For the past six years, A. John Rush of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has been leading a federal study on depression; it’s been released in bits and pieces over the past few months, with some findings being published as recently as March. But Rush, who’s the vice…
Now that all of us at Unfair Park have our ducats, you’re welcome to go here to get tix to the Beck show at the GTR tomorrow night. Or not. Go here, incidentally, if you wanna hear Beck and the band get “Nausea”-ted on KCRW this morning. Worth it. Not…
I was at the Adolphus Hotel this morning and ran into “Vanilla Face,” which is probably not how the hotel’s director of public relations, David Davis, wants to be referred to. In fact, I can guarantee it: When I asked Davis if he’d mind doing an interview for Unfair Park…
Will Dirk suck or blow this season? Neither, of course. Odds are good he’ll be the NBA’s MVP. Good, not great. Yeah, yeah. Happy Halloween. Whatever. Tonight’s the night we get to unwrap a brand spankin’ new NBA season. If karma is has a heart, in eight shorts months our…
Bowling for Soup will spend Halloween taking online questions from teens. That, my friends, is the true definition of frightening. You guys remember Bowling for Soup, right? They wore powder-blue tuxedos to the Grammys once and used to write songs with lots of pop culture references and catchy hooks. Well,…
The Dixie Chicks doc, Shut Up & Sing, opens locally in a couple of weeks; I know, yer thrilled. Till then, there’s this from New York magazine’s latest issue concerning Chick Natalie Maines and her hometown of Lubbock; seems she ain’t too popular there, can’t imagine why. But we’re a…
This morning, the largest commercial real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., issued a press release in which it announced it was acquiring Trammell Crow Company for $2.2 billion, more or less–or $49.51 per share of common stock, if you need to be precise. The Los…
Rudy Giuliani’s got some “sketchy” business deals, says Forbes–including one with a Dallas company. Ever hear of Lighting Science Group? Did not think so. Says here it’s “a world leader in the rapidly developing field of solid state lighting,” and for all we know the McKinney Avenue-HQ’d company may be…
Joe Bieger, who suffers from global amnesia and disappeared October 6, has been found. Last week, Jesse Hyde posted a piece here about Joe Bieger, the 59-year-old assistant athletic director at The Highlands School in Irving who went missing on October 6. As Jesse wrote, on September 21, Bieger had…
Last week deputies with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for making terroristic threats against Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Fifty-three-year-old Norman Russell had called the Garland Police Department threatening to kill “all gays and lesbians in the world” in order to prove somehow that he himself was not gay,…
Although the November 7th election is more than a week away, the prescient minds at Unfair Park are able to divine some of the day-after press coverage. Excerpts after the jump…
A few Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks whatever became of that trial concerning Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria’s allegations that Preston Hollow Elementary School’s teachers and its principal, Teresa Parker, were involved in illegally segregating the Hispanic and African-American students from the white neighborhood kids. After all, the…
You can’t be Sirius: Mark Cuban won’t host a satellite radio show after all. Didn’t know till today that Mark Cuban’s also in the hotel business. Only, it’s not here. Not even close. Try his native Pittsburgh (he grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb). Says in the subscription-only Pittsburgh…
Apparently, the Dallas and Houston areas each added more than 60,000 new jobs in the past year, and each “has posted a slightly lower number of new housing permits,” says here. Then why, wonders the Houston Chronicle, did home sales in Houston experience a “sharp” increase in September, while home…
Tony Romo’s either The One or just the next one, but either way we’ll savor this Sunday till the next one. OK, in deference to last week’s faux fiasco, that headline is a typo. But, gulp, after watching Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo last night in Carolina, he might not…
For five two bucks you can go here to find out where Dallas ranks on something called the Morgan Quinto Press’ list of America’s safest and most dangerous cities. Or you can just take our word for it when we tell you out of the 371 cities on the list,…
Bill Parcells may be an asshole, but he’s a complicated, self-torturing and very likely depressed asshole. Which has to count for something. Countless times–well, just three, actually–Richie Whitt’s called Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells an “asshole” on Unfair Park. Got no problem with that. From the far outside looking in,…
No longer just another pretty face, Elizabeth Mitchell is an Other. Which is a whole other thing entirely. At the moment, there are a handful of entertainment-industry celebs considered hometown notables: Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Erykah Badu, anyone named Something-or-Other Wilson, maybe Angie Harmon, possibly Morgan Fairchild (though, at this…
“There is a problem here”: Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Bishop James Stanton Last weekend, leaders of Dallas Diocese of the Episcopal church met at Southfork Ranch for their annual retreat and formally decided that they would remain a part of the Episcopal Church. There had been some rumblings that the…
I think Borat’s sending out press releases. Like this one, which has as its opening sentence: “Azerbaijani corner will be opened in Dallas Religious Offices Center, the chief of Human Rights Resource Center in Guba-Khachmaz region Solmaz Mehdiyeva who visits US told the APA.” Can’t tell ya much else, save…
How this lawsuit slipped past the offensive line is beyond me; maybe Flozell Adams and Marc Colombo let it through, like everybody else trying to sack whoever’s under center for Your Dallas Cowboys. But on October 16, the Dallas Cowboys and NFL Properties filed a federal suit in the Northern…
Mark Cuban’s got a fresh posting over at BlogMaverick concerning the new NBA balls, and we don’t mean rookies. Looks like he had the University of Texas at Arlington physics folks look at both the new and old basketballs to see which one was better. Cuban has his own thoughts…
