Patrick Michels, seizing any opportunity to get out of the office, is heading to Fair Park at 2 p.m. for some mayoral announcement in advance of Saturday’s throwing of the Fair Park Holiday in advance of Sunday’s running of the Metro PCS Dallas White Rock Marathon (got that?). Which isn’t…
Most marriages take work — in the months and years after the wedding ceremony. But for Mark and Dante Walkup, just getting their marriage recognized has been an exercise in legal and logistical hoop-jumping. The virally famous couple, who married over Skype to sidestep Texas’s ban on same-sex marriages, found…
No doubt you’ve heard about the shooting last night at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex that left one Dallas Police officer and a bystander wounded and the gunman, Kenneth Horton, dead. Moments ago, the DPD sent along this statement from Dallas Police Chief David Brown: Last night Dallas officers responded…
While we await some return phone calls, this recommendation: Over the weekend I took the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the downtown Neimans so he could crawl through its so-called “Big Encounters of the Little Kind” holiday window display — more or less a blown-out version of last…
Back in February 2009, then-Observer-er Alexa Schirtzinger wrote about how General Electric was burying millions of cubic yards of Hudson River carcinogens out at the West Texas dumping ground owned by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, the wizard behind Waste Control Specialists. Which I was reminded of this afternoon when I…
Last week, just as city officials were heading out the door for their extended, city manager-ordered vacation, Assistant City Attorney Charles Estee filed The City’s Official Response to that suit contesting the vote that paved the way for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. It’s brief — but…
Got a most curious e-mail over the weekend from a publicist wanting to invite the Unfair Park-ers to a press preview on December 11, when “former Starck Club reopens as Zouk.” Say wha? But, sure enough: Zouk has a website (ish) and Facebook page (announcing a Friday-night “sneak preview,” matter…
With the Cowboys’ hopes buried, the Rangers’ pursuit of Cliff Lee still a week from climax and the leftover turkey all but scarfed, time for your Mavericks to snatch our attention. If they haven’t already. In case you’re one of those that refuses to pay attention to basketball before Thanksgiving, you missed…
Last week we noted: Tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at Dallas Independent School District HQ, the school board’s set to hear how the public feels about extending trustees’ terms from three to four years. You got something to say on the subject, now’s the time to sign up — deadline’s 5…
So report both AOL FanHouse and the New York Daily News this morning, in advance of what’s expected to be a 1 p.m. press conference here. The undefeated No. 3 Horned Frogs, of course, are the team on the outside looking in at the BCS standings; right now, everything’s coming…
Bobbie Wygant reviews The Empire Strikes Back from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I went to The Bobbie Wygant Archive first thing this morning hoping to find an interview with the now-late, great Leslie Nielsen; no such luck, sadly. At which point news broke that Irvin Kershner had died — and right there,…
Patrick Michels has been all over XTO Energy’s efforts to sink some gas drills in and around Dallas, a piece of which may or may not wind up on the council’s year-ending agenda on December 8 following the City Plan Commission’s decision last month to deny the wastewater-spilling Exxon subsidiary…
Not a week goes by that a Friend of Unfair Park doesn’t ask: Is Lone Star coming back? It’s a fair enough question. After all, back in September, the day after FOX killed the series a mere two episodes into its critically acclaimed run, creator Kyle Killen told Unfair Park…
I came across this photo this morning, for sale on eBay. For obvious reasons — and, yes, that’s said to be an actual car sitting in Santa’s lap — it became My Obsession of the Day. Ad insists it was taken in ’54 at Porter Chevrolet in Dallas; that’s what…
Whether free agent Cliff Lee chooses to re-sign with the Rangers because of Arlington’s proximity to his Arkansas home or bolts to New York for the extra dough, his decision undoubtedly shapes the future of both teams significantly. Yet in all that’s been said and written about Lee, rarely does…
All those energy companies with gas drilling permits before the Dallas City Council on December 8, take one step forward. Not so fast, XTO. The Fort Worth-based energy company had been slated to bring its appeal of the City Plan Commission’s specific use permit denial before the council a week…
Earlier today, via The Twitter, reader Joe Roberts submitted this: “Workers are pulling boards off windows at the old Dallas High School building at Pearl Station. Any clue as to why?” Why, no, Joe. But I have heard in recent days that crews have been gutting the century-old structure –…
In the Paper Version of Unfair Park this week, we’ve got a longer look at the life of Lord Bongo Johnson, one of Sierra Leone’s most popular and influential celebrities in the early ’90s, who murdered his common-law wife and killed himself in their Mesquite home last summer. We mentioned…
It was three years ago I was first introduced to the work of Justin Terveen, though I didn’t know it then — clearly. But since then, of course, I’ve fallen in love with his photos — clearly. Hard to say which is a favorite. This one? No, wait, this one…
10. The end of the modest two-game winning streak also means the end of the disappointing season. At 3-8 the Cowboys are officially dead. Tony Romo should be put on injured reserve today. 9. Down 20-3 there was no way the Cowboys were going to win. Then up 27-23 with…
It’s déjà vu all over again as, once more, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is set to take up the issue of giving a raise to its chief academic officer. That’s only the third time in less than two years this issue’s come up. Perhaps you call…
Lend us your earmark: Buzz has never been supportive of the Tea Party and its goals, which as near as we can figure consist of turning back the calendar to 1796. Still, one must keep with the times, so maybe we should rethink our stance. Couple of questions though: If…
