This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s added congressional redistricting to the special session’s to-do list. Wait. Sorry. Wrong press release. Let’s start this over.This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s bet Florida Governor Rick Scott “a case of Texas barbeque sauce” that the Mavs will…
‘Round this very moment exactly one week ago today we were all preparing to duck and cover beneath Kirstie Alley as hailstones the size of calf fries began forming in the skies above North Texas. Turns out, the weather was even worse than we thought the morning after.This afternoon, the…
Only a handful of city council members have so far stayed away from offering their endorsements in the mayor’s race, among them Angela Hunt and Ann Margolin. But that changes today: Mike Rawlings’s camp sends word that the District 13 (meaning, Rawlings’s) rep has thrown her support behind the former…
Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tank on the Pacific Coast Highway outside of Los Angeles into his home. Samples has been shooting Covington since the fall of ’08; just last summer…
USA Today directs our attention to agent Leigh Steinberg’s kick-off column for the Los Angeles Times’s small-paper spin-off The Daily Pilot, which ran last week. In it Steinberg tackles the subject of concussions, which, he writes, have become an “undiagnosed health epidemic … sweeping athletic fields across the country …..
After last week’s accidental tour of the Lake Highlands Town Center, or what there is of it, we discovered: Prescott Realty and the city’s Office of Economic Development are hustling to get that long-dormant development off the ground years after that big-deal groundbreaking was buried in the economic collapse. Matter…
Two videos just landed in the in-box via Friends of Unfair Park. Let’s lead with The Association’s Official Ramp-Up to Tonight’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals recapping the post-season that was, so far, for Your Dallas Mavericks. On the other side is Fort Worth filmmaker-slash-puppet master Erik Clapp’s latest…
Tomorrow the city council will discuss why Mary Suhm wants to keep all of Dallas’ trash and allowing the public a shot at redrawing the council districts’ boundaries. But not before it votes on two hot-button issues: food trucks and campaign signs on public property.The food truck issue’s already been…
For those who do not recall the story: In the wee small hours of August 12 of last year, 59-year-old Terry Glover’s Jeep Cherokee stalled out in the middle lane of South Polk near Camp Wisdom. Glover, who was on his way home after dropping off his godson, hit the…
A wishes-to-remain-anonymous Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my profound fondness for early Tom Waits sends warm wishes to one and all and this astounding holiday offering: Waits at Texas Hall on the University of Texas at Arlington campus on October 25, 1975. Which is why a bulk of…
I was just about to shut ‘er down for the holiday when two flashbacks popped up in the in-box worth sharing. First, courtesy Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, is this wonderful for-sale photo of the old Cliff Queen movie theater that once stood at 616 E. Jefferson Boulevard. As another…
Over the weekend, The Marietta Daily Journal pointed out that somewhere on the Cobb County School District’s website is an interview with Michael Hinojosa that’s supposed to be distributed district-wide on Wednesday. The chitchat, shot with Cobb County’s spokesman during the outgoing Dallas ISD super’s visit to Georgia last week,…
Late last night, the Startlegram’s Bud Kennedy took to Facebook to pass along state Sen. Wendy Davis’s heads-up that she was about to begin her filibuster intended to shut down (which is to say, temporarily delay) the vote that would have gutted public education. Said the Fort Worth Democrat and…
Among the hodgepodge of videos to which we linked only yesterday are a handful of particular note today, as Texans mourn the death of Bill Clements — the 94-year-old Dallas native, two-time Texas governor, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford and chair of SMU’s board of governors…
Was listening to some new My Morning Jacket yesterday when up popped some old MMJ on the iPod — specifically, “One Big Holiday” from the band’s March 15, 2002, Rubber Gloves stopover. A month earlier the band had played Trees. They came through here a lot back then: Trees again…
Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find — a 42-clip collection consisting not only of…
For those playing along at home, this long-weekend’s offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we’ve time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in ’69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny Winter Sly and the Family Stone and others for the Texas International Pop Festival;…
Not sure if you’re aware of it, because damned if I’ve seen mention of this anywhere, but we’re mere days away from the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park. Gates opened June 6, 1936, and it ran through the end of November. I…
Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to … oh … let’s say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because, see, that’s the one-day-fingers-crossed dream shared by DART and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority officials. Which is why DART president Gary Thomas, board chair Bill Velasco and…
Just got a note from Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after Perry signed into law the voter I.D. bill, which requires voters to present photo identification at a polling place. Said the gov, “The right to vote is simply too important for us to take the act…
Just a few days ago City Manager Mary Suhm explained why the city’s seriously considering an ordinance that would demand all solid-waste collectors dump their trash at city-owned facilities, rather than one of the dozen other landfills in the region. Said Suhm, who’d proposed the idea last year without it…
Anderson Cooper, for one, will be disappointed, but Debbie Georgatos is no longer part of the Republican Party’s local leadership team. The avant-garde filmmaker and would-be Beat poet has resigned her post “as a courtesy,” newly installed Dallas County GOP chair Wade Emmert tells Unfair Park this morning.”She resigned,” Emmert…
