Remember that Tony Romo Funny or Die video last week? Didn’t think so. Now, via a very thoughtful New York City publicist, we have the outtakes — which are slightly more amusing than the real thing. Look, I said slightly. What do you expect for free?Update: Since the audio crapped…
To quote the great Eddie Izzard, “The problem with America? You fuckers keep tearing down your history, man!” Stubborn answer: Progress. Grim reality: Sadness. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I’d peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonder at The…
After the jump you’ll find a trailer for the ABC-TV mid-season replacement The Deep End, a legal dramedy set in “one of L.A.’s most prestigious law firms.” The rest of the narrative sounds like every other legal drama in the history of the vacuum tube (especially the now-adiosed ABC series…
How much does the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office agree with defense attorneys that convicted murdered Roderick Newton had his rights violated during his 2000 trial? So much so that District Attorney Craig Watkins has agreed to a stay of execution in order to litigate the Brady violation involving the…
Let’s see, what went down on the dial while I was ransacking the craps table at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas? *Weird story about Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Not that he’s accused of sexual assault. That happens. The bizarre twist is that ESPN – your worldwide leader – has…
An admittedly nervous Steve Williams spent all of Tuesday afternoon on the stand discussing his eight-year tenure as Don Hill’s administrative assistant, pushing the anticipated debut of developer Brian Potashnik to this morning. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham paused his redirect examination of Williams as U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn…
Only a few of us left at the office — most everyone else is already down at the Granada for tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards, where doors open at 8 p.m. following the VIP shebang. Pete’s got all the details here for those considering the last-minute rally. Me, all I…
Let’s get back to Kim’s item about Roderick Newton, scheduled to be executed by the state on Thursday, for just a minute. And let’s go ahead and set aside the issue of “mental retardation.” Instead, focus on the second of three claims Newton’s attorneys make in the writ filed today…
So reports the great Ed Bark, who’s peeked at a copy of the CBS affiliate’s petition to the Federal Communications Commission in which KTVT’s asking for a new frequency pronto. Uncle Barky’s got the details, but the short version is: Channel 11 says the digital transition on June 12 absolutely…
At some point today, the city of Dallas put out the very advance word on the city’s Web site: “City offices will be closed for business on Friday, September 4, 2009 (furlough day) and Monday, September 7, 2009 in observance of Labor/Ceasar E. Chavez Day.” (Look, maybe city officials would…
Chicks dig the long ball. We all love the fireworks. But nobody is connected to home runs like your Texas Rangers. I know they have 20 sacrifice bunts, 78 stolen bases and a committment to try and manufacture runs this season, but in the end – same as it ever was -…
Ten years ago last March, “Roderick Newton and Julian Williams went to a car wash in Pleasant Grove in Dallas looking for someone to rob.” So reminds the Texas Attorney General’s media release issued last week, which recounts the reason Newton is scheduled to be executed by the state Thursday…
Bart Forbes doesn’t recall the painting of his currently up for grabs on eBay; “boy, this is old,” says the Dallas-based illustrator when reached by Unfair Park for a little backstory. Course, he’s done plenty of pieces since the 1970s — everything from stamps for the U.S. Postal Service to…
So, by now you’re probably plenty beaten down by all the items we’ve had in recent weeks dealing with Re:Vision Dallas and that proposed sustainable block behind City Hall. Because, clearly, you just don’t care. I just noticed that for the last couple of weeks, Urban Re:Vision has been taking…
Lots of stuff hit the Internet while I was on vacation. Let’s play some peek-a-boo catch-up, shall we? ERIN ANDREWS I can’t legally directly link to the Erin Andrews video – you know the one – but I can say that I saw it last week at a site that rhymed with…
Allow me to quote from the source material: “In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period.” So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made…
Sorry, that’s hardly as sexy as it sounds. But that is how José Bowen, dean of the university’s Meadows School of the Arts, describes his edict to pull the plug on the technology clogging up the classrooms. Bowen, speaking to The Chronicle of Higher Education, doesn’t buy University of Texas…
Literally, judging by this photo I took on my way back to the office from The Cedars. So what do they do now — knock out one leg at a time and see what happens? No? Because they should…
I guess there was some drama involved, but don’t tell me you’re totally surprised that the winner of Spike TV and Michael Irvin’s 4th and Long is – ta-da! – a Michael Irvin clone. Jesse Holley has the size (6-foot-3), speed (4.5) and smile of Irvin, and now he has a…
Just received an email from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding the lawsuit filed against him by former owner Ross Perot Jr. I’ve covered the Mavs during both regimes and just let me say unequivocally that in any fight – fist, financial or basketball IQ – I’m siding with Cuban. In my earlier post I…
The hearing for once, twice, three-times-a-fired-Dallas cop Fernando Perez just wrapped — and Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder upheld the termination. And thus ends the tale of Fernando Perez, who opted to hold the hearing behind closed doors when Unfair Park showed up at City Hall for a progress report…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Austin American-Statesman story from yesterday, in which two former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents — one of them a former Dallas captain — warn that TABC Administrator Alan Steen ain’t much good when it comes to following through with apologies and investigations…
