Those who keep up with the educational journal Entertainment Weekly are well aware of the drama surrounding the sixth season of Project Runway — mostly, how litigation between the Weinstein Co. (which produces the show and was taking the series to Lifetime) and NBC Universal (which owns Bravo and didn’t…
Victory smells: It is wrong to kick a man when he’s down or rub salt in another’s wounds. Very un-Christian. But what the heck? It’s fun, and Buzz has never been baptized. So we can’t help but resurrect (heh) this quote from Ross Perot Jr., given to USA Today back…
“Bushwhacked,” by Matt Pulle, July 2 Goliath 1, David 0 As the son of Pat Davenport and brother of Leslie, I am thrilled to see this article published. Of course, I am extremely doubtful that anyone at SMU will ever admit to their devilish doings regarding the University Gardens land…
Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast of Nigeria, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Houston-based oil and gas contractor Global Industries, Plake, a Texan through and through,…
The thunderstorm that just passed over Unfair Park HQ left behind what’ll be known as the most-photographed rainbow in office history. No doubt a co-worker with a camera better than mine (first-gen iPhone, so sad) captured a more spectacular photo than this stitched-together panoramic taken from the publisher’s office. Till…
Between June and August of 2008, the Dallas Police Department recorded 30 homicides — 17 fewer than in ’07, a stunning 33 fewer than in 2006. Even ABC News took note of the news, particularly the “astonishing low of eight homicides in July.” But last summer’s dip will, most likely,…
Pete’s got the details concerning Paul McCartney’s just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles’ interview with WFAA’s Bert Shipp during the band’s September ’64 visit to…
Think that whatchamacallit to the right looks like crap? So does the Deep Ellum Foundation, which has been trying to get money from the Farmers Market Tax Increment Financing District to fund a redo of the artwork in the so-called “art park” and Deep Ellum Dog Park along Good Latimer…
Take the White Out to yesterday’s speculative depth chart and dust off Laura Miller’s old parade plans, your Dallas Mavericks just signed … drum roll … Quintin Ross! Starred at Kimball High School. Starred at SMU. Starred at Bounced around the NBA. I’ll let the Mavs trumpet his arrival: Ross…
Over on the Reuters environment blog, Ed Stoddard sings the praises of the Trinity River Audubon Center, to which he paid “an eye-opening visit.” Writes Stoddard:This is a “good news” green story that shines a spotlight on many different issues: the environmental costs of poverty (no illegal landfills in affluent…
Dunno why a Friend of Unfair Park would send me this heads-up (oh, wait, yes I do), but, indeed, George Takei will be in town in but 11 days to speak at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, in conjunction with The Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of…
The Dallas Independent School District has just posted to its Web site a report titled Staffing Levels in the Dallas Independent School District Report, which was compiled on the school board’s behalf by the Council of the Great City Schools. The board wondered, quite simply, Is the district overstaffed? The…
Speaking of the Bush library at SMU and all the stuff they gotta stick in it some day, a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this link to the George W. Bush Presidential Librarium, created by the guys responsible for Goodnight Bush for whom “themed attractions provide more entertainment than…
A Friend of Unfair Park with an eye for a deal points our direction to this item up for grabs in a Dallas Independent School District surplus-item auction: three pallets of band uniforms and hats. Hell of a deal: Two bids have raised the asking price to a lousy 15…
On Monday afternoon, a Chicago man named Dennis Sneyer found a bag filled with a camera and thousands of digitally stored photos lying in the middle of a busy intersection. After a little sleuthing — which is to say, going through some pics and finding amongst the popular backdrops the…
Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein’s unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush’s SMU library, and a week after Pulle’s piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisville…
Talked yesterday afternoon to David McDavid , he of the best odds to buy the Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks. Nothing definitive, but the auto tycoon has cooled slightly on the idea of owning our baseball team to the point where he said he is – for now – “leaning against…
So reports the Associated Press, which got a sneak peek at a Texas A&M-based Texas Transportation Institute study being released tomorrow that ranks the DFW as the sixth-most traffic-jammed-up metropolis in the country behind Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Houston and San Francisco. That said, the report also counts Dallas among…
Well, none of them are building wind farms in West Texas. Two have known the soft touch of Mike Modano. Three are former or current Disney Channel stars. All are enamored of copious amounts of free publicity. Two have posed nude. And all have been named one of the “25…
A couple weeks before Dallas voters narrowly approved a publicly owned convention center hotel, we brought you exclusive photos of a private development from the offices of Jack Matthews, who’s also developing the city’s hotel. He showed us a model of what he called his “original vision” for the hotel…
Last December, Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program, took nine students from the university to a frigid Poland, where they visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, Stutthof and Treblinka, among several other Nazi concentration camps. (Halperin has led such sojourns for the last 13 years.) One of his students wrote…
I’s aren’t dotted. T’s aren’t crossed. Some negotiations aren’t finished. Others haven’t even started. But let’s assume smooth sailing and peer into the crystal basketball. With the Dallas Mavericks eyeing Shawn Marion, this could be their opening-night roster: Point Guard: Jason Kidd/ J.J. Barea Shooting Guard: Josh Howard/ Jason Terry/Antoine…
