As noted yesterday, 60 Minutes on Sunday will profile Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins — specifically, his office’s partnering with the Innocence Project to free prisoners using DNA evidence. Moments ago, CBS News posted a sneak peek at this weekend’s episode: The video clip below is from the first…
Perhaps the story of Colonel John’s well known amongst the horse-racing locals or even casual fans, but I’ll confess: I didn’t know till this a.m. that the 4-1 Kentucky Derby contender is named for a Dallas Iraq War vet — Army Reserve Lt. Col. John Geider. Says the Associated Press…
The Round House on Baxtershire Drive — which I’ve always thought would make a great set piece for a James Bond movie, retro porn or, more recently, an Entourage episode — is for sale. For $1,075,000, sure, but it still seems like a bargain for this legendary abode built over…
Texas Department of Public Safety James Brian Sliter, registered sex offender and … future Wilmer mayor? The election season in Ellis County is turning into a soap opera. Joey Dauben, editor with The Ellis County Press, had a story yesterday about registered sex offender James Brian Sliter, who may get…
Angela Hunt Yesterday, Sam Merten broke the news that the Dallas Central Appraisal District has drastically increased the value of the land the city’s eying for the new convention center hotel, from $7.3 million to $36.5 million. (And, really, Dallas Morning News, you’re so welcome. Any time.) Shortly after we…
The Kansas City Brigade of the Arena Football League are 1-7 halfway through the season, and the schedule doesn’t get much easier the rest of the way — far as you know, anyway. Regardless, the team’s woeful record no doubt explains the opening sentence of this media release: “The Kansas…
Just yesterday, during our weekly staff meeting at Unfair Park HQ, we were wondering when 60 Minutes was going to run its profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. Turns out, you can set your DVR to this very Sunday, when former KXAS and WFAA reporter Scott Pelley offers…
Richie’s out the door, which doesn’t stop our Friends from sending along photos snapped at the American Airlines Center last night, during Stars-Sharks Game 5. Says the Friend who passed along this photo from the gift shop, where, apparently, Dallas’ one-and-done NBA franchise is completely cleaning house, from the head…
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? The Dallas Observer sports blog, duh. Right about now, we commence our sports exclusive blog, The Sportatorium. Unfair Park, of course, remains the award-winning trunk of our mighty blogosphere oak, where you’ll still get sportsy whatsits and the daily…
From the Collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library Whilst dealing with the very helpful Beth Andresen in the Dallas Public Library’s photo division, for the artwork accompanying Schutze’s item from yesterday about DART, I came across some unidentified photos on the Texas/Dallas History & Archives’s…
I’m getting a big stall this morning from Dallas Independent School District HQ on a question I put to them regarding the Deloitte Touche external audit, which is months late and in no hurry to poke out a hole and see its shadow. That usually means DISD bigwigs are preparing…
This “Comet-like character” is among the proposed mascots for the University of Texas at Dallas. As a former University of Texas at Dallas co-ed, I can safely say it was never clear exactly what we were. Allow me to clarify: For some sports, we were the Comets, local and proud…
The above video comes from Roger Waters’ Sunday-night performance at Coachella, where, during a performance of Pink Floyd’s 1977 song “Pigs,” his giant inflatable swine took off into the night sky. Alas, it was recovered two days later — a few miles away from the SoCal site of the festival…
In 1972, Candy Barr wrote her own biography. Forthcoming on July 25 is Ted Schwarz’s book Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque, which may be the longest title this side of Fiona Apple’s second album. Kirkus…
Dr. Kern Wildenthal is defended today by UT Southwestern’s executive VP for academic affairs A couple of weeks back, we pointed your attention to an essay in the subscription-only Chronicle of Philanthropy, in which Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, insisted that the Dallas…
Shealah Craighead/White House Swore I wasn’t gonna mention Jessica Simpson for at least one more day, but this one’s too good not to mention — because when the President of the U.S. and A. uses her name as a punch line, well, we are through the looking glass. The New…
Ticket listeners just heard the morning Musers debate this a.m.’s breaking Pacman Jones news: Jailed 29-year-old Arvin Edwards tells Nashville’s CBS affiliate that the new Dallas Cowboys corner ordered him to shoot up a Las Vegas nightclub in 2007. Jones has maintained it didn’t go down like that: The former…
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to marry Mr. Right Now since Mr. Right’s too chickenshit to say boo before her…
Apparently, Jessica Simpson’s on the cover of every magazine — by which I mean, like, three, if’n you include the new Esquire, D and, now, Glamour, which interviewed Simpson “at her favorite Dallas bistro,” which is? And the subject at hand is none other than Cowboys QB Tony Romo, with…
If you’re looking for the proper way to lament-ebrate today’s firing of Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson — who, yes, loses his gig whilst Texas Rangers skipper Ron Washington keeps his, as so many of you have pointed out — look no further than this eBay auction featuring an…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago. Which seems like a million years ago. Either Mavs owner Mark Cuban takes the suggestions of Unfair Park (and everyone else with eyes) pretty damn seriously, or else Avery Johnson’s dismissal had become that obvious. Probably the…
Daniel Rodrigue See, stuff like happens all the time at Valley View. But at NorthPark, not as often. As we mentioned in yesterday’s missive from NorthPark Center — where, on Monday, all manner of chaos was brought about by a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Night — Arlington prog-rocker…
