This shit’s crazier than Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows. I mean, there is a pre-game show, albeit hosted by failed Roy Firestone successor Chris Connelly. No. 1 Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is in the crowd alongside Sports Illustrated cover girl Beyoncé. And hostess Ellen DeGeneres seems to be wearing Michael Irvin’s garish…
The grassy hills and lakeside pier of a sprawling park in Coppell have been transformed into a makeshift boot camp. It’s a windy Saturday in December, and as the bullet-gray clouds grow heavy and drop low, newly enlisted soldiers march, read maps and learn rank symbols. One group stands in…
Adel Elkenan, an Iraqi Shiite, fled his home in 1991 after the failed Shiite and Kurdish uprisings against Saddam Hussein’s government. He spent weeks in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia before being flown to the United States and placed in Dallas by a refugee agency. Sixteen years later, after…
For Darrell Bock, the notion that Jesus of Nazareth married and had children is like the game Whac-A-Mole. The researcher and professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary only recently has caught his breath from tours for his books debunking the mega-best-selling Da Vinci Code—which claims that Jesus…
Gone daddy gone: Constable Mike Dupree, who became the subject of scorn and ridicule after this paper reported his own loopy story of how he had his ex-boyfriend deported to Honduras, is mired in another sex scandal that seems to have cost him his job. Three of Dupree’s deputies have…
The flu season in Texas started out mild but came on like a tiger in late January, prompting the closings of several schools in the area. That’s when Texas and Oklahoma went red on the influenza map posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Grapevine resident Joe Lastinger,…
Voodoo Vibes Yoruba religion: I am a priest in the Afro-Cuban tradition many know as Santería, yet we ourselves know as the Lucumí faith (“Bad Mojo,” by Jim Schutze, February 22). I am also an author who has written and published extensively regarding this religion under a pen name, cháni…
Good times, good times: Mike Dupree with Angel Martinez, his former lover who he had deported to Honduras L’Affair Dupree is only getting more interesting. This week in Buzz, we reported that Constable Mike Dupree packed up his office in the wake of a rather unsexy sex scandal. Turns out,…
Delaney Roden-Docampo, at right, and the injury that sparked an investigation We found, and then were sent, a press release this morning concerning a lawsuit filed yesterday against Children’s World Stars and Tykes daycare center on Houston Street downtown. Jeremy Roden and his wife Tenille Docampo are claiming that on…
That’s what Radar Online is reporting, so we’re taking it with a pillar of salt. Nonetheless, says here that “the tech entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner is set to offer $625 million to buy the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co., according to a source familiar with the matter. ‘Mark is…
Well, The New York Times is at it again, totally ripping the paper version of Unfair Park off for story ideas. Nearly a month to the day after our groundbreaking report on cockfighting, The Times trots out this little half-assed piece of journalism: “Richardson Is Running on a Resume Both…
We gets plenty of…uh…interesting mail at Unfair Park. Like the missive we got this week from Richard “Richie” Sheridan, who is indeed among the flock that’s filed to be Your Next Mayor. Sheridan sent us an open letter to Mayor Laura Miller concerning her recent appearance on KERA-TV’s Think, in…
Want some? In the spirit of upcoming St. Patrick’s Day? Yeah? Well then, don’t turn to this year’s Zagat guide to “America’s Top Irish Pubs.” According to the booklet, handed out with promo bottles of Irish Spring body wash, Dallas’ top five Irish pubs are The Tipperary Inn (5815 Live…
George Gimarc: He introduced us to the Clash, now he has shorter versions of the Clash. It’s not often you get to be six months ahead of Wired, so, please, do let me enjoy it. In the March issue, the cover story’s not really a story, but a collection of…
Lauren Bacall will be among those attending the AFI fest. Yeah, I could stare at this photo all day. Just might, in fact. Late last night, AFI Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director Michael Cain sent over the final “quick guide” for the inaugural fest, which kicks off March 22…
Last night, my father and I got to talking about Deep Ellum (where our family’s auto parts store was from 1932 to 1955), Fair Park (where the store’s been ever since) and South Dallas (Dad was born on Park Row in 1944) — all the hot topics, in other words…
Last I looked, only five people had seen this video, posted today on GooTube, of Dallas mayoral candidate Jennifer Gale — “the homeless, transgendered former Marine [who’s] a bit of a legend in City Hall circles,” says here. Well, we aim to fix that. Me, I also dig the introduction…
Darrell Jordan, one of many who would be mayor, wants to chime in on the Cotton Bowl moving to Arlington. And since Jordan’s probably the only candidate with intimate knowledge of the Fair Park stadium — he wanted to dome the damn thing, which wasn’t a totally dumb idea –…
The Dallas Morning News has a story today in the Metro section headlined, “Review sought in judge’s recusal in double slayings.” It’s about the contretemps in Ellis County that erupted when Dallas lawyer David Finn got on the wrong side of District Judge Gene Knize. The whole thing is very…
Yes, we’re very excited David Lynch and Lauren Bacall are coming to AFI. But, c’mon, so’s Ron Livingston. Yeeaaah. We just received the complete schedule for the inaugural AFI Dallas International film festival, which opens with a screening of Music Within at the Majestic Theater on March 22 and closes…
As Robert points out a couple clicks down, there’s plenty blame to go around for the Cotton Bowl leaving Dallas, which became official this afternoon. But there shouldn’t be one iota of surprise that it has come to this: The stadium is old, the game is tired, and lethargic city…
Dan Aykroyd was in town long enough to talk to reporters, do a little manual labor, promote the House of Blues and git. This morning at the House of Blues in Victory Park — well, the construction site that will be the House of Blues come May — Dan Aykroyd…
