This just in from FC Dallas: Kenny Cooper is a Hoop no more. The star striker, who came to Dallas in February 2006 from Manchester United and who’s on the US national team, is being shipped off to TSV 1860 München — which sounds like a Bavarian television station, but,…
A Friend of Unfair Park with deep DISD roots forwards along the link to the We are Teachers Web site, where Woodrow Wilson High School’s Michael Moran is among dozens of teachers from around the country competing for a Digital Learning Microgrant. And micro it is: $200 and a Flip…
Send me your players and/or topics to watch and I’ll, well, watch ’em. 10. Goofball or not, Martellus Bennett is a badass. He’s got the biggest, softest, best hands on the team. Marty B doesn’t catch. He plucks. Expect to see plenty two-tight end sets with him and Jason Witten 9. At 6-2,…
As mentioned earlier, Governor Rick Perry gave us the Heisman when we tried to get a response to his boasts this afternoon about balancing the state’s budget and tucking away $9 billion for a “rainy day,” conveniently leaving out that nearly all of that $9 billion and the dough used…
Like I wrote last week, Kidrobot’s opening in Mockingbird Station this evening … though it would appear the former Erica Wright has already paid a visit to the joint. The grand-opening fete kicks off at 6 p.m., and it’s first come first served with one of those limited-edition golden art-toys,…
Governor Rick Perry touted the Legislature’s ability to balance the state’s budget while stashing away $9 billion in “rainy day” funds during a Dallas County Republican Party fund-raiser this afternoon at Edison’s. “That is the type of government that America is looking for,” he told a crowd of approximately 125…
I honestly can’t recall ever receiving a press release from Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. But mere moments ago, up popped this item in the in-box: “Dallas County Gains Three New Truancy Magistrates.” The full release follows, but the short version is Foster has appointed former Civil District Court Judge…
In the wake of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s comments on WBAP yesterday — you recall, she said she’d quit the Senate in October or November to chase Governor Rick Perry down Congress Avenue — Time weighs in with a wrap-up that wonders, “Kay Bailey Hutchison is Running for Governor! (Or…
Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal’s Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast with fast-paced…
Every now and then, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK passes along vintage Dallas photos for sale on eBay; awful nice of him. Today, this one arrived in the in-box:”Strong Man Pulls Car Dallas Centennial.” From ’36, in other words. Big Hersch has ID’d the front car as a ’36 Ford,…
Two years after sitting down with Texas Rangers’ general manager Jon Daniels for this positive story with the negative headline, I had a long chat with him last week. Daniels deserves tons of credit for Texas’ No. 1 farm system, for strokes of genius like Andruw Jones and Darren O’Day…
In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions’s public stance on earmarks: “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin’ 32nd “steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research…
Till Parks & Recreation and The Office return with new episodes, here’s a suitable replacement for those in desperate need of bureaucratic irritainment: a four-part Customer Service video presentation from the city of Dallas. It’s chock full o’ sketches in which City Hall employees pretend to be citizens in need…
When last we heard word from the campus of Paul Quinn College, local and state legislators had gathered to voice their unconditional support for the college stripped of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in late June. While the school works through the process of appealing…
I was in Epiphany over the weekend, hoping to find a tan XL “Bike Friendly Oak Cliff” tee — alas, all out, so instead the family devoured an Eno’s pie moments before, God help me, hitting Taqueria El Si Hay. No doubt, I’ll find the right-sized tee in October during…
For more than a decade, UT Southwestern epidemiologist Robert Haley has been at odds with naysayers over the existence of Gulf War Syndrome; here, from 1998, is Ann Zimmerman’s piece in the Observer about the doc’s battle with government officials who insisted that those symptoms — everything from all-over aches…
I only listened to Russ Martin’s show on Live 105.3 sporadically. I’ve met the guy just once. Talked with him for all of 45 seconds. So how do you tell the story of a guy like that? You talk to everyone that knows him. That’s worked for him. With him…
Now he tells us: Regrets. Mitchell Rasansky has had a few—and not too few to mention. For example, the former city councilman now regrets supporting Mayor Tom Leppert when the mayor was elected in 2007. “Not too many people pull the wool over my eyes, but he did,” Rasansky tells…
“Tracks of My Tears,” by Jim Schutze, July 23 Rails to the Future I found Jim Schutze’s article on DART to be informative, as his articles usually are. The subway that he describes certainly sounds like a better solution than another surface track going through downtown. The only problem I…
Russ Martin is a jackass. He’s a vulgar, pompous bully who for years physically and psychologically tormented his Dallas radio co-workers to gain fame and fortune. “Stuff he’d say to us on the air he wouldn’t say to us in the hall, because he’s a coward,” says J.D. Ryan, Martin’s…
Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you’d like a report on and I’ll watch it at tomorrow’s practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in…
Ah, good ol’ Morgan Lyons over at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. He noticed that we’d posted a few of the agency’s very well-done in-house videos and very kindly sent over the very latest: this time-lapse featuring the construction of the Traveling Man sculptures Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg are building…
