Happy Birthday! Our country turns the ripe old age of 233 tomorrow. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, let us not forget how fortunate we are to have a variety of sports and the freedom to choose which ones we love and/or loathe. In honor of the Fourth of July…
Just do it: This can’t be right. A highly unscientific “Trojan Pleasure Survey” undertaken by the condom maker finds that Houstonians are a bunny-like people and have sex on average 101 times a year, making it the No. 1 do-it town in America, far surpassing D-FW’s paltry average of 73…
“Just Say, ‘No, Thank You'” by Kimberly Thorpe, June 25 boys will be boys Where’s the corresponding program for boys? If you expect teenage girls to abstain from sex, you’d better have a similar program for the boys, complete with a ring asking them to pledge their bodies to God…
One. That’s how many foreign players—with a basketball pedigree void of a U.S. college—have excelled for the Dallas Mavericks. Granted, it was a biggie. In fact, the greatest player in franchise history and the best foreigner in NBA history: Dirk Nowitzki. But the number of failed experiments is considerably higher…
Even though Leslie Davenport is not a party to the litigation, nothing can keep her away from the Dallas County district court next October. That’s when Southern Methodist University is scheduled to defend its reputation for what Davenport claims was the unconscionable treatment her mother and others suffered at the…
On a 103-degree day like today, most people stick to air-conditioned buildings or poolside recliners. Not 19-year-old Jonathon Jackson.With a crew of a dozen other teens, the South Oak Cliff High graduate spent the afternoon trudging through the Great Trinity Forest in snake chaps and a work helmet to help…
First there was Bernie Madoff; then, Alan Stanford. Then came Minnesota’s Tom Petters, who, as The Wall Street Journal documented in April, was popped by federal authorities who claimed he operated a $3-billion Ponzi scheme built upon his taking investors’ hard-earned scratch to buy flat-screen TVs and other electronic whatchamacallits…
This is very good news — big news too, especially for those who, during their travels to Los Angeles, found themselves spending an afternoon at Storyopolis in Sherman Oaks after it moved from its original Robertson Boulevard location. Come July 17, Storyopolis Fine Art makes its official Dallas debut with…
Earlier today, the Fort Worth Police Department sent out the following press release in response to Saturday night’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. In short, the FWPD’s temporarily breaking up with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission till both agencies figure out how the raid on the newly…
For the Fourth of July weekend, the Dallas Police Department is partnering with Dallas Fire-Rescue — they’re going to ride in patrol cars together — to strictly enforce the no-no’s listed above, especially the part about shooting stuff into the air. It’s the first time the two departments have gone…
The Rangers tip-toed perilously close to a lost season last night. Instead, they wound up jumping all over a won game. I know we’re only two days into July, but coughing up a 7-1 lead and losing to the AL West division leaders last night might have been a kick to the…
The city of Dallas has made much of its efforts to “build a greener city” … which means what, exactly? That, more or less, was the question posed earlier this week during a confab at the downtown Dallas library during a program billed as a dialogue on the “green economy,”…
So says Men’s Health in its July-August issue, in which the magazine ranks the top 100 major U.S. cities’ “sports-obsessed citizenry” and puts Arlington at the very top o’ the list with an “A+” ranking. Says here that myriad factors went into the ranking — everything from the number of…
The Vancouver Sun brings word this morning that Bobby Goldstein — the man behind Cheaters and former-KTVT’er Robert Riggs’s boss since February — is opening an outpost in British Columbia this month. Right now, he’s got about 30 folks working out of the Lovers Lane HQ, but it seems Goldstein’s…
One day after the President George Bush Turnpike went to all-electronic toll collection, The Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog takes note of one of the North Texas Tollway Authority’s reasons for ditching the quarter-catchers: “Air Quality and Fuel Efficiency.” As in: “Transitioning to all-ETC will eliminate the stopping, starting…
If you were surprised by Greg Williams’ cameo on with Richard Hunter yesterday afternoon, you haven’t been paying attention. The Hammer, sacked by ESPN Radio in May partly because of a couple of wacky nights he blamed on a change in depression medication, will sit in with Big Dick the next…
Eight days ago, Unfair Park broke the news that the city was looking to rename at least a section of Young Street for César Chávez. What a difference a week makes, as city council member Steve Salazar — head of the mayor’s task force charged with finding a suitable street…
As promised here’s the city’s complaint brought against Colby Properties today in Dallas County District Court. In the complaint — and the request for a temporary and permanent injunction against the owners of 508 Park Avenue — the city is seeking $1,000 per day for every listed violation of both…
To this day, people still post comments to the September 4, 2007, Unfair Park item concerning the smoking-cessation drug Chantix and its troubling effect on users. Andrea Grimes wrote the piece because Sorta’s Carter Albrecht and his girlfriend had begun using the Pfizer-made medicine shortly before Albrecht was killed on…
At last, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has issued an official statement concerning Saturday night’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, which left Chad Gibson hospitalized and a community outraged. Carolyn Beck, the spokesperson for the agency, just sent Unfair Park the document, in which TABC Administrator Alan…
I grew up with Michael Jackson. Had his Off the Wall album cover tacked – that’s right, tacked – to my bedroom wall. As a senior member of the 1982 Duncanville Panthers’ basketball team – district 9-5A champs, look it up – I picked “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” as…
A cluster of local educators and politicos — among them Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, SMU President Gerald Turner and DISD trustee Edwin Flores — gathered in the stately atrium of SMU’s Owen Arts Center yesterday afternoon to kick off the inaugural Dallas Hispanic Youth…
