View Larger MapThose Landmark Commission meeting agendas are full of interesting hints — like, oh, that green house the State Fair of Texas wants to build in Fair Park. Or, now, this vague note concerning the installation of 21 wind turbines on the rooftop of 801 Main Street. We should…
OK, so KERA’s musical youth been on the air for, what, 60 minutes? First song played: Santana’s “She’s Not There” (probably a little too classic-rock for a new-station kick-off, you ask me), followed by Monsters of Folk, Ingrid Michaelson, Telegraph Canyon and … well, look, the playlist is here, so…
10. Lots of heroes Sunday night in Philly, but the biggest – smallest – play was made by rookie linebacker Victor Butler. With the Eagles down 7 and facing third-and-10 from Dallas’ 33, Donovan McNabb scrambled right into what seemed to be an open field for a good 10 to…
There is one rather remarkable item in this morning’s Metro section: Among the paid-for obituaries is a notice that retired U.S. Navy Captain Forrest R. Biard died Tuesday at the age of 96. A Bonham native and North Dallas High School grad in 1930 (he is, in fact, a recipient…
Every Friday night, Frank J. Librio, managing director of the Public Information Office at Dallas City Hall, sends to the media a collection of memos distributed late in the week to Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council. (And, most of the time, they never seem to land in…
ABC News has posted a longer sneak preview of tonight’s 20/20 segment about the battle over 4949 Swiss Avenue; the video’s here, while the story’s here. (Mark McCay and Justin Burgess, to whom Mary Ellen Bendtsen signed over the house shortly before her death in 2005, declined to speak to…
Earlier this afternoon, I noticed on the Landmark Committee’s Fair Park Task Force meeting agenda for Wednesday a most intriguing note: Someone has applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness to build a “7,600 square foot Greenhouse and 6,000 square foot growing area” in the Midway at Fair Park. And by…
While the focus of this week’s National Prostitute Diversion Conference was Dallas’s collaborative approach to treating prostitutes as victims and diverting them to programs that include drug treatment, counseling and job training, many of the attendees repeatedly asked what was being done to enforce laws against men who pay for…
A couple of weeks back, during halftime of the SMU-Navy game at Ford Stadium, the university debuted two new mustangs donated by the National Wild Horse Foundation, on behalf of Madeleine and T. Boone Pickens. Which had more than a few folks wondering: What in the wide, wide world of…
He sounded a little groggy when he spoke to Unfair Park this morning. But University of North Texas junior Stephen Michael Benavides had a long night: The chair of ACLU’s student chapter spent Thursday night appealing to the UNT Supreme Court to adopt language of a failed bill and allow…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Borders Group is removing from its shelf 200 Waldenbooks locations across the U.S. — including, as you can tell from the headline, the longstanding Valley View Center location, which opened in October 1999. Employees there only found out about the closure, scheduled for…
Friend of Unfair Park Peterk sends word: “Yes, folks, now you can buy Icky Twerp items.” And just in time for the holidays. The shop’s right here, though be warned, it’s not much: two T-shirts, a Slam Bang Theater best-of DVD and two video cassettes (!). Says Paul Camfield, son…
So, yes, this is a weekly feature now — your Friday acid flashback, courtesy the copious collection of one George Gimarc, with whom we’re awfully proud to partner. A brief recap so far: KNUS news tuned up with sitar, followed by A Very Roky Halloween. Now, it gets even better…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along the link to this shindig scheduled for next week at the Fair Park Music Hall: Elevate Dallas, a “leadership event” that, from the looks of this promotional video, is piggybacking on the Sojourners-sponsored Justice Revival also on the calendar next week at Dallas…
View Larger MapWe first told you about Randall’s plans to expand Simon David on Inwood Road back in August, shortly before the grocer took its case to the City Plan Commission. Randall’s says the 25,225 square foot store, which has been perched on the property since 1984, is just too…
Mark Cuban is sweating. Not the nervous kind of lather you work up fretting over a lawsuit slapped on you by Ross Perot Jr., a witch hunt targeting you by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the fact that, for the first time in memory, your basketball team didn’t sell…
True confessions: Many of us carry some secret shame, a memory of youthful indiscretion that we’d rather no one else know. Maybe you shoplifted or felt up a cousin at a family reunion. Hey, it’s cool. We understand. Even Buzz has an ugly secret, but since we have no shame,…
An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the Fort Worth Convention Center the scene is all bright lights, pyrotechnics, and red, white and blue. More than 12,000 people have packed the arena for a one-day dose of inspiration at Get…
A Mavs season-ticket-holding Friend of Unfair Park wonders: “Weren’t the Dallas Mavericks supposed to announce The New Voice of the American Airlines Center yesterday?” We appreciate the reminder — because, yes, November 4 was indeed supposed to be The Big Day, after Michael Taylor sat down at the mic for…
Al Armendariz, a research associate professor in SMU’s Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, was on National Public Radio earlier this week discussing health issues suffered by folks living near the Barnett Shale; said Armendariz of airborne toxins discovered by researchers, “the oil and gas production industry around Fort Worth…
Tales of Billy Zane sightings are not hard to come by in recent weeks, from kids’ hospital charity fundraisers to the AT&T Performing Arts Center gala opening to the AC/DC show a few days ago. If nothing else, he can be found at least twice a week at Premiere Video…
As promised earlier, here’s the full 75-page report from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission concerning use of force during the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth in June. Per the agency’s Open Records Coordinator, driver’s license information and vehicle license plate numbers have been redacted from the documents; hence, the…
