This “Comet-like character” is among the proposed mascots for the University of Texas at Dallas. As a former University of Texas at Dallas co-ed, I can safely say it was never clear exactly what we were. Allow me to clarify: For some sports, we were the Comets, local and proud…
The above video comes from Roger Waters’ Sunday-night performance at Coachella, where, during a performance of Pink Floyd’s 1977 song “Pigs,” his giant inflatable swine took off into the night sky. Alas, it was recovered two days later — a few miles away from the SoCal site of the festival…
In 1972, Candy Barr wrote her own biography. Forthcoming on July 25 is Ted Schwarz’s book Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque, which may be the longest title this side of Fiona Apple’s second album. Kirkus…
Dr. Kern Wildenthal is defended today by UT Southwestern’s executive VP for academic affairs A couple of weeks back, we pointed your attention to an essay in the subscription-only Chronicle of Philanthropy, in which Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, insisted that the Dallas…
Per the GM, the guy in the middle isn’t a candidate to coach the Mavs. Methinks the other two have signficantly brighter futures. Just caught the tail end of Mavericks’ General Manager Donnie Nelson on The Ticket. As far as the next head coach, we now know: *It won’t be…
Shealah Craighead/White House Swore I wasn’t gonna mention Jessica Simpson for at least one more day, but this one’s too good not to mention — because when the President of the U.S. and A. uses her name as a punch line, well, we are through the looking glass. The New…
Ticket listeners just heard the morning Musers debate this a.m.’s breaking Pacman Jones news: Jailed 29-year-old Arvin Edwards tells Nashville’s CBS affiliate that the new Dallas Cowboys corner ordered him to shoot up a Las Vegas nightclub in 2007. Jones has maintained it didn’t go down like that: The former…
An over-wide net: It’s sure a good thing Congress failed to pass any sort of immigration reform. Why bother, when you can just arrest and deport any Jesus, Jose or Maria? Local immigration lawyer Fernando Dubove says his caseload has surged during the recent nationwide crackdown on plants, employers and…
“No Nature for Old Men,” by Jim Schutze, April 17 Old Man River So spend “10 hundred kabillion dollars” to sanitize the [Great Trinity Forest], put in trails, cut out those nasty weeds that are actually a part of the ecosystem and light the place up like a Christmas tree…
Attention Jerry Jones: Michael Vick gets out of prison in 15 months. Rae Carruth will be only 44 when he’s eligible for parole in 2019. Dwayne Goodrich is almost halfway through his sentence. Art Schlichter is a free man. No one avoids his pursuers like O.J. Simpson. And, who knows,…
After moving into his new contemporary home on a bluff overlooking White Rock Lake, Chip Northrup was riding his bicycle when he noticed 20-foot-tall light poles sprouting on the west side of the park. The closely planted poles triggered alarm bells in his head. As a former member of the…
With McMansions galore, a concrete-chic urban planning model and seemingly never-ending sprawl, Plano is many outsiders’ vision of hell. But to Stefan Merrill Block, it’s home, not to mention the inspiration for his debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, recently released to critical acclaim and high commercial expectations by Random…
Apparently, Jessica Simpson’s on the cover of every magazine — by which I mean, like, three, if’n you include the new Esquire, D and, now, Glamour, which interviewed Simpson “at her favorite Dallas bistro,” which is? And the subject at hand is none other than Cowboys QB Tony Romo, with…
If you’re looking for the proper way to lament-ebrate today’s firing of Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson — who, yes, loses his gig whilst Texas Rangers skipper Ron Washington keeps his, as so many of you have pointed out — look no further than this eBay auction featuring an…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago. Which seems like a million years ago. Either Mavs owner Mark Cuban takes the suggestions of Unfair Park (and everyone else with eyes) pretty damn seriously, or else Avery Johnson’s dismissal had become that obvious. Probably the…
Daniel Rodrigue See, stuff like happens all the time at Valley View. But at NorthPark, not as often. As we mentioned in yesterday’s missive from NorthPark Center — where, on Monday, all manner of chaos was brought about by a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Night — Arlington prog-rocker…
That’s what ESPN — and 32 e-mails in my in-box — says. I’ll take all of yer words for it, as I am out as well. To lunch. Richie? –Robert Wilonsky…
Lee Trull For a freelance actor-writer, being hired for the new resident company at Dallas Theater Center is like being called up from the minors to the big leagues. And for all-around utility player Lee Trull, it also means being the first Dallas actor to be named to the nine-member…
Two down, 12 to go, Don Hill! This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Andrea Spencer, among those named by the feds in the low-income housing development corruption case at Dallas City Hall, pleaded guilty this morning in a federal courtroom to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery…
View Larger Map After last week’s big non-vote by the city council on the land acquisition for the convention center hotel, the topic was revisited briefly during the afternoon open microphone session. It turns out that as I was writing my wrap-up of the discussion here at Unfair Park HQ,…
Brandon Bass. There. Now that I’ve addressed the positives from the Mavericks’ short-circuited post-season, let’s move on to trying to sort out the shit. Get comfy. It starts, of course, with the head coach. Avery Johnson must be fired. Now. Because of his micro-managing, defiant devotion to his blessed “system”…
John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller’s heirs today demanded that Irving-based ExxonMobil — otherwise known, way back when, as Standard Oil — get its head out of its oil drum and start looking into “renewables and alternative fuels,” pronto. Said Peter O’Neill, the Rockefellers’ liason to the ExxonMobil cartel and…
