On Saturday night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins sent word that he’s been invited to A Very Special Holiday Party — this Tuesday, matter of fact. (Although the missive, as you’ll see below, says December 17.) At least the location’s certain: the White House. And per the letter that…
Question: Can you get divorced if you’re not married? Answer: Yes, according to Pugs & Kelly. Yes you can. Unless there’s a last-minute reconciliation ongoing as we speak, Pugs will go on the air today at 1 on 1360 AM without long-time sidekick Kelly. Why? Because, in short, they had a…
Today’s meeting of the city council’s Transportation & Environment Committee, scheduled for a 2 p.m. kickoff at Dallas City Hall, should be an exciting one, for a change. That’s because, as we noted Friday, the committee will discuss not only making it easier to start up a community garden, but…
On Wednesday, Dallas welcomed some 1,500 children from all over the world who’ve lost a parent serving in the U.S. armed forces since 2001; two days later, on ABC World News, Charlie Gibson devoted the final few minutes of the broadcast to the Dallas-based Snowball Express. Worth a look-see.Speaking of,…
Apparently we have a stack of photos from yesterday’s running of the White Rock Marathon forthcoming; till then, then, this is, for obvious reasons, an early front-runner for kosher fan favorite (speaking of, Happy Hanukkah!). And speaking of White Rock, more or less, users of Dallas’s trails network might want…
I don’t wanna hear much bitchin’ today about offensive coordinator Jason Garrett’s play-calling on the futile, fatal sequence in the second quarter of Sunday’s 20-17 loss to the San Diego Chargers. Yeah, four consecutive runs to Marion Barber didn’t produce a touchdown. But … I blame the performance, not the plan…
10. Now you believe me? Norv Turner > Wade Phillips. 9. Safety Gerald Sensabaugh picked a horrible time to have his first terrible game as a Cowboy. It was his oops that led to both Chargers’ touchdowns: Interference at the 1 on a reverse pass set up San Diego’s first touchdown; Badly beaten…
That’s probably what Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council are wondering this morning, because, on Friday, Dallas First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans sent to council a memo warning them that The Dallas Morning News would “against present an article this upcoming weekend critical of an aspect of…
Speaking of things Jim’s written about …Maybe you read his cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park two months back — you know, the one about how City Hall says it likes community gardens but, um, not really? Right. That one.Anyway. On Monday afternoon the city council’s Transportation…
For reasons we can’t explain, politicos are sticking by state Representative Terri Hodge in her bid for an eighth term in office despite the pending March 8 trial for her role in the federal corruption case involving affordable-housing developer Brian Potashnik. Her host committee includes longtime supporters, among them Dallas…
Update: As soon as I posted the item that was originally in this space, Leobardo Trevino returned Unfair Park’s many phone calls. Which is why I’ve rewritten the item to reflect our conversation.According to developer Leobardo Trevino, from this point forward, the old LTV Tower at 1600 Pacific Avenue has…
A Friend of Unfair Park just found and forwarded along this video of Don Meredith singing SMU’s school song, “Varsity.” It was made back in October, when the university finally retired Dandy Don’s No. 17; it was posted a couple of weeks ago. Regardless, I think this is what they…
A very giddy Friend of Unfair Park sends word that, for the first time, downtown Dallas will experience one of composer Phil Kline’s famous “unsilent nights,” a Manhattan ritual since 1992. After the jump is a video New York magazine made during last year’s boombox parade through NYC, but for…
Despite the financial restraints stemming from the team’s unresolved ownership situation, Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels skillfully inked the most dominant free-agent starter at this week’s Winter Meetings in Indianapolis without adding payroll. By dealing starting pitcher Kevin Millwood to the Baltimore Orioles for relievers Chris Ray and Benjamin…
Business Resources Corp., a new locally based historical documents preservation company formed out of the merger of two others, isn’t happy with the way Dallas County went about hiring a Virgina company earlier this spring — so much so that on Wednesday, it filed suit against the county in Dallas…
Tron Legacy won’t be in theaters till December 17, 2010. But courtesy N. Lamar Street-based Green Grass Studios and its Mavs promo piece, we don’t have to wait to see what that sequel to the ’82 classic might look like if it took place in front of the American Airlines…
Too bad we still don’t do our Ask An American Airlines Spokesman bit. Could come in handy on a day like today, which we begin, thanks to one good Friend of Unfair Park, with Dallas consultant Dave Koss’s lengthy tale of an AA flight attendant’s bizarre response to a first-class…
Maybe you saw this morning’s piece about the drop in sales tax collected by the city of Dallas — down 5.8 percent from October ’08 to October ’09. Problem is, Mary Suhm says in today’s memo sent to the mayor and city council, the story didn’t take into account the…
If you’re just dying to see how Dallas looked as Los Angeles’s stand-in, your wait is over: ABC just sent word that the Fox-produced The Deep End — known to the Friends of Unfair Park as that hour-long legal dramedy starring Billy Zane — will make its bow January 21…
Says this top-rated eBay-er, the photo above comes from The Dallas Morning News newsroom — dunno who it is, dunno when it was taken. I’ve asked Schutze, who started at the rival Dallas Times Herald ’round the time this appears to have been snapped, but he can’t say for sure…
On Tuesday, HKS’s Bryan Trubey, an Outstanding Alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, paid a visit to his alma mater to discuss, for the most part, how he and his team designed Cowboys Stadium. And, awful nice of ’em, TAMU has posted the entirety of his presentation; architecture nerds…
A couple of weeks ago we noticed that the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees was considering a new “Superintendent Evaluation Instrument,” which broke down the criteria into three separate categories: “student achievement,” “sound financial management” and “stakeholder satisfaction.” For the purposes of this particular report card, percentages were…
