A Friend of Unfair Park with a extensive working knowledge of tax increment financing districts–or TIFs–sends this missive to set straight all those who think folks like Ross Perot Jr. and Tom Hicks and, well, just about every wealthy developer in town are getting free rides for turning sinkholes into…
This is the view of the AAC and Victory Park from the pool deck area at the W. Gonna be awesome. In case you didn’t know this–and you probably didn’t, since its official opening isn’t till a week from tomorrow–the W Hotel’s open in Victory Park. Or maybe you do…
From out-of-town meetings to the courtroom, there are apparently no lengths Dallas Fire-Rescue Deputy Chief Michael Price won’t go in order to humiliate himself. Last December, we reported how Price filed a lawsuit against fellow firefighter Sherrie Wilson after she exposed his frat-boy antics at a fire conference in Houston…
I know what I’m not doing Thursday night: watching ABC’s lame-ass, over-promoted Master of Champions. And because the Mavs weren’t as mature or as mentally invincible as they tricked us into thinking for nine months, I also won’t be watching Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The Mavs’ complete collapse…
Really, by the time you get to the end of this, you’ll feel much better about the Dallas Mavericks’ loss last night. Really. If nothing else, you will be so confused you’ll forget there even was a basketball game last night. But try. I is not very good at the…
Do you really need a cutline here? When I was a kid and the Cowboys or Mavericks or even Rangers would lose so much as a home game, I didn’t want to know about it the next day. Wouldn’t read the papers or watch TV; didn’t want to catch even…
Dunno how or where this pic found its way onto the Web; word is MySpace, to which we’d add the inevitable, “Ya think?” All we know for sure is this was snapped after the Mavs took the Western Conference title from Phoenix, and that Dirk ain’t been quite right since…
Congratulations are in order for Darci Ratliff, our Night & Day contributor who also runs a small blogging empire. Today, she adds yet another site to her Internet resume: Comedy Central Insider, the cable channel’s as-of-yesterday unfunny blog. Sure, it had links to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report…
William Fichtner will be in town for a few months shooting Prison Break. When you see him, be cool. Fox’s hit series Prison Break was supposed to start shooting in Dallas last Thursday; didn’t happen. Turns out, though, the delay lasted merely 24 hours as the show’s producers were in…
“Last week, one of our neighbors let the bad guys follow her home.” That is what barking dog Avi Adelman had to say about a young victim of a driveway robbery on Velasco last Tuesday night. Go ahead, acknowledge the terrible aspects of the incident; a pistol-whipping and mugging on…
It’s doubtful you read the magazine called Units, which, despite its sexy title, is the official periodical of the National Apartment Association. And since you don’t read it, we thought we’d do it for you, especially since in the June issue just received here at Unfair Park, there’s a piece…
In November we stated in the paper version of Unfair Park that Tony’s Wine Warehouse & Restaurant was essentially a sucker farm where customers were consistently snookered into buying over-the-hill wines at over-the-top prices. Time will tell who sucks now. Tony’s owner Michel Monzain unloaded the two-decades old warehouse and…
The Mavericks would be wise to recall the wisdom of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day: Don’t drive angry. Here’s something to make your daily slog through this daily bog of Mavs news-n-notes from around the country a little more palatable, not to mention profitable: Last night, the Dallas Mavericks’ owner,…
This cat wants you to vote for it, so it can have a better job than all of us combined. Friday marked the first airing of Animal Planet’s new series Meow Mix House. Big deal, right? It’s the true story of 10 cats picked to live in a house and…
The guy who owned this Fair Park-area restautant owes the city $50,000. He’s also trying to reopen Gershwin’s. After 20-plus years, Gershwin’s bit it last week. Construction near the intersection of Walnut Hill Road and Greenville Avenue was cited as the final coffin nail. But what’s more intriguing is who…
After posting the note below about the impending Don Hill-Sheila Farrington nuptials, we received several e-mails asking the very same thing Unfair Park’s been wondering since first learning of the happy couple’s news last week: Should a federal grand jury actually indict the mayor pro tem or his former consultant…
Guess it’s time to find out where Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s registered: Several days ago, Unfair Park learned that on July 2, Hill’s set to marry…Sheila Farrington. That’s right, the “political consultant” who, along with Hill and former Plan Commissioner D’Angelo Lee and Southwest Housing Development Company honcho Brian…
And you thought we were done with Wright Amendment talk, you silly. Over the weekend, the Sioux City Journal reported that the agreement Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief hashed out last week concerning the abolishing of the Wright Amendment in 2016 ain’t enough for Nebraska…
Only a few guys on the planet had a worse Father’s Day than Phil Mickelson, and they were all Dallas Mavericks. The Mavs left for Miami a week ago with a 2-0 NBA Finals lead and parade plans tucked in their duffle bags. They’ll return home today 48 minutes from…
How did I miss during my morning Mavs round-up: On June 14, CBS SportsLine reported that after the Game 3 loss in Miami, two women snuck into the Mavs’ locker room and wound up showering with the players, chief among them Marquis Daniels, who invited the ladies to stick arond,…
“Gary Payton, you’re so great. How come you’re so great?” And other questions posed by NBA writers. Forget Game 4, the blowout you still can’t erase from the memory banks, and we’re just a few ticks of the clock away from the title that shoulda-woulda-coulda been the Dallas Mavericks’. Now…
If you remember Tom “Pepe Lopez” Foote, your just wish you could, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be at the Bar of Soap tonight for the Loco Gringos tribute. Count yourself among the oldest and most haggard of the Dallas music scene if you get excited about this…
