So, let me get this straight: In an attempt to fix the Dallas Cowboys’ defense, we went out and hired a coach who is half Buddy Ryan and half…Big Lebowski? After watching the Cowboys surrender yards, points and losses in epic proportions in 2010, I guess we’re desperate for any…
The scene could have been lifted from any of a dozen cops-and-robbers movies: Nervous crooks and an undercover informant gather for a secret meeting. The bad guys are suspicious. Someone—they just know it—is wearing a wire. Tension mounts. Things look bleak for the wired-up hero. Bill Fisher knows that scene…
The alarm bells reached peak decibel in November, when Dallas Police Sergeant Louis Felini told the The Dallas Morning News that between 50,000 and 100,000 prostitutes could descend on the metroplex for the Super Bowl. The call to outrage had sounded. His estimate was astonishing. At the higher figure, it…
Last night, WFAA reported that some 300 Dallas Independent School District employees will not return next year — not because of the state’s $25-billion shortfall, but because the $104 million in federal stimulus money that funded their positions beginning in 2009 has gone away. As DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander tells…
I’m not exactly sure what I expected when I chose to join other media folks this afternoon at the Dallas Convention Center for a tour of the NFL Experience, but let’s just say I felt cheated even though I hadn’t spent a dime. Promoted as an “interactive theme park” covering…
After hearing from a coalition of business and property owners in the Lower Greenville area that represent 5,500 households, the city council voted moments ago to approve the Lower Greenville Planned Development District, which will place tighter constraints on bars and late-night businesses on the troubled strip. The PDD has…
No doubt you’re aware that KISS’s Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed (who I wouldn’t Google Image search from the office too hard, if I were you) are among the myriad celebs hosting Super Bowl shindigs next week. Theirs is the Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops at Fair Park,…
Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, e-mailed this morning with the good news: “I am told the seal in front of City Hall should be fixed today.” He wanted me to pass along that info to the Friends of Unfair Park — and the 7-year-old who lives in my…
A week after Texas Rangers team president Nolan Ryan said he’s happy with the team and that his roster is set for spring training, his franchise made a trade yesterday. One I don’t quite grasp. The Rangers sent reliever Frankie Francisco to the Toronto Blue Jays for veteran catcher/first baseman…
[Update: For reasons explained in the piece below, Bruce Sherbet tells Unfair Park he has resigned, effective March 1. He says when he spoke to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price today, he told him he would work through the May mayoral election — or he’d leave earlier, if Price…
At the beginning of the week, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle had no intention of running for Dallas mayor. Today, he tells Unfair Park, that has changed.While the 60-year-old Kunkle says he remains unsure of what he will do, chances are “greater that I will run than I won’t…
Blake Griffin had one highlight – his NBA-leading 100th dunk of the season off an alley-oop in the first quarter. But for the most part Tuesday night at American Airlines Center, it was same ol’ Clippers. And same ol’ Mavericks. Which meant, of course, Dallas 112, Los Angeles 105. The…
Ashley Burton, an Oncor spokesperson, just called with the news: “All of those lights on the Commerce Street viaduct have been repaired and turned on. I just spoke with someone who was out there to check last night, and they’re energized and turned on.”Me too, Ashley. After all, many of…
In the fall of ’09, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board inched toward spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buses that would be powered by compressed natural gas — as opposed to the liquefied natural gas and clean diesel presently fueling the current fleet. Mayor Tom Leppert, who…
What we saw in 2010 were the record number of yards and points allowed by the Dallas Cowboys’ defense. We remember the eye-popping, heart-gouging 33 passing touchdowns surrendered. Apparently owner Jerry Jones saw something different. Either that, or the Cowboys have their eye on a cornerback in the NFL Draft…
Jim’s on vacation this week. So I’ll use that opportunity to highlight a short film starring his boy Will, the Woodrow Wildcat presently residing in Los Angeles, where, between acting jobs, he’s busking on Venice Beach, in Santa Monica and in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. I…
Speaking of Angela Hunt …The maybe-mayoral candidate who presently reps that stretch of downtown due to be widened says that, yes, she’s all for it. She was back in January 2009, you may recall, when she asked for a time-out so she could confer with DowntownDallas president and CEO John…
If you thought you’d heard the last from the City Council on gas drilling for a while, well, think again.Originally, the council was going to approve, without much, if any, discussion tomorrow a resolution by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport board relating to the gas drilling on the property. The…
The gentleman you see above in the Dallas Police Department uniform is DPD Sergeant Donald McMillion. Next to him, in the Austin PD uniform, is Sergeant Ronald McMillion. In case you hadn’t noticed — and, really, I like to take nothing for granted — they are identical twins, who, for…
KDMX-FM (102.9, The Mix) hasn’t been on my radar since … well … um, ever? Till about 24 minutes ago I didn’t even know its format. Oh, I see: “Variety From The 90’s ‘Til Now,” meaning Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat … and…
While the Plano Independent School District is already preparing for a worst-case scenario and eliminating top-tier administrative positions, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees is not scheduled to address the state’s $25-billion shortfall at its meeting on Thursday — save for that resolution to which we directed your…
I’m sure the Sixth Floor Museum will be buzzing. Southfork Ranch. And, unless I’m gauging folks way wrong, during the upcoming Super Bowl week the gentlemen’s establishments around D-FW will be jammed as well. But for football fans — visitors and locals — there’s something you just gotta see. Remembering…
