What, Price justice?: Three decades ago, I was a baby lawyer smitten with the notion of becoming a public defender. It seemed the pure practice of law, unfettered by the ethical challenges of collecting a fee from clients who were doing their manipulative best to beat me out of one…
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Only one man … nay, one boy could inspire this sort of magically delicious madness. You know who I mean — dude with the mop of brown hair, a delightful British twang and that scorched scar. As we noted a few weeks back, Portus 2008 — the national wingding for…
Central Dallas Ministries’ Larry James It’s one thing to consider closing the zoo one day a week, but proposed cuts to the city’s budget could have an even greater impact on Dallas’ poor and elderly. According to Larry James, president and CEO for Central Dallas Ministries, the city plans to…
Take a number, pal. First of all – duh – I have zero control of when the story gets posted online. Generally, cover stories are posted at our home site on Wednesday afternoons. But I’m a lowly sportswriter, not an IT geek. Secondly, there are a couple more people in…
To the genius who created this Amazon wish list for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, I salute you. (But you left off one essential item.) I also have my new band name: “Black Hole Education Society for John Wiley Price.” Here’s our set list.–Robert Wilonsky…
On August 5, The Real Estate Council is holding a general membership meet-and-greet during which some of its 1,600 members will bat around the subject “Why Big Companies Move to Dallas/Fort Worth.” Which is funny, because a couple of weeks after AT&T announced its move from San Antonio to downtown…
We wouldn’t mind seeing her around town, though. The Yankees and Madonna can have Alex Rodriguez. Evidenced by last night’s exhilarating 3-2 win over the Angels , the Rangers and their “24 kids” are doing just fine. You do remember A-Rod telling ESPN Magazine back in ’04 that he would’ve…
Ken Mayfield, who doesn’t have a calendar. Shame. Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield called this morning — one guess why. As he was out of pocket yesterday, Mayfield didn’t get the chance to respond to commissioner John Wiley Price’s comments to Unfair Park in which he branded Mayfield a “racist…
Well, OK, he kinda mentions the Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation. It’s nothing too earth-shattering, mind you, but yesterday the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat down for a chitchat with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editors and reporters. And one of the questions posed to him had to do with…
A full book report is forthcoming; Schutze has been handed his homework — a copy of Harvey Graff’s The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, being published this month by the University of Minnesota Press. Graff, currently a professor of English and history at Ohio State…
I like the way the Associated Press leads its story about Jerry Jones’ latest way to pay for his billion-dollar-plus Jerryworld in Arlington: “Fans of the Dallas Cowboys who might not be able to get tickets to the team’s new stadium in Arlington can leave their mark — underfoot.” In…
Karen Hughes Karen Hughes — you know, SMU grad, former KXAS-Channel 5 reporter and longtime Bushie — has a new gig, it was announced this morning. She’s now Global Vice Chair at Burson-Marstell, one of the top five public relations companies in the world — and, certainly, among the most…
Forbes throws some light down the mineshaft and finds former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, in her new position as non-lobbyist, non-publicist for Washington State-based Summit Energy. The piece is about Summit, for the most part — specifically the man behind the $2.8-billion plan to “develop the first large-scale coal-gasification power…
MLW Air The Dallas Mavericks’ Boeing 767-200 Mark Cuban has a piece of a pretty nifty fleet of planes: a Boeing 767-200, which holds 102 passengers in cushy comfort, and a 757-200, which’ll travel 63 folks willing to suffer with “lavatories so large they have windows.” Both appear to be…
From John Wiley Price’s self-published 2001 calendar JWP: Fit at 50. Not kidding. Speaking of responses, we spoke with Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price this afternoon. We were just kinda wondering why he got so angry with fellow commissioner Ken Mayfield yesterday, when Mayfield referred to Dallas County’s ticket…
So, this morning, because I’m a masochist who clearly needs to find something better to do, I e-mailed Nils Lundblad, a publicist at the Food Network, asking if he could find someone there to explain the discrepancies between the footage that aired Thursday on Rachael Ray and Sunday night on…
Wacky, wacky Southwest Airlines. Looks like the Dallas-based airline, already responsible for one of the greatest print ads in recent memory, has done gone and rounded up Fort Worth-based comedy quartet Curtis Needs a Ride for this zany travel-tip infomercial regarding airport security do’s and do-not-ever’s. Note to Southwest: I…
Behind the break-up. T-Minus 24 hours. I’m sure the Sportatorium blogdom is all atwitter about my opinions on Angels 9, Rangers 6. Okay, let me label rookie catcher Max Ramirez’ miraculous effort as baseball’s “Double Play of the Year”. But, really, who am I kidding? If I own a McDonald’s…
Jay Fox owns the six local Up in Smoke shoppes, which are scattered across the DFW — from Uptown to Frisco. So, it’s no surprise he’s against Mayor Tom’s effort to ban smoking in Dallas bars, pool halls, even tobacco shops; his profits go up in smoke, dig? To that…
So, just maybe The Dallas Morning News won’t be able to deliver, heh, on its promise to litter rich folks’ front yards with those unwanted single-section papers called Briefing, blech. The latest adventure in CueCatting is due to touch your more manicured lawns come August 27 — but today Editor…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders why we’re talking about those folks getting the boot from a Southwest Airlines flight when there’s a far more interesting story concerning an American Airlines flight from Miami to New York. In short, notes the NYC newsman, there was a “pitched battle between the…
