Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer — the one featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Will Forte, longtime HST…
Many good Friends of Unfair Park have forwarded me the clip you see above, which District 103’s state rep, Rafael Anchía, posted to YouTube last night. In it, the Haynes and Boone attorney and former Dallas ISD school board trustee argues against the passage of Carrollton state Rep. Burt Solomons’s…
It’s been a long, contentious meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, and we just got to the latest budget update. First, Carla Ranger wanted to know why Bernadette Nutall, with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s OK, halted construction at a handful of South Dallas schools. Nutall said it…
In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer’s bill that’d require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of their drill sites. The bill got an overwhelming nod from the House yesterday (and just…
This morning, Johnny Pinchback sat in the Dallas County Jail, awaiting yet another stop in court. This afternoon, he will be at a steakhouse, celebrating with his family, friends and fellow exonerees. After 27 years behind bars for an aggravated sexual assault he did not commit, Pinchback, dressed in a…
Surely you recall the case of J.B. and H.B., two Dallas men who went to Massachusetts to marry in 2006, only to separate two years later and then try to get a divorce. In October 2009, Judge Tena Callahan gave the couple her blessing to get unhitched, at which point…
Michael Vick took steps toward rehabbing his image last season. No thanks to the Eagles quarterback, one of his former bait dogs is doing much better as well. You remember Mel, right? I first told you his story almost a year ago. It was later picked up by the Los Angeles Times, etc., and…
While we anxiously await the Mavs’ NBA Western Conference Final opponent — looks like the Thunder — a couple of matters that get, well, right to the heart of the matter. Was talking to Mark Aguirre last week in the wake of his recent health scare. Aguirre, the first overall pick in the…
Meant to get to this two days ago, when Texas Rangers Executive Vice President of Communications John Blake sent out the announcement, but it’s not too late to make it to NorthPark Center by 1 p.m. That’s when C.J. Wilson and Chanel Iman (well, hello) are scheduled to stop by…
Back in June of last year we took a look at the state of Denton’s Golden Triangle Mall, which, at the time, had fallen into foreclosure and was being put up for auction. Like Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall and Valley View, it’s seen better times. But per a piece on…
Going to Frisco tonight for the debut of Cuban defector/Texas Rangers stud prospect Leonys Martin. Or am I? Maybe I’ll go and sit in traffic and have a hot dog and two cold ones and Martin will dazzle with a two hits and a stolen base and…then it will rain and…
We never did talk to Debbie Georgatos about why she wants to become the next Dallas County Republican Party chair following the adios of Jonathan Neerman. No matter: After the jump, for those who have 10 minutes to spare, you’ll find Georgatos and former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade…
Hello, loser: So Republicans in control of the Texas House this week managed to shove through a bunch of bills without debate. This caused a lot of Sturm und Drang—that’s German for “really bitchy Tweets”—in the Legislature, chiefly among Democrats who believe the GOP’s House supermajority is behaving in a…
Two words I never expected to hear organically and joyfully chanted at American Airlines Center: Sweep L.A.! Shocking as it was to hear, it was almost unfathomable to see. If you honestly thought the notoriously soft, choke-charred Mavericks would beat the two-time defending NBA champion Lakers, 4-0, in their Western…
Sonya Fitzpatrick lies on a bed surrounded by her seven cats and five dogs. Dressed in a red blouse with matching red nail polish, blue jeans, gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace, Fitzpatrick, who’s inside her Conroe home that’s shaded by towering pine trees, is on the phone conducting…
After 10 long years of maybes, doubtfuls and dunnos, it would appear that The Dallas Buyer’s Club, the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, is closer to becoming a big-screen reality: Relativity Media today issued a press release announcing that co-producer Robbie Brenner is shepherding the project from limbo to multiplex,…
An oddly interesting scene unfolded on Inwood Road earlier today: NBA legend Bob Lanier and Key Coker, Executive Vice President of BBVA Compass Bank, chatting about banking globalization, financial diversification and the tightening of government regulations as they painted the walls of a Thomas J. Rusk Middle School classroom.Lanier was…
It’s been more than three months since 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson found $2,000 outside a North Dallas strip mall and returned it to a nearby Chase bank, thinking someone there could find the owner. But city officials tell Unfair Park the bank didn’t turn over the dough to the Dallas Police…
So far today we’ve heard from Ron Natinsky, David Kunkle, City Auditor Craig Kinton and even Mayor Dwaine Caraway about last night’s Channel 8 story, which alleged that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings used his influence as Park Board president to get city officials to hire his friend and former TracyLocke…
At around 10:30 on the night of March 22, 1984, two girls, both younger than 16, were on their way home from a store in their Dallas neighborhood when they were approached by a man wielding a gun. He told them to go with him into a nearby field. He…
Speaking of getting city officials’ responses to WFAA-Channel 8 stories …Maybe you saw the story last night about 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson, who found $2,000 stuffed into an envelope and, though her family sure could use the bread, did the right thing and turned it in. According to Ashley, she took…
I promise: Unfair Park won’t be clogged with piece after piece about that Happy Trails safety campaign contract. But this one merits its own item: City Auditor Craig Kinton, who functions as an independent investigator inside the hallways of City Hall, returned my call moments ago and said his office…
