Courthouse News has the lawsuit: GSP Finance LLC v. KPMG LLC, an alphabet soup’s worth of names that sounds thoroughly uninteresting. Until, that is, you crack open the case and discover that GSP Finance is the lending arm of Galatioto Sports Partners — the same company Hicks hired in February…
One month ago, former Congressional candidate Stephen Broden was making news in New York City when Dallas-based Life Always, of which Broden’s a member, debuted that anti-abortion billboard in SoHo that read, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.” Only a few days later the billboard…
Following yesterday’s release of that damning, mammoth report about all flavor of fiscal shenanigans at the Fiesta Bowl, the question immediately became: Well, what about the Cotton Bowl taking its place in the BCS rotation? But Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports explained, initially, Not so fast:If there is an immediate…
Every year, the Airports Council International — a trade org representing most of the airports in the world — asks terminal travelers how they really feel about their skymalls. And every year, the ACI manages to keep those reports secret. Except this year: The Times of London has hidden behind…
Since the beginning of the year, two reports have documented how Texas’s school districts punish their students: Texas Appleseed’s Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools How the Myth of the “Blackboard Jungle” Reshaped School Disciplinary Policy, released in January as part of its Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline series, and…
As we noted a couple of weeks back, former DeSoto High School Eagle and Texas A&M Aggie Von Miller is among the high-profile plaintiffs named in the lockout class action brought against the National Football League. His name’s right there alongside the likes of Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Payton…
Saturday afternoon’s screening of Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang at NorthPark Center, among the handful of family-friendly offerings at the Dallas International Film Festival, is nearly sold out; all that remain are rush tickets. But if you’re desperate to see the 50-minute short about kids who have to help…
Forthcoming are Jim’s thoughts on the mayoral candidates’ forum held last night at Thomas Jefferson High School, which looks like it needs every cent of the $8-mil renovation that’s just commenced. But during the forum, Mike Rawlings referred to his public-educational platform, which he introduced yesterday during a press conference…
Nice to see the reigning American League champs haven’t forgotten about those Texas Rangers associated with all those seasons in hell — chief among them Jeff Burroughs, the top draft pick in ’69 (for the Washington Senators) and my first boyhood ball-playing hero. Burroughs, who came to Arlington with the…
As you no doubt recall, Doug Havard — the former Winston School and SMU student who skipped town after being arrested on charges of counterfeiting, selling GHB and armed robbery, among many others — was brought back to the U.S. a few days ago following a six-year prison vacay in…
Back in September, when Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa was being considered for the Las Vegas gig, trustee Edwin Flores told Unfair Park: “He’s a hot commodity. Outside of Dallas he’s a rock star.” A few Friends of Unfair Park with long memories have disagreed, but the district…
The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas kicks of Thursday with an opening-night fete at the Winspear Opera House, where Ann-Margret and fest co-founder Liener Temerlin will be honored before a screening of Sundance fave Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey. My chat with Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director…
We’ve written a few times in recent years about author Carla Main, who remains locked in a legal tussle with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall over Main’s ’07 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which chronicles the brouhaha over land grabbed from a family…
Friday night, at the Arts Magnet fund-raiser, two friends used their phones to show off their oh-lucky-me early looks at Martin Creed’s Work No. 1190: Half the air in a given space — otherwise known as that room full of balloons you see above. It officially took up residency in…
Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I’ve learned of at least one more on the to-do list: Right next to…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the great Bobby Jack Pack, a Best of Dallas winner and local film-making institution, is this close to wrapping a documentary on Dealey Plaza and, more specifically, those populate the site where President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He describes…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission continues to dole out those permits to the would-be beer and wine sellers of Dallas. The 21-page of list of March sweepstakes winners alone, which follows, includes a handful of Aldi locations (from the one at Forest and Audelia to the grocery at Illinois and…
State Sen. Royce West was there; so too Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, former mayoral candidate and “homeless czar” Tom Dunning, Arts District exec director Veletta Lill and an Alan Peppard’s column worth of bold-faced bigwigs with deep pockets. The affair, spread over the Booker T. Washington High School for the…
There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who’s-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She…
So back to my conversation with Downtown Dallas, Inc.’s John Crawford. I’d called yesterday to talk about those big empty buildings. But Crawford loves to spread the good news about downtown, so our brief chat got the extended dance remix treatment once he began talking about the small empty buildings…
The strange, sordid story of Carlos Ortiz Jr., a longtime FBI Special Agent in the Dallas Division, was well documented last August following his arrest for plotting to kill Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge, Robert E. Casey Jr. Long story short: The 49-year-old Red Oak resident, accused by his…
Seems like only yesterdayfour years ago that ex-WFAA-er Scott Sams was rescued from exile in Sherman (following this incident) and returned to the comforting embrace of Dallas, courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Ed Bark told D at the time that despite Sam’s bad rep when he left town, it was a smart…
