Not making that up — the press release that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box follows. But long story short: The Genesis singer-drummer is a ginormous Alamo fetishist — so much so that “he is now believed to own the largest collection of Alamo artifacts in the world,” according…
While I was futzing around looking for something Green Line-related yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of videos Dallas Area Rapid Transit posted a few days ago that highlight the visual art found up and down the sections of the Green Line currently up and runnin’. And, sure, there’s a…
By now you’ve no doubt heard: In the wee small hours of this morning, 18-year-old Daniel Stanley went to the Tiferet Israel cemetery at Buckner and Scyene, dug up a corpse and used a hatchet to chop off a foot. According to the Dallas police press release, it was Stanley…
Never you mind those stories about how today’s Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s last day. Sure, April 30 was his original retirement date. But it’s been pushed back — surely you didn’t think the city would go without a top cop till Tuesday, when Chief Designate David Brown will be…
Ever since we mentioned that Massachusetts historian Joe Manning has been tracking down the Dallas newsies and other child laborers captured by Lewis Wickes Hine in Dallas in October 1913, several Friends of Unfair Park and other passersby have mentioned that, sure enough, that’s their mother-in-law’s uncle or so-and-so’s second…
It’s been said time and time again: The oh-that’s-where-it-is Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park is the least attractive — and, certainly, the least-utilized — part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. And the AT&TPAC knows it. Which is why, this morning, they’ve sent out a press release announcing…
Most Unfair Park items come and go, but a fortunate few last forever. Take this one from August 1, 2008, about Richardson’s Colin Ross, who claimed that with the use of swimming goggles, electrical wiring and tin foil (the inevitable part of this equation), he could get a beam of…
As we discovered last month, the city of Dallas can’t even take care of the downtown cemetery in which several former mayors are buried (including John Crockett, who served during the Civil War). So how’s it going to tend to an abandoned graveyard buried beneath weeds in a field south…
10. The Mavericks are now the only NBA team to lose in the first round of the playoffs as a No. 1 and No. 2 seed. Granted the four-time champion Spurs aren’t your pedestrian No. 7 seed, but it’s still an ugly epitaph to have etched on your tombstone. 9…
Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Green Line …You won’t be able to catch it at the Victory Park or MLK Jr. stations Sunday between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. DART’s got a very good reason: It’s trying to see if it can reconfigure the Green Line in…
As expected at 9 this morning, nearly 20 folks assembled in a briefing room at Dallas Independent School District’s Ross Avenue HQ to hear what — if anything — District 9 school board trustee Bernadette Nutall would have to say about DISD’s plans to exercise eminent domain to acquire property…
December 6 — that’s when Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said the Green Line would be good to go with the completion of the final two sections of the “20-station, 28-mile, $1.8 billion project” (catchy!). The two sections left: MLK Jr. Station to Buckner Station in Pleasant Grove, and Victory…
The big shakeups credited with turning around public schools in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — which Mayor Tom Lepeprt and organizers cite as influences for a new school reform effort in West Dallas — have only succeeded in separating top students in charter schools from lower-performing students…
Wilt Chamberlain infamously said he slept with 20,000 women. More recently, Winston Bennett claimed a rate of three girls per day. And now – according to the National Enquirer – Tiger Woods is said to have confessed to sleeping with 120 women during his five-year marriage to wife Elin. Once upon…
Just got an e-mail about a new housing development being planned at the intersection of Lake Highlands Drive and Easton Road — pardon, a cohousing development — called White Rock Crossing. The Web site says it’ll involve the construction of 17 smallish, “eco-friendly” town homes that back up to the…
Every now and then I’ll find on eBay old photos from Fair Park — like this batch of John Sirgio originals from the ’36 Texas Centennial Exposition that wound up going for $147.50, or these rare glimpses at the Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition held in ’37. This morning…
Most of the leftovers and hand-me-downs sold by municipalities over on Lone Star Auctions have four wheels and are covered in rust — though there was that one time, about a year ago, Dallas County was selling off four horses just in time for the Apocalypse. Now, the county’s trying…
Mike Ditka says someone ought to “whack him in the head.” National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith says teams cannot have the free reign to bring personal insult during interviews. And, indeed, Miami Dolphins’ general manager Jeff Ireland has apologized for asking new Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant if…
I can tell you one person who won’t be at that Jubilee Park meeting at DISD HQ taking place right now: DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who’s testifying right now in Washington, D.C., in front of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee about the reauthorization of the Elementary and…
At 9 this morning, many of those facing the loss of their property in the Jubilee Park land grab will meet with their Dallas Independent School District trustee, Bernadette Nutall, at DISD’s Ross Avenue HQ. We’re not exactly sure who else from DISD will be attending the meeting, though Superintendent…
[Update at 7:27 p.m.: Michael Cramer, the Dallas attorney repping Red Frog, just sent The Final Word via text: “The event is on!!! Both the Sheriff and Fire Marshal have given written approval.” Mazel tov, and good luck to all.]Surely this will be the last item about will-they-or-won’t-they Warrior Dash…
Dallas Mavericks’ guard Jason Terry is guaranteeing a victory in tonight’s Game 6 against the Spurs in San Antonio, which would force a dramatic Game 7 Saturday at American Airlines Center. “No question. We’re coming back,” Terry said. “We have to. It’s our mission. Our job is to go down…
