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I just checked in with Brooks Love, the city’s election manager, who reports he has yet to actually receive Darrell Jordan’s campaign finance report, which is due today; when it shows, we’ll grab a copy and see who’s betting $200,000-plus on the local lawyer, per Pat Cotton’s press release this…

At least, that’s what Darrell Jordan and his people are saying this morning–probably said it yesterday and gonna say it tomorrow too, only they weren’t issuing a press release touting his bulging campaign finance report as proof that he’s the “leading candidate in the May 2007 Dallas mayoral election.” Which…

You know you can’t fight the feeling that you need to get down to Lancaster this weekend to see some boxing. Last summer Paul Kix wrote about the rise and fall of the Oak Cliff Boxing Club, which at one point had more than 100 young prospects, a handful of…

A Friend of Unfair Park’s spent Wednesday at the Bass Concert Hall with the rest of DFW trying to be a millionaire. Good luck with all that. Just when I thought I was the most annoying triviot in the DFW, the good people at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire…

We took this bloody photo from The Ticket’s Web site, where there are dozens more photos available from last night’s Fight Night. The men and women who duked it out at last night’s KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket)’s Fight Night didn’t do it for charity. No noble cause loomed over the…

Have trouble finding a Dunkin’ Donuts in Dallas. Give it a while. You’re about to see one on every block. Oh. Joy. In its effort to take down Starbucks as the nation’s provider of overpriced coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts has decided to expand from 4,400 to 15,000 stores across the U.S.,…

Yeah, you try schlepping one of these back and forth to elementary school every day. Not fun. It has not been a good July for Brook Mays Music Co. A week ago, news broke that the Dallas-based institution, which has sold or leased a musical instrument to pretty much every…

In three years, more or less, you might be able to ski Dallas. I know, ridiculous. And also awesome. Don’t forget awesome. The latest issues of The Economist wonders whether Dallas (and Charlotte, whatever) isn’t trying to keep pace with Dubai–“home of desert skiing, the world’s only seven-star hotel and…

You likes? This is Jennifer Morgan’s “Flora & Fawna,” among the pieces on display tonight. But it’ll be, like, bigger and stuff. Look, way we see it you have two options tonight: Stay at home and watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one of the last good sitcoms left on…

David Kunkle is the most popular police chief in America today–and in London tomorrow. Or something like that. Tomorrow, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle leaves for London as part of an FBI program that allows big-city chiefs from all over the country to train with and learn from their counterparts…

Seems our posts about pro bono attorneyin’ in Dallas have some Friends of Unfair Park worked up. A medicine-practicing Friend of Unfair Park would like to answer attorney Bill Holston’s question, which was, “What other profession makes an organized effort to provide free services to the poor?” In short, says…

Kevin Sullivan is probably the first guy to go from doing P.R. for a basketball team to doing it for a president. That’s just a wild guess. And, yes, he knows he looks like actor Oliver Platt. On June 21, Kevin Sullivan was in a meeting about education—most likely, since…

Dallas hotel property taxes are up. Waaaay up. Just sayin’. Interesting story in today’s USA Today about the rise in hotel property taxes across the country–and how Dallas is way above the national average. That’s what PKF Consulting, an Atlanta-based company that keeps tabs on the hospitality biz, says and…

Ron Price is fond of speaking in clichés, using phrases like “that dog won’t hunt” as if he were punctuating a closing argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. So it’s fitting that when trying to describe the plight of the veteran school board member whose political future has dimmed over…

For 16 years, the case of Charles Coulston gathered little but dust. No new leads. No new suspects. Nothing. Investigators didn’t have much to work with. Coulston had been killed in a rock pit near New Hope, a small town on the rural outskirts of Collin County. From the jagged…

When Mayor Laura Miller announced last week she’d decided not to run for mayor for a third time–because she’s “desperate to be with [her] kids”–something about it struck us as awfully familiar. It wasn’t because hers was the well-worn retirement speech given by everyone who chooses to step out of…

Four years ago, in the story “Sweetheart Deal” by Rose Farley and Thomas Korosec (April 25, 2002), the Dallas Observer reported that Virginia McGuire, daughter of former Speaker of the U.S. House Jim Wright, bought an apartment complex near White Rock Lake with the intention of turning it into affordable…

Own Goal No score, what a bore: Man, I must say you take the prize as idiot writer of the year. First of all, it’s very apparent you have no understanding of soccer (“Nil Appeal,” by Richie Whitt, July 6) or must not like any sports at all, for that…

This guy used to work for the Dallas Mavericks. Now he works for President Bush. Hunh. File this under Holy Crap, You Cannot Be Serious: Yesterday, President Bush appointed Kevin Sullivan as White House communications director, after Sullivan spent a year as an assistant secretary of communications for the Department…