Yesterday we linked to the Daily Campus story concerning the increase in sexual assaults on the SMU campus in 2006 — and how school officials did nothing to notify students, parents and faculty members that 13 women had been raped on campus during the school year. Well, late yesterday we…
Outside the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees meeting last night, more than a dozen protesters carried signs decrying the $1.35-billion bond proposal and DISD leadership. “F! The sign speaks for itself,” said Pete Peterson, pictured above. “The audit doesn’t look good for the district, and that doesn’t look…
“Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch,” by Glenna Whitley, April 10 Dr. Personality I’m 29 years old, working as a chef and bartender, loving life and experiencing all the fabulousness of being a single professional in Dallas. I am able to say this, in large…
The supportive mid-season shirt: “Avery’s Team.” The distressed post-season edict: “Avery’s Time.” It’s time. Time for Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson to deliver. Time for his precious system and his hand-picked players to win a championship, a series or, at this point, a couple of playoff road games. Time…
Logo jam: At last…at last we can see some real progress in the Trinity River Project, that ambitious $800 kabillion—give or take a few kabillion—plan, approved in 1937, to turn the Trinity near downtown from a muddy, levee-lined ditch into a muddy, levee-lined ditch bordered by a toll road. So…
Chris Epp walked onto Stevens Park Golf Course in West Oak Cliff nearly a year ago for a day of golf with his co-workers. Although their visit was for pleasure, Epp couldn’t help but notice a business opportunity lurking ahead. “On the first hole, I looked up, and there was…
Sick of political blogs? Too bad! The 2008 campaign is unavoidable; if you know what superdelegates are, or who said “God damn America,” you’re already a victim. Thanks to the curse of modern technology, you’ll be hearing what top Internet buffoons are saying about the candidates—whether you want to or…
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bobby … Patterson at the Dallas Observer Music Awards last year, with Shibboleth as his backing band This is a very special treat, exclusively for the Friends of Unfair Park: A few days ago, Shibboleth’s Don Cento shot me a few demos Shibboleth and some Very…
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that for the second time this week the Rangers got tattooed before you took your afternoon smoke break. Today it was a tidy 8-2 ditty in Detroit, during which Rangers pitchers surrendered five walks and five homers and Rangers hitters produced 10 strikeouts…
In case you were looking for him — and we weren’t, maybe that was BeloWatch — Burl Osborne has resurfaced. You ‘member him — former publisher and editor of The Dallas Morning News? Turns out, he’s now chairing the “editorial oversight board” of something called CleanSkies.tv, which right now appears…
Courtesy the Associated Press today, another reason why you picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue: The Federal Aviation Administration is trying for a second time in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations. FAA chief operating officer Hank Krakowski said Thursday…
You did know FC Dallas was undefeated, no? Well, then, there ya go. Brought to you by the good folks who sometimes give you Monday Morning Meanderings: As noted this a.m., The Cowboys finally acquired Adam “Pacman” Jones for a fourth-round draft choice. Bitch and moan all you want about…
Angela Hunt doesn’t know “if this meets the cool quotient that is required of Unfair Park posts,” and I will take that as a shot. But, really, we’re all for things like the forthcoming citywide “Trash Attack and Graffiti Wipeout,” set for May 3 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at…
A Friend of Unfair Park who works at SMU sends along a piece published today in the Daily Campus that bears a most troubling headline: “Rapes rose 333 percent in 2006,” meaning, of course, on the university’s University Park campus. Even more troubling is the fact that university officials “never…
KARE-TV Caught on tape, a man is mugged during a seizure in downtown Dallas. Do not be surprised if this downtown Dallas crime story begins to sweep the nation — hell, it’s already up on a Minnesota NBC affiliate’s Web site. It’s a crime made for TV: Just before midnight…
One of the first rules of the movie business is: Make sure you aren’t, ah, borrowing someone else’s work in order to finish yours. It’s called a “rights clearance,” and, yup, it’s frustrating and financially debilitating, but it’s also a necessary evil — no matter how many times you claim…
In The Tennessean this a.m., they’re bidding good riddance to one Adam “Pacman” Jones — “the biggest mistake in franchise history,” though of which franchise do they write, the Tennessee Titans or the Dallas Cowboys? Because late yesterday evening, word came down that Dallas had, at last, traded for the…
It’s a famous passage in Scripture, the story of the woman caught in adultery. The Pharisees and religious leaders have dragged her before Jesus in an attempt to trap him, and they ask if she should be stoned to death, in accordance with the law of Moses. The Bible notes…
Hey, lookie, I got an e-mail from Dallas Morning News City Hall reporter Dave Levinthal! Alas, nothing too sexy — just a note that “today, The Dallas Morning News launched a blog focused on Dallas City Hall and area political issues.” And it’s blessed with the catchiest of monikers: Dallas…
TomLeppert.com Apropos of nothing, here’s our newest favorite photo of the mayor, with his newest lil’ buddy, Andy Hardy. As Schutze mentioned earlier, the non-vote on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board appointment highlighted the craziness at today’s city council meeting. The other big item of the day was a…
Luis Galvan Mexican President Felipe Calderón finished his test before Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert yesterday, while the rest of the class was ordered to put their heads on their desks. Hundreds of Mexican ex-pats from across the U.S. gathered yesterday at the Renaissance Hotel to see President Felipe Calderón kick…
No, Evan Smith, “exonerated” is not “too strong a word” when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn’t guilty of the crime for which he’d been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor…
