What you see at right is the urban garden the Deep Ellum Community Association would like to plant on this lot at Canton and Good-Latimer. The idea isn’t new: In December 2009 we wrote about DECA’s attempt to green up Deep Ellum, and initially they’d looked at planting on the…
Seriously, instead of trying to come up with cute names for teacher evaluations or asking the Dallas Regional Chamber for help, the Dallas Independent School District’s higher-ups (the school board, especially) need to take the few-minute drive to Mesquite and ask Superintendent Dr. Linda Henrie how to make schools, you…
Reports out of England have Liverpool and Manchester City of the Premier League taking a long, hard look at FC Dallas’s Brek Shea, the 21-year-old College Station-born star just called to the U.S. National Team at September’s end. Problem is, Shea — a chief contender for MLS’s MVP award –…
First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress first appeared on Unfair Park back in October 2008 — the first time, or close to, he referred to Mitt Romney, a Mormon, as a member of a “cult.” Friday’s remarks following his endorsement of Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.,…
We went to the Mecum car auction Saturday after all, where a ’68 Corvette sold for $565,000, and as we were driving away from the Dallas Convention Center we espied a small encampment of sorts set up next to Robert Summers’s 49 bronze Longhorns in Pioneer Plaza. There was one…
We’ve been here before: the night the Rolling Stones played Will Rogers Auditorium as the “London Green Shoed Cowboys” in the summer of ’78. The boot, known as Handsome Girls, remains one of the finest in my collection; I revisit it regularly, particularly that rendering of “Starfucker.” No wonder it…
[Editor’s note: At the request of a few regulars, we’re going with a rare weekend-night open thread to celebrate the Rangers’ second straight appearance in the American League Championship Series. Will we do this again tomorrow? Hard to say. Let’s see how tonight goes. I’ll be in and out, but…
Friday evening, two groups of protesters, Occupy Dallas and Occupy the Federal Reserve, lined opposite side of N. Pearl Street at Woodall Rodgers in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. “We got sold out, Feds got bailed out!” Occupy Dallas protesters shouted in unison on the west side…
Long ago, in 1978, this was released as a vinyl boot, Dolls Live: Dallas ’74. Over the years the original has become a pricey, much-sought-after artifact — this, despite the fact it’s said to be of “very poor” sound quality. (This attendee didn’t even dig it live: “not that great.”)…
Seems like only days ago we were watching those old home movies shot on Forest Lane, in which you catch a fleeting glimpse of the groovy brick-wall mural, between Midway and Rosser, painted in the spirit of 1976 by W.T. White students. The mural, done to cover graffiti that marred…
The lovely woman you see at right is Willietta Bradley, a kindergarten math teacher at F.P. Caillet Elementary, where, on Tuesday, I took part in the Dallas Independent School District’s Principal for a Day program. I was especially delighted to have been assigned there, of all places: Only a few…
Condoms, birth control — who needs ’em? Just don’t have sex, Texas says to its horny teens. Just hobble that unbridled desire coupled with a limited understanding of consequences and say ‘No, I’m saving myself for marriage.’ That’s pretty much the message, maybe paired with an infographic demonstrating where the…
First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress is throwing in with Rick Perry, which is hardly a surprise given Jeffress’s participation in that meeting with Perry and pastors back in June at James Robison’s LIFE Outreach International campus in Euless. (Also: Jeffress would never, ever endorse Mitt Romney. Not ever.) But he…
Those ideas, the ones you can’t shake and would love to invent, the ones you imagine would make a cool million in an instant — they’re the ones Buddy DiFonzo and Mike Solow are looking for. Friends from their software sales jobs, they started a company called Idea Harvest, which…
Speaking of walking along bridges over the Trinity River …Yesterday, members of The Trinity Trust, the Trinity Commons Foundation’s board and a few city officials were invited to take a walk along the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which is scheduled to have its grand opening during a three-day-long wingding in…
In December of last year, the city of Dallas put out the call: Design firm needed to draw up pedestrian and bicycle enhancements for the Cedar Crest Bridge over the Trinity River. In May, the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee was told that 13 firms had stepped forward with proposals…
Last Friday, ’round this time, we opened with Justin Terveen’s look-see at the downtown Omni illuminated by lightning — a striking shot. This morning, Justin kindly sends this postcard view of the hotel taken last night in advance of Texas-OU at the Cotton Bowl tomorrow morning at 11. “Also, note…
Unfair Park dropped by the Democratic New Leaders Texas PAC meeting at The Kessler last night. The group is billed as a statewide network of Dems “nurturing and promoting the next generation of principled, capable Texas leaders” — like, for example, the affable and polished state Rep. Rafael Anchia, who…
The 4300 block of Lively Lane, just off Midway and between Walnut Hill and Northwest Highway, is a nice, tranquil stretch of street — so nice you wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some of the folks living in that part of the NW have surveillance cameras keeping watch…
Earlier today, Jennifer Emily noted that Jonathan Bruce Reed was found guilty of the 1978 murder of Braniff Airlines flight attendant Wanda Jean Wadle — the third time he’s been convicted of raping and strangling her in her Northeast Dallas apartment. (Prior convictions — based upon the testimony of eyewitnesses,…
Moments ago, a Friend of Unfair Park directed my attention to the State Fair of Texas’s Facebook page, where 18 old photos from fairs past were just posted. All are worth a look-see; remember the fun we had browsing Nick DeWolf’s stash of pics from the ’77 State Fair? But…
Brett Shipp was among those who attended Jerry Haynes’s funeral Saturday afternoon. The WFAA newsman was accompanied by his father, Bert, who was a familiar face on local television long before his son stepped out of his shadow. Bert and Jerry went way back — they were among the first…
