The greatest current one-on-one battle in all of sports. As a stupid guy once famously said in a super movie, “Sorry I had ta fight in da middle of ya black pantha pawwty,” but I can’t let another day pass without opining on the greatest tennis match I ever did…
134th Civil District Judge Anne Ashby Dave Palmer, a disabled veteran living in Folsom, California, ain’t happy with the way some Texas legislators and judges are spending their campaign donations — so much so he’s filed a heap of complaints with the Texas Ethics Commission. Among those singled out: 134th…
CBS-TV Steven Daigle Trust me, Big Brother, the 10th season (!) of which debuts on CBS July 13, is one reality TV show we won’t cover. Instead, we’ll just introduce you to the contestant getting the most buzz in preview pieces: Dallas resident Steven Daigle, whose CBS bio describes him…
You could just read about T. Boone Pickens’ plan to ween U.S. off foreign oil, yawn, or you can hear the man hisself in a 10-minute video made for his Web site, where the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat financier does his best H. Ross Perot and takes to the…
Just a quick note to John Wiley Price and Judge Thomas Jones, because, gentlemen, I’d really like to loan you my copy of the greatest movie ever to star Maximilian Schell, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster and Yvette Mimieux. It was awesome when I was 11; I think you’ll…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this late-afternoon link to a story out of Seattle, about a woman and her unruly brood given the boot from a Southwest Airlines flight from Detroit to the Pacific Northwest. The plane made a pit stop in Phoenix, where Wendy Slaughter says she…
Greenville Ave. residents, you are officially fuel-efficient! Says so in the latest of Forbes magazine’s never-ending litany of lists, this one headlined “America’s Most Fuel-Efficient Neighborhoods,” which appeared at the end of last week. And just how did the mag arrive at this result? Very tricky math, along with an…
Speaking of amazing video … over the holiday weekend, I came across this snippet of a documentary shot during Super Bowl X at the Orange Bowl in Miami, where Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys lost to Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers 21-17. It was done for pioneering SF-based collective TVTV; and, yes,…
So, this morning a Friend of Unfair Park shot us this video, featuring Suze’s Lisa Garza on Rachael Ray last week. And, yes, it was indeed the same video featured on last night’s episode of The Next Food Network Star. Only, as D’s Nancy Nichols has already pointed out today,…
Something to listen for in about 60 minutes courtesy National Public Radio’s Day to Day: a segment titled “Living the California Dream in Texas.” Which is about what, exactly? We asked listeners to tell us about how their California Dreams have changed in the rough economy. Listener Brian Keller wrote…
Just got off the phone with Marc Andres, who walked us through the deal that’s bringing a Sunflower Farmers Market to 1800 N. Henderson Avenue by the beginning of ’09. Turns out, the deal went down awfully fast: “60 days from start to finish,” Andres tells Unfair Park, “which is…
View Larger Map Yet another outsider’s moving into Oak Cliff: About three months after Boston investors took over the Wedgewood Towers with an eye toward a hipster redo, unnamed Vancouver investors have bought a chunk of apartment complexes more or less situated between the Trinity River Greenbelt Park, Lake Cliff…
Sean Avery and his ex, Elisha Cuthbert Really, the Dallas Stars’ acquisition of Sean Avery last week will go down as the Best Thing to Happen to Local Sports since, oh, Alex Rodriguez got married here in 2002, aw. Today, the Canadian National Post ran a Q&A with the Stars’…
Curtain pulled back in T-Minus 2 days. Local author Jim Dent penned award-winning stories while living a nefarious night life. Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen has been known to have a drink between the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has admitted to smoking pot in…
So, now we know what’ll become of the contentious former Carnival at 1800 N. Henderson Avenue: It’s going to be a grocery store again. Months after brothers Marc and Roger Andres withdrew their zoning request that would have transformed the site from an abandoned grocery to a multi-use residential-retail development,…
Spencer Campbell Last week, when Dillard’s announced it was shuttering its Valley View Center location by the end of August, Intern Spencer went over with his camera to shoot the other vacant storefronts in the once-popular mall at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Preston Road, formerly the site of…
All the best book titles are taken. Victor Horadam’s an oncologist who offices out of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas on Walnut Hill Lane. He’s also the subject of an Associated Press story that’s been circulating since July 4, concerning a battle over the rights to and royalties from the novels…
Merritt Martin Above, one of Merritt’s photos from the Fair Park Fourth — a review of which is available here, where, um, “Pdiddy” deems the event’s debut a success but also “a mixed bag.” Some of us opted for a less stressful in-and-out: the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Preston…
Murphy Martin Everything you need to know about former WFAA-TV and ABC News anchor Murphy Martin, my late grandfather’s favorite local newsman and the gent known to most as The Voice of Texas Stadium from 1975 through ’98, you’ll find in Charlie Van Dyke’s introduction of Murphy recorded for his…
Spencer Campbell At Fair Park today, the Gruccis gave a sneak peek at the stuff they’ll blow up tomorrow night. And they say Fair Park is dying. Why, just this weekend — we’re counting today as the weekend, and judging by traffic, you are as well — two high-profile events…
Frisco’s Daniel Lewis Um, so Green Peridot Salon co-owner Daniel Lewis totally took over the drama on Shear Genius last night. It all started when, after having won immunity in last week’s challenge, he also got the privilege of choosing his client first for the shortcut challenge … which actually…
Good Friend of Unfair Park William O. Holston Jr. sends his fellow Park-ers a sneak peek at his commentary scheduled to air tomorrow morning on KERA-FM (90.1). The title: “Fourth of July & Freedom.” ‘Preciate it, Bill. –Robert Wilonsky…
