Couple weeks back, the chaps behind Bobby Goldstein’s Cheaters announced that former KTVT’er Robert Riggs had hopped into bed with them as executive producer of new programming and development. And I did talk to Riggs that afternoon, though I never got around to posting the follow-up because, well, Uncle Barky…
Just in time for the recession, the Dallas Auto Show revs its engines till Sunday, filling the Dallas Convention Center with a bunch of cars that nobody will ever buy. But that won’t stop us from staring, glassy-eyed, like children with the JC Penney Christmas catalog. I visited yesterday Thursday…
On Tuesday, just the feds were charging “Sir” Robert Allen Stanford with “massive, ongoing fraud” in Dallas federal court, a Friend of Unfair Park pointed out a report that Stanford had sponsored Senator John Cornyn’s November 2004 $7,000 “fact-finding mission” to Antigua. Now, courtesy another interested Friend of Unfair Park,…
Stumbled across this classic footage of a guy I’m glad the Mavericks didn’t trade yesterday. Wow, I think Dirk Nowitzki dunked more in his 1999 All-Star Rookie Game appearance than in the rest of his career combined. As Hubie Brown predicts, “He’s a handful.” …
This week, state Sen. Jane Nelson, a Republican from Flower Mound, introduced legislation to combat childhood obesity by requiring more P.E. time for school-age children. S.B. 890 was one of three pieces of legislation she introduced this week “designed to improve the health of Texas’ youth,” according to her press…
Aw, dang. Had hoped to break this in the paper version of Unfair Park next week, where we profile former Ensemble Studios music-maker Stephen Rippy; but, oh, well, no such luck. Regardless, the September shuttering of Ensemble Studios — the former Dallas-based indie-studio-turned-Microsoft property responsible for such mega-selling video games…
View Larger MapOn Tuesday, the Dallas City Council’s Housing Committee discussed 13 projects seeking low-income housing tax credits, among them Akard Plaza, which is being developed by Central Dallas Ministries’ 7-year-old affordable-housing subsidiary Central Dallas Community Development Corporation. Central Dallas CDC’s seeking $2 million from the city for what’s expected…
Weird to have the visitation two months after the funeral. But hey, it’s Texas Stadium, don’t let the effed-up order deter your ogling. If you haven’t yet paid your last respects to the house that Tom Landry built, Troy Aikman upgraded and Jerry Jones sentenced to the wrecking ball, this weekend is…
So, back to Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller. But only because there’s breaking news this afternoon: The Austin American-Statesman’s gotten hold of a notice of formal proceedings from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which says that “Judge Keller’s willful and persistent failure to follow CCA’s Execution-Day procedures…
The battle for the city council’s District 13 seat is already quite a pricy one, as Ann Margolin takes on Brint Ryan for the right to take over for Mitchell Rasansky, who’s leaving because of term limits. Both candidates have been flooding area residents with mailers and campaign materials over…
And neither’s Mike Rhyner, which you already know if you read Richie’s piece last Friday about how “The Hardline” was awful close to moving from KTCK-AM to the recently launched The Fan located at 105.3 on Your FM Dial. Said Rhyner last week, “It was close. Very close. … [But]…
While the ESPN blowhards breathlessly dissect moves – and non-moves – involving Larry Hughes (yawn), Rafer Alston (eh) and Nate Robinson (zzz), it’s apparent the Mavericks weren’t lying when they told us they liked their current roster. Dallas = No trade(s). One reason may be the sudden emergence of Antoine Wright, who might…
You might think that since Texas legislators are tied up dealing with a plunging housing market and accepting stimulus money, they’d drop the predictable collection of politically motivated immigration bills seeking to fill the federal policy vacuum. Nope. Not a chance.Rep. Jim Jackson of Carrollton would like to declare English…
While twiddling my thumbs waiting for the Mavericks – or anyone – to make a significant, deadline-beating NBA trade, I wondered just how good Dallas has been this millenium. Calculator + 10 minutes + elbow grease = Yahtzee! Answer: Damn good. Second-best good. From the beginning of owner Mark Cuban’s…
Dallas County Health & Human Services’s monthly Public Health Preparedness Update is a great read full of fascinating tidbits — lots of stuff this go-round about expanded HIV testing capabilities, the flu “outbreak,” second-hand smoke and so forth. But one tiny Page 2 piece piqued our interest: The county’s trying…
The great Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sends word today that our “Sex Toy Story” from April 2004 now has a “bizarre coda.” Long story short: Few years back, Shanda Perkins led the charge against Joanne Webb’s “passion parties” in Burleson, where Webb would sell vibrators and other sexual…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Texas Observer item concerning House Concurrent Resolution No. 50, filed Tuesday by three Republican state representatives — Leo Berman of Tyler, Brandon Creighton of Conroe and Bryan Hughes of Marshall — who more or less want to declare Texas a…
Actually, yes, I do know how lucky I am to be a sportswriter. Every once in a while, I just need to be reminded. Digging through my old box of media credentials usually does the trick. Jump for four of my all-time faves: (Of course, I don’t have a pass from…
A Friend of Unfair Park whose name does not rhyme with “Patt Mulle” sends us this Texas Watchdog story concerning the downtown law school the University of North Texas System is hoping to squeeze into the old Municipal Building. It’s been almost five years since then-Mayor Laura Miller and other…
The Dallas Auto Show runs till Sunday at the Dallas Convention Center. But as the Associated Press reporter in this video wonders: Will this be the last one? Only because, ya know, there may not be an auto industry this time next year. No big…
It’s only been two days, but, sure, why not — back to Judge Sharon Keller, who Fort Worth Democratic State Rep. Lon Burnam wants impeached for refusing to stick around a few extra minutes for a Death Row inmate’s last-minute appeal back in September 2007. She’s worth a mention this…
Went out to east Dallas last week to spend some quality time with the only Olympic boxer in the history of Dallas, Luis Yanez. The kid is immensely cocky, tiny – would you believe 5-foot-4 and around 118 pounds? – and has the world by the short hairs. You’ll want to…
