This morning’s New York Times pays homage to Dallas native Carolyn George d’Amboise — “a former soloist with the New York City Ballet whose high-flying, witty performances contributed to the young company’s early impact in the 1950s.” She died Tuesday, at the age of 81, at her and husband Jacques’s…
In his January Climatic Bulletin, published earlier this month, state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon documented Texas’s “extraordinarily dry” and “unseasonably warm” January — and warned of more months just like it to come “as La Nina conditions begin to develop in the Pacific Ocean.” Last week, Texas A&M geography prof Steve…
If you’re a hot, young chick with a fit body – who am I kidding? – you probably don’t read this testosterone-saturated blog. But you should. Especially if you also like football. Why? Because it’s right here that I’ll point you toward your big chance in the Lingerie Football League…
And they’re off: With the city council campaign season heating up, we thought we’d look at some of the campaign finance reports of the incumbents to see how they’ve been spending their dough. We picked freshman council member Tennell Atkins first because we noticed several amendments to his reports. Not…
Finally. The defining moment. After a 34-year wait—capped by a seven-year posthumous push—former Dallas Cowboys receiver Bob Hayes had at long last earned induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hayes was one of the NFL’s most transcendent athletes, his blazing speed leading to two Olympic gold medals, a…
“Empty Victory,” by Matt Pulle, January 29 “F” for Victory I’ve said it before and will say it again, Victory Park has no chance of succeeding. At one point I had the over/under at 18 months. I speak from a traffic planning and real estate background. The main problem is…
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention or maybe, truth be told, I just didn’t miss her enough to notice. Whatever, I thought I had a mini-scoop this afternoon when I found out that Fox 4 had severed ties with long-time sports reporter Nita Wiggins. That is, until I read it here…
Mayor Tom Leppert paid a visit last night to Zubar on Lower Greenville to meet with the Dallas County Young Democrats to talk about crime, the Trinity River Project and the convention center hotel, but it didn’t take long before the audience found themselves smack in the middle of a…
View Larger MapIt comes up every single time the subject of 508 Park Avenue is mentioned (which, right, has been plenty in recent weeks both on Unfair Park and in the paper version of Unfair Park): The building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded…
My Top 10 observations from last night’s Mavs’ romp: 10. Mark Cuban really really really really loves him some Jason Kidd. “He’s got the most incredible basketball sense I’ve seen in my entire life,” says Cuban. I’ve never liked the Devin Harris-Kidd deal, but apparently – and appropriately – the…
With one day left for folks to bid on a power-nosh with T. Boone Pickens at Nick & Sam’s, figured now might be a good time to check on how the auction’s going to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas. Because when last we left it one week…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who receives Southwest Airlines’s tweets forwards this just-Twitter’d photo announcing the Dallas-based carrier’s relationship with Sports Illustrated. Having such a hard time writing a caption for this … But you know who’s probably not amused? Kyla Ebbert…
Found these two old pics over the holidays. In the one above I’m 7 at some rinky dink field in Duncanville; after the jump I’m 37 at a home-run contest at The Ballpark in Arlington. In each I’m a Rangers’ fan, consumed not with steroids and HGH but rather batting…
Still haven’t been served over this December 16 item concerning the surprisingly litigious Hiram Walker Royall, a Highland Park developer, so I will proceed further — but only with the caveat that a mutual friend of ours insists “he’s a great guy.” So, there — covered. Anyway, the details behind…
This morning’s USA Today visits cities “revisiting immigration laws” for various reasons: exorbitant legal bills, the high price of implementation measures and “the barrage of publicity and accusations of racism that come with such laws.” Up in Denton County, Oak Point city council member Judith Camp says she voted against…
Terrell Bolton’s gone — to DeKalb County, Georgia, where, for now, he’s still police chief — but he’s definitely not forgotten. For that matter, he isn’t really gone: Bolton’s family still lives in Dallas, and here’s where Dallas’s ex-top cop spends all of his off time. Which is one reason…
According to the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management’s Web site, “The City’s outdoor weather warning system has 94 sirens that alert people who are outdoors to seek shelter in the event of a tornado.” Had to double-check this morning, following two rounds of siren songs last night: at…
I tracked down Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban last night before his team’s game against the Sacramento Kings at American Airlines Center. He was on the StairMaster. Insisting his team isn’t on the treadmill. “Not right now we’re not,” Cuban told me. “Treadmill teams are those that don’t have a realistic…
Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn’t stop putting the words “insurgency,” “Republican Party” and “Taliban” in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin’ the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subject…
It’s got to be the ultimate celebrity time-waste: Forbes has compiled and just posted a list of more than 1,400 “working actors” ranked according to their “Star Currency.” And this was no easy task: Notes the magazine, a survey …… was sent to entertainment industry members globally asking them to…
View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we’ve written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you…
Mayor Tom’s got plans at 7 tonight: He’ll be at Zubar on Lower Greenville spinning stacks of wax on the wheels of steel under his DJ name MCEO (that’s Patrick “Buzz” Williams’s joke, for better or worse). That, or he’ll be meeting with the Dallas County Young Democrats to discuss…
