In reference to the story: Super Bowl prostitution: 100,000 hookers didn’t show, but America’s latest political scam did. (Editor’s Note) On February 10, 2011, Traffick911 issued the following press release detailing the involvement of a coalition of more than 50 organizations that sought to “combat potential sex trafficking” at this…
Finding fiscal Jesus: Saturday’s Dallas Morning News story reporting that Tom Leppert now opposes federal earmark money for the Trinity River project reminded Buzz of an old newspaper friend. He had struggled mightily with temptation during his younger married years—and lost. Buzz hadn’t seen him in a long time. Now,…
Had elected officials done even the slightest research, they would have known it was myth. But this had little to do with protecting women and children. Think of it as a combination religious revival and political scam. Politicians, women’s groups, cops and child advocates were predicting that up to 100,000…
When Sam and I got to Main Street Garden around 2:15 this afternoon for the Statler-sale press conference, there weren’t a lot of people around — just a few folks lingering on benches, and maybe a half dozen diners seated beneath the Lily Pad’s shade. A lectern stamped with the…
Robert Wuhl is bringing his solo show Assume the Position to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre in Addison next week. The two-week festival opens tomorrow with a lineup of more than 20 different performances of drama, dance, music and comedy. It’s an enjoyably freewheeling theater…
Just less than a year ago, The Paper Version of Unfair Park recounted the story of Michael Manos, an ex-con from Poughkeepsie who jumped parole and started a series of more glamorous new lives, under a series of unlikely assumed names, from Houston to Atlanta to, eventually, Dallas, running all…
Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city’s newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast in the Flag Room at City Hall that he’d continue the “positive direction of the city” during his four months in office…
At this very moment, something called the 8th Annual Texas ACG Capital Connection is taking place at the Fairmont Hotel; long story short, suits and ties and private equity and Ben Stein as the lunchtime speaker (ah, but will he do this for an hour?). Bill Lively kicked off the…
A year ago Doug Free was a question mark. Now he’s an exclamation point. The Dallas Cowboys professed their love for their left tackle yesterday, placing the highest possible tender on him as the NFL prepares for unchartered and unsettling free agency in the midst of a labor lockout. Under…
Actually, according to an e-mail ABC-TV publicist Erin Felentzer sent to Unfair Park a few days back, Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book about a divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities is no longer called Good Christian Bitches. Instead, she…
The fear with the Dallas Stars is this: Tom Hicks would so bury the team that no one would buy them and eventually they’d leave Dallas. It appears, knock on ice-covered wood, that a savior has arisen. Goes by the name of Doug Miller. Everyone from Mark Cuban to Wayne…
Tuesday evening, Mayor Dwaine’s not-quite-chief-of-staff Chris Heinbaugh sent word: At 2:30 today, Caraway, council member Ron Natinsky, Grand Ricchi’s Leobardo Trevino, Arts District exec director Veletta Lill and Downtown Dallas Inc.’s CEO John Crawford will gather for a press conference to discuss “the future of the historic Statler Hilton Hotel,…
When Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Terry boldly claimed last week that his team was going to catch the San Antonio Spurs, we rolled our eyes. Because, one, it wasn’t possible. And, two, it didn’t really matter. After further review, watch out. Terry scored 30 points last night on sizzling 13-of-18 shooting and the…
Speaking of federal lawsuits …Here’s another one I found Tuesday morning, filed Monday in the U.S. Northern District of Texas Dallas Division: Rodney Bennett v. Dallas Independent School District.In the complaint, which you’ll find in full on the other side, Bennett says that between 2001 and the end of last…
Last year, This Old House magazine singled out Junius Heights as one of the Best Old House Neighborhoods in the country, insisting, “Proximity to downtown Dallas, great schools, and recent recognition as a National Register Historic District are driving up Junius Heights’ property values and helping the neighborhood maintain its…
Yesterday we watched ABC News’s David Muir do Diane Sawyer’s bidding and empty the Snow White Drive home of Jon and Anna Usry of everything not made in the U.S. and A. Though, as several Friends of Unfair Park noted, the couple and their kids did get to keep their…
Last week, the Texas Tribune sat down in Austin to chat up U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Today, the Trib posted some of that interview, during which Kirk reveals that when he stepped down as Dallas Mayor, he cried. So did Schutze. Like a baby.You can watch the video. Or…
Back in mid-June came The Big Announcement: The Dallas Police & Fire Pension System was ponying up the $200 million needed to build the long-stalled-out Museum Tower high-rise in the Arts District. That same day, you may recall, we revisited a blast from the past — the system’s $27-mil investment…
Political consultant Carol Reed answered questions about the battle for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Dallas mayor’s race, the 2012 Republican presidential primary and an assortment of local and state issues last night at a meeting of the Dallas Log Cabin Republicans. However, she…
A Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off earlier today: Dallas County property records reveal that the old Statler Hilton has indeed been sold; so too its next-door neighbor, the former Dallas Public Library. And according to the deed sale documents, both were purchased by none other than the Ricchi…
While we await some return phone calls, this just in: There’s a “community meeting” scheduled for tomorrow night to discuss possible cuts at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. Per the Dallas Friends of Public Education, the meeting — which I’ve been told is really…
Buzz Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His Friday Night Lights captured high-school football in Texas, spawned a network TV series and afforded him writing immortality. Buzz Bissinger is also an idiot. At least when it comes to the NBA. His “White Men Can’t Root” column for TheDailyBeast.com is horrible. No research. Generic…
