Snubbed again: A lot of times people have parties and they get so darned busy, they forget to invite Buzz. Buzz knows how embarrassed they must be when they finally realize their mistake. Totally unexpectedly, an anonymous e-mail arrived in Buzz’s mailbox containing a scan of a paper invitation of…
Paul Coggins After the jump, courtesy Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, the district’s announcement concerning the appointment of former U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins to look into the whole phony Social Security number mess. Coggins, now at Fish & Richardson, has a history of doing this kind of dirty…
Several SMU items of note today, because we’d be remiss if we went the day without mentioning something said yesterday on MSNBC. After the jump, Daily Beast Tina Brown’s appearance last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, which was guest-hosted by Alison Stewart. The reason we mention it? Brown talks…
Distraction? Why on Earth would you say a thing like that? Totally ignoring the fact that our little straw poll yesterday featured six “yay”s and seven “nay”s, NFL commish Roger Goodell is apparently on the verge of reinstating Pacman Jones. No official word yet, but owner Jerry Jones blabbed to…
The conceptual rendering of the new and improved Mattie Nash Myrtle Davis Recreation Center This evening, the Dallas City Council’s holding a Special Community meeting at the YMCA at 3737 Goldman Street, off N. Hampton Road. And though there are a few pieces of business to attend to, mostly the…
While on the SMU site today for the item below, I came across a video for a song written by a Mustang parent upon visiting his daughter on campus. The song, posted over the weekend, is after the jump — and, far as we know, it does not yet have…
Barbara Forrest, speaking at SMU last week In keeping with the spirit of Monday’s item concerning the release of the study Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century, last week SMU hosted a speech by Barbara Forrest, author of…
The brute of Brock Lesnar is one reason to be attracted to UFC. I can think of others. It’s official: Ultimate Fighting has KO’d Boxing. Proof? Quick, name the heavyweight champion of the world. If you’re like me, you knew Brock Lesnar before Wladimir Klitschko. I went to Evander Holyfield’s…
Tony Romo needs a nickname — something like Mother Teresa, only more … manly. Because just two months after the Dallas Cowboys’ QB stopped to help a couple fix their flat — only hours after getting 13 stitches in his chin following the Browns game — today The Dallas Morning…
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley’s war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers’ imaginations. A decade…
The loading dock at Petra Chemical’s Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama’s White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and current Obama…
The NCAA just posted to its Web site a list of host cities for the 2012 through 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Fours — and, no surprise, Jerryworld is indeed included among the sites. The dates: April 5-7, 2014. The host city, incidentally, is listed as “North Texas,” with the following…
This just in: Dallas has officially moved to Arlington. Well, after Arlington’s new Jonestown Coliseum snared another 100,000-kilowatt event this morning, that feels like the score. Right? On the heels of Dallas being shunned by the women’s Final Four last week, the Cowboys’ new stadium today landed the 2014 men’s…
Dean Fearing, who clearly needs to work on his knife skills Dean Fearing’s eatery in the Ritz-Carlton has been the recipient of myriad kudos from the likes of Frank Bruni in The New York Times (who called it “overwhelming,” but in a good way) to Esquire, which, couple years back,…
In August 2007, as it was becoming evident that Dallas was becoming “ground zero for criminal justice change,” in the words of Innocence Project of Texas founder Jeff Blackburn, Glenna Whitley wrote that faulty eyewitnesses were partially to blame for the convictions of so many innocent men. Which is why,…
Patrick Michels Will Smith pulls off the jersey and tie almost as heroically as Mayor Tom Leppert. Will Smith is all about good deeds these days, so if you wanted to catch the Dallas premiere of his new feel-good thriller Seven Pounds, you had to come with cans. Which was…
All this? Because of one game a year in our zip code? Seems a tad much. Okay, we get it. Dallas’ Only Daily is hitching its downsized wagon to the Texas Longhorns. Again. I often accuse Dallas of being not a sports town, but a winners town. I have to…
A Friend of Unfair Park is rather unhappy with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines over the news today that the carrier’s spending a mere $7.5 million to assume ATA Airlines’ rights to operate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The deal’s still a long ways off: “Details on the commencement of service or…
Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA…
Whilst browsing through the City Secretary’s virtual stack of boards and commissions meetings scheduled for today, we came across this interesting shindig scheduled for this evening. The Landmark Commission is convening a Economic Review Panel to discuss demolishing a piece of the Magnolia Station, the circa-1911 Magnolia Petroleum Company office…
Dianna Wray Hold still … this won’t hurt a bit. Outside the Dallas Convention Center, rows of motorcycles stand gleaming in the sun. The sound of rumbling engines fills the air, and the smell of exhaust fills the nostrils. The scent could be Chanel No. 5, judging by the faces…
Forgiven? Or forgotten? Last week Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones was emphatic when asked if he’d like Pacman Jones back. “Yes,” Jones declared. On Monday at Valley Ranch coach Wade Phillips was slightly less enthusiastic. “I really don’t know,” Phillips said. “When he’s gone, he’s gone. We don’t really think about…
