The Green Bay Packers were supposed to practice at SMU. Yeah, not so much. Instead, they wound up using the Highland Park Scots’ relatively new indoor practice facility, which, from the looks of this glowing press pack, is worth every penny of the $4.5 million spent. From The Packers’ Official…
Seven hours later and … impressive. Unless you’re, say, Sports Guy Bill Simmons, who shoots up this virtual flare: “20 degrees and snowing in Dallas. We need more sand on the streets!!! MORE SAND!” Salt too. Though one must admire my old friend — and Super Bowl XLV North Texas…
City Hall just sent word: At midnight, shortly after the snow began to fall, the city went to Ice Force 1 — meaning, 30 sanding units took to the streets, where drivers, at least, are crawling along carefully, per Friends of Unfair Park as they headed back from the Flaming…
That $202-million figure seen in the screengrab above comes from PricewaterhouseCoopers’s much-debated Super Bowl guesstimate released a few days ago — though, as you’ll note in Mayor Tom’s interview with FOX Business Channel, he pushes that number up to, oh, ’round $600 million-ish. Which is what happens when you conduct…
I brought the boy into the office today. We had no choice — even he was getting cabin fever, and better Unfair Park HQ than another day staring down his LEGOs. But now this from 3700 Ross:Breaking news: Dallas ISD schools will be closed on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Administrative…
Way back back on Monday, Patrick was at Love Field watching Dallas Police arrest cabbies who’d abandoned their rides in front of the airport, while I spoke with Mayor Tom about how the escalating protest — which, earlier in the day, involved a dangerously slow roll down Central Expressway and…
Last month, Dallas County officials — chief among them, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins — went down to Austin to ask the Texas Commission on Jail Standards if it’d be OK to add 928 additional beds in the Lew Sterrett North Tower, so-called “variance beds” intended to relieve congestion in…
Speaking of slickery downtown sidewalks and the city’s response to ’em …A good Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Chapter 43, Sections 43-96 through Sections 43-98.2 of the Dallas City Code — the sections dealing specifically with snow and ice. Turns out, the city has copious ordinances dealing…
This is what Fountain Place’s fountain looks like most of the time. Except this week. Thanks to Friend of Unfair Park Ryan, who sends along this picture taken by one of his friends. Now where’d I leave my skates?…
This just in from Dallas Police spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse: About two hours ago, officers were sent to the Bank of America building at 901 Main Street. Something to do with “a man sending letters from that location.” Janse explains why below:The suspect had made copies of a letter…
In 1989 Dallas Carter High School stud Derric Evans signed his letter of intent to play college football at the University of Tennessee. While in a hot tub. That’s the day I lost interest in National Signing Day. It’s all hoopla and hype and rarely does a four-year college football…
Our Danny Hurley skated down to Fair Park last night for Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed’s Aces & Angels poker tourney, concert and salute-to-the-troops. And while a slide show’s forthcomingHere’s our slide show, but I wanted to post a few images sooner than later — any chance to run a…
This just in from the Transport Workers Union of America, whose members have been engaged in drawn-out and heretofore unsuccessful negotiations with management at American Airlines: Beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, they’ll be picketing and leafleting at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Specifically, they’ll be marching up and down the sidewalks…
10. Never really listened to Little Texas before last night’s bash at Fair Park’s Centennial Hall, but they do a pretty good rendition of KISS’s “Detroit Rock City.” Even Master of Ceremonies Gene Simmons was bobbing his head. 9. This just in: Nothing goes better with a cold shot of…
Monday seems like a lifetime ago — but that, of course, is when the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge arch, like much of the skyline, turned a deep shade of blue in advance of something (monster truck pull, maybe?) taking place in Arlington this weekend. Anyway. As promised, here’s Justin Terveen’s…
I know it’s all about Super Bowl XLV around here this week. I can tell by the way my eyes are drooping and feet are dragging. But while we were partying and footballing last night, the Mavs’ Dirk Nowitzki did it again. He reminded us how damn good he is…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning that it’s looking for the man you see in the video above, who’s suspected of having gone on a “three-hour crime spree” January 29 during which, police say, he robbed three different massage parlors at gunpoint. Among the businesses hit was the…
That’s the latest Oncor outage map above — and it appears quite a bit busier than yesterday’s at-this-time look-see. (Which might explain the fleet of tree-removal trucks that just passed in front of the house?) Still, ERCOT and Oncor insist no need for rolling blackouts this morning, despite the expectation…
What a Week For the New County Judge Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has been pummeled in the media and political circles for playing Scottie Pippen to Commissioner John Wiley Price’s Michael Jordan in the game to push out Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet. But just when things seemed like they…
Meet the new boss: In the ’08 Obama/Clinton primary election, it was clear we had two Democratic Parties in Dallas County. We had the one that won that election—the smart Obamacrats. And then we had the losers, the Dallas County Demacrooks, the usual suspects, the ones who took all that…
Dodging tumbleweeds as we ride our horses to work: Not guilty. Favoring style over substance and championships as much as character: Very guilty. As almost a quarter-million visitors descend upon Dallas, Arlington and North Texas for Super Bowl XLV, we’d love to shine up and roll out a recent history…
The Dallas Cowboys are known for a lot of things: eight Super Bowl appearances, the hottest cheerleaders in sports, the grandiosity that comes with being held out as “America’s Team.” But no Dallas welcome would be complete without a map that guides Super Bowl fans to some of the locales…
