Been meaning to mention this for a few days, but friend of the show Justin Cozart recently grabbed a few scenes (ah, Crozier Tech) from Robocop to offer up a history of New Detroit, by which, of course, we mean Dallas circa 1986. Which reminds me: There’s an even larger…
The Associated Press reports this morning that a man has been arrested in the death of Marlon Alfaro, the 23-year-old from Irving who was beaten and run over in a Lower Greenville Avenue club’s parking lot on January 25. Dallas police and a certain Barking Dog had speculated in a…
Ernst & Young this morning has released its US 2009 Lodging Report, which, turns out, has nothing to do with a certain high-end gentleman’s establishment. Instead, sadly, it’s just a lengthy status report on the state of the hotel business in 17 major U.S. cities, Dallas chief among ’em. And…
By no means is it a steal. But perhaps a deal? When the first Jonestown Coliseum ticket prices were announced last year, we all fainted via sticker shock: 4 lower-level seats on the 35-yard line – adding in $340 tickets, $75 parking and 30-year seat options – cost over $150,000…
Randy Clower’s short film Freaks of Dallas has made the local film-fest rounds — AFI Dallas and Dallas Video Fest, in other words, even KERA-Channel 13 in ’07. But director Randy Clower today posted his 10-minute animated film about the late local “hippie scene,” so if you’ve never seen (or,…
In the comments of a blog item regarding council member Tennell Atkins’s questionable campaign finance reports, someone using the name “joe” suggested that, along with being a hobbit, my motivation in digging around Atkins’s reports was his support of the Trinity Turnpike and convention center hotel. Then he wrote: “cue…
Nearly 450 Dallas-area businesses are for sale at this very moment, priced from $12,000 to $17 million. And, it so happens, many of those those buying in are those recently laid off. So says Douglas Batts, a business broker at BizBuySell.com, which fancies itself “the Internet’s largest business for sale…
I generally agree with Jerry Seinfeld. On everything. Including the Oscars. During a show at, of all places, UTA’s Texas Hall in ’02 the comedian quipped, “Worst thing about The Oscars is that they never tell you the final scores. We’re Americans. We not only want to know who won, but by…
An old client of mine happened to know one of the friends of the MayhewShe reffered them to me, said they’d be in town Sunday You get lots of calls but lo and behold they showed up at the house and it looked ot me like poor Mr M was all…
Terrell Owens was at Elton John’s annual Academy Award viewing party last night at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, where the (current? former?) Dallas Cowboys wide receiver wanted to see and be seen by those who might help him catch (and drop) his second career as an aspiring…
Prepare your fond farewells for Reunion Arena, which, come Wednesday, could be this much closer to demolition. The city council will vote this week on paying A&R Demolition of Austin a little more than $2 million to demolish the former home of Your Dallas Mavericks, as well as “remove remote…
Today could be former Dallas Police Department Chief Terrell Bolton’s final day as the top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia. Or not: This morning his attorney told county officials he’s been back in Dallas tending to medical problems, and that canning the chief for comp-time issues would be a violation…
Look, nobody’s perfect. Just last weekend on 105.3 The Fan my radio sidekick Mike Ogulnick referred to a huge crowd as a “thong of fans” and I invented a new word: “Necessarillarily”? But as of today we’ll no longer be treated to the malaprops and misspeaks of Emmitt Smith, whose…
Right now, this is what the intersection of N. Stemmons Freeway and Edison Street looks like — empty offices and showrooms perched on a corner. But on Wednesday, the city council will consider offering up $1,605,000 in Design District Tax Increment Financing District dough to former Hillwood veep Mike Ablon,…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will discuss updating the city’s 4-year-old water conservation and drought contingency plans, as this is shaping up to be yet another dry, dusty year. The update is necessary but won’t come cheap: If and when council gives the okee-doke, the city will pay Alan…
Sorry I’m a little tardy this morning. Been wringing out the tears from my computer keyboard. Why? Megan Henderson is leaving Dallas. (Please. A moment of silence.)…
Had it not been for an e-mail Parris Mayhew sent to local media on Thursday, The Case of the Sniper’s Perch might have gone unnoticed till too late. Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew — so named for the two men who’ve claimed since forever to possess the infamous window…
Looks like Elliott’s Hardware’s pitch to the former president paid off and then some, as the freshly unpacked Dallas resident made a “surprise” (so said the press release, anyway) swing by the Maple Avenue store today to pick up his name tag and dark-blue uni. Said the ex-president, according to…
By now, perhaps, you’ve read that some $104,070,000 of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package will wind up in the pockets of the Dallas Independent School District. (If your kids aren’t in the DISD, you can see how your district fared in the sweepstakes by checking out this site; Plano,…
Ten days ago, we extended Tennell Atkins an invitation to provide us with an explanation regarding the office space he’s spent nearly $9,000 in campaign dough to rent that he claims doesn’t exist, but not a peep so far from the freshman council member. In the meantime, we’ve continued to…
Ever wondered what’s at the bottom of New York’s Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside…
… a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to D.L. Hughley’s interview with ex-Dallas Morning News-er Michael Precker, whose move to The Lodge was mentioned twice last week in the Wall Street Journal. Precker now has a new nickname: “The Wolf Blitzer of Thongs.”Embedded video from CNN Video…
