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Sam Merten snapped this photo yesterday in front of Chapman Motors, located at 4312 Ross Avenue near the Peak Street intersection. Said the Friend of Unfair Park who tipped us to its existence: "The whole Ross Avenue renaming controversy seemed a little, ya know, abstract until I saw the sign."...

The above photo was taken at 10:49 this morning, from the City of Dallas's Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Construction Web cam. We peek at it every so often; Schutze can spend hours on the thing, eyes glued and slightly glazed. (At least, I think that's what he's looking at.) Only,...

Lon Tinkle's book The Key to Dallas has probably been out of print since its publication in 1965. Copies of the slim tome -- written for now-defunct publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s "Keys to the Cities" series, which also included books about New York City, Rome, Paris and...

"No, don't see it, Willie. You sure you tossed it out the window?" A Friend of Unfair Park who recalls my former obsession with any story dealing with Willie Nelson and his BioWillie fuel -- which, of course, is produced by Dallas-based Earth Biofuels, which is in the midst of...

I just spoke at great length with Paul Dyer, director of the Park and Recreation Department, about his decision to keep Jenny at the Dallas Zoo, rather than move her to the sanctuary in Tennessee or the drive-through zoo in Mexico. He says he made the decision for several reasons:...

Just received word that Dallas Park and Recreation officials have handed to city council members a memo in which it says that Jenny the elephant will not go to Mexico or Tennessee, but will, after weeks' worth of hand-wringing, stay in Dallas. More to come, as Unfair Park has been...

Justin Terveen Alternate head: "There's your D Spot. Now, kneel on it." Unfair Park's favorite photographer, the great Justin Terveen, doesn't just shoot breathtaking photographs of the city's skyline. Sometimes, he's more about the ground-level action. Like, take this photo from Saturday morning, snapped at 2:04 in the a.m. in...

Over the weekend, Pete Oppel sent me this link to an item he wrote about -- hang on, hang on -- Jenny the elephant. Insists the former News-man, Paul Dyer, director of the city's Park and Recreation Department, has come up with an option for the elephant that doesn't involve...

T. Boone Pickens T. Boone Pickens has himself a new acquisition this a.m.: the McCommas Bluff Landfill on Youngblood Road, which the City of Dallas owns and plans to shut down in 2042. Actually, to be more specific, Pickens' Clean Energy Fuels, which distributes natural gas for transportation in the...

Ten pages behind the Fred Baron story you'll find one about -- wait for it, wait for it -- Jenny the elephant and her potential move to either Mexico or Tennessee. Very catch headline too: "What to Do With Traumatized Elephant Stirs Up Dallas." Can't say the Association of Zoos...

Methinks our pal Tim Wagner's day just got a little bit longer, as the Associated Press noted moments ago that the Federal Aviation Administration has fined American Airlines $7 million for "safety and drug-testing violations." Update: Here's the FAA's media release detailing the reasons for the penalties. And the Dallas...

When he's not trying to save the U.S. from foreign oil, and making himself a little richer in the process, Dallas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is writing books about saving the U.S. from foreign oil and making himself a little richer in the process. In coming days, Crown will...

Right about the time I was posting this, I got an e-mail from a good Friend of Unfair Park, who noted, simply, "I’m starting to love Mondays." Why come? Because if it's Monday, that means Avi Adelman spent the weekend trolling the mean streets of Lower Greenville with his Handycam...

If you’ve wondered where I’ve been with all the snips, clips and blow-outs -- and, from the deafening cries of outrage, not so much -- I took a two-week hiatus from Shear Genius coverage because, well, nothing was really happening when it came down to our primary interest: co-owner of...

How about we rename Ross Geller? He seems to like the idea. Issues like the renaming of streets tend to give me tired head, and, honestly, I never saw a need to start “branding” swaths of cement in the first place. But the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee's suggestion yesterday...

Back on February 20, I filed an open records request with the City of Dallas to get information about the convention center hotel project, along with any communications between Mayor Leppert and council members regarding Lynn Flint Shaw, the former DART board chair who was killed by husband Rufus less...

David Gordon Green In The New York Times today, Richardson High School's own David Gordon Green talks about transitioning from Indieland to Hollywood -- specifically, how he went from making such elegiac films as George Washington and All the Real Girls to the stoner bromance Pineapple Express, which, you certainly...

Lily Tomlin, now a concerned citizen for Jenny Lily Tomlin couldn't save her show about Dallas that was intended for HBO. But now, she's trying to keep Jenny the elephant from going to that safari park in Mexico, where the Dallas Zoo intends to send her unless the city council...