I just had the pleasure of re-reading Jimmy Fowler’s 1997 feature on Gretchen and Julia Dyer, who, long, long ago, took their movie Late Bloomers to Sundance, where it garnered raves and, finally, national distribution. I was reminded of it after reading a piece in Variety about The Playroom, which…
Marshawn Lynch’s amazing touchdown run last weekend got me to thinking about the best runs I’ve seen by a Dallas Cowboy. I found three, by three very different running backs. (Though none of them tops Earl Campbell’s doozy.)…
Robert already alerted us to that item on tomorrow’s council agenda regarding XTO Energy’s proposal to drill at two of the sites it leased from the city back in 2007 — along with the newsworthy note that city staff in Sustainable Development and Construction recommended approving the applications, cutting against…
After a Friend of Unfair Park directed my attention to the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum chitchat about Nike’s Victory set-up, I spent a little more time cruising around the forum — always good for a revelation or 12. There, I discovered a rendering of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park…
A Dallas Police Department officer filed suit last week against Taser International, alleging that during training exercises, he was Tased to the point of breaking his back. According to court documents, Andrew Keith Butler received a five-second Tasing from the electronic stun guns during a January 2009 training session, and…
From John Kramer at the Institute for Justice — and it’s funny, I was just staring down the barrel of my “Litigating for Liberty” hip flask — comes the story of Dallas tech entrepreneur Thane Hayhurst, the “entrepreneurially driven David,” and his battle against heavy-handed innovation-stifling regulations from the “government…
No doubt you’re well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, likely after leaving a Maple Avenue club, where he was visiting…
Texas Rangers – Jim Thome. The left-handed slugging free agent would, I assume, join Michael Young for a righty-lefty platoon designated hitter. I know Thome is a sexy name with some pop left in his bat, just not real sure where he fits in. Dallas Mavericks – Dirk Nowitzki. The signing…
Take a moment and peruse the apps listed at CivicApps, a competition launched by the city of Portland last year for which cash prizes were handed out in such categories as Most Useful, Best Use of Data and Most Original. Portland’s hardly the only city using apps to make city…
It’s been a rough, off-road kind of journey through the courts for helmet-free bicyclists’ rights activist Paul Woodfield, who, you surely recall, has spent years fighting the constitutionality of the city’s law requiring bike helmets. When we last checked in with him back in August, he’d just seen his federal…
Back to the Dallas Independent School District trustees’ to-do list for Thursday …Like I said, lots of interesting stuff there, beginning at the top of the briefing agenda: “Discussion of 2010-2011 Repurposing Plans for Academically Unacceptable (AU4) Schools.” That AU4 refers to schools that have been on the academically unacceptable…
10. Cam Newton = Overrated. I take it back. He ain’t better than Vince Young was at Texas. 9. Sure he’s corny at times, but I love me some “Big Game” Brent Musburger. 8. Props to Auburn coach Gene Chizik for running a play to wind the clock down and…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends along a video presently making the rounds in which Red Oak’s own Cindy Jacobs, self-proclaimed “respected prophet,” says there’s a very good explanation for why those 5,000 birds died in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. And, no, it had nothing to do with…
First thing this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to a chat, with photos, currently taking place over at the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum, where posters are trying to decide of this new venue in the old Boardroom spot: permanent or temporary? One DFWUF’er said wrote…
Back in August, Doug Adams rather hastily existed his position as president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. At the time, the DSO announced that chief operating officer Paul Stewart would assume the position of president. But no one was named CEO, a position that remains vacant for now…
Don’t get defensive. That’s just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America’s Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six “key indicators of literacy,” including the newspaper…
Lots of interesting items to be found on the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ briefing agenda for Thursday, and we’ll get to ’em in short order — which is to say, in the order the phone calls are returned on the myriad subjects of interest. But let’s begin…
Last we checked in with the Jubilee Parkers fighting the Dallas Independent School District’s attempt to snatch up their homes to make room for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary building, the controversy looked to be finished. State Rep. Eric Johnson intervened on the residents’ behalf, you’ll recall, and shortly thereafter,…
Carmelo Anthony Sasha Pavlovic. The former first-round draft pick of the Utah Jazz is far from the answer for the reeling Dallas Mavericks. He’ll likely just get a shot via a 10-day contract after the team last week cut role player Steve Novak. Word today is that if the New Jersey…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is slowly but surely doling out those permits to retailers who want to sell beer and wine in the previously dry parts of Dallas (though none have been issued in the last few days). The lawsuit filed by the parties opposed to the citywide off-premise…
A year ago I was correctly predicting Alabama over Texas in college football’s national championship game. In tonight’s Oregon-Auburn clash my heart says Ducks but my head says no way the Tigers don’t prevail. Why? 10. Oregon usually wins with its speed, but no conference is faster and more athletic than the SEC. 9…
The two boys you see at top are Morris and Louis Shuman in a photo taken on a downtown Dallas street corner in October 1913. Morris is on the left; he was 12 at the time. Louis, his brother, was 7. Maybe you recognize it: It first appeared on Unfair…
