It was almost one year ago the feds introduced us to 25-year-old Jesse William McGraw — otherwise known as “GhostExodus,” founder and the, uh, leader of the Electronik Tribulation Army. You remember McGraw: He’s the former night-shift security guard at the W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic on N. Central Expressway who…
For no apparent reason, other than this marks the 47th anniversary of when Parade magazine began naming players to its All America High School Football Team, the Sunday supplement today has listed its The Top 10 High School Football Programs. The ranking process was simple enough: They just tallied up…
After reading yesterday’s editorial in The Dallas Morning News about the Dallas Independent School District’s use of eminent domain to shore up land for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary School in the southeast Dallas neighborhood of Jubilee Park, we fired off about a half dozen questions to district spokesperson Jon…
This week’s paper version of Unfair Park includes the story of Armadillo Aerospace, the eight-man team of rocket builders that’s grown into one of the country’s leading NewSpace start-ups. From their first days tinkering in a North Dallas loading dock a decade ago to their new home in a Caddo…
It ain’t hard finding a recording of The Cure’s September 15, 1989, stop at Starplex in support of Disintegration — they’re out there, trust me. But there’s no need to settle for so-so quality: A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that in advance of Rhino Records’ release of the…
Dunno if you remember this, but back before Christmas the city of Dallas took out a lease on the abandoned JCPenney’s space at Southwest Center Mall — a six-month lease, that is, with an option to buy. Rent — $16,200 a month — may be a little high, given that…
Still no word from Major League Baseball concerning its imminent seizure of Your Texas Rangers in order to expedite the sale to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But, finally, there’s been direct contact with Monarch Alternative Capital, the main lender holding up the deal with Hicks Sports…
A moment after fluffy-haired beat-box comic Reggie Watts left SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium Thursday night, a video clip flickered briefly on the screen behind him: Walker, Texas Ranger — welcome back, old friend. There was this Andy Richter intro, in which he warned: “Tonight, the part of Conan O’Brien will be…
Networks won’t officially announce which pilots will be turned into full-fledged series till next week’s upfronts. But two days after NBC surprised absolutely no one by picking up Jerry Bruckheimer’s U.S. Marshals actioner Chase comes word that FOX has indeed placed an order for Lonestar — the soapy drama about…
View more news videos at:http://www.nbcdfw.com/video. In 2007 Leonard Davis pulled a horse out of the mud. In 2010 he answered my musical inquiries without crushing me like an empty beer can. And Wednesday, he helped some ducks out of a sand trap. Yeah, I know. All you care about it is…
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s spent any time on the Craigslist Rants And Raves forum (what can I say — it goes good with a glass of Franzia Sunset Blush), but science has now proved that Craigslist posters are — and this is my own…
Way back in January Dallas made the cut of 18 cities that could maybe possibly fingers-crossed hold-your-breath host the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022. We’re still months away from a final decision — that won’t happen till December 2 — but tomorrow, the USA…
Well, just because I keep Major League Baseball’s press-release page up-and-at-’em at all times, and I just noticed this: MLB commish Bud Selig was just presented the first-ever Taylor’s Award — so named for Plano West Senior High School baseball star Taylor Hooton, whose suicide in July 2003, at the…
Let’s face it, Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams pops off like a No. 1 but produces like a No. 3. Latest example: Asked yesterday at the team’s golf outing at Cowboys Golf Club about incoming rookie receiver Dez Bryant, Williams was defiant, if not in total denial. I know people…
Greetings, Friends! I’m the only person wearing jeans in the Dallas City Council Chamber today for the Texas Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations meeting starring state Sen. Royce West and an ensemble cast of local government officials talking about the effect and implementation of state legislation passed during the last…
We’re still waiting for Preservation Dallas’s list of endangered properties — that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preservation Achievement Awards, which will be doled out May 21 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and which…
Back in March, you may recall, the University of North Texas told 38 faculty members at the school’s current Dallas campus that, so sorry, but if they want to work at UNT’s new standalone Dallas campus — scheduled to open in 110 days — they’d have to reapply … for…
Another weird game at Rangers Ballpark last night: *Something I’ve never seen: With Ian Kinsler caught dead along the third-base line during an aborted steal of home, Oakland A’s starter Gio Gonzalez panicked and half-balked, half-wild-pitched him home with a crazy ass throw well wide of the out-of-his-crouch catcher. Saw…
For more than 40 years, Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes says, he led an exemplary life, rising up through the ranks of law enforcement in the last decade without running into trouble. But over the course of the last nine months, Cortes claims his reputation has been “smeared tremendously” by…
Forgive and forget: Man, them Dallas County Republicans are coldhearted. Four local Democratic officeholders have atoned for their transgressions, got right with their higher powers, made searching and fearless moral inventories, humbly asked God to remove their shortcomings and followed the hallowed 12 steps into recovery. Any decent person would…
One arrived from Minnesota in 1993, the other from Germany in 1999. In the spring of 2010, they both played what may have been their last games in Dallas. In between, Mike Modano and Dirk Nowitzki not only carved national Hall of Fame legacies, they altered the way we locals…
Play it in slow motion, cue the orchestra and cut to a fluttering flag, and this scene could beat the richest Hollywood cliché. The rocket men are returning from their mission, seven of them in matching blue jumpsuits, mission patches on their sleeves. Riding on a massive flatbed truck, they…
