So, do we want to carry KTVT-Channel 11’s news, weather, sports and so forth on Unfair Park? Because, see, the CBS affiliate is offering to do all the heavy lifting — it’s one of only four nationally to do so, with more markets forthcoming in coming weeks. It’s part of…
On Friday we showed you the Bedford Police Department’s recruitment video — seems only fair, then, to post today the Dallas Police Department’s help-wanted ad, posted this morning to YouTube. Among the endless advancement opportunities: You get to ride bikes, ride horses, wear dreads and buy drugs. Where do I…
UTA Mavs UTA’s Anthony Vereen, who scored 25 points during yesterday’s Southland Conference championship game in Katy Not those Mavs, though they did too. These Mavs. The never-ever-ever been to the Big Dance and hey-that’s-my-alma-mater Mavs. Our area’s big boys can’t win a lick with a Doherty or a Dougherty,…
Sure, you’ve already forgotten about the United Football League — it’s already a distant memory, less than a year after The New York Times broke the news of the upstart football league set to bow this August with eight teams in non-NFL towns. Turns out, it’s not dead — it’s…
Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s in town today — which is swell, because we all remember what happened when he spoke in Dallas in April ’06, right? At 2 p.m. he’ll be at the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas on N. Lamar…
It’s been almost a couple of months since Unfair Park provided a wrap-up of the first installment of the mayor’s Trinity River Corridor Project Summit, where the big news was that Mayor Leppert is gonna shave off a year from the competition date for the Trinity Turnpike. All the peeps…
Trinity United Church of Christ Barack Obama with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in a now-famous photo taken three years ago There were the “Cocktail Christians”: the Lutherans in my Wisconsin hometown who did their sacred rites on Sunday morning and tipped multiple martinis Sunday night. Punch in; punch…
Ghostland Observatory’s playing Greenville Ave. tomorrow — and now, for you, it’s absotively free. For thems in need of some gratis Ghostland Observatory ducats for the Austin band’s show that follows the 29th Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade, here’s a treat for the Friends of Unfair Park: We’ve…
A scene from Lake Highlands grad John Magary’s award-winning short The Second Line Shawn Mahan, general manager at the Magnolia Theatre, sends a friendly reminder for those of who didn’t pay enough attention to our inbox earlier this week: At the just-wrapping South by Southwest film fest, 1996 Lake Highlands…
Maybe you read a little something about a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol car getting a love tap Tuesday night from a drunk driver. Happened around 8 p.m. on State Highway 310, just north of Interstate 20. Thankfully, the Associated Press is distributing, courtesy the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, a…
Looks like The Hammer’s almost ready to emerge from the toolbox. According to two local radio industry sources, Greg “The Hammer” Williams is deep into negotiations for a permanent gig at ESPN 103.3 FM — negotiations that are so serious, in fact, that sources say Williams will be at the…
ABC News ABC’s Nightline was all set to do a puff piece on Southwest Airlines — “the all-too-rare story of a U.S. airline that has been so successful, so profitable, so relentlessly cheery that practically no one who works at the airline ever quits.” Only, that was before word broke…
The Washington Blade today looks into the rift in the gay community between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supporters — and it specifically deals with the how the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas have had to deal with the fact that president Jesse Garcia lists Clinton as a “political hero” while…
Mark Graham High school sweethearts Amber Burden and Jacoby James A few months ago, I got a call from an editor at Seventeen who‘d come across a story I wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park about a female-to-male transgender teen who began living as a boy while attending…
See, you coulda stood in this line to see Vampire Weekend at SXSW. Or you could just click your mouse right now. Good call. Gettin’ old. See, I wish I’d stayed an extra night in Austin — woulda been nice to hear R.E.M. at Stubb’s, where they played the opening…
It’s very exciting to be a police officer in Bedford — like a C.S.I. episode scored by Trevor Rabin, from the looks of the recruitment video below. I mean, that S.W.A.T. scene? Sign me up. Which is precisely the point of this five-minute help-wanted pitch — the theme of which…
Tom Leppert to Urban Market crowd last night — something about, “Look into my eyes, like a shark’s eyes …” When I found out Mayor Tom was speaking at Urban Market last night, I was so there. After all, I frequent the Urban Café next door, during lunch breaks from…
Brian Harkin This is one of the photos Brian’s selling tonight — consider yourself sneak-peek’d. Brian Harkin has provided Unfair Park with many frameable memories in recent months — see here and here and here, for starters. So here’s a treat for the Friends who are fans: Tonight you can…
An actual photo of Amanda Brooks. No, really, an actual photo. This ain’t the paper version of Unfair Park, dig? The Dallas Morning News really blew its interview with Amanda Brooks — you recall, the “former independent escort and stripper in Dallas” quoted in the high-priced hooker piece (and you…
KDFW-Channel 4 Melissa Cutler of KDFW-Channel 4 was in the office yesterday interviewing Schutze for a story that ran on the Fox affiliate last night. And, yes, it was about Lynn Flint Shaw’s “Inner Circle” and the e-mails about which Jim wrote on Tuesday. The video, which has Mayor Tom…
Mark C. Austin David Bean performed with The Judy’s last night in Austin, years after the band swore off a reunion. Also, no wonder Josh Venable’s a fan. Like, amazing. About 10 years back, I interviewed David Bean about his historic Houston band The Judy’s — who, by 1998, had…
Not from last night, sure, but perhaps another entry in our Write a Mayor Tom Caption Contest. As we noted yesterday, Mayor Tom was at Urban Market last night to talk with neighborhood folks about his big plans about downtown. More on that forthcoming this afternoon, but for now I’ll…
