In its 15-year history, I’ll betcha a nickel no one this side of The Pigskin Poet has written more positive words about The Ticket than me. And, still today, when the station has boffo ratings or cool events, I won’t shy away from tooting its triumphant horn. So when Ticket groupies…
Friend of the show PeterK, who diligently scours eBay for old Dallas photos so I don’t have to, sends this gem that’s up for grabs till May 2: a photo of 1925 Miss Dallas Ruth Jernigan. And, so happens, that was the year Texas had four reps in the Miss…
As the boss pointed out in his first-episode review yesterday, Dallas DNA debuts tonight at 9 p.m. on Investigation Discovery. So happens that those who attended Central Dallas Ministries’ 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast last week got a sort-of sneak preview of tonight’s premiere: Before the breakfast, where Dallas…
Over the weekend, the rumors started mounting: Tom Hicks had approached Grandhi Mallikarjun Rao — a builder of Indian infrastructure whose wealth ranks him among the world’s wealthiest 200 — about buying at least a piece of Liverpool FC. Folks close to the owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas…
*Unless Mark Cuban smears Swine Flu on Tony Parker, I’m afraid the desperate and prideful San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks tonight, forcing a Game 6 Friday night at American Airlines Center. Why? Because home teams down 3-1 always win Game 5. Because Greg Popovich has won 75 percent…
Last night, Governor Rick Perry served as moderator for a most special event at the Special Events Center in Garland: a conservative three-way during which radio chat-show hosts Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher rated and debated Obama’s First 100. (High marks and high fives all ’round, though there’s…
Remember that headline back in March, “The First Christian Book Expo May Wind Up Being the Last Christian Book Expo”? At least one Friend of Unfair Park remembers it well, because that Friend — who had a wonderful bar mitzvah long, long ago — sends along this Christian Retailing item…
We’ve been hearing in recent days that Del Taco is looking to move into the Dallas-Fort Worth area; sources say their business folks have been scouting would-be sites around town, as the Lake Forest, California-based chain considers — yet again — making its return to Texas. Barbara Caruso, Del Taco’s…
Perhaps, for its next ad, the R.I.P. Dallas folks could use a Woody Guthrie song — “This Land is Your Land,” maybe. Or Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction.” Or The Specials’ “Ghost Town.” Till then, bulls on parade through Victory Park…
This morning, I had a long chat with Janel Leatherman, the Dallas Farmers Market administrator, concerning the dearth of vendors in Shed 2 — which, as you no doubt recall, was enclosed and air-conditioned at the cost of $3.2 million,and which quietly reopened at the end of ’08. Since construction…
Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, says it took all of “five, six weeks, maybe” for station management to decide to drop The Bone and rechristen its classic-rock outlet as “FM93.3 Quality Rock.” Says Catlin, The Bone “had needed a face lift for some time” — because, well,…
While researching our upcoming cover story on Mayor Tom Leppert, which will appear in the paper version of Unfair Park Wednesday, we sat down with Lake Highlands city council member Jerry Allen, who announced in a recent council meeting that he believes anything that comes out of the mayor’s mouth…
Let’s say that before tip-off of Game 1 I gave you these crystal ball visions about the Spurs-Mavs series: *San Antonio’s Tony Parker will skip down Dallas’ lane at will, averaging 29 points including games of 38 and 43. *Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki will be held 10 points under his season scoring…
I winced when asked to screen an advance copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve legendary notoriety, but with the global media fawning over a…
This morning, The Dallas Morning News released its circulation stats covering the last six months, and, as to be expected, they’re down: “Daily circulation in the same period was 331,907 and 474,923 for Sunday, representing a reduction of 9.9% and 8.7% respectively, compared with the six-month period ended March 31,…
Dr. John Carlo has better things to do this morning than talk to Unfair Park: As medical director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, Carlo has spent the last several days tracking the “three probable cases” of swine flu in Dallas County while also “gathering more information and being…
Let me kick off this week with a detailed breakdown of the players the Dallas Cowboys selected on the first day of last weekend’s NFL Draft: For the reaches, afterthoughts, confounding strategy and appropriately crappy grade, we’d best jump …..
See our slideshow for more photos from Woodrow’s 80th.Out in front of Woodrow Wilson High School Saturday morning, Tom Hopkins sat on the back of his ’57 Corvette, watching the parade roll in. The 1968 graduate had the look of someone well trained in the art of leaning on his…
If you’re meeting up with friends later today, Jarrod Atkinson has a joke for you to try. He told his rendition through a megaphone Saturday afternoon, before a crowd outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and it went a little like this:”Knock knock.”Who’s there?”Inflation.”(Confused pause from the audience)”That’s right,…
Last night, at 7:48 to be precise, a certain Eleventy Billionth Blog’er sent me a note in which she posed the question: “Is it just me, or is this weird?” The this, in this particular case, was a link to the Vote No Dallas, where, Bethany noted, Angela Hunt’s mug…
George Gimarc called yesterday — and, look, if you would have told me when I was 13 that one day I’d grow up and be friends with the voice behind The Rock and Roll Alternative … well, anyway. He told me about something he’s been planning for months now: a…
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s debut Half Nelson was one of the highlights of 2006, a nuanced look at a young teacher in an inner-city school who dismantled the inspirational teacher-movie cliches with just a toke of his crack pipe.The writer-director team’s next film, Sugar, gives the same hard-nosed, heartfelt…
