As we noted last week, attorneys representing Tom Hicks in the U.K. were in court trying to get a judge there to overturn his ruling that keeps Hicks from suing in the U.S. over last October’s sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures. Hicks and his Dallas legal…
As promised, Roddy Beaubois did something amazing last night: He made us watch a mid-February Dallas Mavericks game against the lowly Sacramento Kings. And, unless you’re expectations were irrationally optimistic, he did not disappoint. In his first NBA game action since last April, the second-year guard scored 13 points, dished…
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark hasn’t officially opened yet on Broadway; due date’s still a month away. Still, it’s considered The Most Amazing, Spectacular Failure of All-Time — a horribly told, injury-plagued, critically despised mess of a musical laid at the feet of writers Julie Taymor (also the director) and…
Out of the hunt: So, District 14 council member Angela Hunt isn’t running for mayor. Guess that means we can still be nice to her for a while. It does seem a bit odd, though, that the popular, anti-establishment Hunt, widely considered to be a serious contender for the mayor’s…
Cliff Lee left. Zach Greinke never arrived. Neither Vladimir Guerrero nor Bengie Molina were invited back. But the biggest, most unlikely conundrum for your Texas Rangers this off-season: Michael Young is still here. That is, unless somebody misplaced the Claw or the Antlers, too? To say the least, this hasn’t…
Correction:”Come and Bake It” by Robb Walsh [February 10] originally repeated disparaging remarks about home bakeries that were incorrectly attributed to Lauren Kitchens of Fancy Cakes by Lauren in Dallas. Kitchens says she has always been a supporter of home bakeries.We regret the error._____________________ Erin Flynn is a pirate cake…
We knew Borders’ bankruptcy was coming; it wasn’t a particularly well-kept secret, either in the business pages or in the stores themselves, which long ago began pushing books off the shelves to make room for tchotchkes and trinkets that had nothing at all to do with, ya know, books. It’s…
As Sam pointed out in February 2007, when he covered Tom Leppert’s mayoral campaign kick-off at St. Philip’s School in South Dallas, Roger Staubach served as his campaign co-chair alongside Elaine Agather. But Staubach couldn’t make it four years back; he was “not in attendance.” He is expected at Dallas…
Today, of course, as we mentioned over the weekend, marks a fair-sized milestone in the city’s rich and storied tradition of urban plan unveilings, with a two-part ceremonial drop of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan. In keeping with the public-private partnership-ness of the whole thing, the good folks at MIG,…
A month ago, Robert offered a lamentation for what’s become of this Borders in Preston Royal, where the kids books had been replaced by board games, the music section was two CD bins, and an entire wall had succumbed to an especially invasive strain of Decision Points. Today, though, along…
From the day the Nasher Sculpture Center first opened its doors in October 2003, until 11 a.m. this morning, just under one million people had walked through its gates — 104 less than a million, in fact. As students from Stonewall Jackson Elementary filed in this morning, though, the museum…
Regular Unfair Park contributor and not-so-long-ago photo intern Danny Fulgencio was passing through the town of Bowie last weekend, on his way back from a shoot, when he spotted some smoke on the horizon.When he pulled closer, he found a few of the town’s volunteer fire fighters tending to a…
A week ago, we mentioned that Denton lawyer Evan Stone (not to be confused with, you know, Evan Stone) had run afoul of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Citizen in his case against hundreds of anonymous folks — known only by their IP addresses — for illegally downloading the…
10. Pitchers and catchers report today. Means backyard pool parties and bikinis can’t be far behind. 9. Whatever happens the first week of camp, it can’t be more shocking than a year ago when manager Ron Washington announced that he had snorted cocaine the previous season. 8. Last year’s motto: It’s Time!…
Last time we saw Roddy Beaubois, we didn’t see nearly enough. After a sporadic rookie season highlighted by a 40-point game against the Golden State Warriors last March, the cat-quick combo guard almost single-handedly rallied the Dallas Mavericks to a win in Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference first-round…
When we stopped by the Elections Department Friday afternoon to speak with newly appointed Elections Administrator Toni Pippens-Poole, something odd happened. As we’ve done numerous times before, we pulled the campaign finance reports for all five members of the commissioners court and the district attorney. And, as we’ve done plenty…
Every so often, Friends of Unfair Park send in e-mails full of questions to which we only wish we knew the answers. And I’ll send those queries to the experts. So, this morning, we tackle two topics pulled at random from the grab bag. First up …Friend of Unfair Park…
A couple of weeks back, ABC-TV publicist Erin Felentzer, who handles the network’s drama schedule, told us she wasn’t sure where Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches would shoot. She also said it wasn’t getting a full-blown tryout, only a presentation…
It’s probably not the most surprising press release of the week: “Dallas Police Association PAC Unanimously Votes to Support Ron Natinsky For Dallas Mayor.” After all, as we noted way back in September 2004 — two months into David Kunkle’s tenure as Dallas Police Department chief — Kunkle and Glenn…
A certain chief arborist for the city reminds: We’ve yet to mention today’s Official Release of the Texas Legislative Study Group’s annual Texas on the Brink report, which offers a harsh look at the state of the state. Emily Ramshaw sums up (and mentions the House of Representatives’ caucus, of…
While Republican Tom Leppert hasn’t exactly been coy about his plans to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Representative David Dreier confirmed Leppert’s intentions late last night. He told the Forum, Claremont McKenna College’s newspaper, that a fellow CMC…
Whether her name is Irina Shayk or Iwanna Shake, we’ve fallen for it again. Every year I hear the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is about to hit stands and my initial reaction is to yawn. We don’t have harsh winters in Dallas plus, don’t know if you’ve heard, but you can…
