Described in today’s Wall Street Journal as “an obscure candidate” threatening to force a runoff between Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Debra Medina sat down briefly with Unfair Park yesterday afternoon as she’s in town for tonight’s Belo debate. While Medina…
Attorneys for former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and Ray Jackson, who represented Hill during last year’s City Hall corruption trial, argued in court Thursday afternoon that any violations of U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s gag order issued shortly before Hill’s trial began were not willful, and therefore not criminal…
That headline is a more or less a direct quote from a lawsuit filed in Denton County District Court this week, in which the former Dallas Cowboys fullback and Skoal pitchman accuses a friend and former teammate of being a bad investor and a lousy pal. According to the suit,…
This morning, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the photo at right — quite the bargain on eBay, especially since it’s got Hall of Famer Hank Stram’s signature and remains at the low, low price of $9.95 thus far. I then forwarded it to my old friend and Stevie…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons sent word this afternoon: The transit agency and the Trinity Railway Express are getting $7.2 million in federal funds to double-track the rail line between the West Irving and CentrePort/DFW Airport stations. This isn’t from the high-speed rail pot, but from the Federal…
I just spoke with Museum of the American Railroad president and CEO Bob LaPrelle about the city’s lawsuit that demands the train museum get out of Fair Park by no later than August 1. Despite the museum’s April 2008 announcement that it was moving to Frisco, LaPrelle says the city’s…
No doubt you’ve heard: J.D. Salinger has died, though, as has been pointed out often in the past hour, the author of The Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey became a ghost long ago. But the news reminded me: A few months back, Unfair Park…
I trust Bloomberg. I trust BusinessWeek. Put them together and, sorry, I don’t trust their b.s. Their b.s., as in their latest list of The 100 Most Powerful Athletes. They’ve put out their list and, despite his sorta newsy fall from grace, Tiger Woods is still No. 1. Really? And Phil…
OK, back to Fair Park, but only to ask: Why didn’t the Museum of the American Railroad ever leave Fair Park for Frisco? That’s what the city wants to know almost two years after the museum “entered into a formal letter of agreement with the City of Frisco to relocate…
This morning, The Wall Street Journal takes up the issue of newcomers filling up the Plano Independent School District — specifically, “a flood of poor, minority students” whose entry into the district prompted the contentious fight over redistricting. The district voted on a feeder alignment plan on December 15, which…
I so meant to watch American Idol last night as it aired the Dallas auditions featuring NPH as guest judge. But, um, did not. So I’d like to thank the Friends of Unfair Park who’ve sent along this clip of Irving’s own Erica Rhodes, a former Barney girl, dolled up…
The last time Angela Hunt voiced her concerns about about bond projects and the attendant jump in debt service, she gave us the by-now classic slogan: “We must do [X] to make Dallas a great city. If you oppose [X], you don’t want Dallas to be a great city.” (Now…
You know it’s bad when your biggest, best contribution to the team is an injury. This season Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams disappeared for long stretches, dropped passes in crucial situations and yet continually, defiantly insisted on his No. 1 role and his peerless pair of hands. But hey, it…
Funny business: When Buzz spoke with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, Tuesday, Buzz was reminded why Buzz is not rich. Buzz really does not get business. Allen, the main enchilada in the huge Southern Dallas “Inland Port” shipping and warehousing development, was positively upbeat about the fact that…
A little after 9 this morning, the man neighbors know only as “J.B.” walked out his back door and took his daily stroll up Lower Greenville. When he came back eight hours later, the house was gone.Wood scraps were heaped over the cement foundation at the corner of Greenville Avenue and…
When I was a kid, the only artist I knew by name was LeRoy Neiman — musta been those Bicentennial Burger King giveaways, yech. So, I was kind of interested when a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that someone’s auctioing off a Neiman original on eBay: Superbowl VI (Miami…
One can’t tell the story of the old Dallas High School, or Crozier Tech, without talking to Veletta Lill. After all, she was a Dallas city council member when Robert Yu bought the property for $6.1 million from the Dallas Independent School District in 1998; and one year later, it…
The sleepy suburb of Euless seems an odd spot for a battle over goat sacrifice. Perhaps that’s what first attracted us to the story of Jose Merced, a commercial flight attendant who also happens to be a high priest in the Afro-Cuban religion called Santería, in which animal sacrifice serves…
Mavericks 108, Bucks 107 last night. Partly thanks to coach Rick Carlisle’s meticulous end-game sets, and sometimes because they’ve just been lucky, the Mavs have won 10 consecutive one-point games. The feat ties the NBA record set by the St. Louis Hawks in 1960. Against the Bucks the Mavs improved…
The Park from kristin gray on Vimeo.This has been around a long time and so far viewed by a few thousand, but till I accidentally came across it moments ago, I’d never seen this video — a virtual fly-through of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park currently under construction. Ah, now…
Never heard of a store called Movies and CDs on Bruton Road till this morning. Then again, having someone burn me a bootleg of 27 Dresses for five bucks while I wait isn’t exactly on my to-do list. The FBI, however, took a decided interest in the joint, and in…
And now, Dallas’s next big convention: the 22nd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, which is expected to bring “more than 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights supporters” to the downtown Sheraton February 3 though 7. Gay rights, of course, are on the agenda — so too…
