With one day left for folks to bid on a power-nosh with T. Boone Pickens at Nick & Sam’s, figured now might be a good time to check on how the auction’s going to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas. Because when last we left it one week…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who receives Southwest Airlines’s tweets forwards this just-Twitter’d photo announcing the Dallas-based carrier’s relationship with Sports Illustrated. Having such a hard time writing a caption for this … But you know who’s probably not amused? Kyla Ebbert…
Found these two old pics over the holidays. In the one above I’m 7 at some rinky dink field in Duncanville; after the jump I’m 37 at a home-run contest at The Ballpark in Arlington. In each I’m a Rangers’ fan, consumed not with steroids and HGH but rather batting…
Still haven’t been served over this December 16 item concerning the surprisingly litigious Hiram Walker Royall, a Highland Park developer, so I will proceed further — but only with the caveat that a mutual friend of ours insists “he’s a great guy.” So, there — covered. Anyway, the details behind…
This morning’s USA Today visits cities “revisiting immigration laws” for various reasons: exorbitant legal bills, the high price of implementation measures and “the barrage of publicity and accusations of racism that come with such laws.” Up in Denton County, Oak Point city council member Judith Camp says she voted against…
Terrell Bolton’s gone — to DeKalb County, Georgia, where, for now, he’s still police chief — but he’s definitely not forgotten. For that matter, he isn’t really gone: Bolton’s family still lives in Dallas, and here’s where Dallas’s ex-top cop spends all of his off time. Which is one reason…
According to the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management’s Web site, “The City’s outdoor weather warning system has 94 sirens that alert people who are outdoors to seek shelter in the event of a tornado.” Had to double-check this morning, following two rounds of siren songs last night: at…
I tracked down Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban last night before his team’s game against the Sacramento Kings at American Airlines Center. He was on the StairMaster. Insisting his team isn’t on the treadmill. “Not right now we’re not,” Cuban told me. “Treadmill teams are those that don’t have a realistic…
Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn’t stop putting the words “insurgency,” “Republican Party” and “Taliban” in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin’ the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subject…
It’s got to be the ultimate celebrity time-waste: Forbes has compiled and just posted a list of more than 1,400 “working actors” ranked according to their “Star Currency.” And this was no easy task: Notes the magazine, a survey …… was sent to entertainment industry members globally asking them to…
View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we’ve written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you…
Mayor Tom’s got plans at 7 tonight: He’ll be at Zubar on Lower Greenville spinning stacks of wax on the wheels of steel under his DJ name MCEO (that’s Patrick “Buzz” Williams’s joke, for better or worse). That, or he’ll be meeting with the Dallas County Young Democrats to discuss…
Wrote Schutze in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park: “A petition drive under way right now in Dallas calls for a citywide election on tax subsidies from City Hall to developers. I’m amazed I’m not for it. … I’m getting a really bad odor.” Also against it: Mayor Tom…
After attending the Mavs’ shootaround this morning and before heading back to American Airlines Center tonight for the showdown contest victory over the Sacramento Kings, I watched and re-watched this week’s interviews with two of America’s biggest sporting dufuses. Sorry, but Tony Romo and Alex Rodriguez just don’t get it…
[Update: At 2:14, Angela Hunt sent word that the council will likely postpone voting on this one more time. She’s about to meet with developer Craig Hall to discuss “how we’ll ensure the building is integrated into the Arts District.]At the end of January, the Dallas City Council was scheduled…
Most years I chuckle at Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. The blatant pandering. The absolutely non-sports of it all. The shrinking bikini photos that are just this close to being NSFW. But while examining this year’s offering I had two new thoughts: 1. Hey, sounds like I’m describing my own blog. 2. Whoa, a…
One of the most striking things about the Office Space 10th Anniversary Reunion down in Austin was how enthusiastic all the cast members still were about the film. They dusted off old lines of dialogue, destroyed a fax machine and even pulled off a break-dancing move for the crowd Sunday…
To be fair, because I rip Dallas’ Only Daily for taking away my extended NBA standings and expanded box scores, I should commend it for having the foresight to bring them back. Honestly, the standings are still skimpy compared to the statistical salad days. But I’m in good mood, so…
With the city council campaign season heating up, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a look-see at some of the campaign finance reports of the incumbents to see how they’ve been spending their dough. Freshman council member Tennell Atkins emerged as our first subject after we noticed an…
Mentioned a couple of months back that Elvis Mitchell was in town interviewing T.D. Jakes for his talkumentary The Black List: Volume Two, a sequel to last year’s star-studded Volume One that aired on HBO following its Sundance bow. Volume Two debuts on February 26 — and it’ll actually contain…
As noted here several times in the past, Richard Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, gives mighty good speech — full of literary references, song lyrics and the assorted accumulated detritus collected in a bright mind. He was down in Houston last night, talking about…
Last night, Mark Cuban posted to BlogMaverick his own version of a stimulus plan: “open-source funding.” Which means? You post a potential business idea to his blog, and if it’s good enough, folks will comment on the idea, build upon it or even steal it — and, just maybe, he’ll…
