The parade is over. The drinking hasn’t yet commenced. For an appetizer, how about a St. Patrick’s Day tribute to the NBA’s All Fake-Irish Team including – surprise – a Maverick: Gerald Green. Dominic McGuire. Tracy McGrady. Troy Murphy. Shaquille O’Neal…
Just came across the press site for Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s six-part series about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and … well, you know, because it’s right there in the title and because you follow the news. Word was Discovery had waited to shoot…
Come September 14 (and certainly year’s end), Dallas Area Rapid Transit is looking to up the price of everything, from a local single ride fare (from $1.50 to $2) to a premium weekly pass ($25 to $35) to a two-zone commuter rail annual pass ($800 to $1,050) and so forth…
Ever tell you my Roy Tarpley story? In 1994-95 I’m covering the Dallas Mavericks for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After some horrible seasons under Quinn Buckner and the like, the organization is abuzz. The Three J’s – remember them? – are in place and rejoining the rebuilding is the most talented,…
Every few years, Dallas Mavericks fans are reminded of the team’s greatest failure — not the loss to Miami in the NBA Finals, not the one-and-done against Golden State in ’07, not the 11-win season under Gar Heard. Rather, it’s two simple words: “Roy” and “Tarpley,” whose travails and tragedies…
What you see at right is a reproduction of Willliam Adolphe Bouguerau’s Notre-Dame des Anges (Our Lady of the Angels), painted in 1889 in France; this version sells here for $15, though, at the moment, it’s on sale for $11.99, so act now. It might look especially familiar to locals:…
Three weeks ago, Frank Farias, an airman stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque was arrested for murder. Dallas police had issued a warrant that accused him of first-degree murder in the January 25 death of Marlon Alfaro, 23, outside a Lower Greenville club. Farias spent last week in…
More than 100 pinball machines, all set to free play, and not a deaf, dumb, blind kid in sight. It might sound like some crazy pinballer’s fantasy, but it came true this weekend at the Texas Pinball Festival.Collectors and enthusiasts from around the country descended on Grapevine to show off…
On Friday, in the comments to Rawlins Gilliand’s Neimans recollections, Friend of Unfair Park Joseph B. wrote:I recently read an article on famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman and discovered he filmed a 4 hour documentary on Neiman Narcus here in Dallas back in the early 80’s. Anyone seen it? Several critics…
As promised over the weekend, photographer Danny Hurley spent the weekend out at Dallas All-Con 2009 out at the Crowne Plaza, where cosplay is king.Superheroes, anime stars, and even a few bots and droids, were among the subjects Hurley caught for his portrait setup, and we’ve got his full series…
Probably need to workshop that headline. Till then, here’s Angela Hunt’s perspective on Saturday’s festivities along Greenville Avenue: “better than last year.” And she’s got the video and photos to prove it.2009.03.14 – St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party from Angela Hunt on Vimeo…
Till late last week, the formerly prolific Carla Ranger hadn’t posted to her blog for most of 2009. But the Dallas Independent School District board member has returned, and today she points our attention to state Rep. Yvonne Davis’s H.B. 3532 introduced late last week, which calls for “the abolition…
We were asked not to say anything till later this week, but the full-page ad in yesterday’s paper ran a week too early yesterday and jumped the starter’s gun … so, we’re off. As it said in the AFI Dallas International Film Festival spread on Page 18A, this year’s Star…
I give up. I admit, I expected the Dallas Mavericks to lose at Phoenix, lose at Portland, beat Golden State and get blown out by the Lakers. I went 0-4. In typically unpredictable, unsettling fashion, they went 2-2. I’ll go on Channel 52 tonight at 6:30 – fingers crossed -…
Back in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that “at one of those big office parks on International Parkway” in Carrollton, “a whole bunch of people got really mad” and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related the story to Granberry:…
Just noticed this on the Dallas City Hall Web site: the results of a recently taken survey of more than 1,600 Dallas households, who were asked about their thoughts about the city — everything from “Perception of the Overall Quality of Life in Dallas” to “Ratings of Dallas As a…
In no particular order … 10. A Honey Bun (wrapped) 9. A marshmallow (sticky) 8. Multiple jello shots (thanks) 7. Beads (catch and release program?) 6. Half of an apple (that’s just wrong)…
More photos from the parade and the mess that followed, in our slide show here.Once a year in Dallas, we come together to celebrate the common heritage that binds us all, whether we spent our formative years at frat parties, Uptown bars or the clearing down by the lake.We dress…
Friend of the show and local photographer Danny Hurley spent the day at the Dallas All-Con 2009 at the Crowne Plaza, where it’s been quite the hodgepodge of sci-fi fans wee, womens and way otherwise since yesterday’s kickoff. The caper wraps tomorrow but goes all night till then, which is…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have gotten the jump on their Sunday New York Times and found within two stories with local ties. Chief among them: the magazine story about George W. Bush’s Freedom Institute on the SMU campus. Much of it rehashes the last two-plus years’ worth of controversy,…
As promised this morning, here’s Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore — though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke’s in the thing for all of the one scene, so how’d he get…
This week’s cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park profiles Mesquite’s Kim Rivera and her fellow Iraq war deserters fighting for refuge in Canada. Because many of them are facing deportation, the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign dubbed late January “Let Them Stay Week.”Our accompanying slide show by…
