Just a reminder this a.m. that you need not actually go to City Hall to hear Lily Tomlin make good on her promise to address the city council about Jenny the elephant; meetings can be viewed online, at long last. But for those who can’t make it to chambers by…
Patrick Michels “What the hell?” asked a bearded homeless man in a wheelchair trying to negotiate his way down the 1600 block of Main Street at 2:30 p.m. “Who the hell are all these people?” He took a puff off his smoke and kept on rolling before we could offer…
Another troubled player headed our way? Perfect. Going: Pacman Jones. Coming: Roy Williams. Not that one. The good one. The Cowboys have acquired the Detroit Lions’ and former University of Texas receiver and Detroit’s seventh-round draft choice in 2009, in exchange for their first, third and sixth-round choices in ’09…
Courtesy MCA Public Relations Big Dan, working the crowd. Working it. Missed Connections Me: The guy in the corner with a snap-button shirt, jeans and a camera. You: The Canadian star of Saturday Night Live, Spies Like Us and this incredibly weird promo for your new vodka brand. Thanks for…
Well, see ya later. Oops. I guess NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sees Pacman Jones’ altercation a tad more seriously than Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jerry’s version: Jivin’ at the Joule. Goodell’s version: At least a four-game suspension. I’ve said before I don’t think Pacman should be allowed to play in…
Courtesy CBS Television, a video after the jump featuring the wanna-be models from Dallas and surrounding cities who recently tried out for The Price is Right. Looks hard. –Robert Wilonsky…
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s been very clear about this one thing: He desperately wants the district to win The Broad Prize for Urban Education, given out annually “to honor urban school districts making the greatest overall improvement in student achievement while at the same time reducing achievement…
Among the buildings on the city’s list of 36 buildings to be addressed this afternoon is one of the city’s most historic addresses: 508 Park Avenue, where, in June 1937, Robert Johnson, the subject of a new Vanity Fair story, recorded 13 of his immortal blues songs, among them “Hellhound…
Oh dear. Back on July 30 I was wrong. And never more right. It was during Cowboys’ training camp out in Oxnard that I took one look at Brad Johnson’s off-speed flutterballs and cringed at the thought of Tony Romo ever getting injured. But I surmised with the way Romo…
View Larger Map Two weeks ago, we posted to Unfair Park a list of some three dozen vacant buildings downtown, as identified by city economic development staffers. Mayor Tom Leppert told us in mid-September he was going to use every means available — including City Attorney Tom Perkins — to…
Sarah, left, and Amina, right, were sisters and best friends. Earlier this month, the FBI added Yaser Abdel Said to its list of “Featured Fugitives,” his crime: “UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION – CAPITAL MURDER – MULTIPLE.” No doubt you recall he’s accused of killing daughters Sarah and Amina, who…
Jerry Jones has yet to sell the naming rights for the Arlington EnormoDome — and, given the state of the economy, good luck with all that. Because the Dallas Cowboys’ owner is seeking a long-term, big-money commitment: $10 million a year, for at least a decade. But, notes The Wall…
Welcome to the party. Well, not exactly. But stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The player has been involved in three incidents with the police over the last 14 months, including marijuana found in his car and a murder suspect found in his home. The coach: “He’s a…
So much for banning the single-use plastic bag in Dallas. Apparently, that’s not the city council’s job — neither is taxing them, for that matter, which Seattle tried to do till the plastics industry gathered enough votes last month to call for a referendum. Nope, says council member Linda Koop:…
Not sure what to do on a lame Monday night? It’s cool, you can tell us. Well, thanks to a call from a little PR bird, we just got word that comedy man Dan Aykroyd will be holding court at Martini Park in Plano tonight from 8 to 11 in…
A Friend of Unfair Park, very new to town, asks this afternoon, “Who is Avi Adelman?” in response to this morning’s post, one of Avi’s least provocative works. Well, I guess this is the short answer; should take you a few days to meet and greet the Barking Dog-turned-filmmaker. Or…
A 2005 traffic accident in Dallas certainly has gotten a lot of national attention in recent months. That’s because In Re Volkswagen of America Inc. et al appears to be the case that will empty the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, heretofore known as…
I’m no psychologist, but I am an, um, Observer. And, I dunno what exactly, but something’s up with Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo. I mean, something other than a broken pinkie that will cause him to miss at least three games. (Wade Phillips says his quarterback won’t have surgery, and likened…
In case you missed it this a.m., David Flick had a piece in The News about Bingo Gossip and Missy Mouser, the 26-year-old one-woman show running the pub that caters to the 80-and-up crowd for whom the phrase “ball lifter” refers to “the mechanism used to raise the ball from…
Nathan Berg: UTD professor and protest singer We’ve mentioned University of Texas at Dallas associate economics professor Nathan Berg twice: in November of last year, when he co-authored the report Access to Grocery Stores and Food Security in Dallas for the J. McDonald Williams Institute; and in March of this…
So much for Shale.tv, which was to be the online “news” outlet for Chesapeake Energy starring, as you’ll no doubt recall, Tracy Rowlett, who left KTVT-Channel 11 for the venture. Notes the Fort Worth Business Press this afternoon: “Jerri Robbins, public relations manager, said the move comes in response the…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Fifteen minutes before it was scheduled to begin this morning, Dallas Independent School Board trustee Carla Ranger posted this notice to her Web site: Dallas ISD, community leaders and businesses will launch a massive effort to help hundreds of teachers and other staff released…
