Wrote the real-estatin’ Friend of Unfair Park who alerted us to the news of Circuit City’s imminent demise today, “Getting ugly out there.” Indeed: Just two months after Circuit City included its N. Central Expressway and Meadow Road location as one the 155 “underperforming” stores being shuttered, the chain today…
Speaking of Fort Worth, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted its class of 2009 last night with a wingding on E. Exchange Ave., and among those taking their bows were Tommy Lee Jones and the great Barry Corbin, who actually has a place in Fort Worth. Said Jones, a…
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee’s moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he’s been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell’s release, which follows in…
Might be a pre-emptive strike in advance of losing the Dallas Cowboys. Might be a further stock-piling of assets aimed at extending its dynasty another 15 years. Either way, 1310 AM The Ticket just announced it will be the radio home of your Dallas Stars for the next five years starting in 2009-10. Good on…
Tuned into KTCK-AM (1310) this a.m. for its “big station announcement,” which, all things considered, was relatively enormous after all: The station is “the new radio flagship home for Dallas Stars hockey for the next five seasons,” said morning-show co-host Craig Miller. The deal starts next season and runs through…
I know, I know — we have a music blog. But on this frigid morning, I wanted to direct your attention to this download, warm and well-meaning, courtesy National Public Radio, songwriter Christian Kiefer and a singer named Will Johnson. It’s a song called “Someone to Wake,” the final installment…
Four straight losses. Four spots dropped in the standings. A four-game, East Coast road trip looming that ends at Detroit and Boston. Mark Cuban even lost his request for Denver’s J.R. Smith to be disciplined by the league for throwing an elbow at Antoine Wright. In short, not a good…
After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205. If…
As we mentioned a while back, District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin appeared to be the heir apparent to Mitchell Rasansky with a long list of notable supporters and a strong résumé. And as the 5 p.m. deadline approaches for candidates and committees to file their finance reports, Margolin’s…
On her Web site, the District 14 council member offers her thoughts on yesterday’s Dallas City Council meeting, where, among other things, the council voted for the “high crime apartment ordinance,” voted against the creation of a Little Forest Hills Conservation District and put on hold a vote concerning the…
Deadspin, with some help from The Smoking Gun, just posted an item in which it breaks down Michael Irvin’s Monday-evening almost-carjacking and finds his story, well, a bit sketchy. As in: “Irvin didn’t report the incident until the following day, more than 24 hours after Monday’s supposed confrontation. And he…
On Tuesday, Governor Rick Perry told the Associated Press he seriously doubted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was going to challenge him come 2010. Because, look, “there’s plenty of time for the senator to think that it’s not in her best interest, Texas’ best interest or the country’s best interest to…
ESPN’s Ed Werder says today that your Dallas Cowboys are seriously considering releasing Terrell Owens. Dallas’ Only Daily’s Jean-Jacques Taylor says if T.O. goes, then Jason Garrett stays. Me? I say that the whole fiasco could be fixed by getting rid of Wade Phillips and hiring a real leader. But what do you say:…
… figured we might as well show you, without further comment, this official First Baptist Dallas video, which was posted to Vimeo yesterday. It’s otherwise known as the “First Baptist Dallas Brand Manifesto,” and it kind of reminds me of this DSpot promo. Has Robert Jeffress found his? First Baptist…
Bloomberg’s story concerning President Bush’s new office digs in Preston Center — first in Berkshire at Preston Center, before he moves into a larger space at Sherry Lane Place — contains an note of interest toward the end. But first, this relevant aside: Says here that taxpayers will pay $38.95…
Meant to mention this yesterday, when the press released landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but got otherwise sidetracked: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival has a new presenting sponsor, NorthPark Center. Which is a big deal because? Well, according to the release, the AMC NorthPark 15 — which, in…
Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer — a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas –…
Just because I’m dabbling on 105.3 The Fan doesn’t mean I’m going to neglect or be conflicted about my sports media duties. Not at all. In fact, just this morning I was driving the kid to school and listening to “Muse in the News” on 1310 AM The Ticket’s Dunham & Miller Show when it…
“You Call This Progress?” by Sam Merten, January 8 Money for Nothing I went to see the [Trinity] Outlook last week. I was stunned. Every taxpayer in the city should stop by to see how the city has spent our $136,000,000 and counting—you would have thought that we would have…
Who’s counting: Got a head for numbers? Recently laid off from your job in financial services? Well, Buzz has a hot job tip for you: Become a Dallas cop. By the time you read this, the city council likely will have considered an amendment to the city code that will…
In 2009, I’m going to change. Totally change. I know I’m 44 and have achieved moderate success by being set in my ways for two decades, but I think I can do it. I’ve got myself convinced I have to do it. I’m going to develop an appreciation for sour cream,…
Absurd as it sounds, he insists the culprit was a piece of plastic. Mark Orvik—small-town boy, high jinks master and improv imitator of sleazy rednecks, British barflies and ’80s rockers—was waiting tables at his day job last spring when he accidentally stepped on a plastic bib. It was small, he…
