Temperatures Saturday night in Arlington could dip into the teens. If local ticket brokers are any indication, the mood inside Cowboys Stadium might be a tad chilly as well. With tickets and party passes still available through the Cowboys and TicketMaster and almost 10,000 seats floating around StubHub, Cowboys-Eagles just…
As usual, friend of the show Justin Terveen was out and about shooting the city this week when he discovered that part of Little Baghdad in the Cedars is being torn down. And by Little Baghdad, I mean, of course, the small patch of Alma Street and Cockrell Avenue made…
Four years ago we were writing about the race for Dallas County Precinct 5 constable: Mike Dupree v. Jaime Cortes. Ah, the good ol’ days; how things have …. changed? Now, it’s Jaime Cortes v. a handful of comers looking to snatch away his job, which he only got after…
It’s been rumored for weeks, but KTVT-Channel 11 made it official this afternoon: Starting Monday, it’s expanding its 4 p.m. newscast by another half hour, with Keith Garvin and Tracy Kornet holding down the anchor desk. That means, sorry, no more Inside Edition on Channel 11; it moves to TXA…
We just love shenanigans, so it’s no wonder why 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 voters…
While Pete’s giving away a suite to see Lil Wayne over on DC9, you’ll pardon this musical interlude over here on Unfair Park. But this morning’s mail brought a most pleasant surprise: the debut disc from Shoot Low Sheriff, which marks Erik Swanson’s return to his perch upon the Western…
So, yes, the Dallas County Commissioners Court did discuss privatizing security at all Dallas County courthouses and other county-owned-and-operated buildings. Problem was, the commissioners couldn’t agree on what to do.Commissioner Maurine Dickey, who made the proposal last month, emerged, of course, as the strongest advocate for privatization. But she could…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in ’99, he was director of communications — which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a…
View Larger MapThe northeast corner of the North Dallas Tollway and Arapaho Road is a parking-lot wasteland, thanks, in large part, to that abandoned OfficeMax. For going on two years, Rosebud Properties has been trying to redevelop the land; there was a proposal before the City Plan Commission in April…
Right before Christmas, Dallas Independent School District board president Adam Medrano told Unfair Park he is “not sure what can be done at this point” to save the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which DISD purchased in the fall to make way for some piece of the new Adamson High School…
We’ve written quite a bit about the Dallas Police Department’s efforts to treat prostitutes not as criminals, but as victims: In ’06, Jesse Hyde profiled the so-called “whore cop” who works truck stops; two years later, he wrote about the Letot Center, where minors on the run from their pimps…
Flipping through the agenda for today’s meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court, I came across an interesting item on page 193 concerning potential plans to privatize “all security functions in the County.” What the …? Because last I remembered reading, the county was going to put the Sheriff’s Department…
See, that’s the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they’re 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night’s game was a…
TCU-Boise State — so far, quite the sloppy, defensive time-kill till Thursday night’s Big Game. Speaking of which, here’s a warm-up from tomorrow’s New York Times: a profile of University of Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle, who grew up in South Oak Cliff and shoulda gone to SOC but instead went…
Admit it. You laughed when the DPD and city officials held a press conference last week urging locals to stop firing guns while bringing in the new year. “No … gunfire … on … New … Year’s … Eve,” Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway said nice and slow in an…
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle says he’s not interested in committing initially to any of the numerous job offers he’s received since announcing his retirement in November. He’s been approached mostly with consulting and teaching positions, he says, and no one has asked him to become the top cop someplace…
A good, but clearly very cheap, Friend of Unfair Park who shares my affection for the old Statler Hilton hotel downtown sends word: An Arkansas eBay’er is looking to offload some coffee creamers and a sugar bowl that came out of that hotel way back when. Says the seller: “The…
A little while ago, the Dallas Film Society — which operates the Dallas International Film Festival, also known as The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International — announced some changes at the top, the biggest of which has to do with Michael Cain being promoted to the title…
It may be a few weeks before we know for sure, but after years of wondering what to do about the Bama Pie mess, the city’s inching closer to filing a lawsuit over the empty building in South Dallas. Oh, right — what Bama Pie building? Longtime Friends of Unfair…
My New Year’s resolution? To be more positive. More optimistic. More don’t-look-now-but-holy-hell-my-glass-is-half-full. Bear with me, this is gonna be tougher than going without a crumb of food for 10 days. Ready? Here goes. I’m open to the idea of Wade Phillips returning as Dallas Cowboys’ head coach, assuming they beat…
Last we talked to Jose Escobedo (actually, his daughter Brandy), he wasn’t going to yank out his fake lawn, no matter what the city said. But that was in August, before he spent months learning you can’t fight City Hall — especially when it comes to planting turf in a…
