On February 24 SMU’s basketball team welcomed a special visitor to its sparkling new Crum Center practice facility. Ushered in by school president Dr. Gerald Turner, the guest was none other than Dallas’ newest celebrity resident, the Mustangs’ latest fan and the former leader of the free world. Fortunately, George…
Democracy inaction: On May 9, thanks to folks who signed a pair of petitions, Dallas voters will decide whether the city should build a convention center hotel and whether to enact strict limits on public subsidies to private developers of hotels, condos and shopping centers. Odds are most of you…
On a windswept rise in southwest Dallas, Frank Bracken squints into the late-afternoon sun and sweeps his wiry, flannel-clad arm across the empty expanse of chalky white caliche. This ridge used to be thick with 30-foot jade-green cedar and oak trees, the only species tenacious enough to cling to the…
Last night, Quincy Jones got a jump on signing copies of his coffee-table history-of The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions, which he’ll do for you starting at 6 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Park. With his good pal Allison V. Smith in tow, Q stopped…
If nothing else, this City Hall-provided video concerning the Bexar Street redevelopment project in South Dallas is the first city-made video you can dance to — though it’s hardly Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good,” as advertised. (Anyone? Because Shazam’s no help here.) I, for one, hope this is the wave of…
‘Member how, last month, the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee started talking about changing the Juvenile Curfew Ordinance to include daylight hours as well? Turns out, a group’s done sprung up to oppose such an alteration: the Citizens Against the Dallas Daytime Curfew, which IDs itself as a “small,…
It very well could happen in April. It’s already happened in March. In a shocking upset that definitely requires slow, detailed, further review, the Mavs Dancers were knocked off by San Antonio’s Silver Spurs, 69%-31%, in the first round of NBA.com’s annual dance team bracket. Not surprisingly, fans crowned the Miami Heat…
Don McLeroy, a Republican dentist from Bryan, is the chair of the Texas State Board of Education. He’s also a book critic: Over the weekend, an indie book publisher posted his recommendation of Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.’s new book Sowing Atheism: The National Academy Of Sciences’ Sinister Scheme To Teach…
In light of the news that American International Group — better known as AIG — is doling out those “distasteful” but nonetheless delicious bonuses to its execs, the House Financial Services Subcommittee is meeting at this very moment to discuss AIG and “how it got into its current situation, why…
Tomorrow and Friday are two of the best sports days of the year. 32 college basketball games over 36 hours, tipping off Thursday at 11:30 a.m. with BYU-Texas A&M. And when it’s done, you can use your office pool brackets at toilet paper. Unless, that is, I let you peek…
Judy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall just called to say she’s not sure where The Dallas Morning News got its info about a Mayor Tom Leppert-led Trinity River Corridor Project Summit this morning, because, she insists, there weren’t no such thing. But she does remind those so interested that on…
Last month, the feds put off the digital TV transition till June 12 — which isn’t stopping two Dallas stations from making the switch well before the deadline. Late yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission released a list of some 150 stations going all-digital early, and among those making the transition…
The 33.5-acre Park Lane mixed-use development, across Central Expressway from NorthPark Center, today announced that it’s open for business — which is to say, four of the 15 announced restaurants and retailers will commence to sellin’ beginning tomorrow. First up is Nordstrom Rack, followed by the bows of Dick’s Sporting…
Ah, the Dallas Cowboys’ off-season. A time to blog about ghosts and running and iPhones and, of course, the Dallas Cowboys. Thanks to Terence Newman, there’s even fresh meat to chew upon in between Terrell Owens’ departure and the NFL Draft’s arrival. Short version: Troy Aikman questions whether Tony Romo…
Schutze and Merten are on vacation today, which means no one’s going to Mayor Tom Leppert’s Trinity River Corridor Project summit this morning on the 69th (heh) floor of the Bank of America building downtown. Schutze, though, did ask for two small favors before he sped off to East Texas…
Hard Rock execs told Unfair Park way back in June of last year: Yes, the eatery-museum, stockpiled with hickory-smoked foodstuffs and Dimebag Darrell memorabilia, would be returning to Dallas sooner than later following the exodus from McKinney Avenue two years ago. This morning, they confirm the not-terribly secret, long-rumored, oft-speculated…
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday released a report blasting the government for delaying, withholding and botching medical care for immigrants detained in Florida, Arizona and Texas. In the Lone Star State, the researchers conducted interviews with women held at the Port Isabel detention center in Harlingen, as well as the…
The attorney for Russ Martin’s fiancee – Mandy – says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings’ County Criminal Court #5 for failure to appear in…
I have an iPhone. I have an infatuation with March Madness. See, what I need/want/crave is a union of the two titillating entities. Like, perhaps, a 3D basketball shooting game App! Anyone? Okay you, Dallas Observer Jill Of All Trades Sarah Johnson, take it away … As far as my…
Speaking of athletes who don’t deserve any more bailouts … Former Cowboys’ quarterback Quincy Carter was arrested Feb. 27 for DUI. Less than two weeks later he was signed by another floundering football team – the Abilene Ruff Riders – desperate for passing and publicity. Sad, sad and double sad…
Speaking of Dallas iconic landmarks … On August 11 of last year, Unfair Park discovered that Mark and Patty Lovvorn had filed with the Texas Historic Commission a demolition permit that would have allowed them to tear down The House Stanley Marcus Built. You can follow the links — such…
Back in October we gazed up at the old waterfall billboard on Stemmons Freeway — up on Goat Hill, where Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine used to stand — and noticed the water had done gone dry. And we got our answer as to why: It was gettin’ a makeover and…
