You will either be saddened, confused or hugely indifferent to the fact that Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Dallas last in a list of 35 hipster-friendly cities. I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves. Now then: What in the hell are we doing wrong that we rated so…
Look, we’re sorry. We wanted badly to just ignore the earth-shattering news. Unfortunately, though, Schutze is off in Arkansas ingesting giardia all week, and not everyone reads The Dallas Morning News (cheap bastards), so it’s up to those left behind to let everyone in on it. Ready? Here it is:…
The Morning News has a “Healthy Living” story today about extreme races like the Original Mud Run. I came across the online (and pay-walled) version in the middle of the night last night and thought: Well, that’s odd, considering what happened over the weekend, not to mention the ensuing onslaught…
For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a “strategist for big authors and big brands.” Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one…
Yesterday I wrote up sort of a half-assed blog post. It was mostly just a short clip of Rick Perry chatting with Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends about the evil feds, the nobility of the 10th Amendment and his overall job satisfaction. At the end of the clip in…
Not long after I wrote a story about Vickery Meadow last month, Jerry Holley, an antiques auctioneer who grew up in the area, sent me a polite email that made me curious as to what I hadn’t written. “Enjoyed your article on Vickery Meadow, but you missed the real history…
Longtime Denton Record-Chronicle opinion-page editor Mike Trimble was fired last week after a dispute with the paper’s publisher, Bill Patterson. Trimble, 68, had been at the paper 18 years and its lone editorial writer since 2002. “It was just a difference of opinion,” Trimble told Unfair Park on Monday. “And…
Yesterday, Korean community leaders involved in quelling the Shamrock Kwik Stop protests sent Unfair Park a video of Nation of Islam Student Minister Jeffery Muhammad speaking to reporters on the picket line. The footage was taken in late January, before a group of black and Korean leaders met last Thursday…
The protests outside Tommy Pak’s Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop in South Dallas have dwindled, but the battle pitting black activists against the Korean store owner continues online at the Don’t Stop Don’t Shop Facebook page. There are still promises to continue the fight to shut down Pak’s store, there are…
This definitely is navel-gazing, but screw it. This deserves it. You guys deserve it. Plus, it will help these folks sleep. First off: We’re gonna miss the hell out of Robert, both personally and professionally. He is as unique a spirit as I’ve ever met, let alone worked with, and…
I thought for a moment about making the item just below this one my Unfair Park farewell — just a few drops of pigs blood, then adios. But, no, not when I’ve been saving this: Radiohead at the Music Hall at Fair Park on March 29, 1998. For those who…
Our pros have been all over the Margaret Hunt Hill this weekend, with one, Jay Barker, sending word from the sun-up service this morning that Santiago Calatrava “hinted that this three-day celebration was a bit excessive.” Ya don’t say. You can see Danny and Paul and Jay’s their fine work at…
As promised, Korean and black leaders met today in Oak Cliff to announce the end of the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Rev. Ronald Wright addressed the media first, standing next to Korean Society of Dallas vice president Ted Kim. The two were flanked…
Anthony Bond, founder of the Irving chapter of the NAACP, looked at what was happening in South Dallas, at the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and decided: Enough’s enough. Those protests at the Korean-owned convenience store had to stop, as did calls for its owner…
This morning, Pat Boyack asked if I’d heard, if it’s true: Had Tim Schuller died? Then, later, came the confirmation, via Buddy Magazine’s Facebook page: “Sad news as long time friend and Buddy music writer, Tim Schuller has passed on. We want to wish his family and close friends our…
Sunday’s supposed to be my last day ’round here, but I just may stick around till Monday. The reason: The just-posted agenda for Monday’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee promises that Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, will walk council through a PowerPoint titled…
The Dallas Morning News has a big shocker headline — a World-War-II-typeface, breathless, this-just-in, oh-my-God headline — on the front of today’s newspaper: “True Cost of Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge: $182 million.” The News tells us: “The new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will cost far more than the $117…
Yes, you read that correctly: Robert Wilonsky, the longtime editor of this blog, is going behind the paywall. Or maybe he’s becoming the paywall. We can’t be sure. But we know this: He’s leaving the Observer for The Dallas Morning News, where he’ll officially be known as the digital managing…
At the risk of turning this into Uplift Park …At long last, peace has been made between Uplift Education and those business operators and property owners in Deep Ellum worried that a charter school in the neighborhood would spell the beginning of its end as an entertainment district. It’s the…
Long before the downtown Omni opened we were treated to a sneak peek of its light show, which folks either think is the right shade of shiny or plain tacky, a debate that becomes especially heated when you add in the new-look Reunion Tower and all the other lite-brites decorating…
A week ago Monday, two people picketed outside Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. “Don’t Stop, Don’t Shop,” and “They’re Using the ‘N’ Word,” their signs read. The day after that, there were three. One snapped my picture for crossing the picket line and entering the…
Mark Elfenbein’s known for a good month that Josh Lewin would be taking a spot in the New York Mets’ radio booth this season. His cousin told him. Says the longtime sports-radio fixture known as Elf, he was sitting at a pre-show production meeting ’round the beginning of the year…
