One week ago today the Dallas Police Department sent word that it had fired three officers — one of whom, Lavar Horne, was also arrested last week for having kept a handgun and tossed some weed seized during a traffic stop. Well, the DPD just sent word that it’s arrested…
No doubt you, the well-informed and engaged Friend of Unfair Park, are well aware that Dallas County’s missing around, oh, $35 million that some bail bondsmen somehow forget to turn over to the county when their clients fail to show up for court. The Dallas Morning News had the story…
Back in 2006 Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries sold some letters written and signed by Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert. ‘Round the same time, the auction house came into possession of a note of condolences Jackie Kennedy had written to Ethel shortly after Robert was gunned down in…
Back in May ’09 we ran a few pages from the first part of then-Dallas County Judge Jim Foster’s deposition taken by County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s attorneys concerning those “shakedown” comments Foster made to Schutze whilst discussing the Inland Port. Reason I went back to look for it: Foster…
Yesterday, some 8,500 Dallas Independent School District elementary students reported to 17 campuses, from Bryan and Caillet to Truett and Winnetka, to begin summer school. Pardon: Make that summer camp. At least, that’s how district officials and DISD’s educational partners sell the idea to kids who’ll spend summer vacation learning.And…
While I finish transcribing a bit of summer-school homework forthcoming, allow me to direct your attention to this eBay find sent my way by Friend of Unfair Park PeterK: an original from-the-archives photo of the 1937 Dallas Steers, who played at Gardner Park (or Steers Park as it was known…
On a certain local man’s 65th birthday, The New York Times wonders whether Dubya and Gov. RIck Perry’s relationship will help or hurt the latter’s more-n-likely run for the White House. After all, they’re frienemies now — have been for years, with Perry insisting since at least ’07 that “George…
We’ve written several times about Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin’s efforts to save the Hillsboro motel where some of Wes Anderson’s locally filmed debut Bottle Rocket was shot. The local film fanatics make their trek southward Saturday night, and right now I’m scheduled to drive down with someone who…
Directly below, in the comments, a reader accuses us of ignoring Angela Hunt’s handful of weekend tweets concerning “bums camping out in our [downtown] parks, making them unusable for families, children, & residents.” Can’t ignore what you didn’t see, but Hunt was referring specifically to Main Street Garden, where, she…
Well, this is certainly odd timing: Only a few hours after flashing back to that Dallas Times Herald gimme featuring Spider-Man and Danny White, Your Dallas Cowboys have announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment. As in:Through an agreement that enables the Dallas Cowboys to license Marvel’s Super Heroes, the team…
The boy and I swung by Fair Park Sunday, and on our way out we drove past the Museum of the American Railroad. Which reminded me: The museum and the city of Dallas, which sued to get those trains chugga-chugga’d to Frisco back in January 2010, were set to go…
For those who haven’t really read the Dallas Bike Plan, you might want to sit down with it sooner than later — both the 76-page document and the June addendum, which runs 42 pages. Like, say, turn to Page 33 of the plan, where you’ll find the heading “Strategic Demonstration/Early…
Last week, we directed your attention to a possibly unpublished but nevertheless quite original John Romita Sr.-illustrated comic-book cover intended for a Dallas Times Herald giveaway courtesy Sanger-Harris, which Heritage Auction Gallery intends to let go to the highest bidder at month’s end. But Friend of Unfair Park Ed D…
There were no Fair Park Fourth-goers to be found in the Esplanade Fountain this year, not like last year. All was calm and orderly as thousands marched into the Cotton Bowl, save those who didn’t want to ditch their baby strollers. And, yet again, the great Justin Terveen was on…
Beginning ’round 9ish last night, my Northwest Dallas neighborhood sounded like a war zone — more than usual, anyhow. (As one Facebook friend put it, it turned into a parlor game: Firework or Gunshot?) Clearly, news of the countywide burn ban and threats of Class C misdemeanor tickets for shooting…
Speaking of the Supremes …In January 2010 we listened in as the Supreme Court of Texas heard oral arguments in the case of City of Dallas. v. VSC, LLC, which is now close to a decade old. To sum up: In ’02, tow company VSC was in possession of 326…
As we were heading out the door Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down opinions in two local cases, one of which we’ve written about before but neither of which is the “billion-dollar case” still awaiting a result. Let’s begin with this one: City of Dallas v Heather Stewart,…
Shortly after we recalled Bruce Springsteen’s rock-and-roll down an Oak Cliff bowling alley — almost moments after — news broke that Clarence Clemons had died from complications caused by a stroke suffered a few days earlier. At which point I cued up the ’84 Reunion stop and remembered-when yet again…
Two items-for-listening this morning: First up, a by-request; then, Schutze combs through his recordings archives and discovers he’s sitting on a JWP best-of.Here, to begin, is a segment that aired on The Ticket Friday morning — one week after Craig Miller and George Dunham acknowledged that they knew so little…
To those who helped made last night’s RoboCop-at-OCP HQ event happen — Downtown Dallas, Inc.; Brent Brown and his staff at the CityDesign Studio; the Dallas Film Society; and, of course, the promotions staff at the Observer — a mighty “much obliged” this morning. Couldn’t have done it without you…
A little while ago I saw this lengthy and occasional inside-baseball Q&A with Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney in which he insists that life behind the pay wall’s just fine, thanks for asking. Sorry — that’s “subscriber content initiative.” Anyway. Says Moroney, since the pay wall was erected a…
Shame I only just found out about Sir Mitchell’s newly released Brobocop tee; I woulda have worn it tonight, as it’s no doubt much more comfortable than this helmet I espied on eBay. Ah, well. Next time. Oh, right, there won’t be a next time. Tonight’s screening of RoboCop in…
