Writer Joe Queenan’s always had it out for Dallas. The paper version of Unfair Park has something to do what that. We ended his career as filmmaker. No matter. He never liked Dallas anyhow — not since November 22, 1963. Anyway. He writes for The Weekly Standard these days, among…
This just in from WalletPop: Westgrove Drive is one of the Safest Neighborhoods in America. And how, exactly, did WalletPop come up with this infotainment? Using exclusive neighborhood crime data developed by Dr. Andrew Schiller’s team at NeighborhoodScout.com, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies,…
No doubt it’ll return; hell, maybe you can see it now. But I just went to look for something on the team’s official website and instead came up with what you see above, courtesy Network Solutions. WhoIs.Net shows it expired November 3, and that it was updated only today. When…
Previously scheduled plans precluded our attending Neil and Kenny Goldberg’s late-called all-star wingding Sunday afternoon, during the so-called “Lamar-B-Q” held in front of the Goldbergs’ Gold Metal Recyclers. Nevertheless, we did receive the details, including the 3-D drive-n-fly-through animated tour — combining my two of my favorite things, film-making and…
At 8:10 this morning, Dallas Police spokesman Lt. C.L. Williams sent to media this brief message: “There is a police involved shooting at 3100 W. Davis in Oak Cliff.” A short time later, he sent word: He was there; so too assorted TV news vans, though so far on WFAA-Channel…
Short and sweet this Saturday, as the Transportation and Environment Committee’s streetcar update for Monday speaks for itself — which is to say, budget and time are tight, given, among other things, the constraints of the $23 mil in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds the feds forked over in…
Details of Prince and the Revolution’s stop through Dallas in support of Purple Rain remain a bit hazy; I was, after all, 16 at the time and just happy to get out of the house. Especially on New Year’s Eve. Or was it the night before? Or the night after?…
That’s the word just in from the Dallas Police Department, which has wrapped its investigation into whether or not the council member acted inappropriately when interfering with officers trying to do their job last week. Dash-cam video, a transcript and Officer Nathan Draughon’s account of what transpired when he pulled…
As you may be aware, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has issued a ruling intended to put to rest any argument over who has the authority to hire special outside counsel to represent Dallas County in civil matters — the Dallas County District Attorney or the county commissioners court. Two…
Not far from the Harvard Street-Cole Avenue stretch of the Katy Trail where a cyclist and motorist recently had their head-on how-do is the Knox Street intersection, which city planners have long identified as one of the many trail crossings citywide in need of a safety overhaul. Matter of fact,…
Barbara Jean Altemeier says she was arrested in Dallas in 2006. She says the basis for her arrest was a “falsely made up complaint” out of Fruitport, Michigan — an embezzlement charge she says was eventually dismissed. She says she was kept in Dallas County lock-up for 78 days, and…
Why, lookie there — former Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer’s the face of Federal Cash Advance. Makes sense: The payday lender’s Oklahoma-based. But, see, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn’t take to kindly to the way it runs its bidness down here. Says the AG in a lawsuit filed…
And so the long, sordid story of high-tone Realtors Eleanor and Nicky Sheets comes to an end. Four months after Eleanor pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion, she was sentenced this morning by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney to a year in prison, to be followed by…
So says the press release forwarded this morning by Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh. It comes from the Dallas Chapter of the Texas Association of Business, which will honor Leppert with its annual Distinguished Business Leader Award early next year, at the 13th Annual Distinguished Business Leader…
Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District …This morning, The New York Times — or, more to the point, The Times via its new-found relationship with the Texas Tribune and, in this instance, a partnership with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University — looks at…
On Wednesday, word was the Dallas Independent School District was this close to backing off efforts to snatch, for pennies on the dollar or none at all, several Jubilee Park homes in order to make way for the new-and-improved O.M. Roberts Elementary, promised as part of the 2008 bond package…
If you’ve got, like, 12 seconds to spare…
Texas Rangers GM Jon Daniels and skipper Ron Washington hopped on a conference call late this afternoon to discuss Wash’s two-year contract extension — “a formality as much as anything,” as Daniels put it. The general manager said it was “clearly the first order of business” in the post-season, “making…
A few weeks back we noted that Sarah Palin will be performing her one-woman show at the now-city-of-Dallas-run Majestic Theatre on November 10 on behalf of Austin-based Heroic Media, self-described as using “mass media advertising to help women facing unexpected pregnancies with hopeful alternatives through television commercials, billboards, and internet.”…
Back in August Sam told you all about Tyrone Weatherall, a leader of the West Side Gator Boys — and an exotic animal collector — who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Tyrone’s due to be sentenced on November 19. But…
This just in from the Borders in Preston Royal: At 8:30 Tuesday morning, George W. Bush will make the very short drive from Daria Place and stop by to sign copies of his “untraditional” tome Decision Points, presently tops on Kayne West’s must-read list. Borders also sends these instructions for…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Now that the voters have overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine, when, exactly, will retailers begin drenching the dry parts of Dallas? Because, see, Gary Huddleston, the man behind Keep the Dollars in Dallas, told Unfair…
