U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall of Rockwall says that despite evidence to the contrary, why, sure, he’s willing to take a few courses in “climate science.” Because as he said during an Energy & Environment subcommittee hearing only last November, “Reasonable people have serious questions about our knowledge of the state…
Clearly, Rick’s Cabaret needs to put the Dallas and Fort Worth mayors on its press-release list. Because in case you missed it — and how could you, it even made Huffington Post — Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are suddenly very opposed to…
While we’re on the subject of TV shows I actually watch, I’ll share with you the contents of a press release that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. During the Super Bowl Weekend, something called Style Icon will be setting up “a two-day celebrity luxury lounge” at the Crescent…
A couple months back we noted that Glee casting director Robert Ulrich would be in town this month auditioning wannabes for a new role to debut during the FOX series’ third season. Only, before a shot at network prime-time you first have to make your way through The Glee Project,…
A fellow Thomas Jefferson High School grad forwards along this brief interview KERA-FM’s Bill Zeeble did with former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Linus Wright, who’s now one of Governor Rick Perry’s appointees to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas’s board of trustees. In the clip, Wright suggests that when…
I was watching Ocean’s Thirteen on USA last night — couldn’t sleep, thought that would do it, didn’t, don’t judge — and was inundated with promos for a new series called Fairly Legal, about a mediator at an IKEA store who likes to strip down to her underwear, though I…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention this morning to a just-posted Flickr set from friend of the show Scott Dorn, a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting this teardown town. Turns out, Scott got a last-minute call late last week from Lindamood Demolition, the company…
It’s been seven months since we first told you the story of Robert Groden, the Kennedy conspiracy theorist and author and Oliver Stone consultant arrested and detained by Dallas police for peddling his pamphlets in Dealey Plaza. Three weeks ago, it looked as the story might have come to a…
Southwest officials hopped on conference calls with aviation-biz writers yesterday to lay out the details of its long-in-the-works Rapid Rewards do-over, which Ryan Green, the Love Field-based carrier’s Senior Director of Customer Loyalty and Partnerships, calls “the single biggest new product launch in our Company’s history” over on the SWA…
… except maybe knee surgery. Or a mild knee sprain. Or a broken foot. But other than that, nothing…
Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein has many thoughts on the DNA exoneration of Cornelius Dupree Jr. yesterday, when a Dallas County judge acknowledged that the 51-year-old man served 30 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Silvestein delineates some of the myriad “weaknesses of the criminal justice…
The Texas Transportation Commission-created TxDOT Restructure Council sends word today: Its long-awaited report, full o’ recommendations aimed at improving the broke(n) Texas Department of Transportation, is done and available for reading right … here. And high on the to-do list: Throw out the TxDOT leadership. Says the doc: “It is…
Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey’s still combing through Allen Stanford’s financials to see who got some of that money made in the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that landed the Texas financier in prison, where, one day, he’ll face a federal trial (maybe). Janvey, who was appointed receiver, wants that money so he…
There’s a business-section piece today about Half-Price Books’ new online marketplace, which coincides with the Dallas-based used-bookseller’s own release this morning announcing the virtual shoppe. Says Kathy Doyle Thomas, Half-Price’s exec veep, in the official announcement: “Half-Price Books is pleased to offer an online shopping option to our customers, both…
It was waaaay back in October ’09 we noticed that Police drummer Stewart Copeland was working on a percussion concerto for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with locals D’Drum, which counts among its members local legend Jamal Mohamed. We are now but weeks away from the world premiere of that piece,…
This morning Sports Illustrated launched a site allowing folks to vote on the Most Decisive Super Bowl Moments, which coincides with a list that appears in the issue hitting stands today. One moment — a “game-changing play, player’s leadership or coach’s decision” — from each Super Bowl is pulled out…
Shortly before The Dallas Morning News announced the erection of its paywall, which goes into place February 15, publisher and CEO Jim Moroney sent to the staff a memo in which he wrote: Brace yourself. Said Moroney in a phone conversation with Unfair Park at 6:30 this morning, as he…
Chad Lacerte, who’d hoped to have that Dallas Watersports Complex up and running on Fish Trap Lake last summer, hasn’t given up hope yet — not even after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled the cable-ski out from under him at the very last minute, after he’d sunk some $800,000 into…
You’ll note there’s an empty space on the American Airlines Center’s calendar tonight, which doesn’t meant it’ll be dark. Far from it: The National Sports Marketing Network, a sports-biz trade organization with some 10,000 members, is holding its first North Texas Chapter meeting tonight, a three-and-a-half-hour networking backslapper that wraps…
Over on the city’s Official Website there’s a list of the four Christmas tree recycling stations accepting your yule logs till January 14. Says nothing about Hanukkah bushes, though, which is a bit of a bummer, since City Hall just sent word it’s added an incentive to this year’s recycling…
No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they’re handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Next Portland to Dallas/Fort…
Pete’s asked me to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a link to the rundown for Thursday night’s show at Club Dada, a memorial for Frankie Campagna, who died early New Year’s Day. I’m happy to oblige — not only because I’d known Frankie 45 since he was a…
