The city council’s meeting this morning to discuss their suggested amendments to Mary Suhm’s proposed FY 2008-’09 budget, a more or less complete list of which is available here. Among the items most often cited on the council members’ wish lists: keeping the zoo open during the one day out…
For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…
Jeff Pearlman’s book about the ’90s Cowboys may be better, but mine is, um, older? Don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a little tussle between a couple decent football teams at Texas Stadium in, oh, about nine hours. If you’re more intellectual ponderer than face-painter, I’ve got a heavy-reading…
Thousands of Liverpool FC fans took to the streets on Saturday night to protest Tom Hicks’ ownership of their beloved, beleaguered team — 4,000 folks, by some counts, or the same number of people expected to turn out total for Texas Rangers home games between now and the season’s blessed…
Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…
The lead from the Associated Press’ story about Dallas buy-and-sell billionaire Sam Wyly, out promoting his book Entrepreneur to Billionaire: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: “Sam Wyly went from growing up in a house without electricity to amassing a fortune estimated at $1.2 billion, and he says anyone can follow…
On Thursday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will world premiere composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, which is about one day in the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson — the day Johnson order the first bombing of North Vietnam, and the day the bodies of slain civil…
From Belo-owned KHOU-Channel 11 in Houston, an early Ike highlight. Coming in a close second, Geraldo all fall down. –Robert Wilonsky…
Probably should have seen this coming back in July, when Tanna Gilder e-mailed Unfair Park with the assurance that, look, Bar of Soap isn’t closed — even though, yeah, there were some issues that needed to be hashed out with the landlord and so forth. And only last week Charlie…
Last night, WFAA-Channel 8 ran a piece by Brett Shipp about some Cooke County residents in Era who don’t want a natural gas waste injection well installed in their backyard, which the Railroad Commission of Texas approved over their protests that it would increase traffic and muck up their idyllic…
Sorry, soccer is not available on this afternoon’s buffet. Or, really, ever. … I’m going to Eagles-Cowboys Monday night. Anyone interested in reading some live blogging from the game? Would look and feel something like this, but posted in real time. Seems like multiple multi-tasking to both watch the game…
Slate’s just posted a piece by the suddenly omnipresent Mimi Swartz headlined “Waiting for Ike: The five stages of hurricane anxiety.” Which are, in order: anticipation, shopping, denial, panic and acceptance. To the latter point, Swartz writes from Houston, “It is time to admit that the only thing on television…
A Friend of Unfair Park shot us a link to an audio-video aggregator from the Texas coast, which, from the looks of it, compiles the raw, off-air video from pretty much anyone who’s got a news camera down there in advance of Ike’s landfall late tonight or early Saturday morning…
District 1 DISD School Board Trustee Edwin Flores “Everything’s on the table,” Dallas Independent School District superintendent Michael Hinojosa keeps saying following Wednesday’s announcement that the district’s got this teensy $64 million budget shortfall to cover right quick. Which means everything from staff cuts to school closings. But, as trustee…
Texas Instruments has created a special Web site in honor of September 12, 1958 — the day Jack St. Clair Kilby introduced the integrated circuit, otherwise known as the technology that “makes the Internet, PCs, cell phones and, well, the world, go round,” as TI proudly puts it. Kilby, who…
View Larger Map Park Row, in the shadow of Fair Park, is a street lined with modest bungalows constructed mostly in the 1920s, many by and for Jewish immigrants who settled in the area early during last century — my grandfather among them. Thirty-one years ago, both Park Row and…
Last night, David Letterman devoted 14 minutes of his Late Show to Jessica Simpson, and most of that was spent talking Tony Romo — how they met, the jinx, whether or not he wears a cup. Not discussed: Whether or not she wears panties on live morning television. An epic…
Who knows what Dallas Independent School District chief of staff Arnold Viramontes’s “direct action plan” will entail to prevent a $64-million wuh-oh next year. (Trustees Jack Lowe and Edwin Flores, for starters, fully expect another shortfall in the current school year’s $1.6 billion budget — so, word of warning.) But…
Turns out, the University of Texas was toying with the thought of moving Saturday night’s game against Arkansas up to Dallas on Saturday. Alas, athletics director DeLoss Dodds said it weren’t meant to be “because of how many workers are needed to put on a game for 98,000 fans,” reports…
As you can see from the latest rainfall projections from the National Weather Service, Ike’s tracking further east this afternoon than it was this morning — which means, at this point, less rain and slightly weaker winds are projected for the weekend. Which does nothing to calm the waters in…
No doubt you’ve heard that Sean Avery, the latest and greatest (?) Dallas Star, is about to have his tenure at Vogue, where he served as an “intern” this summer, turned into a romantic comedy by New Line and the guys responsible for Journey to the Center of the Earth,…
A Friend of Unfair Park just texted with the message that the Frank Crowley Courts Building is being evacuated — “don’t know why.” Turns out, a fire alarm has gone off in the building — a regular occurrence, says an Officer Williams in the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department who really…
