Whilst combing through the Internets for an Unfair Park item, I just came across this job posting: “Host Ticket Top 10 (Full-time) Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket.” No kidding? I called Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, to see what the what — like, did Chris House get fired?…
Update at 4:47 p.m.: The City Attorney’s Office just sent a statement concerning Robert Groden’s lawsuit and his efforts to sell his magazines and DVDs at Dealey Plaza. It’s in full on the other side, but here’s an excerpt:Robert Groden has no written agreement or permit from the City to…
In last month’s NBA Draft, 60 players found new homes. In tonight’s made-for-TV special, one player will announce his new team. It’s official: LeBron James is bigger than the NBA. Are you amped about The Decision? You can actually bet on whether or not King James will put on a crown tonight…
Morgan Lyons, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s spokesman, and Jay Kline, DART’s streetcar liaison with the city, were kind enough to forward along this map of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority’s “0.65-mile urban streetcar track extension,” just announced as the $4.9-million recipient of a federal Urban Connector Grant.As DART submitted the…
Out on Lake Ray Hubbard’s Party Cove last weekend there was a guy on a boat. A big, fat guy. With a goofy hat. And a huge gut. Dancing. Disturbing as it was, the dude had a couple bikini-clad hotties shaking it alongside him. Me and a buddy commenced this debate:…
Lisa Stone disappeared on June 4, and her friends in the Dallas LGBT community are disseminating a flier and have created a Facebook page, according to the Dallas Voice’s InstantTea blog. Photographs and Stone’s birth certificate were found in a dumpster near her home, while Stone’s purse and pets were…
A couple of weeks ago, we were discussing the future of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority — specifically, its plans to create a “connector loop line down St. Paul and up Federal to Olive,” in the words of MATA’s chief operating officer, John Landrum. MATA and Dallas Area Rapid Transit…
I know, I know — it’s a few weeks off. Still, write it down in your Trapper Keeper: Beginning at 5 p.m. that Tuesday, the Dallas Bar Association’s Public Forum Committee is holding a three-hour what’s-up-Dallas at the Belo Mansion featuring quite the foursome: Mayor Tom Leppert, University of North…
Let’s don’t talk too loud – might wake them up – but your Texas Rangers are suddenly 5.5 games ahead of the Anaheim Angels in the American League West. Another good start by Colby Lewis, another pivotal hit by Michael Young, another save by Neftali Feliz and, presto, a 4-3 win over…
Once again, the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site provides us with a wealth of morning must-reads — chief among them, the 12-page objection filed yesterday in Fort Worth bankruptcy court by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Greg Abbott’s objection comes one day…
Sorry: Buzz was hoping to bring you our usual 425 words of thoughtful, impactful reportage on Issues of Major Importance, but it turns out that all the people involved in IMIs are on vacation or out of town for the July 4 holiday. Now, deadline approaches, and we’re left scraping…
For Kenneth Page, all that he had built his dreams around vanished in a cloud of Central Texas dust on that terrible day this past March. That was the day his wife, Ardes, loaded up his beloved dog in the truck Kenneth bought her as a wedding present and drove…
Tracking Kenneth Page was not as hard as you might think. I picked up his trail in Lufkin, where he was written up in the Daily News. Other than Page, the only quoted source in the story was Dr. Bryan Pool, a Lufkin chiropractor for whom Page had done some…
In 1977, the Texas Rangers employed four managers. In one week. In 1978, pitcher Roger Moret fell into a catatonic trance in front of his locker while holding a shower shoe. In 1979, reliever Jim Kern snatched a book from a newspaper reporter and, in a successful attempt to spoil…
The names of the couples in this story have been changed to protect their identities. If Juan and Juana were going to stage a fake marriage to help Juan get his green card, the two of them figured, they might as well treat some friends to a great meal. They…
As Texas Rangers third baseman Michael Young and others took the field this afternoon for pre-game stretching, the shocking fall of a 25-year-old firefighter from Corinth from the second deck of Rangers Ballpark was clearly on their minds as they pointed and stared at Section 235 — where Tyler Morris…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK once more finds on eBay a grainy remnant of Dallas past — this one looks like it was taken shortly after the completion of the Municipal Building. Says the Fort Worth-based seller, who wants $99.99 or best offer, the eight-by-10 is marked “Workers at Dallas…
Tonight Hal Sparks is at the Arlington Improv. But based upon this just-posted Twitpic (headline: “They sell weird books at the Kennedy Assassination museum in Dallas”) and the accompanying video, he’s at Dealey Plaza … right now, people, right now. I hope he runs into Robert Groden. Or gets a…
I finally spoke with Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, head of the Central Patrol Division, concerning Officer Perry Strickland’s decision to fire off 13 rounds of pepper balls on Lowest Greenville Avenue early Sunday morning, just as clubs were closing. Golbeck has already acknowledged that Strickland, a six-year…
The Texas Department of State Health Services just sent word: Today it issued a “fish advisory” for the Trinity River — most of it, anyway, and most definitely the part that runs through Dallas. Why come the heads-up? “Laboratory testing of fish samples found elevated levels of dioxins and polychlorinated…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The Dallas Watersports Complex — which was scheduled to open on Fish Trap Lake in West Dallas by no later than September — has been drowned by MaryAnn Russ, head of the Dallas Housing Authority. She’ll revisit the subject later this year. Or next year. Or never…
While a federal trustee yesterday suggested that the Texas Rangers’ own law firm should be ejected, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said – in so many words – what we’ve all been muttering for months: F*&^%$#$@ Tom Hicks! During a conference call with baseball reporters to address next week’s…
