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Mark Graham John Goodman Couple of years back in the paper version of Unfair Park, we profiled National Center for Policy Analysis boss man John Goodman, who was in the news at the time for firing Bruce Bartlett — a longtime Republican who’d been critical in the press and in…

If you have a Hitachi 50V500A rear-projection LCD TV and think it’s nothing more than a $3,500 hunk o’ junk, you’re not alone. The Interwebs are littered with complaints concerning the set, which went on sale about four years back. Most have to do with mutli-colored “stain-like” spots that look…

Whitney Lawson George Steel There’s been more ink spilled on Dallas Opera in the last two weeks than since 1995, when the paper version of Unfair Park weighed in on the beloved institution with a 5,500-word opus. Today, New York gets into the mix on its weekly “Approval Matrix,” which…

I’d totally kick these dude’s asses. If I was 20 years younger and 20 pounds lighter. Turned 44 over the summer. After spending a day shopping with the wife over the weekend I feel 84. I needed some new jeans. (Hey, it’s been five years. Even the most stubborn amongst…

National Weather Service Tuesday is a long way off, but already some folks are headed back to Dallas from New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Gustav’s expected landfall in Louisiana, possibly as a Category 3 storm. So it seems, at least, from the news and notes references scattered about this…

So, yeah, that race for Dallas County Sheriff isn’t going to be interesting at all. Just one week after the Dallas County Republican party posted a video in which a chicken taunts Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s supporters in front of a fund-raiser, a Friend of Unfair Park sends word there’s now…

Constable Jaime Cortes Twice in the comments affixed to Sam’s Ross Avenue item from yesterday, folks mention that a constable was spotted along Ross trying to gather signatures for the Cesar Chavez Task Force. But even before we posted the item, on Wednesday morning a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned…

Exactly two weeks ago, the city gave Woodard Paint & Body Shop on Ross Avenue till 2010 to git — which prompted my father, a lifelong Dallasite, to note that “our city fathers are suffering from cranial rectitus.” Well, the council member who made the motion to deny Woodard the…

At 2851 Walnut Hill Lane sits a one-time mom-and-pop diner where, when I was a kid, my father and I used to have breakfast every single Saturday morning. But, several years ago, the new owners bricked up its windows (to class up the joint, naturally) and turned the eatery into…

Expect to see and hear plenty from Jessica Simpson in coming days — her country album, Do You Know, is in stores September 9. (Though, yesterday it kinda found its way to the Internets a little early.) Which, among other reasons, is why she’s on the cover of the brand-new…

Facts are slippery: Do we really know enough about John McCain to elect him president? For instance, have you heard that the man spent five and a half years of his youth associating with foreign communists at war with the United States? Oh, sure, he says he was a “prisoner…

“Low-Bid to No-Bid,” by Jim Schutze, August 14 Shaky Construction Jim Schutze’s article “Low-Bid to No-Bid” is long on sensationalism and short on substance. Schutze’s main theme certainly doesn’t raise anything unique in the history of contracting on either public or private projects. Big increases to an original contract by…

Scene 1: Enter the prince It’s the first hour of the first day of rehearsal for Dallas Theater Center’s first production of its 50th season. The show is The Who’s Tommy, the sprawling rock musical based on a 1969 concept album about a “deaf, dumb and blind kid” cured by…