This is so not how you should charge your computer. Just yesterday I plugged into one of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s free and freestanding “charging kiosks” — maybe the best thing about Terminal B, except maybe Cousin’s Bar-B-Q and that iPod dispenser from which I almost snagged some Sony noise-canceling…
You really should take a minute or two out of your morning to read Daryl “Moose” Johnston’s testimony yesterday in front of the Senate Commerce Committee, which is investigating how the National Football League treats its former players. (Hint: not well at all.) It was powerful stuff, befitting a great…
To his friends, this is Fred Krupp. To his enemies, reports The New Republic, he’s Fred Corrupt. In the new issue of The New Republic, there’s a lengthy (subscription-only) profile of Fred Krupp — president of Environmental Defense and the man behind TXU’s $45-billion sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &…
A self-portrait by Chelsea Richardson A few new developments in an old story: I was an intern when Glenna Whitley and I wrote about the brutal murder of a Mansfield couple named Rick and Suzanna Wamsley in 2003. Their son, Andrew Wamsley, and his girlfriend, Chelsea Richardson, have been sentenced,…
Brian Harkin Bryce Avary at the Granada Theater a few months back, looking an awful lot like Rhett Miller … Good news for anyone (and everyone, it seems) familiar with Bryce Avary, aka The Rocket Summer. Colleyville’s most famous panty-dropper and writer of catchy pop-rock tunes has won the most…
Former UTD electrical engineering student Syed Maaz Shah got more than six years in prison last week. On Friday, in a court ruling that went with little local notice, a federal judge sentenced a former student at the University of Texas at Dallas to six and a half years in…
That did not take long: The Door has moved into its new home at Main Street and Good Latimer Expressway, in the space formerly occupied by the Gypsy Tea Room. Had to: As the all-ages club’s Web site notes: “We did not want to move but our former building is…
The Texas Travel Institute at Texas A&M has just released its long-awaited (?) 2007 Urban Mobility Report, and it says what anyone who drives in Dallas and the surrounding ‘burbs already knows: Traffic suuuuucks. Says here folks in the DFW are delayed by congestion some 58 hours per year, which…
You really don’t need to watch much more than a few seconds of this Cowboys fan’s commentary, among the millions of amateur sports vlogs posted to YouTube. In fact, I think the image below is pretty much all you need. But you must admit, the man has a look. –Robert…
Mark Cuban went to Wrigley Field last night, sat in the right-field bleachers and spent part of the game text-messagng Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. The writer insists Cubs fans want Cuban to buy their team, and from the tone of his love letter to Cuban — not to mention…
Couple of local mentions in the new issue of Forbes, as in: We’re the home to “vitamin” beer and $100 bills being illegally trucked into Mexico by smugglers now biding their time in Laredo prisons. Amazingly, these stories are not related. The first one’s about Lawrence Schwartz’s Stampede beer, which…
Ryann Rathbone and Carter Albrecht A co-working Friend of Unfair Park sends word that tonight at 10 p.m., WFAA-Channel 8 will have an interview with Ryann Rathbone, Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend, about the events leading up to his death two weeks ago today. Apparently, ads promoting the segment have been airing…
The House of Death — has to be one hell of a neighborhood, no? OK, so we’re a little late on this, but late last month a U.S. district judge in El Paso issued a ruling on what is known as the House of Death case, which we wrote about…
This morning on the YouTubes I stumbled across a fascinating slide show just posted by a user named “reluctantpaladin.” The video, set to the soundtrack from Cold Mountain, features photos taken only yesterday in a place I’ve driven past a hundred times but never stepped foot inside: the Oakland Cemetery…
If you need Jim Schutze tomorrow — and you will, you will — you’ll probably find him at Nana in the Hilton Anatole. Never tried the food there myself, but it does offer “one of the best views overlooking the Trinity River Corridor,” says a media release Becky Mayad sent…
Almost two years after this Texas Monthly story ran, Steven Phillips has been cleared of at least one sex crime for which was convicted in the early 1980s. This morning, you probably picked up your daily paper and saw the story about Steven Phillips, who was convicted of sexually assaulting…
Dunno if you read this Friday, but Slate previewed Saturday night’s Miami Northwestern-Southlake Carroll game with an essay by Robert Andrew Powell, author of We Own This Game: A Season the in the Adult World of Youth Football. Even before Northwestern toppled Southlake Carroll 29-21 in front 31,896 on the…
Sergio Chapa, who’s a reporter for Al Día, goes by the YouTube moniker TXReporter, and a few weeks back he posted to the YT a five-and-a-half minute segment titled “Fuera del Closet: Gay Hispanic Immigrants in Dallas.” Says here it made its debut over Labor Day weekend at the National…
This morning we had to use the City of Dallas’ Web site to find the address of a park — which, on Firefox, at least, proved a nearly impossible task. (We had to switch to Internet Explorer to type in zip codes, and we’re lazy, lazy people.) Of course, regular…
After Tom Leppert coasted into the mayor’s office in June, I decided he and I needed to take a little break. It wasn’t an easy decision. In the spring of 2007, I learned so much about him, from how his single mother inspired his heartland values to how he never…
Seems like now’s as good a time as any to introduce our new music blog, DC9 at Night — so named, yes, for that Flatlanders song about how Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye and so forth. And if you’ll notice, our top item…
Is Sherman Allen back on the job? So we hear … Pastor Sherman Allen has left the Church of God in Christ and is back in the pulpit preaching, according to several sources. Allen, founder and pastor of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ — the name of the…
