I had to squeeze my way through the crowd packing the gymnasium at Alex Sanger Elementary School for the Democrat caucus in Precinct 2228, which started promptly at 7:16 p.m. The noise level was so high that someone finally let out a screeching whistle to shut up everybody long enough…
We’re outs till Round 2 of the day’s events — there’s still a paper version of Unfair Park to get out the door. So, see you somewhere around 7:30ish with reports from Dem damned precinct conventions (or, if you must, the caucuses). Till then, of course, the big news from…
Herrera’s: Hillary Clinton ate here! Sort of. Got a media alert from the Clinton campaign that Hillary’d be lunching at Herrera’s today — the one on Denton Drive, near Love Field. And it promised big things — Queer as Folk star Robert Gant, Kansas Democratic Party vice chair Teresa Garcia…
Why, oh, why, do our fashionable Friends send such wonderful links too late to do anything about them? Because if I’d known about this a week ago, I would totally have bought this tee and worn it tonight (not because of the candidate affiliation necessarily, but because it’s a good…
Dubai International Capital yesterday offered Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. about $800 million for their Liverpool football club — an offer to which the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner and his business partner said, “Thanks, but pass.” Only, the story doesn’t end there: According to the Associated Press,…
BarackObama.com Obama at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo this morning At around 10:30 this morning, I pulled up to Precinct 1224’s polling place, Fire Station No. 17, mindful of the two Obama peeps nearby. I started to walk into the fire station, when I heard a young girl yelling…
Our Rich Lopez just had himself a nice lunch at Herrera’s Mexican Restaurant on Denton Drive — turns out, at the exact same moment Hillary Clinton was ordering votes with a side of queso. More from that forthcoming, but this just in from Clinton’s press peeps: At 4:30, Rob Reiner…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who cast his ballot today witnessed something today that ain’t … what’s the word I’m looking for … oh, yeah, legal: My elderly neighbor was voting with her husband, and neither of them knew anything about the Railroad Commissioner nominees. As they’re filling out…
It’s been more than a year since Crow Holdings bought the old Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue, which will be the company’s new home — and happens to be across the street from Unfair Park headquarters. I was at the current offices of Crow Holdings on McKinney Avenue yesterday, where…
Brian Harkin Bill Clinton, campaigning for his Hillary in Grauwyler Park on February 26 More backward-glancing from the national media this a.m.: Just as The Washington Post revisited Barack Obama’s visit to Duncanville last week, The Los Angeles Times retraces Bill Clinton’s footsteps through the DFW one week ago today…
Speaking of, this sounds looks good right about now. Last week, Adelfa Callejo got herself — and Hillary Clinton — in a wee spot of trouble, when the Latino-rights activist insisted that “when blacks had the numbers, they didn’t do anything to support us.” Today, the Chicago Sun-Times’ columnist Mary…
Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network This morning, The Washington Post uses last week’s Obama appearance in Duncanville to, once more, investigate the “movement” surrounding the senator from Illinois. Among those interviewed is a former Bill Clinton war roommate, Simon Rosenberg, who details the two campaigns’ different use…
So, that was anti-climactic. Took all of 10 minutes to vote, including drive time from and back to the house. No crowded parking lot, no line, no nothing except two campaign workers — one from Hillary Clinton’s camp, one from Barack Obama’s — shivering on the sidewalk, sharing a box…
Rrustem Neza’s case was front-page news in his native Albania. Eight years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, now-editor Mark Donald wrote about Dallas immigration attorney John Wheat Gibson, who, back then, was sparring with Immigration and Naturalization Service over the fate of seven Yugoslav immigrants — six…
SURPRISE, Arizona — After a week in Arizona I can honestly say the Texas Rangers have a chance to win the World Series. That is, if the league suddenly dissolves to just them and the Kansas City Royals. The Rangers beat K.C. 8-7 yesterday, improving to 3-0 against their Spring…
Sorry, can’t help it — avert your eyes, what can I say. But here’s Tony Romo, quoted today: “I guess you date Jessica Simpson, that makes you fearless!” Why did he say it? Where did he say it? And who was he with when he said it? Well, if you…
A hearty “mazel tov” is in order for Jim Schutze’s favorite blog (not including his own, natch): Back Talk Lakewood’s Friday item, about how the Clinton campaign appears to have paid a couple of guys to hold signs at Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue, was picked up yesterday by Daily…
It’s one thing for Van Halen to postpone its show tonight at the American Airlines Center. But now we get word from Sara Edmonds, the events coordinator at Borders Books’ Preston Royal location, that the former Mrs. Eddie Van Halen, Valerie Bertinelli, has also bailed on her appearance originally scheduled…
The Dallas Opera’s staging of Porgy & Bess wrapped up Saturday — but fret not, opera fans, as the DO has just posted several clips from the local run at Fair Park. Here’s “There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon For New York,” and several more can be found after the…
A week ago today over on DC9, music editor Pete Freedman noted that, despite the Internet buzz to the contrary, Van Halen’s show at the American Airlines Center would indeed take place as scheduled tonight. Eddie Van Halen’s galpal and VH publicist Janie Liszewski said as much to Pete: “Dallas…
Michael Eisner, former Disney CEO For those attending the South by Southwest Film Festival, which begins Friday in Austin, a quick note: Michael Eisner, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company whose 2004 ouster led to this brilliant book in ’05, was already scheduled to speak on Tuesday. Specifically,…
Why didn’t these folks make one of these shirts for Texas? Because we’d buy one, no doubt. Over at The Huffington Post, Mayhill Fowler has just posted a piece headlined “Confusion Rampant Over Texas ‘Primacaucus’ Rules” — which, if my mother’s phone call of minutes ago is any indication, sounds…
