A Friend of Unfair Park who’s working hard for the city shoots us the following missive, concerning one of downtown Dallas’ landmarks: “I just noticed, as I looked out my City Hall window, that the Mercantile Tower and clock is finished and operational. It is quite nice looking.” R.L. Thornton…
If you were thinking of sending Dallas city council member Vonciel Jones Hill flowers on Thursday, don’t send them to City Hall. Turns out she’ll be spendingValentine’s Day speaking before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee — which, I know, is so Hallmark. Her subject?…
Then-Mayor Laura Miller and ACS CEO Lynn Blodgett, holding one of his photographs of the homeless Lynn Blodgett’s name usually shows up in print when something goes wrong with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services (backdated stock options and the chairman’s failed buyout attempts) or when something goes right (making lots of…
Jim Moore — same feller who co-wrote Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential with DMN’er Wayne Slater — has, like Mary Mapes last week, posted to The Huffington Post a “Why Texas matters” essay concerning the March 4 Democratic primary. Takeaway for further discussion: “Obama will…
At the beginning of the year, BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion announced it was moving its HQ to Irving — gonna add about a thousand jobs over the next few years, says here. Of course, that assumes people will still be using their BlackBerrys over the next few years –…
And just how did A.H. Belo Corp. — the “new” parent company of The Dallas Morning News — celebrate it first full day as a spun-off stand-alone media empire? By watching its stock free fall more than 12 percent, or two whole dollars. Ooof. Reports Editor & Publisher, the stocked…
The official word is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will debate in Austin on February 21, and it’ll be carried on both CNN and Univision — kickoff’s at 7 p.m., so prepare your pregame festivities accordingly. Out of curiosity this afternoon, I Googled the phrases “Obama Dallas” and “Clinton Dallas”…
Upper Deck’s Presidential Predictors trading card collection, featuring caricatures of candidates in classic baseball poses, was released on Wednesday; Dallas-based Beckett Media was first to bring the news of the set last week. Only, when you go to the official Upper Deck site, where you’ll also find word of a…
Carter Albrecht’s name pops up several times in an article in the new issue of New York magazine — not surprising, as the piece is headlined, “This Is My Brain on Chantix.” At first, writer Derek de Koff shrugs off the theory that Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug had something to…
Last April, you might recall, came word that the Texas Department of Transportation was yanking all the greenery along the three-mile stretch of North Central Expressway median running from Woodall Rodgers Freeway to Mockingbird Lane — just wasn’t worth the price of upkeep, said TxDOT. Today, at 2 p.m. at…
You have seen the pre-order password that gets you to the front of the line for Bob Dylan House of Blues tix, right? Nope? C’mon — it’s easy. Something like, oh, “JREWING.” To commemorate that choice, let’s take a very kosher peek at three of Dylan’s greatest television appearances with…
Dallas-based HKS Inc., almost as popular in England as Tom Hicks This is how much they hate Tom Hicks in the U.K.: Friday’s collapse of a section of new seats at Texas Christian University’s Amon Carter Stadium is making news in England this morning because the Dallas-based company responsible for…
They were anonymous, and while they weren’t exactly legion, as promised here, they were an enthusiastic bunch at Sunday’s Scientology protest in Dallas. Between 60 and 70 protesters (at a guess, average age about 19) lined the sidewalk on the west side of Buckner Boulevard across from the Church of…
View Larger Map For such a short, pleasant-looking street, Chapel Creek Drive — off Webb Chapel Road, just south of Walnut Hill Lane — has a fairly lengthy list of criminal activity, according to this morning’s Daily Crime Report. Since Thursday alone, the Dallas police have been called to six…
Gary Fitzsimmons and two Dallas County colleagues have come out for Obama. In case you were waiting to choose a presidential candidate till you found out who Dallas County District Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons, Dallas County Treasurer Joe Wells and Dallas County Clerk John Warren were voting for, well, the trio’s…
Maybe you haven’t heard: Bob Dylan’s coming to the House of Blues for three nights’ worth of shows, beginning February 21 through 23. Tickets officially go on sale February 15 — though, says Dylan’s official site, pre-orders will be taken beginning Monday at 9 a.m., for those on the lookout…
Pat Ahrens, whose daughter does not want to believe his death two weeks ago was a suicide Last week on Unfair Park we reported the deaths of two men who apparently killed themselves shortly after being released from the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center; we followed that up with a…
Today, a good Friend of Unfair Park sent along a most useful link to the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department Active Incidents Web site, where you can see an up-to-the-second listing of all the incidents to which local authorities are currently responding. Writes our Friend Chris, “It will show you what type…
Justin Terveen The Grand Hotel, as captured by Justin Terveen for a collection of photos shot in 2004-2007 from inside and outside the building Moments ago, from the steps of the Capitol Building in Austin, Preservation Texas released its fifth annual list of Texas’ Most Endangered Historic Places — and…
Will Johnson’s recycling his beer cans for a very worthwhile cause: paying for a friend’s funeral. No doubt DC9 will include among its weekend picks Will Johnson’s solo show tonight at Dan’s Sliverleaf in Denton; he’s sharing a bill with Sarah Jaffe, for which you should need no further recommendation…
Allison V. Smith, duh The late Stanley Marcus may have Reflections of a Man to showcase his lifetime of photographs, but his grandaughter, Allison V. Smith, isn’t waiting for her bio-compendium to get a published collection out there. And thank goodness for us art lovers: Her use of color is…
Former CBS producer Mary Mapes Just noticed over on The Huffington Post that Jim Schutze’s neighbor, Mary Mapes, wrote a piece about how the Texas primaries on March 4 will actually mean something, if you hadn’t already figured it out — and by something, Mapes writes, the primaries mean “maybe…
