Last week, when Mayor Mike Rawlings announced he had hedged his support for the Trinity toll road after receiving additional data, it seemed like a victory for City Council members Scott Griggs, Angela Hunt, and Sandy Greyson, the project’s opponents. The figures Griggs rustled up from the Texas Department of…
Mayor Mike Rawlings was a bit late for his 9 a.m. speech at this morning’s “Building South” presentation at the Oak Cliff Chamber. I knew it was Mayor Mike because OC Chamber director Bob Stimson, waffling for time, kept saying things like “I was told if I started and talked…
Having a wife, an almost-3-year-old and another on the way (child, not wife), I’ve shackled myself to a life of uneventful domesticity, at least for the next 18 years. It’s a comfortable setup, but one that can induce restlessness, so when fate put me in Dallas a full week before…
That’s right: Tonight, during an open house and public meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, you can crop-dust NTTA with all your brilliant ideas to save the Trinity River flood plains from the dreaded pavement monster, only to see your suggestions treated like the things my wife leaves at the…
Dallas may be inhospitable to hipsters, but we’re apparently a city filled with porn enthusiasts: Men’s Health recently ranked Dallas 15th in a list of the 100 “smuttiest” American cities (Orlando won. Those perverts.) MH based its rankings on the number of adult DVDs purchased, rented or streamed, square footage…
Longtime NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry got popped for DUI over the weekend. She was stopped early Sunday morning in a 2007 Porsche, WFAA reported, after failing to use her signal on the tollway. She refused to take a breathalyzer and was booked into Dallas County jail, where they apparently…
Yesterday was First-Quarter Earnings Day for Dallas Morning News parent A.H. Belo, or as we call it in the newspaper business, So How Many of Us Are Getting Whacked on Christmas Day? Day. The news was pretty predictable: Total first-quarter revenue was $105 million, down 7 percent over last year…
There was a day when I might have come up laughing at the big investigative package in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News on University of Texas Southwestern Medical School ex-president Kern Wildenthal and his expense account madness. It’s not just that the News “buried the lede,” as we say in the…
FrontBurner carried a little news earlier today that may interest some of you: Eric Nicholson will be joining the Dallas Observer as the lead reporter on Unfair Park. Eric was born and raised in Dallas and graduated from UTD, although his collegiate career did some admirable winding, through Montana and…
Before we decamp for Le Bar: If you haven’t been following the spat between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the owner of the Museum Tower project — which happens to be the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System — Schutze had a thoughtful, balanced take on the matter last week…
You will either be saddened, confused or hugely indifferent to the fact that Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Dallas last in a list of 35 hipster-friendly cities. I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves. Now then: What in the hell are we doing wrong that we rated so…
Look, we’re sorry. We wanted badly to just ignore the earth-shattering news. Unfortunately, though, Schutze is off in Arkansas ingesting giardia all week, and not everyone reads The Dallas Morning News (cheap bastards), so it’s up to those left behind to let everyone in on it. Ready? Here it is:…
The Morning News has a “Healthy Living” story today about extreme races like the Original Mud Run. I came across the online (and pay-walled) version in the middle of the night last night and thought: Well, that’s odd, considering what happened over the weekend, not to mention the ensuing onslaught…
For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a “strategist for big authors and big brands.” Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one…
Yesterday I wrote up sort of a half-assed blog post. It was mostly just a short clip of Rick Perry chatting with Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends about the evil feds, the nobility of the 10th Amendment and his overall job satisfaction. At the end of the clip in…
Not long after I wrote a story about Vickery Meadow last month, Jerry Holley, an antiques auctioneer who grew up in the area, sent me a polite email that made me curious as to what I hadn’t written. “Enjoyed your article on Vickery Meadow, but you missed the real history…
Longtime Denton Record-Chronicle opinion-page editor Mike Trimble was fired last week after a dispute with the paper’s publisher, Bill Patterson. Trimble, 68, had been at the paper 18 years and its lone editorial writer since 2002. “It was just a difference of opinion,” Trimble told Unfair Park on Monday. “And…
Yesterday, Korean community leaders involved in quelling the Shamrock Kwik Stop protests sent Unfair Park a video of Nation of Islam Student Minister Jeffery Muhammad speaking to reporters on the picket line. The footage was taken in late January, before a group of black and Korean leaders met last Thursday…
The protests outside Tommy Pak’s Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop in South Dallas have dwindled, but the battle pitting black activists against the Korean store owner continues online at the Don’t Stop Don’t Shop Facebook page. There are still promises to continue the fight to shut down Pak’s store, there are…
This definitely is navel-gazing, but screw it. This deserves it. You guys deserve it. Plus, it will help these folks sleep. First off: We’re gonna miss the hell out of Robert, both personally and professionally. He is as unique a spirit as I’ve ever met, let alone worked with, and…
I thought for a moment about making the item just below this one my Unfair Park farewell — just a few drops of pigs blood, then adios. But, no, not when I’ve been saving this: Radiohead at the Music Hall at Fair Park on March 29, 1998. For those who…
Our pros have been all over the Margaret Hunt Hill this weekend, with one, Jay Barker, sending word from the sun-up service this morning that Santiago Calatrava “hinted that this three-day celebration was a bit excessive.” Ya don’t say. You can see Danny and Paul and Jay’s their fine work at…
