I guess it makes sense, as the Dallas Cowboys great is an Arkansas native: Today Cliff Harris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. As in, “Many told me I would never play in the NFL, let alone win a Super Bowl ring or two. Similar cynics may say the same thing…
Mark Graham In more Plano-based author news: Kerry Max Cook — the innocent man imprisoned for 16 years for a horrific crime he didn’t commit — has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, for his book Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two…
Irving-based Zale Corporation, which moved from Wichita Falls to the Mercantile Bank Building in downtown Dallas in 1946, has hit a rough patch — again. Fourteen years after getting out from under Chapter 11, the company, which once boasted some 1,700 locations, announced today it’s shuttering 105 stores this year…
In early December, we mentioned the then-impending publication of Robert Rummel-Hudson’s book Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter. Since then, the University of Texas at Arlington architecture communication coordinator has been popping up in plenty of places — as has his daughter Schuyler, who’s finding the words,…
Dallas Stars/NHL Brad Richards, now a Dallas Star — the hockey team, I believe Out here in Surprise, Arizona, it’s sunny and 82 degrees and far, far removed from hockey season. But back there, I hear the team I said never makes any noise actually made some noise, eh? Not…
Over at DC9, music editor Pete Freedman — who I will stop calling “the new guy” in, like, a year — brings word that last night’s Erykah Badu release party-birthday throwdown brought in an extra extra-special guest: some dude named Dave Chappelle, who apparently comes out of hiding only at…
HillaryClinton.com Feel the love, because come a week from today, we’re getting dumped. First thing’s first, as today Barack Obama’s in Duncanville at the Sandra Meadows Memorial Arena on Camp Wisdom; the so-called “Stand for Change” town hall event begins at 4:45 p.m., with doors opening two hours earlier, and…
Tomorrow’s city council meeting is filled with several interesting items — though once again, the addendum is where the most titillating items can be found. So much to get to: the convention-center hotel, natural-gas drilling, cell phones … You know what? We need more room to stretch out. Like maybe…
Brian Harkin As promised, here’s a slideshow featuring Brian Harkin’s photos of Bill Clinton’s visit to Grauwyler Park this morning. Above, a personal favorite. And, no, it doesn’t remind me of this picture. At all. –Robert Wilonsky…
The greatness of Gorilla vs. Bear has hopped into the Wayback Machine and dialed up 1994 — back when one “J. Kidd” collaborated with Digital Underground’s Money B. on the shit … dang it … hit single “What the Kidd Didd.” It’s been kinda making the rounds in recent weeks:…
The Dallas Center for Architecture — no, really The Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the name of the architect chosen to design the interior of the Dallas Center for Architecture, scheduled to bow in September at 1909 Woodall Rodgers Freeway — overlooking the thus-far hypothetical…
Brian Harkin Former president Bill Clinton, speaking moments ago to a small crowd near Grauwyler Park. A surreal scene a couple of hours ago, a real WTF moment: Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, standing in the back of a blue pick-up truck off Harry Hines Boulevard and…
Dean Fearing, already tapped as the greatest thing since toasted bread in Esquire a few months back, gets a nice, lengthy shout-out in the new Newsweek: He’s “A Chicken-Fried Gourmet,” haw-haw. Writes Julia Reed of the Ritz-Carlton eatery: “Fearing’s is unpretentious, not crazy expensive and lots of fun — it…
I’m headed out to Surprise, Arizona, today for a week at Texas Rangers spring training, which, I know, sounds about as inviting as a lunch-time waterboarding session. But, hey, duty calls. Like most of you, I’m not real jazzed about this Rangers season. We’re not alone. Fox and ESPN have…
Speaking of High School Reunion, as we were yesterday, here’s the promo for the TV Land series starring 16 former J.J. Pearce High School Mustangs who, apparently, really wanted to go to Hawaii. Go, Class of ’87! Takeaway: “You slept with your best friend’s ex-wife.” “And I’m man enough to…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking last week at Reunion Arena, hopes to create the same kind of event in Fort Worth on Thursday. I’m leaving shortly to see Bill Clinton speak at Grauwyler Park off Harry Hines Boulevard; was thinking of grabbing breakfast at the Original Market Diner anyway. Also,…
Thomas O. Hicks Jr., VP of Hicks Sports Group Thomas O. Hicks Jr., what in the hell is wrong with you? I ask only because a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story about how the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars’ owner’s sonny boy went to a pub in…
Angela Hunt must have had a day off — really, three blog items today? Ladies and gents, meet your new Fingers of Fury, which’ll make Schutze and Merten deeelighted. Among her subjects: a Friday luncheon during which The Brookings Institution’s Christopher Leinberger pronounced Dallas “walkable” (she “found his conclusion that…
Right click the pic to see if you recognize any of these J.J. Pearce grads. On March 5, TV Land’s gathering the 11 former J.J. Pearce High School Mustangs who comprise the cast of High School Reunion for a show-watching party somewhere in the DFW. That’s the same night the…
Courtesy Hillary Clinton’s campaign moments ago, an addendum to Bill Clinton’s campaign-stop schedule tomorrow: In addition to his trip out to Mountain View in the a.m., he’ll now be stopping by Grauwyler Park, off Harry Hines Boulevard, at 10 a.m. Which, not so coincidentally, was the site of a small…
Excuse me if I don’t appropriately memorialize the 19th anniversary of Jerry Jones firing Tom Landry. Today is all about Jason Kidd’s homecoming. After getting traded by the Mavericks in 1996, Kidd was viciously booed in each of his returns to Reunion Arena. But when he takes the American Airlines…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about the Secret Security and Dallas police officers perched along the Dallas North Tollway overpasses a short time ago. They all wonder the same thing: “Who’s in town now?” Why, it’s none other than Dick and Lynn Cheney. The veep and the missus…
