Eric Kruger, the brother of singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq last week. A Friend of Unfair Park who introduced us years ago to 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards-winner Kristy Kruger sends sad news. Kruger, who took the trophy for Best Female Singer, posted on…
If you go see the Dixie Chicks doc Shut Up & Sing, which opens tomorrow, and come away thinking, “I’d really like to see less of the band and more of the protestors,” well, we have a movie for you. It’s called Protesting the Dixie Chicks, and, if nothing else,…
Not that Mavs owner Mark Cuban is criticizing our fair medium; it’s just that “newspapers don’t see their own value,” which is a point well taken. So that doesn’t stop Cuban from touting The Dallas Morning News in the latest issue of Esquire, in which Cuban shares “What I’ve Learned”…
Yesterday, Our Man Matt Pulle attended the Dallas County Democratic Party’s victory press conference, during which many of the local Dems paraded up to the podium to offer, well, not terribly much. But, hey, you don’t wanna blow it your first day; really, give them a week before they self-destruct,…
Judge Keith Dean, who gave a pot-smoker life and let a murderer walk, was voted off the bench Tuesday. 20/20 is kinda taking the credit for that one. Dunno if you saw this last week, but during 20/20’s special report on “Privilege in America” last week, it included a piece…
Brace yourself, Tony Romo also has a publicist. But unlike Li’l Kim Etheredge, Terrell Owens’ monstrosity of a mouthpiece, Vivian Fullerlove doesn’t smack her gum, use her client’s salary as a grossly misguided punch line or, from all indications, get her hair did at Salon de Katrina. In fact, Fullerlove…
Something wasn’t right. Jack Cox could feel that in his gut. The seal on the trailer had been broken. The trailer’s identification number had been painted over. And now the trucker didn’t want to get out of the cab. Cox stood behind the spotlight mounted on his squad car and…
In December 2004, Roy Combs, a career criminal who ran a South Dallas car lot, was named as one of 23 members of a criminal organization that smuggled hundreds of pounds of cocaine each month from Mexico to Dallas and beyond, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Ohio. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
Hardball: First, one of their players threw a folding chair that hit Craig Bueno’s wife in the face and broke her nose at an Oakland A’s game two years ago. Now the Texas Rangers are throwing mud at A’s fan and heckler extraordinaire Bueno in a San Francisco Bay Area…
Lowest of the Low Safer on the South Side: It is hard for me to be objective about any article concerning Lower Greenville (“Sin City,” by Andrea Grimes, November 2) where Poor David’s Pub spent 21 of its almost 30 years. Still, your article nailed the majority of the reasons…
Toby Shook isn’t gonna be Dallas County District Attorney, but that doesn’t mean Craig Watkins is ready to get rid of his former opponent. Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins didn’t exactly ease concerns that he wasn’t quite up for the job during the Dallas County Democratic Party victory press…
Mark Graham Craig Watkins is the new Dallas County District Attorney. You think you’re shocked, imagine how Toby Shook feels. People are walking around like zombies at Dallas County courthouses today as incumbent judges who looked invincible last week began contemplating the prospect of looking for new jobs in the…
A lawsuit stemming from this ugly incident in Oakland in 2004 is so nasty it makes this photo of the brawl look almost quaint. This almost unbelievable item comes to Unfair Park courtesy our sister paper in Oakland, the East Bay Express, which today breaks the news that a lawsuit…
Yeah, because when you think of soccer, you think of The Polyphonic Spree. They could field a couple of teams, at least. We’ll get back to election news in a moment, but we did want to mention a note we received from Major League Soccer last night. Looks like hometowners…
I see the city has OK’d a $30,000 study to “investigate options for covering the Cotton Bowl with a permanent roof or something semi-permanent, such as an inflatable, retractable or removable dome.” Lemme say it before Darrell Jordan does: Are you fucking kidding me? –Robert Wilonsky…
Here’s your new Secretary of Defense, Texas A&M president Robert Gates. Gig ’em. You might wanna turn on your TV right now: President George W. Bush is yelling at reporters, to whom he just said Donald Rumsfeld is out as Secretary of Defense. In is Robert Gates, former National Security…
The election results are a big smack upside the head to American evangelicals–a firm rebuke. Don’t explain them away or blame them on gays, the media and godless liberals. Yes, Ted Haggard had something to do with it. Maybe a lot to do with it. Most of all, he exposed…
So, it’s pretty much a consensus: We all hate to see Margaret Keliher go. But, seriously…Mayor Keliher? C’mon. Of all the elections in Dallas County last night, no race was as shocking as Jim Foster’s upset of Republican County Judge Margaret Keliher. Craig Watkins surprise defeat of Republican Toby Shook…
Never you mind the quality of this screen grab. But this is how The Daily Show last night broke the news that Chris Bell (and Kinky Friedman and Carole Straylander Keehorn Jingleheimer Schmidt) had lost to incumbent Governor Rick Perry. The GOP’s mascot trundled across the screen and took a…
Margaret Keliher didn’t lose. Her party did. Straight-ticket voters did the judge, and the county, no favors. Margaret Keliher loses? Craig Watkins wins? And Kinky’s on a book tour starting next week pimping his Christmas Pig booklet. One of those I coulda predicted. Guess that Lupe Valdez thing wasn’t a…
Doyle Davidson could just love a girl to death, judging by the postings on his Web site. And we mean that in a non-judgmental, totally not at all litigious way. In May we wrote about Doyle Davidson–you remember, don’t ya? Ever since then we’ve been documenting his online letter-writing campaign,…
We assume the kids’ll pay tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson during their local-music trib. If not, at least throw in some Vanilla Ice, ice, baby. I’m pretty sure we thought of this first, but never mind that. We’re thrilled nonetheless by the e-mail we received a few moments ago from…
