of his household. That’s him, quivering in the corner. Shaking uncontrollably. Convulsing. The 4-year-old is scared shitless. “He lives in fear,” Hunter says of his new best friend, Mel. “You would too if you’d been beating and traumatized your whole life.” Michael Vick is…
