OK, color me convinced. And consider the NFC East captured. Barring a complete implosion, possible only should Tony Romo get injured, the Dallas Cowboys won their first division championship since 1998 yesterday in New Jersey. After dominating the New York Giants 31-20, the Cowboys have a three-game lead and the…
Norman Mailer, the man who gave this chain of newspapers its name, died this morning of kidney failure at the age of 84. I had the good fortune to interview him on several occasions during his various visits to Dallas, first in 1991, when he came to promote his CIA…
Well, I think I’m going to miss our Trinity River toll road campaign, though I can’t explain why. As in, why was it so contentious to decide whether to build a road we’re not entirely sure we can build through a park we’re not confident we can have? Somehow, this…
Football wagering ain’t easy. It’s more difficult than trying to make sense of Rick Gosselin’s “From the 50” photo snapped “From the End Zone.” More confounding than the Cowboys yesterday selling out an entire upcoming season — for only the first time in team history. And, let’s face it, even…
Dunham and Miller — actually, from left, Craig Miller and George Dunham If I’ve learned nothing else in the past 20 months of editing Unfair Park, it’s that people love reading about KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) and posting comments to items about The Ticket almost as much as they love…
Turns out that John Walls, assistant VP of Public Affairs over at UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas, is a pretty good Friend of Unfair Park’s. He called a little while to discuss last night’s and this morning’s items concerning The List — and, yeah, he sounded a little beaten,…
So, I had the bright idea to go out to Carrollton tomorrow for a sportsy column about Dallas’ Blue Angels, the only varsity football team of home-schooled students in the state of Texas. It’s their, um, homecoming? But now I’m not going. Why? Not invited. Not even allowed. “We don’t…
Fears of murder and mayhem keep you up at night? Well, hell (no pun), move to Plano, where — despite lingering memories of a 1990s heroin crisis — there were only four people murdered in 2006, for a rate of 1.6 murders per 100,000 residents. This compares to the national…
Public Appeal to Michael A. Lindenberger, transportationologist, Dallas Morning News: I called you yesterday seeking comment on a story you had in The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday saying that the North Texas Tollway Authority may have to ask Dallas taxpayers for more money for the Trinity River toll road…
Alan Melson of KERA-FM (90.1), home of 12 hours of locally produced programming per week, sends word they’ve got a new Arts + Culture blog. It’s funded in large part by board member Donna Wilhelm, whose $500,000 donation in February jump-started the so-called Arts Alive! project. Anyway, for those so…
Over at Dissident Voice, which is not owned by our parent company, Cindy Sheehan this morning recounts her recent visit to the University of Dallas, where she spoke at the invitation of the chairman of the economics department, Samuel Bostaph. Sounds like a hoot: Surprisingly, my friend Sam, received little…
The Basketball Jones Baron Davis almost killed the Mavs again last night. Musta left the bullets in the fedora. That’s it? That was the Dallas Mavericks’ statement game? Needing desperately to swagger into Oakland and blow out the depleted, winless Golden State Warriors, the Mavs instead turned back the calendar…
KTVT-Channel 11 Wuh-oh. Turns out, The Dallas Morning News wasn’t the only media outlet holding a copy of the VIP list kept over at UT Southwestern. KTVT-Channel 11’s Robert Riggs also had the list, as evidenced by a teaser that appeared on the CBS affiliate’s Web site at 5:11 a.m…
Sorry, can’t help it — love the band, love the song, and now I love “khcarter77” for posting to the YouTubes Polyphonic Spree’s cover of Wings’ “Live and Let Die,” performed Tuesday night during the band’s homecoming at the House of Blues. It’s knock-it-out-o’-the-park perfect, up there with the Foo…
Mazel tov, Harry Hunsicker, you’re one of the 6,400 most powerful people in Dallas! Finishing up some work tonight, and I just checked The Dallas Morning News’ site for any late-breaking. Came across tomorrow’s no-doubt front-page Dallas Morning News piece about UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas’ “detailed list of…
Brian Harkin Local music fixture John Freeman, at bottom far right, was among the 100 or so folks who attended today’s City Plan Commission hearing. So, at least one bar’s safe for the moment: The Amsterdam Bar, among a handful still left on the City Plan Commission’s to-do list this…
Brian Harkin Gerald Stogsdill, owner of the Monkey Bar, moments before the City Plan Commission effectively closed down his bar Quite a scene down at City Hall this very moment, as the council chamber’s filled with Deep Ellum and Exposition Park regulars who jammed into the joint like there was…
You recall much-lauded sommelier Rudy Mikula, right? He was, after all, the only tolerable thing about Nove Italiano lodged in the Victory Park machinery before he was poached by Tristan Simon to do wine duty at Hibiscus, only to disappear in the wake of a rumored dispute over wine inventory…
Dave Mirra will be in town this weekend to see if Dallas’ gravitational pull is enough to weigh him down. Doubtful. The perfect remedy for Trinity River tired head? Spend a weekend with thousands of dudes who don’t give a damn about our new toll road unless it includes a…
Dallas Fed CEO Richard Fisher and Milton Friedman discuss everything from globalization’s impact to boxers vs. briefs. Man, this is like The Basement Tapes of economics: Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas made available a never-before-released interview between the late Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman and Dallas Fed president…
The annual M/PF YieldStar Texas Apartment Markets Conference took place yesterday at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in downtown Dallas; good God, dunno how we missed that one. Thankfully, GlobeSt.com has a recap, which says, in short, things are lookin’ good for in the multifamily biz throughout the state: “If expert…
I thought that was Wilt Chamberlain. Hi-yo. Regardless, in case you missed it, here’s Mike Modano last night scoring points 1,232 and 1,233 against the San Jose Sharks, breaking Phil Housley’s record for most points raked up by a U.S.-born pro hockey player. Notes Deadspin this morning, “Wayne Gretzky finished…
