Till Tuesday night, it was the question of the Dallas-Golden State series: Where’s Dirk? During the first four games against the Warriors, he shot a lousy 40 percent and looked more French than German as he surrendered the first-round series to Baron Davis. Then, finally, on Tuesday night Dirk showed…
Unlike Alberto Gonzales, I do recall. It’s a shameful recollection about a day I naively assumed a first marriage would last, about a moment I flippantly reduced Byron Nelson to a prop. “OK, OK, I’m gyot one!” I slurred to bleary-eyed buddies as my wedding pre-game deteriorated into an alcohol-aided…
District 9 city council candidate Jill Kotvis called me after I wrote a snarky item on the Dallas Observer’s blog, Unfair Park, taking her to task for obfuscating charges related to a 20-year-old drunk driving arrest. It was sporting of her to call. I didn’t beat up on her for…
Artless: Stereotypes are bad. Got that. It’s wrong to say anything is “typical Dallas.” We know. This is a big, cosmopolitan (snort) American city in the 21st century. So, far be it from Buzz—well, not that far, just a few more words—to smirk at a situation and dismiss it with…
Hard Time With Jesus Any faith will do: I think this program (“Jesus in the Jailhouse,” by Jesse Hyde, April 26) is successful for three reasons: 1. They have chosen inmates who are less likely to come back. 2. They have a strong follow-up program that ensures the inmates are…
A relatively unknown candidate for mayor just six months ago, Tom Leppert has garnered attention, endorsements and cash by relentlessly casting himself as a successful former chief executive officer whose stewardship of Turner Construction, one of the world’s largest construction companies, was an apt prelude to leading a city like…
Roy Abraham Varghese has a God equation. It is self-evident. He sees it in a grain of sand. He sees it in bees, especially bees. By rights, bees shouldn’t fly. The haphazard way in which they beat their wings simply shouldn’t haul their pot-bellied bodies aloft. But they fly, hovering…
Yeah, yeah, we know: You stopped watching David Letterman round the time you were suckin’ on your first bong in college some time in the mid-1980s. Now you’re all Colbert this and Olbermann that. Too good for late-night network talk shows. Got it. But before we head out to brave…
Some Friends of Unfair Park have asked today why the current debate over the Trinity Parkway hasn’t received any substantial coverage in Dallas’ Only Daily. This sneak peek at tomorrow’s editorial page, courtesy Dallas Morning Views, should provide at least part of your answer: Tomorrow’s editorials TRINITY – Building on…
And then, living at the other end of Funtown, are Your Texas Rangers. Nobody should be rooting harder for the Mavs than the boys who forgot how to hit a baseball. The longer they’re ignored, the better. Remember way back in April, when a goofball columnist doubted Sammy Sosa’s production…
Sorry, Jim, but Aaron “T-Bone” Walker got there first. I know, I know — you just can’t get enough of this Trinity River talk. It’s like porn for politicos, which was also my favorite post-Jane’s Addiction band. So, yeah, here’s some more — a press release from the Sam Coats…
Robert W. Haley, professor of internal medicine and chief of epidemiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Nine years ago in the pages of the Dallas Observer, Ann Zimmerman wrote about how Dallas doctors — chief among them, Robert W. Haley, professor of internal medicine and chief of…
If so, then hustle down to 4005 Gaston Avenue, where local preachers have been doing a little Bible-thumping in a huge revival-style tent erected for tomorrow’s National Day of Prayer. The tent, which will be there till May 18, is smack-dab in the middle of Dallas Theological Seminary, Criswell College…
This morning, “richardallenkent” posted to YouTube a few fond memories from the old Channel 11 morning show, Slam Bang Theater. This clip, in particular, seems somehow…oh, I dunno…relevant this morning. –Robert Wilonsky…
Harvard’s Alex Krieger insists Jim Schutze and Angela Hunt have distorted the meaning of his original e-mail to Mayor Laura Miller. From: Laura Miller To: Bill Eager, Alex Krieger CC: David Webb, Robert Wilonsky, Dave Levinthal, Colleen Nelson, Keven Ann Willey, Trey Garrison, Craig Holcomb, Gail Thomas, Robert Decherd, Angela…
In March, Angela Hunt began her campaign to allow voters to decide the fate of the mayor’s new, improved Trinity Parkway. Mayor Miller and referendum opponents hold up the Balanced Vision Plan as proof that all is well with the toll road project. They argue that the toll road will…
And so it begins. By now, we hope, you’ve all read both Jim Schutze and Mayor Laura Miller’s posts yesterday concerning the Trinity River toll road — the so-called Trinity Parkway. As it turns out, they were but opening salvos. This morning Unfair Park found in our inbox several missives…
Pause the obituary and fast-forward the optimism, because Dirk Nowitzki just saved his ass and his team’s season with a comeback of Staubachian proportions. Just as another passive performance was shoving his Mavericks to the brink of an unthinkable elimination, Nowitzki suddenly summoned one of the greatest individual finishes in…
There are nearly 7 million people now under the supervision of the correctional system in the United States — and that includes prison, parole or probation. That’s one out of every 32 adult Americans, a rate of incarceration that is unprecedented in U.S. history. What, then, to do with our…
Whilst cruising YouTube during lunch, I stumbled across a most wonderous thing: the new Polyphonic Spree video, which was done by a good Friend of Unfair Park’s, photographer Hal Samples. It’s for a tremendous track off the band’s forthcoming The Fragile Army, and it consists entirely of pictures — 2,341…
You know who’s happy about the news of The News’ steep drop in circulation numbers? Um, Tom DeLay, that’s who. Says so right on his blog, which is, surprisingly, not called The Emasculated Douchebag. “The old media, with its three main news networks and daily papers of record in the…
This is a distress alert from the North Texas Sports Disaster Service. Trained spotters in Dallas have pinpointed ominous circulation and the possibility of an unprecedented and fatal occurrence of destruction in and around the American Airlines Center. A severe warning has been issued until, oh, say, midnightish. If you…
