Barbara Forrest, speaking at SMU last week In keeping with the spirit of Monday’s item concerning the release of the study Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century, last week SMU hosted a speech by Barbara Forrest, author of…
The brute of Brock Lesnar is one reason to be attracted to UFC. I can think of others. It’s official: Ultimate Fighting has KO’d Boxing. Proof? Quick, name the heavyweight champion of the world. If you’re like me, you knew Brock Lesnar before Wladimir Klitschko. I went to Evander Holyfield’s…
Tony Romo needs a nickname — something like Mother Teresa, only more … manly. Because just two months after the Dallas Cowboys’ QB stopped to help a couple fix their flat — only hours after getting 13 stitches in his chin following the Browns game — today The Dallas Morning…
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley’s war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers’ imaginations. A decade…
The loading dock at Petra Chemical’s Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama’s White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and current Obama…
The NCAA just posted to its Web site a list of host cities for the 2012 through 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Fours — and, no surprise, Jerryworld is indeed included among the sites. The dates: April 5-7, 2014. The host city, incidentally, is listed as “North Texas,” with the following…
This just in: Dallas has officially moved to Arlington. Well, after Arlington’s new Jonestown Coliseum snared another 100,000-kilowatt event this morning, that feels like the score. Right? On the heels of Dallas being shunned by the women’s Final Four last week, the Cowboys’ new stadium today landed the 2014 men’s…
Dean Fearing, who clearly needs to work on his knife skills Dean Fearing’s eatery in the Ritz-Carlton has been the recipient of myriad kudos from the likes of Frank Bruni in The New York Times (who called it “overwhelming,” but in a good way) to Esquire, which, couple years back,…
In August 2007, as it was becoming evident that Dallas was becoming “ground zero for criminal justice change,” in the words of Innocence Project of Texas founder Jeff Blackburn, Glenna Whitley wrote that faulty eyewitnesses were partially to blame for the convictions of so many innocent men. Which is why,…
Patrick Michels Will Smith pulls off the jersey and tie almost as heroically as Mayor Tom Leppert. Will Smith is all about good deeds these days, so if you wanted to catch the Dallas premiere of his new feel-good thriller Seven Pounds, you had to come with cans. Which was…
All this? Because of one game a year in our zip code? Seems a tad much. Okay, we get it. Dallas’ Only Daily is hitching its downsized wagon to the Texas Longhorns. Again. I often accuse Dallas of being not a sports town, but a winners town. I have to…
A Friend of Unfair Park is rather unhappy with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines over the news today that the carrier’s spending a mere $7.5 million to assume ATA Airlines’ rights to operate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The deal’s still a long ways off: “Details on the commencement of service or…
Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA…
Whilst browsing through the City Secretary’s virtual stack of boards and commissions meetings scheduled for today, we came across this interesting shindig scheduled for this evening. The Landmark Commission is convening a Economic Review Panel to discuss demolishing a piece of the Magnolia Station, the circa-1911 Magnolia Petroleum Company office…
Dianna Wray Hold still … this won’t hurt a bit. Outside the Dallas Convention Center, rows of motorcycles stand gleaming in the sun. The sound of rumbling engines fills the air, and the smell of exhaust fills the nostrils. The scent could be Chanel No. 5, judging by the faces…
Forgiven? Or forgotten? Last week Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones was emphatic when asked if he’d like Pacman Jones back. “Yes,” Jones declared. On Monday at Valley Ranch coach Wade Phillips was slightly less enthusiastic. “I really don’t know,” Phillips said. “When he’s gone, he’s gone. We don’t really think about…
Can’t … help … myself. But in the comments to the Rorschach test below, “apaulable” wondered, “More importantly, what does the DFW Highway system look like Dr. Freud?” And, frankly, I just couldn’t live with the thought of anyone missing out on that gem, courtesy the Web site of the…
Yes, indeed — that’s Dallas Independent School District’s Dalton Sherman, the fifth-grade feel-good story of a school year in desperate need of good news. As we noted last week, Sherman got Oprah’d yesterday: He was showcased among the handful of “Little Phenoms” Winfrey handpicked as she searches for the “World’s…
Friend of Unfair Park Steve Z. sends this link to “the always interesting Strange Maps blog,” which, last week, offered “City Maps As A Rorschach Test.” The original source for the item is a 1983 Dallas Morning News illustration comparing the sizes and populations of cities across the world, with…
Tomorrow on Unfair Park, we’ll run an interview with former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles, who stopped by our offices on Friday to discuss his first novel, JFK Conspiracy: The Missing File, a fictionalized recounting of the events of November 22, 1963, when Bowles was working for the Dallas Police…
A postcard scene from the Wycliff Trestle … in the future! About a year ago, Mayor Tom debuted a slice of land that’ll connect the Katy Trail to the Trinity Strand Trail — you know, that 7.8-mile-long hike-n-bike that goes from the Katy Trail to the Trinity River Project slated…
Not Tony Romo’s best day. But better than Brad Johnson. By a mile. Okay, I’ve got a long-distance, work-related field trip today so let’s get to it. Just for fun, let’s reveal ‘em in reverse order. Extrapolates the drama and all. Where you guys think Graham Harrell and Sam Bradford…
