Can we quit being surprised about Deep Ellum being kind of awesome yet? Because between the group of excellent new bars and restaurants opening in the neighborhood, last Saturday’s downright packed Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and the first-ever Deep Ellum Outdoor Market, it appears as though the ‘Ellum is…
Beckett Media, HQ’d off Welch Road and LBJ Freeway, publishes monthly price guides for damned near everything you can buy, sell, trade and collect — from sports cards to Beanie Babies. And though business ain’t what it used to be — myriad titles have been dropped over the years as…
Friend of Unfair Park and downtown denizen Noah Jeppson got into the Atmos Complex over the weekend thanks to an invite from John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, who never asks us anywhere. With a nod to the controversy surrounding the properties, which Forest City handed…
Hello, Unfair Park. It’s nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Sorry to say, though, it’s just a short stay–a follow-through on a promise I made yesterday to Robert, y’know. That promise? That I’d roll on through to this side of the fence for a moment to tell you…
I have been a terrible former music editor. Here we are, but three days from the kick-off of the Dallas Observer Music Awards, and so far I’ve written not one word about so glorious an event as the one planned by Pete and our crack promotions staff. Pete has offered…
Texas Observer Forrest Wilder has been doing an occasional chat-with series featuring homegrowns “involved in issues of the environment and energy,” and for his latest installment he’s chatting up none other than our old pal Patrick “Car-Free in Big D” Kennedy. Not surprisingly, Patrick’s got plenty to say: Wilder sent…
Last night was The Big Night — Jerry Jones (and Rich Dalrymple, the Dallas Cowboys’ director of public relations) took his turn on HBO’s Entourage, where Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold tried to sell Jeruh and other NFL team owners on letting him broker the next round of TV rights. That…
Whilst combing through the Internets for an Unfair Park item, I just came across this job posting: “Host Ticket Top 10 (Full-time) Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket.” No kidding? I called Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, to see what the what — like, did Chris House get fired?…
Feels like forever since we’ve posted one of Justin Terveen’s photos on Unfair Park, and that, right there, that’s too long. And so, on this holiday Monday, here’s quite the gift for the Friends of Unfair Park — four from The Urban Fabric taken last night from high atop the…
This morning, I opened my in-box to find a lengthy retrospective put together by KXAS-Channel 5 for last night’s farewell to Mike Snyder, whose 30-year run as reporter and anchor for the NBC owned-and-operated has come to an end. It is, of course, narrated by the only person suited for…
‘Bout one month ago today, over on Sportatorium, Richie called it: Russ Martin would be taking over as morning-show host on KEGL-FM (97.1) some time this month. J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s market manager, just made it official: The one-time Observer cover boy begins July 12 at 6 a.m. The full…
Six years ago I wrote a cover story about Jamey Newberg, a Dallas attorney better known for being the namesake and main contributor to The Newberg Report, which covers the Texas Rangers “from top to bottom.” Then and now, the Web site and the books Newberg publishes each season are…
Steve Blow is exceedingly good at his job, which is to reach new heights in daily journo banality as a columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has seriously got it down. There is real talent in saying absolutely nothing of interest or consequence for years on end. Which is…
Over the weekend — and, really, for the past several days — the admin side of Unfair Park and the other Observer blogs has been acting a bit wonky. Which is to say, one minute it’d work just fine; the next, it became inaccessible. We couldn’t post; you couldn’t comment…
I called Jim this morning at 6:30 — wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning’s “topping-off” ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too…
Nice to see someone’s found a use for our former home at 2130 Commerce: Reid Slaughter, founder of Park Cities People and former Cowboys & Indians publisher, and Jeff Hinson’s YouPlusMedia, whose local offering is essentially the “YouTube for Dallas,” in the words of our own Daniel Hopkins — who,…
Richard Hunter has a new member of his household. That’s him, quivering in the corner. Shaking uncontrollably. Convulsing. The 4-year-old is scared shitless. “He lives in fear,” Hunter says of his new best friend, Mel. “You would too if you’d been beating and traumatized your whole life.” Michael Vick is…
Jim’s office has been dark all day. I called him earlier, to see if it he was OK. He spoke in a whisper, sounded down. I told him he was missing it — from the office window we could see them placing the first curved piece on the center arch…
No doubt by now you’ve heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington (who has a 2 p.m. meeting scheduled with Mayor Tom Leppert on Monday) telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is — how so so so so so sorry he is — that President Obama…
Several Friends of Unfair Park are wondering this morning when Jim’s going to weigh in on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison added to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 two exemptions that will make it easier for the city to build the Trinity River toll road between the levees,…
Last night, I ran into noted doc director Mark Birnbaum at a little shindig Lodge owner Dawn Rizos threw in conjunction with the release of good friend and once-and-future Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman’s latest tome, the autobiographical Black Cracker. Mark — who’s directed such films as Larry v. Lockney,…
So says a press release just in from KTVT’s Lori Conrad, who says the CBS owned-and-operated will bump up CBS 11 News This Morning half an hour beginning Monday. Interesting move, considering that KDFW-Channel 4 just did the same thing with Good Day two months ago. Scott Sams and Ginger…
