In March, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired Senior Cpl. Jeffrey “Jack” Nelson, one of the three officers involved in the now-infamous phony ticket scandal that also resulted in the officers filing a lawsuit against D magazine last July. As The News recounted upon Nelson’s firing in the spring:Senior Cpl…
The latest issue of Newsweek IDs the latest and greatest way to make money since Ponzi schemes: iPhone applications. Says one Austin-based developer, “It’s kind of a gold rush.” Which, nice segue, leads us to the media release that landed in the in-box a couple of days back from yet…
Can’t say I’d ever heard of Highland Park’s Hiram Walker Royall till last night, when I stumbled across this piece from the First Amendment Center concerning the developer’s October ’08 libel lawsuit, brought about because Royall’s furious over the contents of the well-reviewed 2007 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and…
How many hours should we stay home this morning till the bridges and overpasses thaw, Don Hill? One? Gotcha. Thanks. Former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, indicted about 28 years ago in that City Hall low-income-housing bribery and extortion case that started back in the days of eight-tracks and bell-bottoms,…
A programming note: Nightline tonight will feature the story of a local man, Tommy Newsom, whose credit card company suddenly — and inexplicably — jacked up the interest rate on his Bank of America-issued credit card, from 14 to 28 percent. That $40 to $50 extra a month makes a…
From now on, this is how we’re ending our broadcast day, seeing as how KXAS-Channel 5 hasn’t used this particular piece of footage since, oh, forever? Fine, maybe not. Still, thanks to the pack rat who posted this to the YouTubes last week. And here I was all these years,…
Dylan Hollingsworth was out at the Dallas White Rock Marathon yesterday, gathering photos for our slide show. The event, though, was been overshadowed by the death of Erin Lahr, a 29-year-old newlywed from Austin whose mother tells the Austin American-Statesman today that she was “really positive and always smiling and…
This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to The New York Times’ page featuring Barack Obama’s “New Team” — those folks who’ve either been appointed to the new administration or who’re being rumored for the short list of maybe-so’s. And nowhere on the page does former Dallas…
A Friend of Unfair Park who attended SMU sends along this gift-giving suggestion for his fellow Mustangs (and, ya know, anyone else): the school’s latest calendar, The Golden Age of Football: 1920s to 1960s, which, like plenty of other retro date-minders on the market, features reproductions of old game-day programs…
Liquid Logixx, a 3D computer animation studio on South Lamar, counts among its clients American Airlines, PepsiCo, IBM, Texas Instruments and the American Heart Association. It’s the studio’s work for the latter than has resulted in the latest addition to its roster, Spike TV — specifically, the show 1000 Ways…
One more sportsy note this a.m. — a follow to last week’s item concerning the fate of the Arena Football League, in which Your Dallas Desperados play. Or played, rather, as this morning the league has announced that there will be no 2009 season, which shorts the American Airlines Center…
This morning, I sort of casually mentioned that Your Dallas Cowboys had come up with one of the worst ideas in the history of goodbyes: allowing fans to choose the last song ever played over the Texas Stadium public address system following the Ravens game. That’s the ballot pictured above…
Last month, while working on this profile of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I met DISD board of trustees president Jack Lowe for coffee at the La Madeline by SMU. Lowe, as you may recall, said upon the revelation of the district’s initial $64-million budget shortfall in September…
In October 2006, Sung Bum Chang of Coppell was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor — meaning, he was a human trafficker and a slave master. So too was…
The morning after his Dallas Cowboys find themselves two wins from clinching a wild-card spot, owner and general manager Jerry Jones is still pretty high — which is to say, he sits at No. 2 on Sports Business Journal’s list of sports’ 50 Most Influential figures. Jones is behind only…
So, Sean Avery isn’t returning to the Dallas Stars — surprise, surprise, surprise. Says the organization in its official release this morning regarding the release: Avery’s return, following his sloppy seconds suspension, just wouldn’t be in anyone’s “best interest,” but “treatment and counseling” are in Avery’s, so that’s that. And…
Congratulations are in order for Hector Nieto, the tireless, effective communications director for the Texas Democratic Party, who today was named the Chief of Staff for State Senator-Elect Wendy Davis out of Tarrant County, pictured at right. “This was going to be a good opportunity for me,” says Nieto. “Senator-Elect…
Yup, that’s what it says in Forbes today: Dallas is the second-best city in which to get your wrinkle on. And Houston’s but a mere two spots back. Why come? You know — you live here, right? But if you need some confirmation, says the magazine of the two Texas…
I see over on DC9 Pete’s linked to an old holiday fave, the Old 97’s performing “Holly Jolly Christmas,” taken from the 1995 Big Iron release Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. The disc — which also features the likes of Cowboys and Indians, Liberty Valence, the Mutineers, the Sutcliffs,…
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, the architect who designed and built Parkland in…
Amidst all the gloomy news of local business shutterings of late, this ray of sunshine for folks in the telecom industry: Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the opening of a research-and-development facility in the area that the company’s calling “another significant step in further accelerating the development of Long Term…
Just a reminder: The auction for this original Ian Dingman ink drawing, done for the Criterion Collection Bottle Rocket DVD, ends in 10 minutes. And so far, the bidding’s up to $350, with proceeds going to the North Texas Food Bank. So, last call. I will update this, well, at…
