The latest issue of The Economist contains a special section about Texas — six stories in all to down with your morning coffee: “Lone Star rising,” “Tex-mix,” “Work hard. Be nice,” “Beyond oil,” “The red and the blue” and “The new face of America.” (Guess which of the handful leads…
I put a Dallas Cowboys’ source in a Happy Hour headlock last night in an attempt to – as promised – try to get a name on the new P.A. voice of Cowboys Stadium. No luck. “Just remember,” the source cautioned, “CBS owns more stations than just The Fan in this…
In the wake of a busy summer for environmental activists, Dallas-based TXI has chosen to withdraw its application for a permit to burn tires and tire shreds in one of the kilns at its Midlothian cement plant. Why they did so isn’t clear — though if it was in response…
Ah, and speaking of bad drivers …Dallas residents go 7.2 years between car wrecks, not counting high-speed chases. Says so right here, in the Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™, on which Dallas doesn’t fare terribly well when it comes to smash-’em-ups. Out of the 200 cities ranked, Dallas comes in…
After the jump you’ll find dash-cam footage provided by Dallas County constables from the June 29 car chase through Dallas, Richardson and Garland, during which Shane Michel captivated a nation for a good 90 minutes. KDFW-Channel 4 got hold of the video and ran some highlights; one can only imagine…
I’ve answered the “Where’s Greggo?” inquisition over and over and over. But what of Russ Martin? At one time he was the No. 1 radio voice in this market. The first half of this decade 105.3’s Russ Martin Show and The Ticket’s Hardline battled for supremacy amongst male listeners in afternoon…
Earlier this week, we pointed out this impressive three-minute virtual walk-through of Entangled Bank, a winning Re:Vision Dallas entry from North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting.Turns out, Little’s director of design, Brad Bartholomew, was in Dallas for a tour of his own this week, checking out the proposed project site…
A few hours from now, Dallas Video Festival co-founder and UT-Arlington film prof Bart Weiss will get on a plane for Pakistan — Karachi and Lahore, to be more specific. He will do there what he’s done here for more than two decades: show movies and teach anyone willing to…
How anxious are Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving and Arlington about attracting conventions this year? Anxious enough to band together to create a coalition, in conjunction with the Hotel Association of North Texas and American Airlines, to offer deep hotel and transportation discounts to groups willing to travel and meet here…
On Wednesday afternoon, in a well-lit classroom on Forest Lane, the Dallas Happiness Club held its first meeting. I know — it sounds like something advertised in the back pages of the paper version of Unfair Park. But the club’s actually a monthly gathering rooted in the belief that happiness…
Didn’t hear this myself, but several P1s are telling me today that ol’ buddy George Dunham announced yesterday on The Ticket that he is no longer the public address voice of the Dallas Cowboys. Long the P.A. voice at Texas Stadium, Dunham said he was personally relieved of his duties…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Iran student protests, which is why the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran and the Iran Society plan to rally outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building on Commerce Street. What time? Not sure. They only told the Associated Press “midday.”MoveOn.org is…
The University of Texas at Dallas sends word this morning that researchers there, working in conjunction with a Plano-based call center support company called Working Solutions, there have come up with software previously believed to be unattainable: “a tool that could sense your anger in a customer service call and…
On the heels of being one-hit by somebody named Chad Gaudin and losing the opener of a series in Arlington, I wondered aloud if the Texas Rangers would ever see first place in the AL West this season. Answer: Yes. Since then they have won seven of eight, including last…
Those who keep up with the educational journal Entertainment Weekly are well aware of the drama surrounding the sixth season of Project Runway — mostly, how litigation between the Weinstein Co. (which produces the show and was taking the series to Lifetime) and NBC Universal (which owns Bravo and didn’t…
Victory smells: It is wrong to kick a man when he’s down or rub salt in another’s wounds. Very un-Christian. But what the heck? It’s fun, and Buzz has never been baptized. So we can’t help but resurrect (heh) this quote from Ross Perot Jr., given to USA Today back…
“Bushwhacked,” by Matt Pulle, July 2 Goliath 1, David 0 As the son of Pat Davenport and brother of Leslie, I am thrilled to see this article published. Of course, I am extremely doubtful that anyone at SMU will ever admit to their devilish doings regarding the University Gardens land…
Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast of Nigeria, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Houston-based oil and gas contractor Global Industries, Plake, a Texan through and through,…
The thunderstorm that just passed over Unfair Park HQ left behind what’ll be known as the most-photographed rainbow in office history. No doubt a co-worker with a camera better than mine (first-gen iPhone, so sad) captured a more spectacular photo than this stitched-together panoramic taken from the publisher’s office. Till…
Between June and August of 2008, the Dallas Police Department recorded 30 homicides — 17 fewer than in ’07, a stunning 33 fewer than in 2006. Even ABC News took note of the news, particularly the “astonishing low of eight homicides in July.” But last summer’s dip will, most likely,…
Pete’s got the details concerning Paul McCartney’s just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles’ interview with WFAA’s Bert Shipp during the band’s September ’64 visit to…
Think that whatchamacallit to the right looks like crap? So does the Deep Ellum Foundation, which has been trying to get money from the Farmers Market Tax Increment Financing District to fund a redo of the artwork in the so-called “art park” and Deep Ellum Dog Park along Good Latimer…
