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…
In about an hour, the city council’s Quality of Life and Government Services Committee will meet at City Hall, and while today’s agenda isn’t full of particularly sexy items (although … need I say, “Amendments to Variances for Dogs on Outdoor Patios”?), there is one item in which most folks…
After the jump, a sneak peek at the early voting numbers on the Democratic side of the ballot. The takeaway from the e-mail that landed in my in-box this a.m.: In the 2004 presidential primaries, a total of 53,713 ballots were cast in Dallas County. But, “at the end of…
More about security concerns following Barack Obama’s Reunion Arena rally — this time, from Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time. At about 3:30 into the following clip from Friday night’s week’s episode, Maher brings up the subject with his panel, which includes former George W. Bush speechwriter (and…
To the man or woman who affixed this famous sticker to a DFW fire extinguisher, I salute you. The Geneva, Switzerland-based Airports Council International — which bills itself as “the only global trade representative of the world’s airport[s]” — today released its list of customer-friendliest airports in the world. Topping…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking Wednesday at Reunion Arena Many of you have pointed out the apparently lax security at Barack Obama’ Reunion Arena rally last week. It was “non-existent,” wrote Friend of Unfair Park “RR” last week, “no metal detectors, hand-helds, anything.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Thursday that…
HillaryClinton.com Breaking news: Clear your schedules (OK, our schedules), as the campaign-trail parade continues. According to a woman in Hillary Clinton’s press office, Bill Clinton’s making several appearances in the area in coming days — beginning tomorrow morning. On Sunday, the former president will attend an early voting event in…
Thursday morning, James Megellas sat all by his lonesome in front of the Fox News kiosk, located in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal C. Spread out before him were dozens of copies of his book, All the Way to Berlin, Megellas’ autobiography published by Random House in 2003. My father…
Just a quick update for the world’s most boring reality show, Bravo’s Make Me A Supermodel: There are eight modeltestants left, and Plano’s Stephanie ain’t one of them. She was sent packing at the start of last night’s show after, during the previous episode, she blew an “acting” photo shoot…
Bill T. Jones in his Blind Date 1-8 The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced its next guest for its monthly NasherSalon series: Bill T. Jones, among the most influential choreographers in the history of dance, will appear on March 20. Jones, whose dance company with Arnie Zane is close to…
Merritt Martin Hillary Clinton in Oak Cliff this morning, with council member Vonciel Jones Hill (far left), U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (left) and council member Pauline Medrano (right) While thousands waited up, down and around the Reunion Arena parking garage to see Barack Obama Wednesday, a few hundred packed…
After the jump, SMU’s long, detailed media release announcing, surprise, the Hilltop’s selection as the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Presidential Center — “consisting of a library, museum and institute.” The takeaway: Bush’s letter to the university, which reads, in part, “I look forward to the day when…
UndergroundCop.com Reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s PoliTex blog moments ago, Hillary Clinton spoke for only five minutes this morning, at around 11:15 a.m., in front of some 2,000 supporters gathered downtown for her Early Vote Rally. Writes John Gravois, “She apparently was headed back to Dallas to try to meet…
If nothing else, Jon Stewart certainly ranks as one of Oscar’s … um … sportsiest hosts. Maybe? At the risk of offending our nationally acclaimed film connoisseur, I poked around a little on all my Internets today and realized I haven’t seen any of the flicks up for Best Picture…
CNN Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during last night’s CNN-Univision debate in Austin AUSTIN — I rolled into the University of Texas’ Recreational Sports Center a couple of hours before the Texas Democratic Debate between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama last night; also with me, several hundred of my…
KDFW-Channel 4 Hundreds gathered this morning for Hillary Clinton’s rally in Oak Cliff Schutze is at the Hillary Clinton gathering in an Oak Cliff parking lot, where Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price just exited the stage to strains of “Taking Care of Business,” and Jim sends back this report:…
Seems Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is no fan of Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow — get in line, Craig (if I may call you “Craig,” and I probably shouldn’t). Only, the district attorney has a very specific gripe with the columnist concerning Blow’s complaint in yesterday’s paper…
HillaryClinton.com Hillary Clinton, speaking in McAllen earlier this month Forthcoming this morning is the return of Girl on Top, as Andrea Grimes recaps her experience at last night’s Democratic debate in Austin. But here’s late-breaking news for our Friends in Dallas and Tarrant counties: Hillary Clinton will speak somewhere between…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Daniel Perez At a time when the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is already upside down and up for grabs, another Dallas member of the DART board departs. Attorney Daniel Perez has informed the city council that health concerns (a heart attack last October) are making…
Marc Baptiste My short feature on Erykah Badu runs in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park — turns out, wasn’t an easy road to New Amerykah, which sees release next week. Not enough room on that page to get into everything Badu and I discussed over the course of…
Out in Grand Prairie, Lockheed Martin Corporation is testing the weapon of the future: the Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment (or MULE, fer shorts). And it is … ? “Roughly the size of a Humvee,” says the March issue of Popular Mechanics, “it has a trick worthy of monster truck rallies…
