How often do federal appeals judges wade into the petty internecine struggles of high-school cheerleaders and their meddling mothers? We’re going to go out on a limb and say it’s rare. Rare and, when it does occur, deeply entertaining. In a recent decision, the stately jurists of the U.S. Court…
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on September 15, 2001, while working in southeast Dallas local convenience store; and Vasudev Patel, an Indian Hindu…
The Dallas Independent School District, currently without a superintendent, is now without a chief academic officer — and only 13 months after Ivonne Durant was bumped up from Northwest Learning Community supervisor to that particular title under then-Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. DISD just posted to its Facebook page her adios, given…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to read the entirety of the flier handed out yesterday at the “Justice for John” rally, so I’ve scanned it and put the whole thing after the jump — where you’ll also find the envelope given out shortly before Michael Eric Dyson began…
A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Central Market following February’s Chapter 11 filing. I was reminded of this…
Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy directs our attention to this University of California Berkeley look-see at the resiliency of the major metros in the U.S. And by “resiliency,” researchers are referring to a dozen indicators (among them: economic diversification, business environment, civic infrastructure, voter participation, the number of resident living in poverty)…
From the Rangers: Nolan Ryan was hospitalized in Houston after experiencing discomfort early Sunday morning at his home in Georgetown, Texas. Mr. Ryan will undergo tests on Monday for what is believed to be a recurrence of the heart condition which he has previously experienced. Mr. Ryan is resting comfortably and…
Nolan Ryan has been hospitalized for chest pains in the past: In 2000, he underwent emergency double-bypass surgery, then returned to the hospital in October of that year following another scare. This, say the Texas Rangers in a statement just sent to media, is what may have landed the team’s…
Woke up rooting for America Sunday morning. Phil Mickelson made a charge, Dustin Johnson was in the hunt and it looked like a U.S. golfer would steal the Claret Jug at the British Open. I was rooting for America after lunch, too. Abby Wambach scored late and it looked like…
Yesterday’s “Justice for John” event at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of “John! John! John!” before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defense…
Your Rangers have done what good, potentially great teams do: Beat shitty opponents. When the Rangers begin their series in Anaheim against the second-place Angels Tuesday night, it will be their first opponent with a winning record in a month. Amazing. Since playing the Braves in Atlanta on June 19, the Rangers’ last 23…
In Sunday’s Dallas Morning News, reporter Brendan Case took a stab at explaining what, besides the state’s generally business-friendly policies, has helped Texas produce such a relative bounty of jobs of late. The state has added a million jobs in the last decade, Case reports. The country lost a million…
Fans of the Dallas garage-rock scene of the 1960s speak with reverence of a few tracks, among them Mouse and the Traps’s “Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice,” the Five Americans’ “I See the Light,” the The Esquires’ “Come On, Come On” (which had all but been forgotten when I…
Dallas City Council remains on vacation till August (well, not everyone), but City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff remain at work needing to trim $20 million more out of the FY2011-12 budget to balance that sucker. Hence the memos sent to the council and mayor last night: One deals…
Seeing as how C.J. Ramone’s in town tonight, I’d hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password’s “gle-gle.blogspot.com,” if you’re so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in a…
Says here the the Forest Theater was built in ’47; my father, who grew up a few blocks over on Park Row, recalls how, in the mid-’50s, Shearith Israel used the movie theater for High Holiday services when they were finishing out the synagogue’s present-day location on Walnut Hill. But…
Shortly after the release of that Fort Worth air study, three reps from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality took a bit of a verbal beating last night from locals who told them, over and over and over again, that their agency is not sufficiently protecting the state’s air quality,…
Mohammed squatted atop a five-foot pile of mulch, his shovel jabbed into the chaff somewhere out in the snake-infested, cedar-scrubbed hill country southwest of Dallas. Sweat darkened his black Reebok shirt and soaked his ankle socks and his coal-black hair. He was taking a breather from a community service project…
Per the Dallas Police Department, the hold-up you see above was captured three nights ago and just two blocks from Unfair Park headquarters, along the 2700 block of Welborn near Oak Lawn and Maple. You know the drill by now: DPD needs help ID’ing the driver of the car seen…
If, by any chance, you spent the first few months of this year blowing lines in the bathroom of various clubs around town, there’s a decent chance the source of your cocaine was Christian “Cri Cri” Ocana, who the feds believe was running a Dallas off-shoot of a nationwide drug…
For those faithful few following the dramatic twists and turns in the Love Field concessions bidding process, you may recall that proposals were due Wednesday, following yet another extension given in June when prospective vendors had questions and concerns in need of answerin’. Well … at the beginning of this…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to GQ’s round-up of The 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, and if there’s one bit of good news, it’s this: Austin and Houston are just a wee bit fuglier, coming at No. 18 and No. 21, respectively, on a list where Dallas…
