Variety’s reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is fining FOX $25,000 over the January 3 episode of American Dad titled “Horse Chores,” in which — as the trade’s Ted Johnson puts it — there’s a scene “in which two characters engage in ribald dialogue, followed by a scene in which…
Last Friday Daniel recapped the first Dallas Bike Plan Open House — and by “first,” I mean there will be more forthcoming, according to Angela Hunt, co-chair of the committee overseeing the redo of the antiquated Greater Dallas Bike Plan Map. Now we find Hunt’s recap as she returns to…
On the way into work yesterday via the Dallas North Tollway, I noticed a sign on the southbound side warning of a pending closure on June 7 — as in, not one lane but the whole tollroad. But traffic and construction crews obscured the what and the where. Didn’t see…
On Tuesday we looked at the mammoth PowerPoint assembled by MIG for its May meetings with downtown shareholders as the company prepares to hand the council the Downtown Dallas 360 plan at summer’s end. In the past those slide shows have been accompanied by recaps of what was discussed during…
We’ve run this picture of Tom Hicks, oh, a million times in recent years; so have plenty of others — it’s iconic. So much so that I just saw it again on the UK Telegraph’s Web site moments ago. Only this time, it was affixed to an American flag being…
According to various reports from the Dallas Police Department and the Lower Greenville Self-Appointed Civilian Police Department Comprised Mainly of Avi Adelman, a man was shot and killed after an altercation early this morning in the Char Bar parking lot on Lower Greenville. I’ve pieced together some of what appears…
Paul Woodfield had already spent years fighting Dallas’s bike helmet law in county court, when the city decided to drop the original ticket he’d been given on a bare-domed ride around White Rock Lake back in 2007. With no ticket to fight, the Fifth Court of Appeals dismissed his three-year-old…
We said it just last week: The Texas Education Agency won’t release its 2010 Accountability Ratings till the end of July, which hasn’t stopped the Dallas Independent School District from spreading the good news concerning a fifth straight year of improved TAKS scores and additional schools being added to the…
The postman was kind enough to deliver my Blockbuster proxy materials yesterday in advance of this month’s board meeting downtown. (I recently bought 100 shares — it was either that or a pack of smokes.) CEO Jim Keyes, yet again, reminded me vote for his slate of candidates to the…
During our server outage of the last hour, several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we noted David Dillon’s death at his home in Amherst, Mass. He suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 68. Dillon, who was among those who took a buyout from the…
The first person I called yesterday after receiving that video in which the drunk driver of a Chevy Impala flew outta Dallas-Fort Worth Airport the wrong way was David Magaña, DFW’s manager of public affairs. And he confirmed it: The driver was arrested for drunk driving. Still, some folks keep…
10. With a combined 32 championships, isn’t this the all-time greatest rivalry in sports? Thought so. 9. Kobe Bryant may be one of the greatest players of all time, but don’t be shocked if Boston point guard Rajon Rondo is the best player on the court. 8. The Dallas Mavericks finished their…
If you weren’t aware that we’re but a week away from the Republican Party of Texas’s 2010 convention at the Dallas Convention Center, you’ll find Harvey Kronberg’s preview at Quorum Report, part one of which was posted yesterday evening, awfully helpful. (If, that is, you’re a subscriber — the rest…
What you see above is the trailer for Lonestar that FOX Broadcasting posted a few days ago. The pilot, as you surely know by now, was filmed here this spring as Midland with (500) Days of Summer’s Marc Webb directing. And I was going to post this yesterday. But Wednesday…
Two radio industry sources say that CBS Radio and Clear Channel Communications are in negotiations on a deal that could bring controversial and wildly popular radio host Russ Martin back to Dallas radio early this summer. The sources indicate that, should an agreement be reached, Martin — whose Russ Martin Show was taken off…
Two things I probably should replace sooner than later: car and cellphone. Got the former covered. As for the latter, I’m still considering T-Mobile’s HTC HD2, a little more this morning than yesterday. That’s because, per PC Magazine’s just-released survey of the fastest mobile networks, T-Mobile comes in as the…
On April 27, Janet Napolitano pronounced that the border separating the United States from the Republic of Mexico is more secure than ever. “I say this again as someone who has walked that border,” the former Arizona governor told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the…
Thought police: As a proud libtard, Buzz is appalled by anything the Texas State Board of Education does (including breathing). So, we shook our libtard head last month when the conservative-dominated SBOE passed its revised social studies curriculum. It took a last-minute reprieve to keep Thomas Jefferson on the list…
Zach Johnson? Jason Day? Jordan Spieth? With apologies to the winners of the Colonial and Byron Nelson tournaments and the smashing debut of the 16-year-old Jesuit High School golfer, the hottest person recently on our local courses carried no clubs and wore high heels, a dress and 19 tattoos. While…
I’ve been trading phone calls with Andrea Bond, head of marketing for Elliott’s Hardware, for most of the day. A few minutes ago, we finally connected, and as you can imagine, following the news that the Maple Avenue location’s up for grabs for a cool $8 million, “it’s been a…
Didn’t intend to end the day with three (or four, if you will) auto-related items, but that’s how we roll:First, this breaking news courtesy KTVT-Channel 11: Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, now President Obama’s trade representative, was injured in a car wreck in Grand Prairie this morning. No word on…
On Christmas Eve we bid farewell to the Pate Museum of Transportation just outside of Fort Worth, the first museum I can recall my classic-car-rebuilding, auto-parts-selling father taking me to when I was a boy. A good Friend of Unfair Park — and a very good friend of the Pate…
