Well, that probably oversells it and then some — shoulda read, “Most Obvious Press Release Ever” or something — but this just arrived in Unfair Park’s e-mail inbox: WHEN BAD WEATHER THREATENS, BE READY TO LEAVE TRAILER BEAUMONT, Texas—-Governor Rick Perry recently declared March 4-10 Severe Weather Awareness Week in…
Roger Herrera’s the only Latino running for mayor. But even that won’t get Domingo or Elba Garcia to run. With all the recent talk of a nascent Latino and immigrant political movement, we thought we’d ask advocate, lawyer and former state representative Domingo Garcia why his name isn’t on the…
Sam Coats is running for mayor. You knew that, right? Because I totally forgot. Well, we just got the press release from Sam Coats’ folks informing us who’s going to be running his mayoral campaign, and top o’ the list is Jason Stanford, who used to call us all the…
I just saw the March issue of Texas Monthly, and I guess you have two options: You can pay to read Katy Vines’ story on the 1937 New London gas explosion, which killed more than 300 school children and teachers and remains the third deadliest disaster in the state’s history…
UT-Dallas professor and Nobel Prize-winner Alan MacDiarmid, who died earlier this month On February 8, we mentioned the passing of 2000 Nobel Prize-winning chemist and University of Texas at Dallas professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, who received a lengthy obit in The New York Times. MacDiarmid was 79 and died at…
Good Lord, apparently we’re not the only ones who can’t get enough of that George Jefferies footage of the JFK motorcade. Today, Slate’s Andy Bowers has a video piece about the footage, with commentary from Slate contributor and The Shakespeare Wars author Ron Rosenbaum. Unlike Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald…
This Russell Buchanan-designed house is among those available in the Urban Reserve. We can barely afford the model pictured above, much less the finished product. In the latest issue of The New Yorker, at least the copies circulated in the DFW, there’s an ad for Urban Reserve, the collection of…
Richie doesn’t believe Dwyane Wade’s injury is real, but he does believe Minnie Mouse is a highly undervalued hottie. Ah-ha! Turns out karma is indeed a bitch. And, apparently, part German. Less than 24 hours before Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade was to show his mug in Dallas to face…
What you see above is a too-teensy picture we were forwarded yesterday — one that’s making the Interweb rounds as the “official vision for the future of Deep Ellum,” as one Friend of Unfair Park put it yesterday. If you’d like to see a larger version of the (proposed?)(hypothetical?)(nah-can’t-be?)(you’re-kidding-me-right?) Deep…
Hmm, let’s see. How shall I put this? Delicately? Politically correct? Or, better yet, just say it like it needs to be said: Dwyane Wade, shut the fuck up! Since karma is indeed a basketball junkie, the Miami Heat guard with the misplaced “y” in his name and the misguided…
This is my nightmare. I am in a dressing room outfitted with dark mahogany walls. The place smells faintly of cedar and, fainter still, sulfur. Behind me, several crisp new shirts glare viciously at me from their smug, shape-preserving wooden hangers. White and boxy, these shirts are the very color…
Standing at the counter after an hour-long wait, Susana Mutzus couldn’t believe what she heard. She’d left Dallas at 5 a.m. with her elderly mother, and now the attendant at the Guatemalan Consulate in Houston was telling her they had to go all the way to Austin for a signature…
Earlier this month, attorney Anthony Lyons persuaded a Dallas County prosecutor to drop a misdemeanor case against his client, ex-cop Deanna Hammond, because she had already been punished when the Dallas Police Department fired her after her legal problems arose. What Lyons failed to mention was that Hammond had already…
Into the breach: Once again, the Texas Legislature will consider baby steps that would make it somewhat easier for sick people to use marijuana to treat their ailments. We say “somewhat easier” because this session’s HB 1534 would not legalize medical marijuana. It would simply allow anyone busted for possession…
Uncle Sam Wants Latinos We take nothing for granted: Your writer picked the wrong person to speak for the Army when it comes to Hispanics in the military (“Yo Soy el Army,” by Megan Feldman, February 8). Corporal Leal is either very ignorant or has not been taught the history…
National Public Radio this afternoon called Schutze’s cell to fact-check a story about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, which is scheduled to air tomorrow morning on Morning Edition. Their question had something to do with the Citizens Council; Jim’s answer was, “I’m all for it.” (Maybe not.) Anyway, the…
So, those coal-plant permit hearings didn’t begin today after all — and won’t, for another four months, as per the State Office of Administrative Hearings’ decision to postpone the proceedings till June 27 per State District Judge Stephen Yelenosky’s ruling yesterday that Governor Rick Perry “lacks [the] authority” to issue…
Domingo Garcia figures that megamarch last spring was only the start of something big, which is why he’s taking on ICE today. Immigration advocates are gathering momentum for another spring of political action, hoping to turn last year’s megamarch and student walk-outs into a broader movement for legislative change. A…
Here’s something Mayor Laura Miller mentioned on our ride back from Waco last night: There’s now a Dallas date set for the Laurie “Wife of Larry” David-Sheryl Crow stop-global-warming bus tour. They’ll be in Dallas on April 9, which is actually the beginning of the two-week tour during which the…
Last night, while I was down in Waco, a Friend of Unfair Park called my cell to ask if I was, at that very moment, listening to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). Well, usually, around 6:09 p.m., I am, but, ya know, not always. “No,” says I, “why?” My Friend tells…
Yesterday, Children’s Medical Center, in conjunction with the Coalition for North Texas Children, released its biennial quality-of-life report on the nearly 700,000 children living in Dallas County, and so far, I can find only one story about it — this piece from KTVT-Channel 11’s Steve Pickett. Regardless, Beyond ABC: Growing…
Jim Sundberg will always be our fave Rangers catcher. Pudge who? Yeah, you heard us. You’d think with three of baseball’s all-time 50 greatest fielders having passed through Arlington, the Rangers would’ve won something by now. Using that line of thinking, seems Dane Cook would’ve told a funny by now…
