Back in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word: Jon Leslie Lyons, a 44-year-old who’d been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, had been arrested and charged with keeping child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5, on his home computer and iPhone.A Dallas…
Reggie Bush is a liar. Should Vince Young be a Heisman winner? That’s the contention of Texas coach Mack Brown, who says – if – the Heisman Trophy Trust yanks back its 2005 award from the Southern Cal running back it should be handed over to former Longhorns’ quarterback Vince…
It’s quite the reunion this morning: Ex-Dallas News-er Emily Ramshaw, now at the Texas Tribune, sits down with ex-Dallas Observer-er and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, now director of projects for Summit Power, which is in the clean-coal (big) business. Miller, who hasn’t done many sitdowns since leaving office, opens…
It’s hard to say if anyone anywhere really gets to have his or her cake and eat it too, but it’s especially frustrating to me when women are asked to support good causes that also ask them to get behind demeaning stereotypes and objectification. (Looking at you, PETA.) This often…
Thanks to Roger Ebert’s early-Tuesday-morning tweet (“Beck’s next rally is planned for Nov. 22 in Dallas, at Dealey Plaza”), I’ve received more than a few e-mails from people wondering, in short: Really? No, not really. (I don’t think.) But he will be in Alaska on September 11. (And the other…
Rep. Donald Payne, a Democrat from New Jersey, is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation — which, as you’re well aware by now, is where Eddie Bernice Johnson found the $25,000 she gave in scholarships to relatives and her top aide’s kids. And Payne’s so livid over the…
More importantly, you ever coming back? I said yesterday I’d give the playoff ball to C.J. Wilson over Cliff Lee. Saw nothing in last night’s 10-9 loss to Kansas City Royals that changed my mind. You? Thought I’d never write this: The Texas Rangers lost a game started by Cliff Lee in which…
This morning the council takes its most detailed look yet at Mary Suhm’s proposal to gut the libraries’ budget for the coming fiscal year. The briefing goes back a few years too — back to when branches were open 47 hours (some on Sundays) and were fully staffed, when the…
When I called earlier this afternoon, no one in the City Attorney’s Office had yet seen the freshly minted copy of Judge Elizabeth Lang-Miers’s opinion in which the 5th District Court of Appeals tossed out attorney Andy Siegel’s writ of mandamus filed on July 2. So, at the moment, no…
Back in March, you may recall, cab drivers at Love Field were none too pleased with the city council’s decision to give compressed natural gas-powered taxis front-o’-the-line privileges at the airport. A month later, the Association of Taxicab Operators went to federal court to block the city from implanting the…
If you’ve passed the Exxon station at Maple and Oak Lawn Avenue this month, you’ve probably spotted the well-dressed man sitting in a lawn chair, wearing a sign around his neck with one simple question and three burning punctuation marks: “Where is our money???” His name is Muhammet Atayev, and…
This morning, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas’s senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Clifford, left a comment in Monday’s item concerning the church’s pending purchase of 508 Park Avenue, the beleaguered downtown site in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and, legend has it, Charlie Parker once recorded. Clifford’s office…
In advance of this week’s Observer column on Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton I asked new owner Chuck Greenberg about signing his star to a new, long-term deal next winter. “With his bat and glove and legs and arm and heart, he’s our MVP and I think the best player…
Somewhere under a pile of books in the office is a copy of Park Cities author Kim Gatlin’s Good Christian Bitches, which I may finally have to read based upon this Deadline Hollywood exclusive: Darren Star — creator and exec producer of, among others, Sex and the City and Melrose…
Many thanks to the several Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded along Austin American-Statesman PolitiFact Texas’s editor W. Gardner Selby’s list of Texas Influencers — which consists of the 50 most-powerful Democrats and Republicans in the state.Not all are presently working in Texas — like, oh, former Dallas Mayor Ron…
Alas, Rudy beat me to it in pointing out that someone at Dallas City Hall posted to the city’s official Facebook page this morning two pics taken from the very tippy-top of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. But Rudy opted for the view of the city (I can see my…
Down at Dallas Cowboys training camp the reminder of May 1, 2009 was omnipresent. Coaches yelled. Players grunted. Fans cheered. And, day after day, Rich Behm rolled. In his wheelchair. Behm, the team’s scouting assistant paralyzed when the Valley Ranch indoor practice facility collapsed in a storm, has settled a…
I know where Andrea’ll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD’s calling a “Sexual Assault Awareness…
Soon as I stumbled across that News & Tech piece noting that The Dallas Morning News is set to begin charging for staff-generated online content, I asked the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, if that was true. At 9:02 this morning, he responded via e-mail. This is what he…
Nope, not our Lord and Southpaw Savior Cliff Lee. C.J. Wilson. Why? Because at this point I trust him more. Because at this point he’s the best pitcher on the staff. No? Amazing for a pitcher who a couple years ago drew our ire when he disgustingly flipped the ball to…
The Texas Rangers are out of Chapter 11 and Tom Hicks’s hands, but that website devoted to the prepackaged bankruptcy remains alive and well weeks later. New filings are being added to Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site every day, including two docs detailing how well the team’s doing –…
It’s no secret the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are “facing some financial challenges,” as AT&TPAC chair Howard Hallam told Unfair Park a few weeks ago, following the resignation of president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen. Not long after Nerenhausen turned in his adios so too did…
