The very helpful humans at WFAA-Channel 8 aired a segment full of protect-yer-pipe cold-weather tips during the 5 p.m. newscast. I missed it then, but caught the 10 p.m. rerun. And now it’s after the jump, for those trying to keep these frigid temps from penetrating their entrances…
Miles Austin has overcome being from Monmouth College. Miles Austin has overcome being an undrafted free agent. Miles Austin has overcome being buried on the bench until Week 5. Miles Austin has overcome playing receiver opposite Roy Williams. But … …
No doubt you’ve already heard: On New Year’s Eve the Irving city council voted to let Kraft Macaroni & Cheese blow up Texas Stadium in exchange for $75,000 cash money. And now, Kraft’s NYC-based publicist sends word that “one lucky kid (ages 9-12) who has made a positive, explosive impact…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Over on Craigslist, someone’s trying to offload hundreds of old Video Bar videotapes for the low, low price of $1,000. That’s quite the flashback for those of us who (barely, because we were very underage) remember Bart Weiss’s former Deep Ellum hot…
Hat tip, of course, to Mr. Spock for the headline suggestion — what, you’ve never heard the ancient Vulcan proverb? Shame. Anyway. Yes, looks like the former Dallas Maverick is headed to China, if this crudely interpreted Web site is any indication. Jerry Stackhouse, who said in October he wasn’t…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word this morning that Leppert and Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (awesome) have made a bet on Saturday night’s Cowboys-Eagles game. But, blessedly, they’ve dispensed with the wackiness (no jerseys worn to council meetings) and gone straight for the sincere: “The…
It all started with a phone call to 105.3 The Fan’s Sybil Summers. A tip that the Philadelphia Eagles’ web site was posting something or other about Cowboys Stadium’s sacred star. A little investigative digging and – voila – Cowboys-Eagles III just got more interesting. The Bounty Bowl. Randall Cunningham’s fake…
Perhaps you saw the story in the morning paper: According to the state comptroller’s office, Dallas pulled in sales tax revenue totaling $14.5 million in November 2009. And while that’s a considerable plunge from same-time-last-year’s intake ($18.34 million), that’s really not the number to focus on. You need instead to…
In our effort to get some last-minute extra reporting into this week’s cover story, “High Time For Change” by Dave Farrell, about how, just maybe, there’s a bright future ahead for those pushing for the legalization of marijuana, the Observer managed to misquote Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle. When you…
It last happened about 4,500 days ago. So far, far in the distant past that the Macarena was the rage, the Internet could barely walk and Tiger Woods had yet to win a PGA tournament. So long ago that the Dallas Cowboys were defending Super Bowl champions. Saturday night in…
Good grief: Buzz just loves shenanigans, so it’s no wonder we found ourselves roped in by claims from Eric Johnson’s campaign that some of the petitions attached to state Representative Terri Hodge’s ballot application didn’t pass the smell test. It appeared as though Hodge, who submitted 610 signatures from registered…
These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente Boulevard south of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. A serious vibe fills the loft-like space, where rows of desks are…
Oak Cliff’s own Jeff Liles is out in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church at this very moment, and he reports that workers for Ponce Contractors are inside the 104-year-old 10th Street church removing asbestos. And, sure enough, the man in charge of the remediation tells Unfair Park that…
An eclectic mix of folks packed the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House last night as a jaw-dropping group of former Dallas Cowboys players reminisced during the taping of Glory Days, a television pilot scheduled to debut January 30 on KTVT-Channel 11 prior to finding a national outlet. Audience members…
And, speaking of Mark Birnbaum …When last I spoke with the Dallas-based doc maker, he was out and about filming Mayor Tom Leppert and other council members for a short promoting the new convention center hotel. He hasn’t seen the finished film yet — he was but a shooter on…
Speaking of Kettle Art …I noticed that on his blog yesterday, U.K.-based illustrator Damien Weighill posted a note that he’s all set to make his Dallas debut at Frank Campagna’s Deep Ellum gallery. The exhibition runs January 28 through February 2, but on the 30th, Weighill will be joined by…
2009 was a rough year for Terry Glenn. 2010 apparently none too better…
In case you missed Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza’s mini-doc Dig Deep — about the keeper of Kettle Art, Frank Campagna, and his work on Deep Ellum murals extinct and extant — when it debuted at the Dallas Video Festival in November, Mark was kind enough to post it to…
On Monday, we directed your attention to The Times’s tale of Sergio Kindle, the Woodrow Wilson High School grad one day away from playing in The Only College Football Game That Matters. A fellow Woodrow grad and good Friend of Unfair Park also directs our attention to an ESPN piece…
Andy Reid, the guy who has taken the Philadelphia Eagles to five NFC Championships and a Super Bowl this century? Or Wade Phillips, who doesn’t have a playoff win on his resume but is 33-16 in Dallas and has his defense playing at a Super Bowl level? NBC analyst Rodney…
On New Year’s Eve we heard from one poor Pearl at Commerce patron, “Never Parking In a Pay Lot Again,” who claims to have gotten the boot even after paying to park in the lot across the street. And, according to Pearl at Comemrce’s Tracy Yost, our Friend wasn’t the…
A couple of weeks back, GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina was demanding she get an invite to KERA’s January 14 debate at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the University of North Texas campus. KERA spokesperson Meg Fullwood told us, look, she just needs to be patient: “We do not…
