DPD Wants You

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…

Mavs Win! Mavs Win!

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,…

UFL Passing on ’08 Start Date

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…

Action Jackson’s Back in Town

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…

Sure, They Name-Drop Jesus. But What in God’s Name Do They Know?

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…

The Drinks Ain’t Free Tomorrow, But the Music Is If’n You Hurry

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…

First Place for The Second Line

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…

The Crash That Took Me

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…

There’s Greggo!

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…

The Tale of Two Southwests

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…

Why SXSW When You Can NPR?

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…

Bedford Cops Are the Coolest

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…

Harkin, Is That Picture For Sale?

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…

“Tom Makes His Own Schedule.”

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…

Back at the Washarama

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…

Mayor Tom is Accessible

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…