While picking up some grub at the nearby Lemmon Avenue Einstein Bros. bagelry, a recent mystery was solved for a regular customer. It had something to do with those tasty candy cane holiday bagels the shop put out during the holidays. Turns out, they were just the regular ol’ potato…
Well, that didn’t take long. I started last week’s announcement of a new all-sports radio station by cautiously warning that the Sports Fan 990 experiment was either “hopelessly pitching pebbles at the castle walls…or perhaps the latest, greatest idea in local sports radio.” Three days into its first week, we…
Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield tells us that he has asked new District Attorney Craig Watkins to investigate Dupree after the Oak Cliff-area constable admitted to the Observer that he arranged to have his purported ex-lover arrested and deported to Honduras. A spokesperson for Watkins says that the office’s public…
Styx pisses off its No. 1 fan, so how many does that leave–not counting their mothers? In our never-ending search to cover the vast expanse of the DFW music scene, we stumbled upon this item about, uh, Styx. Normally, we would sooner French-kiss some unsavory character like, say, Bill Parcells…
Gonna buy five copies for her mother: Mayor Laura makes Rolling Stone, and we didn’t even know she released a single. Well, not exactly on the cover. But Mayor Laura Miller is indeed in the latest issue of Rolling Stone (the one with James Brown on the cover; the mayor’s…
Richie, we gotta tell you: This is one blog item we can’t get behind. We’ve tried. Hiyo! Prepare to be insulted. Because next month the world’s most popular magazine edition hits newsstands, and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is a slap in the face to all sports fans. How’s that,…
In November, we mentioned how a certain former local rock god hosts “Guitar-B-Que” parties in his backyard, during which said former rock god projects the game Guitar Hero onto the side of his garage. Well, Clark Vogeler wasn’t in the Toadies when the band broke with “Possum Kingdom” (Clark was…
WFAA’s Pete Delkus unveils the station’s latest weather forecasting tool, Doppler GODar. O.K., now I feel guilty about my Pete Delkus rant yesterday. I have reconsidered my feelings about yesterday’s weather, and I see now that my issues are not really with Delkus but with God. That’s an old beef…
Ever wonder what goes on at the monthly Oak Lawn Apartment Managers Stakeholders Crime Watch meeting? (If not, don’t worry. This isn’t about that.) It occurs at the Oak Lawn Branch Library. Lunch is donated by a local business member — yesterday, a dozen boxes of pizza from Bank of…
A few days back, whilst gathering info on the Texas! Music Center — about which good Friend of Unfair Park Jeff Liles has much to say in the comments section — we were reminded of a Fair Park jewel going to waste: the Fair Park Band Shell. Now, to be…
Friend of Unfair Park “John” (dunno if he’d want his last name used) sends what he says and what appears to be the original e-mail that prompted Troy Dungan to kindly, gently dress down Jim Schutze’s fav weather man Pete Delkus yesterday afternoon. If you haven’t seen the video, in…
Let’s see, um, Cheech Marin? Ron Jeremy? How about ol’ Caligula? Gotta find somebody fitting to present Michael Irvin at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Because ready or not, Canton, here he comes. “I’m on pins and needles,” the former Dallas Cowboys receiver says Monday after a couple weekend…
The Chicken Man?” the woman behind the counter asks. “Just go on up the road about a half-mile, like you’re fixing to go out of town. Take a left, then a right. You’ll see the chickens.” I’m at the Whistlestop General Store, the only business in Blanket, a Central Texas…
At 19, Fernando Careaga was a recently arrived immigrant from Mexico picking cantaloupes, tomatoes and onions in the fields of California. Thirty six years later, he’s a veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, and he’s joining forces with his son to launch a…
Mike Dupree’s story was strange enough. Earlier this month, (“Cold as ICE,” January 4) the Dallas County constable told us how he arranged to have his ex-lover arrested and deported to Honduras because the young man was on the run from a deadly gang. Dupree said that Angel Martinez, his…
Will wonders never cease: On Tuesday, Buzz was a part of a miracle. Or at least a new world order. We had a question for new District Attorney Craig Watkins and spoke to his friendly spokeswoman, Trista Allen. She didn’t know the answer to our query but quickly found out…
Pathetic either way: Great story, with a very nuanced analysis (“Split Decision,” by Matt Pulle, January 11). These Anglo parents should be ashamed of themselves. But DISD should have been spanked. Which is more pathetic: that they knew about this or that they did not? Michael A. Olivas Professor of…
Aw, shit. Nobody likes getting a summons for jury duty, but, hey, it’s our civic duty and all that — got it, no prob, price of being a citizen, blahblahblah. But, c’mon, I got two today — for two different days, no less, one on February 5, the other for…
Eleven years ago — Christ, how time so does not fly — I got up early on a frigid February morning to watch Chuck Norris chase a bad guy around Trees, while a bunch of faux clubgoers moshed silently to the tunes of Baboon. Here’s the original story about the…
By now, no doubt, you’ve seen the video of Paula Abdul on Seattle’s Fox affiliate last week. Looks like she was, ya know, drunk and/or high. Her people have said, like, No, she wasn’t. She went on Leno on Monday and said, like, No, I wasn’t. Nope, she insists, it…
What does David Beckham’s signing to the MLS mean? Well, more people will go to at least one FC Dallas home game, duh. Interesting piece this morning on SI.com by soccer writer Grant Wahl on the signing of David Beckham to the MLS. Much has been written about Beckham’s pending…
Barry Scheck’s all about getting innocent people out of jail, which is great, but it still doesn’t explain that whole O.J. thing. Barry Scheck, former O.J. Simpson defense attorney and founder and co-director of The Innocence Project, is scheduled to appear in a Dallas courtroom this morning with John Waller,…
