Second in a very sporadic, yet nonetheless fascinating series by Dallas Observer staff writers Merritt Martin/Megan Feldman. Ladies, as always, mi casa es su casa … You’ve been waiting haven’t you? We knew you wanted it, but c’mon, we had to make you yearn. It was a tease, all in…
SMU announced last week that it’s expanding its Education Abroad program, with Rwanda now among the summer destinations. The timing is deliberate: 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide that left some 800,000 Tutsis dead at the hands of the Hutu militia. Not surprisingly, Rick Halperin will lead…
Bobby Goldstein Productions is best known as the company behind the TV series Cheaters. Robert Riggs is best known as the ace TV investigative reporter who, in March 2008, was among those at KTVT-Channel 11 inexplicably laid off during a round of CBS-mandated downsizing. Both Bobs turn up in this…
At last, someone’s figured out how to properly use Twitter: by providing a push-by-push account of a baby’s birth. And, how fortunate for us, that special someone’s a high-profile local — none other than Erykah Badu, who yesterday welcomed her third child, a daughter, at 1:30 p.m. on the dot…
Dallas Federal Reserve president and CEO Richard Fisher was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning warning that the “Buy American” provision in the House’s stimulus bill is bad, bad news. European officials said over the weekend they’re terribly unhappy with what they call “protectionist measures”; said British Prime Minister Gordon…
Another item of interest from this afternoon’s Public Safety Committee get-together: a sneak peek at where the city plans to put its surveillance cameras downtown (not to mention a color-coded map containing the location of every single camera already in place). Says the briefing memo, crime’s down substantially in areas…
Just one month ago we recounted the history of Dallas’s 18-year-old Juvenile Curfew Ordinance, which keeps 17-and-unders off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:01 a.m. till 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Long story short, it wound up in court on its way to…
Or, as the old Florida A&M college buddy and former business manager of newly minted Pro Football Hall of Fame member Bob Hayes says of Lucille Hester: “She’s a fake. A total perpetrator. She’s hoodwinked the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL, the Hall of Fame and the national media. But she isn’t…
A lawsuit filed in Austin on Wednesday has found its way to the Courthouse News Service: Miguel Salazar and Edgar Soria, both of whom live in Dallas County, and Avila Trejo, currently a resident of Denton County, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety because it refuses to issue…
That picture you see here is from my 1983 Thomas Jefferson High School Document yearbook. It’s of a guy named Tim Watson — or Temo, as most knew him throughout much of his life. Figured I’d share it, since Tim happens to be the subject of Jeff Liles’s Echoes and…
Tonight, somewhere in Texas, a Dallas Cowboys super-fan will return to home and mount a piece of signage above his family’s fireplace. Maybe a naked section of wall space will already be waiting. “We Stop Selling Beer at The End of the 3rd QUARTER!,” the black and red letters say…
Two makeover items for those in need of refreshing. First, we received word that TLC’s What Not to Wear will be casting here in the near future. So, Friends of Unfair Park, that of course means a rare chance for you or your favorite frenemy to be utterly humiliated in…
Yep, there goes the Dallas Cowboys star off the Texas Stadium 50-yard line. That happened just a few hours ago, on this first day for online auction winners to pick up their treasures.More coming soon from Intern Kelly on the scene in Irving, now that the entire stadium has turned…
Dunno when this was done, but as evidenced by this just-posted clip it’s clear Tom Leppert has a future as an early-Sunday morning community-affairs talk-show host when he’s done being mayor. His interview with special guest Tennell Atkins is a little, oh, Chris Farley for my tastes, but it’s promising…
Got interrupted from The Ticket’s Dunham & Miller this morning by tennis, and phone calls and, well, life. I missed Gordo’s wireless microphone bits, which is rare for me. I also, apparently, missed a fight. A landmark nemesis confrontation. A legit skirmish that’s getting national pub. I’ve met both Nasty Nestor and…
Two radio items of note for those still on the terrestrial side of the dial: This morning ’round 8:45, a Friend of Unfair Park called with the command to turn on The Ticket, pronto, as Gordon Keith was being attacked by nemesis Nestor Aparicio. Didn’t make it in time –…
With three intriguing items on the city council docket, I was originally bummed when my duties to the paper version of Unfair Park kept me from attending Wednesday’s meeting. But when all of them were delayed, I was relieved having avoided a day of frustration. Since Robert filled you in…
You know those pigs that were raised by dogs so when they grew up they thought they were, well, dogs? Pacman Jones is a pig. I’ve been promised visual photographic evidence by my Sportatorium spies at some point, but for now we’ll go with eyewitness acounts from those who attended Dallas Cowboys’ safety Ken Hamlin’s…
A.H. Belo announced this morning that it is going to “cut approximately 500 jobs, or more than 14 percent of its workforce,” at all of its properties, among them The Dallas Morning News and the Providence Journal. Which is why a Friend of Unfair Park sends this announcement from the…
You like me, having trouble taking Super Bowl XLIII seriously? I mean, the Cardinals? The Arizona/Phoenix/St. Louis Cardinals?! I know, both teams beat the Cowboys, but neither feel “super.” Just seems like another spare NFL game. This, sports fans, is what it would be like if the Clippers made the…
On Wednesday, as you’ll no doubt recall, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway vowed to sweep every Black & Mild cigar off the shelves and into the ashtrays. Said he was preparing to launch a national campaign against the makers of the machine-made cigars, which Caraway says are “poisoning …..
Rebecca Dugger, director of the Trinity River Corridor Project, was out and about on Thursday afternoon, selling the citizens on the need to redo the N. Beckley Avenue-W. Commerce Street intersection. But Belmont Hotel owner and developer Monte Anderson wasn’t buying.”I’d rather have nothing,” he said. “I’d rather have gridlock…
