Didn’t think he’d do it. In fact, I dared him to do it. I’ll be damned if he didn’t do it. Soon as Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert settled in for his in-studio interview Wednesday on 105.3 The Fan, Greg Williams popped the question: “Hey Mayor,” said Greggo, “do you like…
Always said A-Rod was a tool. Now, according to the Texas Rangers’ ongoing bankruptcy auction in Fort Worth, he’s also an elevator. At least the New York Yankees’ third baseman is aligning himself with a Kone Inc., an elevator company that also filed an objection Wednesday to the outline of…
On the other side, some light morning reading you won’t find on the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site — eight of the myriad objections to the sale of Your Texas Rangers, which is set to go to the highest bidder on Wednesday. They were all filed yesterday in Fort…
For long-suffering Texas Rangers fans, it’s Christmas in July. No, not because of the healthy lead in the American League West or the headline-grabbing acquisition of pitching ace Cliff Lee. Even better, it’s the news that a prospective owner with deep pockets and high hopes is finally interested in the…
Maybe going bankrupt is the best thing that’s ever happened to the Texas Rangers. On the field, at least, 2010 is shaping up to be the team’s best season since 1999, the last time the Rangers made the playoffs, when they were sent packing in the American League Division Series…
FU NIMBY: Hey, Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, here’s a little unsolicited advice on how to win hearts and minds as you go about your work of sheltering the homeless: If you’re going to flip your fellow citizens the bird, try not to make them sit through…
Editor’s Note: As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award-winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls and human tragedies that have made Arizona the epicenter for the national immigration debate. Sterling is now a contributor for The Daily Beast, and Writer-in-Residence at the Walter…
But five long days ago I directed your attention to Led Zeppelin’s May 18, 1973, stopover at Memorial Auditorium — one, apparently, in a series of Zep-Does-Dallas posts. And while we’ve time-traveled to The Summer of ’69 once or twice before to revisit the band’s appearance at the Texas International…
The Unfair Park in-box has been overflowing in recent days with invites to and reminders for the Red Bull Art of Can exhibition opening Saturday at the Galleria. (Which is? “More than 50 unique pieces — a wide variety of art made from recycled cans, digital media, paint and more.”…
I mentioned this in passing Sunday: The Arizona Daily Star discovered, or so it thought, that Southwest Airlines’s attorneys snuck into its contract of carriage a new definition of “act of God” should you find yourself delayed: “mechanical difficulties.” To which the Love Field-based airline responded that those two words…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office: From the summer of ’05 till December ’08, five locals were running out of three Northwest Dallas houses an “elaborate marijuana growing operation” that was eventually busted up by the Drug Enforcement Agency. They had three houses — one each on…
If you like talking about women in terms that make it sound like you’re discussing a game of Risk with all the delicate spoken nuances of a redneck buck hunter, I’m guessing I don’t have to tell you who The Asian Playboy is. No doubt you have already abandoned all…
Twenty years after Mother Teresa visited Dallas to found a local order of her Missionaries of Charity, a choice selection of her personal effects returned to Oak Cliff’s St. James Catholic Church last night, drawing a fair-sized crowd to a special evening mass. Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas Mark Seitz presided…
Well, that didn’t take long. Four days into his Dallas Cowboys’ career Dez Bryant started blaming that damned ol’ media for his mistakes. Be patient Dez, your Diva Club card is being laminated as we speak. Bryant, whom I wholly endorsed on draft day and who has dazzled on the field at training…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations just sent word of that a handful of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center in on Mansfield Road in Arlington in recent days have sparked an investigation involving the Arlington Police Department and the FBI. Says the release, on Sunday someone set its playground…
I’ve seen Spike TV’s Pros vs. Joes a couple times. Love the concept. Ordinary(ish) guys take on professional athletes in their sport. Handicapped, of course. Classic episode was Pacman Jones getting legitimately pissed when a nobody caught a touchdown on him in a game of flag football. Tonight the series…
In September 2009 James Bradberry, the owner of the San Francisco Rose, announced the creation of the Greenville Avenue Restaurant Association, which puts on the now-annual Taste of Greenville Avenue event scheduled for October. Which is not the point of this piece: Yesterday Unfair Park received a missive from Bradberry…
This morning the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest look at employment and unemployment figures for Your Major Metropolitan Areas, and when they put the June ’09 numbers next to the June ’10 numbers, look at who comes out on top: “The largest over-the-year increases in employment occurred…
Since as long as I can recall, Dougherty’s has been my family’s pharmacy, dating back to its days in Oak Cliff (it didn’t move to Preston Royal till ’67). So I’ve taken it for granted all these many years — just one more place I stop in or drive by,…
Can’t recall the last time I recorded Rangers games — ’99, maybe? Nevertheless, even a few hours later Nelson Cruz’s 10th-inning walk-off last night was a thrilling thing of beauty — and towering enough to put the Rangers eight and a half up over both the A’s and Angels, so…
Thanks to The New York Times, I just spent the last little bit taking a virtual tour of the Dan Shipley-designed 25 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve off N. Central Expressway and LBJ Freeway. The Shipley house — otherwise known as the corrugated Ford Tri-Motor House — is one…
Cliff Lee is the shit. Tuesday night at Rangers Ballpark he proved it again. Lee went nine innings in a remarkable performance, striking out 13 Oakland A’s without a walk in a dramatic game the Rangers won, 3-1, on Nelson Cruz’ 10th-inning homer. It was the most strikeouts by a Rangers pitcher…
