National Public Radio’s Wade Goodwyn headed out to Southfork Ranch yesterday for America’s Tea Party — alas, no Janeane Garofalo, though. Or Rick Perry either, though the governor did put in an appearance at a tea party out in Rockwall (hope he had time to grab a bite at the…
One week later, word of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Fort Worth Police Department’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge has reached Page A16 of this morning New York Times. The piece recaps for a national audience what the locals already know about the incident that has prompted TABC and…
Two hours into Stardate 0704.09 (so sorry), and the die-hards are still putting the finishing touches on our street’s entry in the annual neighborhood parade, for which everyone goes all-out days in advance till the final sprint into the wee small hours of the Fourth. What you see above is…
In the paper version of Unfair Park this week, I make mention of my interview with Willie Hutch, the Carrollton-born great who, during our 1998 chat at his Cedar Hill recording studio, recounted how he came to write the Jackson 5’s immortal “I’ll Be There.” The story about The Mack,…
Mitchell Rasansky, who served with Don Hill on the Dallas City Council for six years and is listed as a potential witness in Hill’s ongoing federal corruption trial, says any direct ties between Hill and developer Brian Potashnik weren’t apparent to him because the majority of the city’s affordable housing…
More questions than answers remain about the future of Paul Quinn College a week after its president announced the institution’s loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Michael Sorrell last Friday explained to gathered students, alumni and reporters that he would be unable to discuss specifics…
Beginning in 2006, ’round the time Rex Tillerson replaced Lee Raymond as CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the company said it would cut funding to public-policy groups whose policy it was to deny in public the existence of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, matter…
Happy Birthday! Our country turns the ripe old age of 233 tomorrow. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, let us not forget how fortunate we are to have a variety of sports and the freedom to choose which ones we love and/or loathe. In honor of the Fourth of July…
Just do it: This can’t be right. A highly unscientific “Trojan Pleasure Survey” undertaken by the condom maker finds that Houstonians are a bunny-like people and have sex on average 101 times a year, making it the No. 1 do-it town in America, far surpassing D-FW’s paltry average of 73…
“Just Say, ‘No, Thank You'” by Kimberly Thorpe, June 25 boys will be boys Where’s the corresponding program for boys? If you expect teenage girls to abstain from sex, you’d better have a similar program for the boys, complete with a ring asking them to pledge their bodies to God…
One. That’s how many foreign players—with a basketball pedigree void of a U.S. college—have excelled for the Dallas Mavericks. Granted, it was a biggie. In fact, the greatest player in franchise history and the best foreigner in NBA history: Dirk Nowitzki. But the number of failed experiments is considerably higher…
Even though Leslie Davenport is not a party to the litigation, nothing can keep her away from the Dallas County district court next October. That’s when Southern Methodist University is scheduled to defend its reputation for what Davenport claims was the unconscionable treatment her mother and others suffered at the…
On a 103-degree day like today, most people stick to air-conditioned buildings or poolside recliners. Not 19-year-old Jonathon Jackson.With a crew of a dozen other teens, the South Oak Cliff High graduate spent the afternoon trudging through the Great Trinity Forest in snake chaps and a work helmet to help…
First there was Bernie Madoff; then, Alan Stanford. Then came Minnesota’s Tom Petters, who, as The Wall Street Journal documented in April, was popped by federal authorities who claimed he operated a $3-billion Ponzi scheme built upon his taking investors’ hard-earned scratch to buy flat-screen TVs and other electronic whatchamacallits…
This is very good news — big news too, especially for those who, during their travels to Los Angeles, found themselves spending an afternoon at Storyopolis in Sherman Oaks after it moved from its original Robertson Boulevard location. Come July 17, Storyopolis Fine Art makes its official Dallas debut with…
Earlier today, the Fort Worth Police Department sent out the following press release in response to Saturday night’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. In short, the FWPD’s temporarily breaking up with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission till both agencies figure out how the raid on the newly…
For the Fourth of July weekend, the Dallas Police Department is partnering with Dallas Fire-Rescue — they’re going to ride in patrol cars together — to strictly enforce the no-no’s listed above, especially the part about shooting stuff into the air. It’s the first time the two departments have gone…
The Rangers tip-toed perilously close to a lost season last night. Instead, they wound up jumping all over a won game. I know we’re only two days into July, but coughing up a 7-1 lead and losing to the AL West division leaders last night might have been a kick to the…
The city of Dallas has made much of its efforts to “build a greener city” … which means what, exactly? That, more or less, was the question posed earlier this week during a confab at the downtown Dallas library during a program billed as a dialogue on the “green economy,”…
So says Men’s Health in its July-August issue, in which the magazine ranks the top 100 major U.S. cities’ “sports-obsessed citizenry” and puts Arlington at the very top o’ the list with an “A+” ranking. Says here that myriad factors went into the ranking — everything from the number of…
The Vancouver Sun brings word this morning that Bobby Goldstein — the man behind Cheaters and former-KTVT’er Robert Riggs’s boss since February — is opening an outpost in British Columbia this month. Right now, he’s got about 30 folks working out of the Lovers Lane HQ, but it seems Goldstein’s…
