Daron Tapscott At 8 a.m., demolition crews began tearing down 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard. The neighbors knew something was up yesterday: Workers were in and out of the building, removing whatever they could salvage. But no way did they ever imagine that come 8 a.m. today that 2505 Turtle Creek…
Kaitlin Ingram If you have no plans this weekend, let me suggest something we did last weekend. Because a few of us here at Unfair Park headed down to Cedar Hill State Park last Friday for a camp out near Joe Pool Reservoir, hoping to enjoy the final few days…
The mailman delivered a most unexpected and unusual parcel today: a package from Pennsylvania-based Schiffer Books containing two of its latest releases, Famous Texas Men Paper Dolls and Famous Texas Women Paper Dolls. Both were authored and illustrated by Beaumont’s Tom Tierney — who, says the Famous Texas Men’s back…
It would be no surprise if you have yet to read this, since for some reason The Dallas Morning News is ignoring it, but it now appears the phone call that sparked the raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado may have been a hoax. As ABC News reported yesterday…
Back in November, we brought you the sordid saga of Farmers Branch-based Unique Performance, which had a deal with Carroll Shelby to manufacture “official” knock-offs of his immortal 1967 Shelby GT500E, pictured above. In short: Folks paid upwards of $200,000 for the cars, which they never received; and then Farmers…
Few weeks ago we told you about the Pizza Hut deliveryman in Iowa who was suspended for shooting at a man who faked an order, all so he could play stick-’em-up with the poor schmuck who drew the short straw. Well, today comes word that 38-year-old James William Spiers III…
Meanwhile, General George Custer couldn’t give a damn about a lawsuit, as he remains deceased. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along word that, yet again, Unfair Park cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Gallery has found itself on the wrong end of whoops. Two months after it was revealed that the…
Because I loves some Free Darko, here’s the mightily monikered Bethlehem Shoals’ sneak peek at the Dallas Maverick-New Orleans Hornet showdown, set to commence tomorrow ’round 6 p.m. on the Worldwide Leader. The whole piece, of course, must be taken in context, but a few teasers till you crash the…
Whatever you do, do not Google image search “meth.” Sounds like a cross between The Wire and that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which the government doctors its UFO-peeping vehicles to look like grocery store and fast-food delivery trucks. Because yesterday in Arkansas, the feds busted…
Fine — sheets of rain, bolts of lightning, hail the size of newborns. Of course the local TV affiliates had to ax their respective networks’ prime-time programming — because there’s nothing more captivating than the site of bat-shit meteorologists tracking the slow crawl of the apocalypse. Only, see, no 30…
Let’s end our broadcast day with another Tom Hicks item, shall we? Because it’s a fascinating one concerning, of course, Hicks’ ownership of Liverpool FC and the mess he’s made of it by calling out chief executive Rick Parry (who is not happy t’all, mate) and co-owner George Gillett. But…
View Larger Map I was driving, quick as I could, through a big-money neighborhood a few weeks back when I spotted, at the curve where Northaven Road turns into E. Ricks Circle, a mother of a manse. The missus said, only half joking, that she thought it was a convention…
AVP.com No, this is not the photo that was supposed to run with today’s Bible Girl column. It’s Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, competing this weekend in Arlington’s volleyball throwdown. For those who despise mainstream sports and aren’t the least bit titillated by playoff drama, this is for you. Both…
Clay Graham From left to right: James C. Giles, Thomas McGowan, James Waller and Charles Chatman Clay Graham, a newly minted lawyer with The Innocence Project of Texas, was on hand in the courtroom of Judge Susan Hawk yesterday and snapped photos as Thomas McGowan, wrongfully convicted of burglary and…
The Yearning for Zion Ranch just outside Eldorado In San Angelo this morning, under cloudy skies, dozens of polygamist parents are filing into court to argue for custody of their children. At the center of the storm is 51st District Judge Barbara Walther, who is presiding over the largest child…
No, the Dallas Mavericks’ first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Hornets won’t be slam-dunk simple. Not with the way the Mavs have played on the road, and Dirk Nowitzki is limping, and ,,, well, you know the story. But of the MVP candidates in the West, I’d much rather…
I can’t guarantee that Marion Barber will be the starting running back for the Dallas Cowboys in 2008 and beyond. But I can guarantee the fact that he’s house-hunting — er, condo-craving — in Uptown is a damned good sign he isn’t going anywhere. I know, I know — Barber…
Just a few hours ago, Tom Hicks gave an “explosive interview” to Sky Sports, conducted from his Dallas offices, during which he took a baseball bat to Liverpool FC co-owner George Gillett and swung a hockey stick at the head of Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry. Insists Hicks, under Parry…
Since the beginning of the month, the Inwood Theater, 5458 W. Lovers Lane, has been hosting a limited-run film festival courtesy of United Artists, which celebrates its 90th birthday this annum; Annie Hall marks the closing-night offering, after a midnight run of such pristinely polished crown jewels as Midnight Cowboy,…
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole season of NBC’s Freaks and Geeks, on which Segel played bright-eyed burnout Nick Andopolis. On the episode “I’m With the Band,” Nick imagined himself an…
Intriguing item just posted to The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal blog. Something to do with the headline: “American Airlines: Preparing For a Sale?” It’s a short item, but a complicated one involving AMR, American’s parent company, and the pending sale of its asset-management business, which is owned by Dallas-based…
Yesterday, the Texas Medical Board released an “agreed order” signed on April 11 by Dr. Richard Buch, the brilliant but nutty orthopedic surgeon who has a reputation for going off on nurses and cursing hospital personnel. He was, of course, the subject of the cover story in last week’s paper…
