Lots of stuff hit the Internet while I was on vacation. Let’s play some peek-a-boo catch-up, shall we? ERIN ANDREWS I can’t legally directly link to the Erin Andrews video – you know the one – but I can say that I saw it last week at a site that rhymed with…
Allow me to quote from the source material: “In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period.” So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made…
Sorry, that’s hardly as sexy as it sounds. But that is how José Bowen, dean of the university’s Meadows School of the Arts, describes his edict to pull the plug on the technology clogging up the classrooms. Bowen, speaking to The Chronicle of Higher Education, doesn’t buy University of Texas…
Literally, judging by this photo I took on my way back to the office from The Cedars. So what do they do now — knock out one leg at a time and see what happens? No? Because they should…
I guess there was some drama involved, but don’t tell me you’re totally surprised that the winner of Spike TV and Michael Irvin’s 4th and Long is – ta-da! – a Michael Irvin clone. Jesse Holley has the size (6-foot-3), speed (4.5) and smile of Irvin, and now he has a…
Just received an email from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding the lawsuit filed against him by former owner Ross Perot Jr. I’ve covered the Mavs during both regimes and just let me say unequivocally that in any fight – fist, financial or basketball IQ – I’m siding with Cuban. In my earlier post I…
The hearing for once, twice, three-times-a-fired-Dallas cop Fernando Perez just wrapped — and Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder upheld the termination. And thus ends the tale of Fernando Perez, who opted to hold the hearing behind closed doors when Unfair Park showed up at City Hall for a progress report…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Austin American-Statesman story from yesterday, in which two former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents — one of them a former Dallas captain — warn that TABC Administrator Alan Steen ain’t much good when it comes to following through with apologies and investigations…
On Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his “grave concerns” regarding the USPS’s proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, it’s Congresswoman Eddie…
Just as Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban is finishing his jig in the wake of beating an insider trading charge from the Securities & Exchange Commission, today comes another legal pothole. This one from the guy who sold him the Mavericks. Hillwood Center Partners, which is controlled by Ross Perot Jr., filed…
It should be pretty clear by now that our regular contributor Danny Hurley loves heading out to photograph wherever people are dressing up, or undressing. Either that, or we just love sending him out to these things.The Atomic Frolic Burlesque Revue combined elements of both in its Saturday night show…
Jason Roberts — a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member — sends word that this morning’s Dallas-Fort Worth streetcar item has (pretty much) nothing to do with downtown Dallas trolleys. Which is why Angela…
Ok, where were we? … Ah-ha! Right here. While I was out actually winning some money in Las Vega$, playing some horrible golf and getting some rest in advance of Dallas Cowboys’ training camp in San Antonio, last week on vacation I did make time to catch Channel 8’s “candid” and…
The New York Times’s Julia Preston profiles University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor Kris W. Kobach — a name that might be familiar to residents of Farmers Branch, as Kobach’s one of the co-authors of Ordinance 2952 and one of the lawyers who’s been trying to get it…
After the jump, a highlight among many from George Takei’s evening-with at the Dallas Museum of Art Sunday evening. A guest of the Trammell & Margaret Crow Asian Art Collection, Takei was in town to compliment, in more ways than one, Roger Shimomura’s The Return of the Yellow Peril: A…
While Ian Kinsler’s bat — the first player with both a lead-off and walk-off homer in the same game — last night gave the Texas Rangers a momentary pulse, let’s talk about the future of a dominant arm down on the farm. On his blog yesterday, ESPN’s Buster Olney made…
Almost two months ago, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environmental Committee got a peek at the proposed alignments for the downtown streetcars; but, again, the question of who’ll pay for ’em went unanswered. Then came Friday’s Star-Telegram story in which it was revealed that Dallas and Fort Worth, under…
Don’t tell the 5-year-old living in the house, but we kinda forgot that over the weekend, they were building an 8-foot-tall Yoda at NorthPark Center in conjunction with the opening of the mall’s LEGO store. Thankfully, “Gadget Virtuoso” was there to document the finish-up; I reluctantly showed the boy the…
So says The New York Times on this morning’s front page in advance of ESPN’s Monday-morning announcement that it’s this close to launching a Web site dedicated solely to Dallas sports. The Worldwide Leader’s actually muscling into three markets after testing the product in Chicago, with Los Angeles and New…
Now that Tony Romo is done with his girlfriend, his golfing and his goofs, hopefully he can start concentrating on his gift: A new wide receiver. While I was out on vacation, the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback dumped Jessica Simpson, created a buzz with this extremely unfunny video and finished second in…
Was just taking a peek at tomorrow’s list of public meetings when I stumbled across this familiar name: Fernando Perez, on-and-off ex of the Dallas Police Department. Perez has a hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. tomorrow in front of Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder, during which the officer, fired seven…
The biggest revelation to arise from Dr. J. Q. Lazarus Schütze’s appearance on KERA-TV last night was that haircut and that suit — quite fancy for a sex-tabloid worker! I’ll let you watch Jim’s Friday-night Think-off with Dallas Morning News’er Lee Hancock without further comment, though why Hancock was invited…
