Over on DC9 this morning, Pete posted a video of Erykah Badu performing “Window Seat” on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show earlier this week — oh, right, so there’s a song in that naked video. Speaking of: Alice Cooper was on CBS’s The Early Show this morning addressing Badu’s Dealey Plaza…
Perhaps you’ve seen the promotional materials — they’ve been everywhere during the past five years, as the Dallas Independent School District (and superintendent Michael Hinojosa, especially) eased on down that Road to Broad, so named for the $2 million award given to urban school districts who made “the greatest progress…
*Ron Washington’s first and only experience with cocaine came at age 57? Of course I believe him. Why wouldn’t I? *Okay, I admit it. I secretly, desperately wish I wrote for the Dallas Morning News and talked for 1310 AM The Ticket and admit that my jealously bleeds through into my…
All wet: Well, at least we know now who to blame. When the Trinity River finally tops its weakened levees and inundates large swaths of the city, all you drowning folk should raise your fists to the sky and loose an imprecation at the person who sealed your fate. “Curse…
It is February 2, and he’s stranded in baseball’s off-season. His future manager’s shocking drug revelation is still buried under winter’s bitter blanket. Prized off-season acquisitions are weeks away from their first pitch (Rich Harden) and hit (Vladimir Guerrero). In fact, he’s not yet even officially the owner of the…
“Price was twelve, bruh.” “Say, Bruh, Them twelve hundred was for eight pieces.” A deal’s going down, yeah. But not the sort we’re used to witnessing between black men on a television show set in an American city. Certainly not a David Simon drama on HBO. Yet before even a…
This just popped up in the in-box — a press release headlined “Dallas Drivers Happy, But Would Welcome Improvements.” OK, I’m interested. Tell me more, press release announcing the results of the 2010 Hartford Drivability Survey. Tell me more.Despite incidents of road rage and complaints from a core group of…
Speaking of celebrities coming to town at the end of April …I just got word that the Sci-Fi Expo at the Richardson Civic Center’s done set its April 24-25 all-star line-up — and, wow, maybe my mom can take my 6-year-old this go-round. That’s because none other than Lee “Scarecrow”…
So says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent us the link to the most astonishingly named Web site in the history of ever: Palin4Life.com. What you see above is the only thing on the Web site, which was created on March 8. And, ooof, tickets ain’t cheap — unless…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Adweek blog item from today about a pissing contest involving Love Field-based Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways — though, from the looks of the Google Machine, this first became a thing at the end of last week. In short, Southwest…
As planners and staff from the Texas Department of Transportation and city of Dallas overwhelmed residents last night with maps spanning the length of three folding tables and a detailed PowerPoint presentation about the proposed $200 million S.M. Wright project, attendees celebrated the end of Dead Man’s Curve, a sharp…
Sure, the Dallas Mavericks produced an epic victory Monday night. Whipping the Denver Nuggets gave the inside track on the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Western Conference playoffs. But that momentum, that achievement – that seeding – could all be lost in the next 48 hours. Tonight the Mavs…
In the paper version of Unfair Park that hits stands today, you’ll find a review of Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Oklahoma native Tim Blake Nelson and starring, in dual roles, Edward Norton. I liked it much more than our Jim Hoberman, who reviewed the movie about an…
Never a friend of unsanctioned urban marking, Dallas City Hall has been particularly vocal in its graffiti opposition in the last few days.Coinciding with Council Member Delia Jasso’s latest anti-graffiti happening — a conference at Hector P. Garcia Middle School — the city announced its report-a-tagger tip line (214-670-TIPS) and a…
Word is Kay Bailey Hutchison will announce this morning down in San Antonio that she’s staying in the Senate — so say NBC News and The Washington Post, anyhow. Which would explain Mayor Tom Leppert’s acknowledgment yesterday that, sure ’nuff, he’s mulling a second term.And it would explain State Sen…
Around the time self-proclaimed shareholder activist Carl Icahn bought into Blockbuster half a decade ago, its stock was worth $10, give or take. He ultimately spent well over $300 million stocking up on shares, in large part to lead the effort that would lead to the ouster of then-CEO John…
Jason Witten? Check. Miles Austin? Check. Patrick Crayton? Yeah, okay, check. Roy Williams? Hmm. Dez Bryant? Interesting. Entering next month’s NFL Draft the Dallas Cowboys have needs. At safety. At kicker. At offensive tackle. And, yes, at receiver. But are the concerns there enough to take a receiver with their…
A few news and notes with which to end your red-flag Tuesday:The Bush Institute on the SMU campus today announced its very first “human freedom” event, scheduled for April 19 at the James M. Collins Executive Education Center: The Conference on Cyber Dissidents: Global Successes and Challenges. The former president…
A couple weeks ago, you may recall, we brought you a look inside what’s left of Texas Stadium, which, to our eyes, looked just about ready to come down.Not about to let the stadium go quietly, though, the city of Irving organized yet another tour of the old stadium today,…
Patrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today’s final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, there’s Billy Joe Dupree!) But for five years, Irving’s been preparing for this moment: Life After the Dallas Cowboys, as…
The Dallas International Film Festival just sent word: It has added five docs to its line-up — chief among them Lemmy, about the Motörhead frontman, which had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival two weeks ago. The NSFW SXSW trailer’s above; the full list of add-ons…
Today, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves sent out a press release urging Texans to send back their 2010 Census forms. Because, according to the numbers, most of the state’s major cities are lagging well behind the national average of a 46-percent return rate. Brownsville (at 25 percent) ranks last, followed…
