A former court reporter sued Judge Sally Montgomery this week, claiming that Montgomery wrongfully fired her from her seven-year job at County Court at Law No. 3. Lawyers for Cayce Coskey claim that Montgomery, rated in February by the Texas Observer as the second-worst judge in Texas, fired Coskey on…
George who?: I once saw George W. Bush choke Randy Galloway. It was several years ago, when Galloway was still scribbling for The Dallas Morning News. They were in the press box at the stadium formerly known as the Ballpark in Arlington, and the Rangers, the team Bush once barely…
The Creepy Crawlies Slithering down my back: I am ecstatic! I have been researching Morgellons Disease for over a year now, trying to find some sort of explanation. My first encounter with a symptom was in my home. Just out of the shower I felt a strong slither down my…
Roberto Gomez needed a fix. He had loaded up a speedball, two parts heroin and one part cocaine, a ritual he repeated religiously three times daily. In this instance, he had cut the timing a little too close. “My hands were shaking so bad I couldn’t control the needle at…
� Danny Moloshok/Blue Pixel for MBP 2006 If we wanted our rock stars to be boring, Patrice, we’d listen to Radiohead. Last night’s Rock Star: Supernova was a lesson in feisty dialogue with co-host Dave Navarro. The guy was definitely showing some post-break-up angst when he exchanged his usual sticky-sweet…
If you like good kids’ movies and free stuff, you may wanna see The Ant Bully on Saturday. Just sayin’. I just got back from interviewing John A. Davis, the writer-director of the animated gem The Ant Bully, which opens Friday and is reviewed in the paper version of Unfair…
Signed up for Eisley’s e-mail/MySpace list? Yeah, I’m not, either; the Dupree siblings’ father, Boyd, kinda rambles in his updates about the band of Tyler super-teens, and there isn’t much in Eisley world to report lately, other than songwriting and preparation for their next record. Well, until today, anyway: Check…
UNT journalism professor Jim Mueller’s new book deals with the days when Dubya was an owner of the Texas Rangers–ya ‘member, the good ol’ days. Jim Mueller, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of North Texas, recently found out how you wake up a classroom of 300 sleepy…
Back in the late 1980s, I wrote magazine stories about crimes, murders mostly. Grisly murders where one spouse kills another in a way that leaves scorch marks on the garage floor or bloodstains splashed across the kitchen ceiling. I sometimes interviewed the accused, giving me access to county and state…
Today did not dawn pretty for you traditionalists. That is, if there are any of you left. First, Fort Worth’s tradition-saturated Colonial golf tournament has sold out and partnered with something called the Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resort, rendering the grand ol’ golfing get-together as faceless and bland as any…
A New York company claims it’s selling, for $6 million, the guitar Robert Johnson’s holding in this legendary picture of one of music’s most influential writers and performers. There is a company in Washingtonville, New York, called Moments In Time Manuscripts Inc. that sells rare artifacts–among them, oh, a letter…
Sweet Greggo: This is the man with whom I will be spending five hours this afternoon on The Ticket. I could not be more excited. Seriously. Today might prove a lighter-than-usual day on Unfair Park–gotta prep for my afternoon gig, dig? From 3 to 7 p.m. today, I’ll be riding…
Many of the folks who washed up in Reunion Arena after Hurricane Katrina could wind up displaced again. Hurricane Katrina displaced them once, now a failure to send in the proper paperwork could force thousands of evacuee families living in Texas to move again. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said…
About 30 minutes ago, Rod Dreher posted this item to Dallas Morning Views, the editorial board blog for Dallas’ Only Daily: “Murray: NCLB doesn’t work In today’s Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray writes that No Child Left Behind doesn’t work, and the Texas education statistics President Bush uses to extol…
A scene from John Carstarphen’s Panic Time, which debuts tonight for free at the Inwood Theater Old Friend of Unfair Park John Carstarphen, whose 1995 debut Stealin’ Home was a fave of former DO’er Matt Zoller Seitz’s way back when (“a funky, frenetic, upbeat piece of African-Americana!”), debuts his new…
Lorlee Bartos was outta town last week when we posted our follow-up to our follow-up to our November story about the money pit that is the Bama Pie Co. building in Fair Park. But Bartos, a former board member of the city’s Community Development Commission, has something to add to…
Maple Terrace “is dead.” Said so in The Dallas Morning News: “Trammell Crow Co. has halted efforts to construct condominiums in Dallas’ historic Maple Terrace building and develop an adjoining high-rise because sales did not meet expectations.” This will not come as a shock to, oh, Andrea Grimes, who was…
Luke Wilson needs a stunt butt. Jessica Alba, probably not. Don’t get too excited–he’s just talking about his own tuchus and how outta-shape it’s gotten and why, for My Super Ex-Girlfriend, he needed a booty double. Fact is, he got to pick his own butt double (henh). No word on…
Tom Fleming will open his new restaurant in the Hotel Palomar, which, for the moment, doesn’t look anywhere as nice (or as small) as this drawing. Chef Tom Fleming (Lombardi Mare, Lobster Ranch, Pappas Bros., etc.) is in fit kitchen-whip trim. He’s ready to launch Central 214, the new regional…
Better late than never: Adam Eaton, acquired from San Diego in the offseason, finally pitches for Your Texas Rangers tonight against the Yanks. In between booing the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez tonight at Ameriquest Field, take a gander at the pitcher on the mound for your Texas Rangers. It’ll…
If you’re staying at one of the six area Candlewood Suites extended-stay hotels in coming weeks and find yourself with time on your hands, here’s an intriguing option that doesn’t include asking for the nearest mall, restaurant or movie theater. Starting last weekend, some 100 Candlewood Suites employees and guests…
Life Science Weekly has a piece this morning about what sounds like the world’s biggest no-brainer: professors at UT Southwestern teaching “medical Spanish.” According to the piece, which is available in full only through a subscription, UT Southwestern’s Allied Health Sciences school has the only “required, multisemester, linguist-taught medical Spanish…
