Went out and toured “new” Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there’s…
Shortly before the 2007 referendum on the Trinity Turnpike, I discussed a Dallas Morning News editorial written by Colleen McCain Nelson, in which she had a hard time grasping the difference between a floodway and a floodplain. It wasn’t the first time I disagreed with her as she appears to…
Embarrassed.That was the word used over and over by Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle during an afternoon press conference at DPD HQ during which he described how he felt about the conduct of police officer Robert Powell. As you’re no doubt aware by now, Powell detained Houston Texans running back…
Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday’s public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today’s evolution vs. creationism vote — which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools…
Dallas Morning News Managing Editor George Rodrigue just posted his latest “Ask the Editor” column. And, even though nobody asked — we are soooooo blushing right now — it’s mostly about the Dallas Observer, otherwise known as “a sexually oriented weekly tabloid,” which sounds significantly more interesting than the paper…
Yesterday, the SPCA of Texas began transferring to McKinney 150 dogs seized from a Paris, Arkansas, puppy mill. In all, some 400 animals — including miniature ponies, cats, exotic birds and turtles — were seized from the “horrific” 82-acre facility on Monday, with the Humane Society of the United States…
Lose a basketball game. Win another ratings period. Ho-hum. With Arbitron’s new Portable People Meter (PPMs) ratings, instead of a three-month window we can check out the stats monthly. And what do the PPMs indicate for February? That, just like last month, 1310 AM The Ticket is as strong as…
A Friend of Unfair Park noticed this note at the end of ESPN.com’s recap of last night’s Mavs-Warriors recap:Movie director Spike Lee, a noted Knicks fan, sat courtside with Mavs owner Mark Cuban. Lee is in town for a film festival.Can only think of one, but so far no confirmation…
First, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says quarterback Tony Romo is untouchable. “I wouldn’t trade Tony for anybody.” Now head coach Wade Phillips – who never addressed his team after last season and has been publicly silent since 2008 – says he hasn’t talked just because, um, he hasn’t wanted to…
At this very moment, AFI Dallas International Film Festival CEO and artist director Michael Cain is attending a funeral in Euless: His father-in-law, Allan McKinnon, died on Monday after a long battle with cancer. So do not expect Cain’s wife — Melina, as much a force and familiar face on…
I had intended to watch the Texas Transportation Commission meeting this morning — it’s being Webcast over here, for those so interested — because among the agenda items for this morning was approving stimulus dough for those so-called “shovel-ready projects” ’round the state, among them the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park…
Richie has the recap of last night’s Ticket-Lake Highlands High all-girls squad basketball game, and no doubt he’ll post the sports-talk radio ratings for February sooner than later. (Spoiler alert: KTCK’s No. 1 overall in the market with men 25-54 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, posting…
Last week, Angela Hunt was close to posting on her Web site a Trinity River Corridor Project Plan B — the name of Jim Schutze’s new band, so happens. Instead, she fleshed it out with a flash-forward and gave it to The Dallas Morning News, where it appears this morning…
Truth hurts: A political gaffe, it’s been said, is what happens when a politician accidentally says something honest. So, we figure former Dallas City Council member Craig Holcomb must have been wishing for a do-over for his comment in last Sunday’s page-one Trinity River story in The Dallas Morning News…
“Gimme Shelter,” by Megan Feldman, March 12 Kids These Days I picked up the Dallas Observer yesterday because of the artwork on the cover. I am a product of the 1960s and was a child when Vietnam was going on. The Vietnam War was something that was never discussed in…
Texas Rangers fans attending games in Arlington this season will do something for the first time since their ballpark opened in 1994. Sorry, it has nothing to do with winning. Or does it? Thanks to a $4 million facelift, every fan in every seat at Rangers Ballpark will be able…
BLOWIN’ IN THE WINDThe T. Boone Pickens alternative energy show rolls across America T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Houston’s Rice University, he’s hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more wind power and natural…
One player wore low-top running shoes and – duh – sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the middle-aged men to a hapless puddle of fart-and-fall-down. In other words, The Ticket’s game against a group of Lake…
Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Joel Elliott, the Canton-based attorney for Caruth Byrd, who, for the last two years, has been embroiled in a contentious legal battle with Aubrey Mayhew over which man owns the actual sniper’s perch lifted long ago from the Texas School Book Depository. Alas, as…
So says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won’t play in Waco, as…
A Friend of Unfair Park who wonders where all the Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo talk’s done gone to passes along a link to Joe Simpson’s Twitter page, which he used earlier this week to refute a National Enquirer story that claims he’s been trying to bust up the Dallas Cowboys QB’s…
Friends of Unfair Park first met Hal Samples’s harmonica-playing pal Benjamin Ford — better known as ScrapIron — back in November 2006, when we posted an excerpt from Hal’s doc-in-progress Dreamtown, about the homeless in Dallas. But earlier this month, ScrapIron died — without a cent to his name, without…
