Nearly nine years after he was tried before a federal jury on 65 counts of alleged bribery and conspiracy, 84-year-old civil rights leader Al Lipscomb remains a prominent political icon in southern Dallas. He’s a fixture at Dallas City Council meetings, where he served as District 8’s council member from…
He denied and denied that he was taking the top spot at the New York City Opera, going so far as to tell Bloomberg News right before Christmas, “I’m not interested in the job at New York City Opera.” Well, so much for that. Because not five months after he…
When I spoke to Erykah Badu in February 2008, shortly before the release of New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), she strongly suggested all was not well with the Black Forest Theater, from which Badu had hoped to save the soul of her native South Dallas. “Financially, it’s a…
As President Bush packs up the White House in advance of his move to Dallas next week(ish), the National Archives and Records Administration is in the process of trucking loads of paper, electronic and audio-visual documents to a storage space in Lewisville so that when the time comes, the boxes…
Remember that Denny’s Super Bowl ad casting call last month? The one looking for “authentically weathered, tough, rugged” cowboys from Dallas? Right. That one. Anyway, today we get a peek at the ‘pokes Denny’s rustled up for its first-ever Super Bowl spot, which Denny’s spokesperson Cori Rice tells Unfair Park…
The council won’t be voting today on final arrangements for the convention center hotel project, which includes approval of the development agreement and Guaranteed Maximum Price with Matthews Southwest and the operator agreement with Omni Hotels, leading us to believe the final vote on this boondoggle will take place January…
As promised, I cleaned out my closet over the holidays. Hmm, what to do when it’s Jan. 14 and you’ve already aced your New Year’s resolution? I know, Show-n-Tell! As usual, the wittiest answers correctly identifying my closet’s contents in vivid detail win a free week’s subscription to both the Dallas Observer and this…
Yesterday at Nick & Sam’s on Maple Avenue, Weitzman Group held its annual Shopping Center Survey & Forecast luncheon, which GlobeSt.com reports was attended by a “standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people” straining to hear how 2009 was shaping up for the Dallas-Fort Worth retail real estate market –…
A) Flozell Adams and his 92 false-start penalties will make a trip to the Pro Bowl. B) Would-be robbers change their minds upon realizing their intended victim is a former player loaded with fame and fortune. C) Championship legacy be damned, these days your Cowboys are closer to the Clippers than…
When I saw that Jane McGarry had posted a comment to Unfair Park yesterday, I felt a tingling sensation in my Carly box. And with that, we present, in its entirety, the KXAS-Channel 5 anchor’s interview with Lady Bush.Update: Since, yet again, some Friends of Unfair Park are having issues…
If you haven’t carefully checked the fine print in the city’s proposed high-crime apartment ordinance, which the Dallas City Council will take up today, you might have missed this little gem: Apartment owners whose properties become too crime-ridden according to the city’s calculations will be required to collect credit reports…
This morning’s New York Times says that The Building Formerly Known as San Jacinto Tower at 2100 Ross Avenue is among several of Joseph Moinian’s holdings placed on a credit agency’s “watch list,” along with buildings in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Chicago. It may be no big deal, cautions the…
Right is wrong and left is … right? Seems to be. It’s not exactly a bass-ackward revolution, but left-handers are doing okay for themselves in sports these days. Or are they? The idea struck me last week when I saw highlights of college quarterbacks Josh Heupel and Matt Leinart winning…
This just in from the Associated Press, which updates us on the plans of one Nastia Liukin:Back home in Dallas, she will enroll at SMU, where she plans to take a limited course load so she can free up time to resume her training. The next U.S. team training camp…
Three weeks ago, we briefly mentioned Tiffinni Young’s name in a story about Mayor Tom’s potential bid to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison if she decides to run for governor. If Leppert leaves office early, the mayor pro tem would take his place, with either Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway…
It was bound to happen eventually: Rebecca Aguilar, suspended (and eventually fired) by KDFW-Channel 4 in October 2007 following her parking-lot interview with James Walton, has finally sued the station on the ground that the Fox station terminated “her employment based upon her race.” Her attorney, Steve Kardell, tells the…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill, guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. In the photo above, that’s Hill at far left, along with Neal Caldwell and, at the drums, Randy Caldwell. Dennard…
Rick’s Cabaret issued a press release today concerning its new all-nude joint on Stemmons Freeway: XTC Cabaret, so named for its playlist. (No? My bad.) As we noted yesterday, the Houston-based chain of stripperterias is rebranding its current tops-off, bottoms-on joint due to its poor performance.And now it claims that…
As you’ll read in this week’s dead-tree version of The Sportatorium, hitting newstands tomorrow, I think Wade Phillips should be fired. Immediately. No, actually, I think Jerry Jones should’ve walked down to the sideline in the third quarter of the Philadelphia debacle after Tony Romo unceremoniously stripped Phillips of his…
Realtor Candace Rubin asks that we out Harvey Gough as a kindly soul lurking beneath a crusty burger, which is why, yesterday, she sent along the link to Steak Team Mission, which is a self-proclaimed “group of Dallas-based restaurateurs and supporters capable of providing food and supplies for soldiers’ benefit.”…
On Thursday, Neiman Marcus revealed that it had suffered a miserable Christmas, posting a 30-percent drop in revenue compared to December 2007 sales figures. Which is among the reasons Neimans yesterday began laying off 374 employees, about 100 of those in Dallas. As far as Neimans president and CEO Burt…
Known it for a while, but yesterday the head honchos at our two local dailies made it official: Beginning next month the newspaper sports war competition is over. The former rivals are now shaking hands, sharing headlines. It’s happening all over the place, with even super powers like the Washington…
