Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bobby … Patterson at the Dallas Observer Music Awards last year, with Shibboleth as his backing band This is a very special treat, exclusively for the Friends of Unfair Park: A few days ago, Shibboleth’s Don Cento shot me a few demos Shibboleth and some Very…
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that for the second time this week the Rangers got tattooed before you took your afternoon smoke break. Today it was a tidy 8-2 ditty in Detroit, during which Rangers pitchers surrendered five walks and five homers and Rangers hitters produced 10 strikeouts…
In case you were looking for him — and we weren’t, maybe that was BeloWatch — Burl Osborne has resurfaced. You ‘member him — former publisher and editor of The Dallas Morning News? Turns out, he’s now chairing the “editorial oversight board” of something called CleanSkies.tv, which right now appears…
Courtesy the Associated Press today, another reason why you picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue: The Federal Aviation Administration is trying for a second time in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations. FAA chief operating officer Hank Krakowski said Thursday…
You did know FC Dallas was undefeated, no? Well, then, there ya go. Brought to you by the good folks who sometimes give you Monday Morning Meanderings: As noted this a.m., The Cowboys finally acquired Adam “Pacman” Jones for a fourth-round draft choice. Bitch and moan all you want about…
Angela Hunt doesn’t know “if this meets the cool quotient that is required of Unfair Park posts,” and I will take that as a shot. But, really, we’re all for things like the forthcoming citywide “Trash Attack and Graffiti Wipeout,” set for May 3 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at…
A Friend of Unfair Park who works at SMU sends along a piece published today in the Daily Campus that bears a most troubling headline: “Rapes rose 333 percent in 2006,” meaning, of course, on the university’s University Park campus. Even more troubling is the fact that university officials “never…
KARE-TV Caught on tape, a man is mugged during a seizure in downtown Dallas. Do not be surprised if this downtown Dallas crime story begins to sweep the nation — hell, it’s already up on a Minnesota NBC affiliate’s Web site. It’s a crime made for TV: Just before midnight…
One of the first rules of the movie business is: Make sure you aren’t, ah, borrowing someone else’s work in order to finish yours. It’s called a “rights clearance,” and, yup, it’s frustrating and financially debilitating, but it’s also a necessary evil — no matter how many times you claim…
In The Tennessean this a.m., they’re bidding good riddance to one Adam “Pacman” Jones — “the biggest mistake in franchise history,” though of which franchise do they write, the Tennessee Titans or the Dallas Cowboys? Because late yesterday evening, word came down that Dallas had, at last, traded for the…
Dallas always has been and always will be a Van Halen kind of town—or maybe four out of 10 Texxas Jams back in the 1970s and ’80s don’t mean much to you. I saw two of them; couldn’t make the 1988 “Monster of Rock” adios. Something to do with Dokken…
WXIA-TV When Terrell Bolton got forced out as Chief of Police in Dallas, there was a certain amount of heart-bleeding among persons who saw his fate as somehow tragic. Maybe he was elevated too rapidly, they said. You know, like maybe he didn’t have enough oxygen in his head. And…
Hey, lookie, I got an e-mail from Dallas Morning News City Hall reporter Dave Levinthal! Alas, nothing too sexy — just a note that “today, The Dallas Morning News launched a blog focused on Dallas City Hall and area political issues.” And it’s blessed with the catchiest of monikers: Dallas…
Luis Galvan Mexican President Felipe Calderón finished his test before Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert yesterday, while the rest of the class was ordered to put their heads on their desks. Hundreds of Mexican ex-pats from across the U.S. gathered yesterday at the Renaissance Hotel to see President Felipe Calderón kick…
No, Evan Smith, “exonerated” is not “too strong a word” when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn’t guilty of the crime for which he’d been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor…
Former (and future?) DART board member Joyce Foreman Pretty good fireworks this morning at the city council meeting over a last-minute decision by the mayor to delay consideration of appointments to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board. Several members clearly thought the mayor and his partner, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine…
The City of Dallas, case ya didn’t know, has a water-conservation effort called Save Dallas Water — catchy, no? And just a few moments ago, it posted to the YouTube an animated short starring the mascot cleverly named “Dew,” cute. Only, c’mon, City of Dallas, give credit where it’s due…
Why can’t the Mavs’ coach take his own damned advice? On second thought, Dirk Nowitzki shouldn’t have turned the other cheek. He should’ve hauled off and cold-cocked David West during last Saturday’s Game 1. Or, at least, put him in a headlock and bludgeoned his nose Nolan Ryan-style. That way,…
A Quick Word With Kids In The Hall – Now on tour! In anticipation of Wednesday night’s Kids In the Hall As Live As We’ll Ever Be performance at Nokia in Grand Prairie (tickets for the show are still available here), I chatted with Kid Kevin McDonald. Surely, you’ll remember…
Item No. 3 on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research’s agenda today reads as follows: “Public Hearing on the Institute for Creation Research, Dallas,” simple as that. Of course, Friend of Unfair Park know there’s nothing simple about today’s hearing, which will preface tomorrow’s…
It started on a site called The Dirty. Then it started crawling its way through the rest of the blogosphere — and, really, Kissing Suzy Kolber is a great name. Then, on Tuesday, it went legit — or Philadelphia Daily News, anyway, where gossip writer Dan Gross spent a few…
If anyone’s all fired up to see a mostly nude photo of Highland Park High School grad — and Bush backer — Angie Harmon, it’s right here. It’s part of a naked-celeb spread in the latest issue of Allure, which is some kind of a magazine, I think? “You wonder…
