I do not recall precisely how I landed on Scott Henson’s dizzyingly thorough crime-and-punishment-in-Texas blog Grits for Breakfast yesterday; my days are full of random U-turns taken into the furthest corners of the blogdom. But I was happy to find it, not only for its cogent arguments regarding everything from…
Snooping around on the Shitty Tipper Database at bitterwaitress.com, I decided to enter “Dallas” into the search engine and see who I could find. Mary Lou Retton popped up, as did Norman Brinker (and at a Chili’s, no less), comedian Steve Harvey, “Coach Nelson” (Say it ain’t you, Don!), Kenny…
OK. We’re not about pissing on the FrontBurner flame. And I know after years of chasing down restaurant rumors that restaurateurs will deny they’re closing right up until the time the landlord locks them out or they scurry off in the night with the Petrus and the Baccarat Crystal tucked…
Every morning, till the end of the NBA Finals, Unfair Park will serve up with yer breakfast a round-up of what the outta-town papers have to say about the Dallas-Miami match-up in the NBA Finals. We begin today with what’s turning out to be a golden-oldie: the name game. USA…
Stop-and-Think, American’s “grassroots” pro-Wright movement, has nice digs in Snider Plaza. American Airlines Chief Executive Gerard Arpey recently gave an interview to the Chicago Tribune in which the Fort Worth-based carrier’s bossman talked about everything from the state of the airline industry (“troubled,” in a word) to why it’s so…
Hmmm. Is Standard, the restaurant showcasing the talents of Tim Byres, kaput, as our friends over at FrontBurner suggest? Don’t know. But owner Mike Chen does. “Oh, my God,” Chen says–yells, actually. “How do they get that wrong information? We don’t do lunch anymore. That’s all. Golly. How can they…
The West End Marketplace was a happening place. A long time ago. It closes July 1. Moments ago, Bill Nabors at Ecom Real Estate Management confirmed something Unfair Park learned only this afternoon: Come July 1, the Shops at West End Marketplace will be no more. Though there has been…
Seems many Dallas police officers haven’t taken kindly to the Friday firing of Ramon Gonzalez, the patrol sergeant who sent Greenville Avenue killjoy Avi Adelman an e-mail two weeks ago in which he called Adelman a “self serving piece of shit.” On UndergroundCop.com, where local cops and others backing the…
One of these guys will not be playing in the NBA Finals beginning Thursday. That is so awesome. The good news: After 26 long years your Dallas Mavericks are in the NBA Finals. The bad news: Shaquille O’Neal is coming to town. Whether it’s been dunking on Shawn Bradley, mocking…
Last week, we linked to a May 31 Houston Chronicle story–and the letter it spawned–kicking Dallas in the junk for insisting the city wouldn’t be able to accomodate 40,000 Harris County folks who might need temporary shelter should another hurricane threaten the Gulf Coast. The Chron quoted Kenny Shaw, director…
My wife–who moved to Dallas in 1997 after having lived in Miami, Phoenix, New Orleans and Los Angeles–has said one thing since moving here: Dallas drivers suck. Now she has the empirical data to back her claims: According to this story, which uses data provided by Allstate Insurance, Dallasites get…
I couldn’t get to bed Saturday night or Sunday morning; I was still listening to the Dallas Mavericks’ post-game show on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) at 2 in the a.m. and briefly considered going out to Love Field, before realizing, yeah, that would be too…ah…yeah. Anway, that was easily the…
Been a while since we’ve had some casting news about the movie Dallas, so here’s a juicy tidbit: Seems Jennifer Garner, star of the uh-not-really-a-hit-hit Alias, turned down the role of Pam Ewing when she realized she’d be playing opposite Jennifer “Sue Ellen Ewing” Lopez–ya know, the former fiancee of…
This is how Kelly Rowland felt when Roy Williams called off their engagement. More or less. There’s a piece about Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland’s busted nuptials with Dallas Cowboy defensive end Roy Williams in the new issue of Vibe Vixen, the ladies-first version of hip-hop bible Vibe. And what do…
It appears that Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez spent months studying for the mandatory state licensing exam she flunked in April–even though she has blamed her failing grade on a lack of preparation. Robert Baker, who works as the chief of security for Richland Community College, says he helped Valdez…
Avi Adelman is a happy man–wow, ya don’t type that sentence very often. But this afternoon he found out Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired three officers and two sergeants accused of misconduct involving forms of retaliation, and one of them was Sgt. Ramon Gonzalez. He’s the patrol sergeant Adelman…
So, lemme get this straight. In today’s Dallas Morning News, Metro columnist Jacquielynn Floyd says the folks living in the Bent Creek Apartments at Forest Lane and Audelia Road have no right to be upset about being raided on March 13 by police officers who banged on doors and scoured…
Something’s fishy: The Nervebreakers made Rolling Stone after opening for the Sex Pistols at the Longhorn Ballroom in ’78. So sorry, but it can’t be helped; today’s serving of homegrown hits and misses contains a side of Mama’s favorite hamburger helper with plenty of extra cheese. But why deny the…
Dallas’ Only Daily has done it again. No, not break the news. More like ignore the news when it gets beat on a story, then gently, quietly let it slip out months later. Latest example: If you read your friendly Dallas Observer (and of course you do), you got the…
Dirk Nowitzki rebounded from his worst game of the season to the best playoff performance in Dallas Mavericks history. In case you were too anxious about UTA’s chances of upsetting Texas in the NCAA baseball playoffs or about Terrell Owens’ debut as a Dallas Cowboy in this weekend’s mini-camp, the…
A law-practicing Friend of Unfair Park takes issue with this morning’s item about DISD going after uncertified teachers from Ju�rez and Chihuahua City, about 75 of whom have been hired to teach in the district. But he’s no anti-immigrationist; far from it. Fact is, it’s something about which he has…
Or is that Citizen Pinkard? That’s what The Los Angeles Times wants to know today in its story about 7-week-old Devon Calloway, who was taken from his mother and their South-Central Los Angeles home last week and “spirited away to a swanky Dallas suburb,” which, in this case, would be…
