National Weather Service About an hour ago, city officials gave local media members a tour of the Dallas Convention Center, in which Dallas expects to hold folks fleeing Hurricane Gustav, which is close to reaching Category 5 status as it approaches the Louisiana coastline. Only, the city keeps insisting in…
Before we scoot for the long holiday weekend, during which we’ll likely post an item just because, we snagged that Lily Tomlin public service announcement for sharing. And, sure, while we’re all suffering Jenny fatigue — though Pete promises something mighty special next week having to do with “Jenny’s Song”…
I’m wearing mine right now — a little uncomfortable but otherwise manageable. For those desiring other, safer options — a hat, say, or a saddle bag or just a plain old white tee — they’re available here at The Nice Price. Note to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: Fund-raiser? Better than a…
Which is to say: “A resident of east Dallas has become the season’s first victim of mosquito carried West Nile Virus.” That’s according to the City of Dallas media release that just dropped in our in-box in advance of an extensive mosquito spray-down scheduled for Tuesday night beginning at 10…
Say this for Lily Tomlin: She does not screw around. One month after she sent Mayor Tom Leppert a missive begging the Dallas Zoo to ship Jenny (who, I believe, is an elephant of some kind) to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and two weeks after talking to Unfair Park…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Took a while to find a Dallas connection to John McCain’s freshly announced running mate, first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but, bless The Wall Street Journal, there it is at the very bottom of a lengthy, just-posted profile: Gov. Palin’s judgment was called into question by…
Mark Graham John Goodman Couple of years back in the paper version of Unfair Park, we profiled National Center for Policy Analysis boss man John Goodman, who was in the news at the time for firing Bruce Bartlett — a longtime Republican who’d been critical in the press and in…
If you have a Hitachi 50V500A rear-projection LCD TV and think it’s nothing more than a $3,500 hunk o’ junk, you’re not alone. The Interwebs are littered with complaints concerning the set, which went on sale about four years back. Most have to do with mutli-colored “stain-like” spots that look…
Four days into the new school year we finally got to spend time with the boy’s terrific, beloved, 31-year-vet homeroom teacher — very exciting stuff, especially when I discovered I could still sit in a kindergartener’s plastic seat without collapsing it. Before that, though, the principal — an ebullient, sincere…
Morrey Taylor Hammer and his hankie I know Richie mentioned it yesterday, but the official media release just arrived in our in-box, and no better time than now to share it: “Greg Williams to Join 103.3 ESPN.” He starts September 8 and will hold down the 7-10 p.m. slot with…
Whitney Lawson George Steel There’s been more ink spilled on Dallas Opera in the last two weeks than since 1995, when the paper version of Unfair Park weighed in on the beloved institution with a 5,500-word opus. Today, New York gets into the mix on its weekly “Approval Matrix,” which…
Say what you will about Avi Adelman, but far as one employee at the Kroger’s on Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue is concerned, the man is a bona fide hero. Guess it’s what happens when you grow up the son of grocers, as the Barking Dog did. Jump for the…
National Weather Service Tuesday is a long way off, but already some folks are headed back to Dallas from New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Gustav’s expected landfall in Louisiana, possibly as a Category 3 storm. So it seems, at least, from the news and notes references scattered about this…
So, yeah, that race for Dallas County Sheriff isn’t going to be interesting at all. Just one week after the Dallas County Republican party posted a video in which a chicken taunts Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s supporters in front of a fund-raiser, a Friend of Unfair Park sends word there’s now…
Alex Jones Dallas-born, Austin-based Alex Jones — the gravely voiced conspiracy theorist behind Infowars and this interview with Mark Stepnoski — has turned his attention toward Dallas’ Only Daily, which, he insists, libeled him yesterday in a posting by WBAP-AM (820)’s Mark Davis. Davis, who contributes to the paper’s op-ed…
Constable Jaime Cortes Twice in the comments affixed to Sam’s Ross Avenue item from yesterday, folks mention that a constable was spotted along Ross trying to gather signatures for the Cesar Chavez Task Force. But even before we posted the item, on Wednesday morning a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned…
Exactly two weeks ago, the city gave Woodard Paint & Body Shop on Ross Avenue till 2010 to git — which prompted my father, a lifelong Dallasite, to note that “our city fathers are suffering from cranial rectitus.” Well, the council member who made the motion to deny Woodard the…
At 2851 Walnut Hill Lane sits a one-time mom-and-pop diner where, when I was a kid, my father and I used to have breakfast every single Saturday morning. But, several years ago, the new owners bricked up its windows (to class up the joint, naturally) and turned the eatery into…
Expect to see and hear plenty from Jessica Simpson in coming days — her country album, Do You Know, is in stores September 9. (Though, yesterday it kinda found its way to the Internets a little early.) Which, among other reasons, is why she’s on the cover of the brand-new…
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It’s hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a musical number titled “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus,” done up nice and Grease-y. Problem is, the 80 or so…
Came across this interesting item on the Interwebs today: CRM Studios is being forced to move out of its longtime home on the downtown Fort Worth RadioShack Corporation campus. Which is a very big deal, even if you’ve never heard of CRM. Because, see, years ago it was RadioShack’s in-house…
Still haven’t seen a copy of A.H. Belo’s Briefing, the single-section freebie being chucked on the lawns of the 75-thou-and-up crowd not currently taking The Dallas Morning News, luckies. Alas, all I’ve seen is the online media kit, which describes the ad supplement thusly: “Briefing delivers concise and informative news,…
