Back in September, we pointed out what a busy summer it’d been for Denton lawyer Evan Stone, as he kicked off a crusade against BitTorrent users who’d been illegally sharing porn movies. After three months, he had filed a few hundred suits right here in the Dallas federal court, alleging…
Last week the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent over that press release listing the two new retailers given permits to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of Dallas. This morning, after seeing this Channel 5 story about how the newly wet are missing out on year-end champagne sales,…
OK, lemme see if I understand what happened in Philadelphia over the last couple days. Mayor Michael Nutter declares a state of emergency Sunday at 2 p.m. and tells everyone to stay off the road. Philadelphia International Airport eventually reports 12.4 inches of snowfall. The NFL responds by moving Sunday…
While we await some call-backs for items forthcoming …Last night, in the comments of Monday’s KZEW item, someone asked (yet again) if anyone out there had a copy of Peter Frampton’s January Sound Studios sessions from ’75. “I wanna know where the GOLD at,” writes one Friend of Unfair Park…
Without their head coach and best player for most of the game, the Dallas Mavericks improved to 17-1 since November 20 with a 103-93 victory last night in Oklahoma City. Six Mavs chipped in with double-digit points, and Caron Butler led the team in scoring with 21 points and 3-for-5…
A Dallas woman filed suit against Halliburton last week claiming she was fired after her supervisors learned she was pregnant. In court documents filed on December, 21, Lynda Darden alleges she was fired in the summer of 2009 when “she was sexually discriminated against and terminated as a result of…
Last night, at the suggestion of a Friend of Unfair Park, I went over to the Love Field Modernization Program website to watch a nearly seven-minute-long look at the what was and what will be at the city-owned airport currently undergoing renovations. It wasn’t there just a couple of weeks…
Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What’s up with all the police cars? I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Police media bulletins: A man had attempted to rob a bank in the…
Into the wee small hours of Christmas Morning I cued up some Freddie King from January Sound in March ’75 — “Hideaway,” to be specific. At which point a caller rang up The Ticket request line with some (rather slurred but very happy) news: The Zewkeeper in charge of the…
I’m a sucker for the locally shot time-lapse video — I blame it on way too much Koyaanisqatsi as a kid. Hence, this offering: You+Dallas’s time-lapse best-of, a highlight reel rolled into a whole 90 seconds. One warning, though: Those Friends of Unfair Park who’ve complained in the past about…
A little while ago, the Federal Transit Authority announced that it’s advancing around $182 million in New Starts grants to a handful of transit projects already under construction — and among the short stack of recipients is Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line (referred to in the feds’ release as…
After the Dallas Mavericks disposed of the Miami Heat for the second time last week, I boldly said they were the NBA’s best team at the time. My opinion stood firm as they overcame 26 points and 23 rebounds from Dwight Howard to beat the Orlando Magic before taking a…
Down below is that heads-up about the city’s plans for giving the city a proper pre-Super Bowl scrub-down — which, turns out, also merits a mention in the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s just-published list of things to watch for in the 41 days left till kick-off in…
As expected, the Texas Rangers inked Brandon Webb to a one-year, incentive-laden contract reportedly worth around $3 million guaranteed with a potential for the veteran right-hander to earn between $8 million and $10 million. The deal becomes official following Webb’s physical this week, but as Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports…
I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks catching up on films I’ve missed in recent months (thanks, Unfair Park!), and high on the can’t-believe-I-missed list is Olivier Assayas’s made-for-French-TV Carlos, the marathon-length mini-series about Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — otherwise known as Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, played…
Had a very long, very off-the-record chat with don’t-call-him-Graffiti-Czar John Barr late last week, during which he dropped the hint that this week, the city would roll out some new tech aimed at power-washing the hell out of the city. But the Oak Cliff attorney, who’s been reaching out to…
Blockbuster’s slouching toward bankruptcy was easily one of the biggest local business stories of the year; from giant to joke, how the mighty had fallen. But since its Chapter 11 filing early on the morning of September 23, there’d been little to report during its reorganization, save for a notice…
Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to “like” Walmart’s Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide — $1 million to the top Facebook vote-getter, and $100,000 each to the next five highest-ranking communities on the…
If there ever was an easy win to be had this year for the Dallas Cowboys, last night’s Christmas match-up with the Arizona Cardinals was it. University of Phoenix Stadium, as usual, was packed with Cowboys fans in the tens of thousands. The Cardinals were 4-10 and had lost eight…
By the time we arrived at the Eight Track Museum, James “Big Bucks” Burnett’s tribute to myriad dead media, some 60 or 70 folks had already come and gone, each one gladly forking over the suggested $10 donation per person needed to keep the doors open. At 4 on Christmas…
Many thanks to the many folks who tuned in and called in during last night’s late-night Christmas-music spectacular, which gets a replay on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) beginning, why, right this very moment. (That’ll be just the three-hour yuletunes special, not the two hours of pirate-radio non-holiday For Your Weekend…
There were a handful of Christmas-light-viewing suggestions in the Unfair Park in-box this morning — and how in the wide, wide world of sports did I miss the round-the-corner extravaganza on 11565 Cromwell Circle, home to 35,000 twinkling lights and, per Mike McNaughton’s e-mail, “a private radio station and a…
