Look, I love Lucille Hester “as my big sister”, but this thing’s gone too far for too long. With new discrepancies in her story cropping up on the hour every hour, if I’m in her corner I throw in the white towel. Watching a sweet, old forgetful/manipulative lady get bludgeoned is never pretty…
… landed himself on Richie’s Sportatorium early this morning, but only because such behavior resulted in the former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver’s arrest by Irving police in late January. Dr. Whitt has the full details. And in totally, absolutely-no-way-related news, Spike just sent us a media release with the news…
Friend of Unfair Park Peterk, who knows well my soft spot for Dallas antiquities, kindly sends this link to an eBay auction due to close in two days. What you see here’s a 1924 paper boy convention outside the Adolphus Hotel — or, as they were known back then, “Juvenile…
Dan Reeves – who played for and coached for and still bleeds for the Dallas Cowboys – soured on the inner workings of Valley Ranch in 48 hours. Question: What took him so long? Reeves, remember, turned down the offensive coordinator’s gig with the San Francisco 49ers to serve as a consultant to…
Reports out of Canada this week have Sean Avery back on the ice by next week, around the same time he wraps up his stint in the NHL and NHLPA’s Behavioral Modification program. But Dallas Stars manager of hockey administration Mark Janko tells Unfair Park this morning that Sean Avery…
Early this morning, Christina Hughes Babb wrote on the Advocate’s blog that N9NE Steakhouse in Victory Park sent its employees packing last night. Nothing official, just the word of staffers who found their way to Kenichi last night in search of a drink or a job. It’s been a difficult…
On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn’t publicly traded and didn’t even need the money to stay afloat. (The feds gave Alan White the long green to…
BUZZ Higher purpose: Here are a couple of surprising facts: First, the Texas Legislature has yet to provide property owners with adequate protection from government misusing its power to acquire private property through eminent domain. Second, when the Texas chapter of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal nonprofit, was…
It’s a cold Thursday night in mid-January, and two police SUVs pull up in front of an Academy Sports and Outdoors store in North Richland Hills, an otherwise peaceful community between Dallas and Fort Worth. The squad cars represent protection for a group of Texas Rangers players and executives preparing…
“Empty Victory,” by Matt Pulle, January 29 New York State of Mind Victory will not survive without condo landowners who care about their neighborhood and investment. Renters and flippers do not make a stable neighborhood or foundation for future growth. Therefore, a simple solution is for Victory to quit trying…
If Jones—the enduring face of the franchise—can’t embrace the Super Bowl, he’ll settle for embracing the spotlight. In the locker room following his team’s abhorrent 44-6 season-ending loss to the Philadelphia Eagles back on December 28, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones promised abrupt philosophical and tangible changes. Though stubbornly retaining…
His health in question, Terry Glenn is out of football. His personal life in turmoil, Terry Glenn is out of jail. For now. According to Irving police, Glenn, the Dallas Cowboys’ leading receiver in 2005 and an integral part of their 2006 playoff team, was arrested at a hotel last…
On this (overhyped?) National Letter of Intent Signing Day, high schoolers all over the country chose which school they’d be suiting up for next. For some, it was as simple as faxing in a signed letter (a mighty challenge in its own right), but for the Dallas Independent School District’s…
Xbox-ers are no doubt anxiously awaiting tomorrow, when Microsoft finally unleashes its Halo Wars demo in advance of the game’s March 3 release date. (Am I the only person who misses Tempest? Ooooh — thanks, Atari!) I digress. So happens there’s an extremely local connection to the Halo spin-off: The…
Wanna do something really dangerous today? BASE jump. Try to steal the Valentine’s chocolate from Jessica Simpson. Or, if you’re really feeling frisky, buy some stock in 18-year-old boys. At best, it’s a risky proposition. Today is National Signing Day (the first day high-school players can make their oral committments…
On Friday, A.H. Belo Corporation announced that it would, yet again, lay off about 500 more workers at all of its properties, among them The Dallas Morning News and The Providence Journal. At the same time, Belo managers, in the newspaper group and in the corporate offices, were receiving bonuses…
The George Bush was in town yesterday. No, not that one — this one. Bringing up the rear too. The trip was well-documented with two videos captured by “unkonshus,” who deems the occasion a significant one, as ol’ No. 41 was “in [the] Dallas city limits for the first time…
The Wall Street Journal wonders why there’s been just a single bid on the opportunity to power-lunch with T. Boone Pickens, who’s selling an eat-and-greet at Nick and Sam’s to raise dough for Big Brothers Big Sisters. The auction opened Monday, and thus far only “9***a” has made an offer…
Heritage Auction Gallery, which sits across the street from Unfair Park HQ on Maple Avenue, sends word today that its February Music & Entertainment signature auction will feature The Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Estate Archive — a rather big deal for fans of early TV, not to mention the…
Item No. 3 on the Dallas City Council’s briefing agenda for today reads as follows:Approve the execution of the Hotel Operating Agreement between Omni Hotels Management Corporation and the Dallas Convention Center Hotel Development Corporation, the City’s local government corporation – Financing: No cost consideration to the City.But, this just…
Tried getting hold of Craig Tiritilli and Salah Boukadoum yesterday afternoon, but had no luck. Then again, maybe the two Soap Hope-rs behind The Original Obama Bar are laying low at the moment following this report outta the U.K., which says that White House lawyers are now “insisting on control…
The Detroit Free Press has footage of disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick boarding a LearJet Tuesday afternoon, which departed Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti for Dallas. WFAA-Channel 8 and Detroit’s WXYZ-Channel 7 (“Action News!”) have footage of Kilpatrick landing at Love Field last night, where he was greeted by his…
