Barbara Forrest, speaking at SMU last week In keeping with the spirit of Monday’s item concerning the release of the study Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century, last week SMU hosted a speech by Barbara Forrest, author of…
Tony Romo needs a nickname — something like Mother Teresa, only more … manly. Because just two months after the Dallas Cowboys’ QB stopped to help a couple fix their flat — only hours after getting 13 stitches in his chin following the Browns game — today The Dallas Morning…
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley’s war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers’ imaginations. A decade…
The loading dock at Petra Chemical’s Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama’s White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and current Obama…
The NCAA just posted to its Web site a list of host cities for the 2012 through 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Fours — and, no surprise, Jerryworld is indeed included among the sites. The dates: April 5-7, 2014. The host city, incidentally, is listed as “North Texas,” with the following…
Dean Fearing, who clearly needs to work on his knife skills Dean Fearing’s eatery in the Ritz-Carlton has been the recipient of myriad kudos from the likes of Frank Bruni in The New York Times (who called it “overwhelming,” but in a good way) to Esquire, which, couple years back,…
In August 2007, as it was becoming evident that Dallas was becoming “ground zero for criminal justice change,” in the words of Innocence Project of Texas founder Jeff Blackburn, Glenna Whitley wrote that faulty eyewitnesses were partially to blame for the convictions of so many innocent men. Which is why,…
A Friend of Unfair Park is rather unhappy with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines over the news today that the carrier’s spending a mere $7.5 million to assume ATA Airlines’ rights to operate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The deal’s still a long ways off: “Details on the commencement of service or…
Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA…
Whilst browsing through the City Secretary’s virtual stack of boards and commissions meetings scheduled for today, we came across this interesting shindig scheduled for this evening. The Landmark Commission is convening a Economic Review Panel to discuss demolishing a piece of the Magnolia Station, the circa-1911 Magnolia Petroleum Company office…
Can’t … help … myself. But in the comments to the Rorschach test below, “apaulable” wondered, “More importantly, what does the DFW Highway system look like Dr. Freud?” And, frankly, I just couldn’t live with the thought of anyone missing out on that gem, courtesy the Web site of the…
Yes, indeed — that’s Dallas Independent School District’s Dalton Sherman, the fifth-grade feel-good story of a school year in desperate need of good news. As we noted last week, Sherman got Oprah’d yesterday: He was showcased among the handful of “Little Phenoms” Winfrey handpicked as she searches for the “World’s…
Friend of Unfair Park Steve Z. sends this link to “the always interesting Strange Maps blog,” which, last week, offered “City Maps As A Rorschach Test.” The original source for the item is a 1983 Dallas Morning News illustration comparing the sizes and populations of cities across the world, with…
Tomorrow on Unfair Park, we’ll run an interview with former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles, who stopped by our offices on Friday to discuss his first novel, JFK Conspiracy: The Missing File, a fictionalized recounting of the events of November 22, 1963, when Bowles was working for the Dallas Police…
A postcard scene from the Wycliff Trestle … in the future! About a year ago, Mayor Tom debuted a slice of land that’ll connect the Katy Trail to the Trinity Strand Trail — you know, that 7.8-mile-long hike-n-bike that goes from the Katy Trail to the Trinity River Project slated…
Courtney Clenney Having a hard time figuring where this person stands on the smoking issue … Yesterday, of course, was the second meeting of the City Smoking Ordinance Special Ad-Hoc Committee — and it was supposed to be the final one before the briefing on December 3, when the entire…
Richie mentioned it this morning, but it’s worth repeating this afternoon if you’re searching for one-of-a-kind Cowboys collectibles for those on your holiday wish list. Beginning today through December 6, the Dallas Cowboys are auctioning off damned near the entire contents of Texas Stadium, including every last locker, sign, turnstile,…
Nick and Starr Spangler, giddy-up. Late last week I received an e-mail from former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Starr Spangler — you know, the Amazing Race-r? At least, the missive looks legit, which would make this the first e-mail I’ve ever received from a Cowboys Cheerleader not on a legal firm’s…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins A couple of days back, The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins – and he’s “The Exonerator,” proclaimed the headline to a story that, like many others written about Watkins in recent months, focuses almost exclusively on…
This morning, the City Secretary’s Office posted the agenda to a Special Called Economic Development Committee for Thursday morning. At the top of the to-do list: Convention Center Hotel Operator Selection. In other words, we’ll know whether the city’s chosen to go with Omni Hotels or if it prefers instead…
At this very moment, the city council’s Public Safety Committee is meeting to discuss, among other things, the so-called Holiday Crime Initiative aimed at preventing crime during this most wonderful time of the year. Specially, today’s presentation deals with two parts of town: the Dallas Police Department’s North Central Patrol…
Blythe Beck It’s been well over a year since Blythe Beck, executive chef at Hector’s on Henderson, made mention of The Naughty Chef, a proposed TV series featuring Beck as, well, the naughty chef. But today, an update: NBC Universal-owned Oxygen — home to such shows as Deion & Pilar:…
