Much like everyone else in Dallas media, I received a call this morning from Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, who told me that Danny Clancy awoke to find his SUV on blocks with its tires stolen. Already aware that his wife Julie, a Dallas municipal court judge, had…
Flickr user: sevargmtA Friend of Unfair Park who’s fond of our regular week-ending classic-rock-and-roll-and adios suggests this more recent show for consideration: Rush at The Amphitheater Formerly Known as Starplex on September 26. Fine by me — we’re waiting for some phone calls, so we’ve got a few minutes to…
Sara KerensScott and Mariana Griggs at the “West Dallas Country Club,” otherwise known as their community gardenYou probably forgot all about City Hall’s efforts to regulate community gardens — after all, it’s been about two months since the topic came up at the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting on…
As mentioned yesterday, several of the Dallas County exonerees appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, where they were joined by the stars of the movie Conviction, The Innocence Project’s Barry Sheck and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. On the other side you’ll find King’s interviews with several…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
We waited 5,100 days in between Texas Rangers’ playoff wins. Might we suddenly get two within 24 hours? As dominant as Cliff Lee was in the Rangers’ 5-1 Game 1 victory on Wednesday, I like the matchup of C.J. Wilson over Tampa’s James Shields even more in Game 2…
Back in November, WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris went down to the Margaret Hunt Hill construction site and discovered it was being constructified by Italians who were brought to the U.S. and A. by Italian steel provider Cimolai without the proper work visas. Nobody, including TxDOT, seemed to mind till Harris…
Before we go any further, click here. You’ll find a picture taken on May 29, 1972, in Arlington, during a Texas Rangers-Oakland Athletics game at what had only months before been Turnpike Stadium. The photo features then-Rangers skipper Ted Williams arguing with home-plate ump Jim Odom over a strike-out call…
The Texas Rangers are in the playoffs. The Dallas Cowboys are authoring their annual drama. Texas-OU just captivated the Cotton Bowl. Big Tex is offering up fried beer at the State Fair. And, hey look, on TV it’s a Seinfeld rerun. I love Jerry, George, Kramer, Elaine and the gang…
Brave new world: All citizens are agents of the state, charged with keeping watch on every other citizen and reporting activities detrimental to good order. Unorthodoxy is suspicious. Remember when that used to be considered a bad thing? Look, we don’t want to overstate the situation here, but we’ve heard…
If Carlos Melendez has mental problems, that’s news to him. Sitting on a wooden bench outside State District Judge Mike Snipes’ courtroom, the 20-year Air Force veteran can’t explain why exactly he was accepted as an inaugural member of Dallas County’s veterans court—the latest so-called “specialty” court aimed at preventing…
Photos by Andrea GrimesTexas Governor Rick Perry grins it up for the UNT Dallas crowd.Governor Rick Perry visited the new University of North Texas at Dallas campus today off Camp Wisdom Road in South Dallas to mark the school’s first-ever Founders Day. This afternoon marked the opening of the first…
10. Going up 1-0 in a best-of-five series is always nice, but an even better sign to me was the effective, aggressive play of Josh Hamilton. He singled in his first at-bat, cut loose a throw ambitiously behind a runner after a fly ball and even stole second base with…
Deborah LusterThomas McGowan, who served 23 years for a burglary and sexual assault in Richardson he did not commitTheir names are, or should be, familiar by now, among them: Thomas McGowan, Entre Nax Karage, Johnnie Lindsey, James Giles, Eugene Henton and Stephen Brodie. Certainly, by now, you know their stories:…
The Dallas Police Department sends word: At around 4 this morning, officers got the call that the alarm was going off at Modes Inc., a longtime wholesale jeweler at 2629 Stemmons Freeway. Around the same time, says the DPD, someone walking to and from a nearby 7-Eleven called 911 to…
Pardon this blurry screengrab from one of Heinbaugh’s iPhone videos. Next time I should just go with.(Note to self: Stop. Watching. Baseball.)OK, then. Just received the latest postcard from Chris Heinbaugh, who’s tagging along on Mayor Tom & Co.’s trade mission to Europe. It follows. But long story short: Back…
If you don’t want to miss The Razor, DISH-watchers, might wanna switch services now.Speaking of FOX …By now even non-Dish Network-ers are aware of the ongoing spat between FOX and Dish over carriage fees, which resulted in FOX’s yanking off the Dish its 19 regional sports nets on October 1,…
On Monday, FOX News’s Gretchen “Still on MySpace” Carlson — a former KXAS’er, for those who’ve forgotten and how could you? — reported that the Los Angeles Police Department has ordered 10,000 jetpacks, which sounds totally … what’s the opposite of reasonable? Problem is, as Raw Story and Gawker have…
An hour ago, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Lee McLane, the East Dallas man who’d gone missing three days after his 77th birthday, has been found, and he’s OK. But yet another Silver Alert has just been issued for a 79-year-old man who hasn’t been seen since 5:45 yesterday…
The defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys were 2-3 under Barry Switzer and on their way to a playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers. The Dallas Mavericks were embarking on a season that started with head coach Jim Cleamons and the Three Js — Jason Kidd, Jim Jackson and Jamal…
Photos by Andrea GrimesLaura Bush poses with Girl Scout Troop 92, who painted the library in Bryan’s House and organized the books.Late yesterday afternoon, Laura Bush joined former Dallas Cowboy Daryl Johnston and members of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee to celebrate a project completed through SLANT 45,…
An old Friend of Unfair Park will be skipping work this afternoon to watch Rangers Playoff Baseball — he’s got the note from Chuck Greenberg to prove he, like John Reed, has come down with Red Fever. (It’s after the jump for those likewise inflicted. It’s cute enough.) We were…
