Squint real hard and see the similarities. At long last, the ’70s are back. Women are again wearing Halston. Television viewers are glued to CBS’ hit Swingtown. Two movies founded on the old decade’s staples of Star Wars and ABBA – The Clone Wars and Mamma Mia – were among…
Just a few months after we launched Unfair Park, we profiled Dallas public defender Mike Howard, then running the tell-all site Wretched of the Earth, on which he’d write about counseling the indigent on the county’s dime. But Howard yesterday sent out a virtual change-of-address notice: He has left the…
Sure, it’s a day-off Monday, but that doesn’t mean we can’t kick off the week with an Avi Adelman Production. Because, sure enough, the Antoine Fuqua of Lower Greenville was yet again stalking the mean streets with his trusty video camera to prove that nothing good ever happens after 2…
National Weather Service About an hour ago, city officials gave local media members a tour of the Dallas Convention Center, in which Dallas expects to hold folks fleeing Hurricane Gustav, which is close to reaching Category 5 status as it approaches the Louisiana coastline. Only, the city keeps insisting in…
Before we scoot for the long holiday weekend, during which we’ll likely post an item just because, we snagged that Lily Tomlin public service announcement for sharing. And, sure, while we’re all suffering Jenny fatigue — though Pete promises something mighty special next week having to do with “Jenny’s Song”…
I’m wearing mine right now — a little uncomfortable but otherwise manageable. For those desiring other, safer options — a hat, say, or a saddle bag or just a plain old white tee — they’re available here at The Nice Price. Note to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: Fund-raiser? Better than a…
So, back to the Texas Horse Park, Inc. and its funds, or lack thereof, for just a moment before this long holiday weekend. Willis Winters, assistant director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, tells Unfair Park he does not know the amount that THPI has raised and says it…
Which is to say: “A resident of east Dallas has become the season’s first victim of mosquito carried West Nile Virus.” That’s according to the City of Dallas media release that just dropped in our in-box in advance of an extensive mosquito spray-down scheduled for Tuesday night beginning at 10…
Anne Raymond Harlan Crow, owner of the Hilton Anatole and longtime critic of a publicly owned convention center hotel, upped the ante Wednesday afternoon in his quest to kill the project. Turns out, he’s spearheading a political action committee called Citizens Against a Taxpayer Owned Hotel, which was formed by…
Say this for Lily Tomlin: She does not screw around. One month after she sent Mayor Tom Leppert a missive begging the Dallas Zoo to ship Jenny (who, I believe, is an elephant of some kind) to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and two weeks after talking to Unfair Park…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Took a while to find a Dallas connection to John McCain’s freshly announced running mate, first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but, bless The Wall Street Journal, there it is at the very bottom of a lengthy, just-posted profile: Gov. Palin’s judgment was called into question by…
Mark Graham John Goodman Couple of years back in the paper version of Unfair Park, we profiled National Center for Policy Analysis boss man John Goodman, who was in the news at the time for firing Bruce Bartlett — a longtime Republican who’d been critical in the press and in…
If you have a Hitachi 50V500A rear-projection LCD TV and think it’s nothing more than a $3,500 hunk o’ junk, you’re not alone. The Interwebs are littered with complaints concerning the set, which went on sale about four years back. Most have to do with mutli-colored “stain-like” spots that look…
Four days into the new school year we finally got to spend time with the boy’s terrific, beloved, 31-year-vet homeroom teacher — very exciting stuff, especially when I discovered I could still sit in a kindergartener’s plastic seat without collapsing it. Before that, though, the principal — an ebullient, sincere…
The man. It’s over. The Cowboys’ preseason, that is, signaled by last night’s ho-hum victory over the Vikings. And the drama, climaxed when Pacman Jones was officially reinstated yesterday while eating a chicken sandwich and no doubt quenching his insatiable hunger for orange short shorts and legal cleavage at this…
Morrey Taylor Hammer and his hankie I know Richie mentioned it yesterday, but the official media release just arrived in our in-box, and no better time than now to share it: “Greg Williams to Join 103.3 ESPN.” He starts September 8 and will hold down the 7-10 p.m. slot with…
The press release from ESPN Radio, hot off the presses: Arlington, TX – High profile Dallas / Ft. Worth sports-radio personality Greg Williams will join RJ Choppy to co-host 103.3 ESPN Radio’s new evening (7 p.m.-10 p.m.) show beginning September 8. Williams has spent more than two decades on Dallas’…
Whitney Lawson George Steel There’s been more ink spilled on Dallas Opera in the last two weeks than since 1995, when the paper version of Unfair Park weighed in on the beloved institution with a 5,500-word opus. Today, New York gets into the mix on its weekly “Approval Matrix,” which…
I’d totally kick these dude’s asses. If I was 20 years younger and 20 pounds lighter. Turned 44 over the summer. After spending a day shopping with the wife over the weekend I feel 84. I needed some new jeans. (Hey, it’s been five years. Even the most stubborn amongst…
Say what you will about Avi Adelman, but far as one employee at the Kroger’s on Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue is concerned, the man is a bona fide hero. Guess it’s what happens when you grow up the son of grocers, as the Barking Dog did. Jump for the…
National Weather Service Tuesday is a long way off, but already some folks are headed back to Dallas from New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Gustav’s expected landfall in Louisiana, possibly as a Category 3 storm. So it seems, at least, from the news and notes references scattered about this…
So, yeah, that race for Dallas County Sheriff isn’t going to be interesting at all. Just one week after the Dallas County Republican party posted a video in which a chicken taunts Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s supporters in front of a fund-raiser, a Friend of Unfair Park sends word there’s now…
