Santeria is a religion practiced by one to five million people in the United States; still, because of its clandestine nature, estimates of practitioners of the Afro-Cuban religion vary widely. Some Euless residents were shocked to learn that the religion was practiced in their neighborhood — especially the part about…
When the national conference of Little People of America comes to Dallas in 2012 — the location was just announced — it’s expected to pack the downtown Sheraton with 3,000 members for a week in mid-summer. This weekend at the Sheraton, the LPA’s Texas-Louisiana chapter drew a lighter crowd of…
Hundreds (no, really) cheered as tan, sleek women in bras and panties (no, really) sprang onto the moist 50-yard-long field. Fireworks lit up the field. The local media was out in full force; one man screamed from the stands, “Stop taking pictures of my sister!”What a brutal game — aerial…
The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked…
What you see above is the “841-ft long, 16-ft wide signature pedestrian bridge over Mockingbird Lane” that the city hopes to have up and running (see what I did there?) by December 2011, fingers and toes crossed. Of course, that’s if the city can find the walking-around money to fund…
So, I just spoke with Robert Edsel concerning those two paintings at the SMU Meadows Museum his Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art publicly identified as having been stolen from the the Rothschild family in Paris in 1941 by the Nazis. He did not have much time to…
The courtroom was filled with tears, then cheers: Two men who spent 12 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit went free today. And while Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins believes this a defining moment for his office and a turning point for Dallas County, 54-year-old Claude…
As promised, in advance of Monday’s special called council meeting involving those pesky ethics reforms, Angela Hunt has sent Unfair Park her own laundry list of suggestions. Titled “Why We Need to Change the Proposed Lobbyist Registration Ordinance,” the six-page proposal also being sent to the City Attorney’s Office is…
A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us to the news that Robert Edsel — founder of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which scours the globe for the millions of pieces of art stolen by Hitler and the Nazis — found two such items on the campus…
NFL Hall of Famer and Fox broadcaster Troy Aikman braved the stiff winds and cool temperatures Thursday night while promoting the kickoff of the inaugural Friends of the Katy Trail membership drive. Joined by his two daughters, 7-year-old Alexa and 8-year-old Jordan, Aikman graciously signed various items carried by the…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, tells Unfair Park this morning that the mayor still hopes to get those ethics reforms passed at Wednesday’s regular city council meeting. (Good luck with all that.) We should have a better idea of what they actually look like later this evening,…
Last November, Walt Disney’s nephew (Roy Disney) and the Disney family’s investment firm (Shamrock Holdings) bought a 5.5 percent stake in Mockingbird Lane-based concrete maker Texas Industries, Inc., which, till just recently, wanted to burn tires down in Midlothian in order to fuel its kilns. (Shamrock now owns slightly more…
Sir Anthony Daniels: The Unfair Park Interview from Dallas Observer on Vimeo.The 6-year-old who lives in my house has spoken: We will be attending Star Wars: In Concert tomorrow night at the Cowboys Stadium, where, one prays, The Force will be with the sound system for a change. So, then,…
You’re looking at 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine and $660,000 in cash; you’ll have to look at our slide show to see the assortment of machine guns hauled in. The whole stash was seized in North Texas yesterday from more than 80 members of a violent Mexican…
At last. Mark Salling, the pride of Lake Highlands High School (Class of ’01), was finally more than just a bit player on last night’s episode of Glee. Having transitioned from brooding football bully to cougar-chasing horndog to song-and-dance man over seven brilliant episodes of the best high-school show since…
While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program — which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations — top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead, they insist that helping to enforce…
Will the feds’ new stance on medicinal marijuana have any impact on local users, even though, sadly, Texas isn’t among the states that permit the practice? Craig Watkins’s office says no way, no how. Local Libertarians, not surprisingly, are crossing their fingers. (As opposed to …) “The federal policy shift…
So, Miles Austin has a great, record-setting perfrmance. Obviously, common sense says he’s promoted and, in turn, Patrick Crayton gets demoted. Fundamental leadership says you inform your employees of their roles and their positions. So, Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips, surely you told Crayton about his demotion. Right? …..
When we last spoke with Nick Prueher of the Found Footage Festival, he and fellow comedian-rummager Joe Pickett were gearing up for their first-ever visit to Dallas with their show, a live presentation of confounding 20-year-old workout videos, public access shows and ill-advised celebrity advice tapes.Some scars from that first…
Reuters was right: Last week, the news service reported that the three parties interested in taking the Texas Rangers off Tom Hicks’s hands would be in Arlington this week to meet and greet with team bigwigs. And, so far, so good: According to Official Statements from the LeMaster Group, which…
Don’t look now, but retro is current. As a kid I remember Dad taking me to Fair Park Coliseum to watch an ABA team called the Dallas Chaparrals. They had the red-white-blue basketball. Wooden bleachers. A hand-operated scoreboard. They had my favorite player – Laverne Tart – and his red high-top…
Speaking of local music artifacts and eight-track tapes …Here’s the poster for James “Big Bucks” Burnett’s upcoming exhibit at the Barry Whistler Gallery. Because how else will you get people to look at 500 sealed Rutles eight-tracks “in their original shipping boxes”? Sigh. Dolly Python’s amazing, but I kinda miss…
