To be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of year-end wrap-ups. We’ll have a couple tomorrow — enh, it’s the law — but Friends of Unfair Park know by now that when I look back, it tends to be way back. Hence, this post courtesy the Red Oak Kid, who…
Thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who alerted me to Robert Jeffress’s appearance FOX & Friends yesterday. The guy really gets around; hope he sent Rick Warren a nice Christmas card. –Robert Wilonsky…
First he leaves At the Movies; now, he’s no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper’s back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a…
KERA-FM (90.1) didn’t take long finding shows to replace Day to Day and News & Notes, both victims of National Public Radio’s budget cuts earlier this month. Both will make their debut on Thursday. Oh, you want their names? Tell Me More and The Story. And there’s a third show…
The City of Dallas has maintained for years that it needs the proposed Fastrill Reservoir in East Texas to meet the city’s future water needs; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists looking to protect the Neches River disagree. Hence, the lawsuit filed by the city in January 2007,…
Good and trustworthy Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston directs our attention to a new biz in Deep Ellum he says is worth a look-see: It’s a Grind Coffee House on Indiana Street, which opened its doors about a month back. It’s especially notable, says Bill, because its a venture…
In keeping with our “Best of … ” programming this week, I’ll provide the most memorable Metroplex sports moments of 2008 on Wednesday. Until then, a look back at what you guys clicked on/commented on the most in the past year. The Sportatorium’s version of The People’s Choice Awards, if you will…
This morning’s Wall Street Journal ticks off “plenty of unusual ailments that are quite real,” with Foreign Accent Syndrome topping the list. And, as it turns out, there’s a significantly local connection to this rare ailment, which involves folks with brain injuries (most of the time, anyway) rather suddenly and…
The graphic accompanying the release of the October 2008 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices looks like a country in free fall — home prices down some 20 percent from this time last year, sweet fancy Moses. Of course, locals will take cozy comfort in this paragraph from the morning news release:Dallas…
Brian Harkin Whilst searching city records, we stumbled upon council member Carolyn Davis’s semiannual campaign finance report. She filed the document November 17, which was nearly two months ahead of the January 15 deadline. Since Davis is hardly the model of punctuality when it comes to filing reports and she’s…
On this decidedly slow news day during which everyone’s running out the clock before bidding 2008 good riddance, perhaps this offering from the Wayback Machine’s just the ticket: a look at the front page of the Fort Worth Daily Gazette from December 30, 1883. I stumbled across it early this…
On Friday, the very fashionable Nathan Branch posted to his blog several photos snapped during a Christmas Day walk through Highland Park Village. Branch, who kindly allowed Unfair Park to run the picture above, took note of the deep discounts being offered in almost every newly polished window and wondered…
Sure, there’s FireWadePhillips.com — has been for months, though it’s a rather uninspired site all things considered. But a Friend of Unfair Park sends word of this site calling for Jason Garrett’s head, which was set up after yesterday’s Worst Game in the History of Ever. Sign the petition, pro…
Southwest Airlines doesn’t feel the Federal Aviation Administration’s $10.2 million fine, handed down in March and due last August, is “fair or reasonable.” So, you know what, Southwest’s not gonna pay it, its spokesperson tells Bloomberg News today. To which the FAA says it’s “still talking with” Southwest about paying…
After the jump, perhaps the most confusing video ever, featuring the likes of Mark Cuban, Jason Kidd, “Disco” Dirk Nowitzki (wha?) and other Dallas Mavericks during their sojourn to Canada a couple of weeks ago. The host is a YouTube put-on named Kayvon, who’s been known to hassle celebs during…
Friends of Unfair Park I like to call “Mom” and “Dad” suggested this photo op on Meaders Lane, where, from the looks of our drive last night, damned near every house between Preston and Inwood Roads appears to have one of these signs planted in the front yard — on…
If it’s good enough for Kidd Kraddick and Casey Kasem, then a vacation week laced with “Best of …” programming is good enough for my lil’ corner of the blogosphere. Left to digest how the pre-season Super Bowl favorites missed the playoffs and how the group of Cowboy cast-offs in Miami…
Sandwiched between reports of strangulations, strikings and stolen cars on Saturday’s Dallas Police Department crime report is this item from the Fiesta at 9727 Webb Chapel Road in Northwest Dallas: “AP ATE A CHOCOLATE DONUT AND LEFT WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT.” And, yes, “AP” means the guy was arrested –…
Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey — a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling — and it’s not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to business executives responding to the…
Flickr photo: sbisson Broadcasting & Cable brings the news that Belo Corp. and Charter Communications have reached a tentative deal that will keep the Dallas-owned stations on the cable carrier in three markets: St. Louis; Norfolk, Virgina; and Charlotte, North Carolina. So far, though, there’s been no word from WFAA-Channel…
And now, we finally have a photo to replace this one of Tony Romo weeping at the end of Seattle 21, Dallas 20 on January 6, 2007. Said a friend as we were watching the predictable demise of Dallas, no image better defines Cowboys 2008 than this one, screengrabbed by…
Shittingly. Fittingly. The most disappointing season in Cowboys’ history ends with THE most embarrassing loss in Cowboys’ history. Favored to make it to the Super Bowl, the Cowboys finish 9-7 and miss the playoffs. In a do-or-don’t game, the Cowboys absolutely pussed out and were peed on in a 44-6…
