Between The Smoking Gun and Gawker, Anna Fermanova’s bound to have the most-peeked-at profile pictures page on the Facebooks in the last several hours. And after Tim Rogers made mention of the ’05 Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails grad, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: Why haven’t…
Thanks to this brief heads-up on the NBC5 Web site, I just spent the last little while researching Ben Gold, the local man set to be inducted into the brand-spankin’-new International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa, on August 7. Hard to believe I didn’t know anything about…
If you’ve been looking forward to the Dream Wedding Bridal Expo slated for mid-December at the Gaylord Texan, well, bad news this morning from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.While Karen Tucker, the 47-year-old Pittsburgh woman behind the Gaylord event, is indeed a veteran convention planner with experience from Miami to Las…
You probably forgot all about the Institute for Justice’s federal lawsuit filed in November, which claims the city of Dallas’s 2-year-old law that prohibits business owners from covering their storefront windows with signs is unconstitutional. So, then, this heads-up: The case is coming, more than likely, to a courtroom near…
Back in March there was one of the city’s semi-annual warrant roundups — otherwise known as pay-up-or-get-locked-up weekend — during which we peeked at the city’s lengthy list of scofflaws only to find, way down toward zee end, a woman named Sherriee (or Sherice or Sherie or …) Zeek with…
City Hall’s all parked up, and when I told the garage guard where I was headed, he assured me “everyone’s going to the red light camera meeting.” It’s hard to tell who “everyone,” might have been, because I’m joined in the public seating area by one KTVT reporter in the…
I’ll be down in San Antonio for Dallas Cowboys’ training camp next week. For now, I’m making calls. Talking to spies. Trying to get the skinny by chewing the fat. Some thoughts: New offensive tackle Alex Barron is better than expected. And Doug Free has struggled with his quickness at left…
When last we left the furor over Cliff Manor, where the Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance plan to turn 100 units into permanent supportive housing for the “chronically” homeless, Mayor Tom Leppert had council member Dave Neumann create a task force. Its mission: see if perhaps there…
It wasn’t Kevin Smith’s proudly rude series of films-as-dick-jokes that brought him fame among the masses. It was a bad customer service experience. You remember: Southwest Airlines designated him a “passenger of size” and kicked him off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight. One assumes the Southwest staff had not seen much of…
Tampa Bay Rays’ pitcher Matt Garza tossed a no-hitter last night. It was the fifth this season in Major League Baseball, most since 1991. Funny thing is, now the San Diego Padres and New York Mets are the only current teams without a no-no in their history. Interesting thing is, what gives? Can it…
At this rate, Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett will finish the season with more apologies than catches. Again yesterday Marty B was trying to explain another episode of “embarrassing the franchise”, this time when nude self-portraits showed up on the internet at a site called mediatakeout.com. No big deal, really…
We’re less than two weeks away from finding out How the City Manager Spent Her Summer Vacation: On August 9, Mary Suhm will give present to council her proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. We’ve sneak-peeked a few of the pending cuts needed to whittle away a $131-mil deficit,…
A few very random notes while trying to wash the Magic Time Machine out of my clothes after last night …Saw first thing this morning that Barry Kooda is admin-ing a brand-new Facebook page: “Please Keep Oak Cliff Dry.” Left and sent the Nervebreaker a few messages to discuss and…
While the publishers of our local mug shot magazines keep scrapping for gas station counter space, Mugly!’s J. Martin Ward has been battling on a second front: a slow-motion rumble with police departments in Arlington and Irving over access to their mug shots and jail records. Mugly! runs on a…
Howard Hallam, chair of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s board and president of Ben E. Keith Company, tells Unfair Park this afternoon he, like everyone else, was “surprised” when president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen resigned this morning. Maybe, Hallam says, he should have seen it coming: “Looking back,” he says,…
Late Friday afternoon, while we were still sifting through those comments for and against pit bulls (and their owners), Unfair Park HQ received a call from Jill Urban, who said she called 911 on those two “un-collared” pit bulls in the M Streets area some 20 minutes or more before…
I realize I’m getting waaaaaaay ahead of myself here, but some of us were sitting around the pool over the weekend drinking and getting creative and salivating over what if. As in, what if this is finally the year the Texas Rangers hold it together down the stretch and win the…
After the jump is ESPN’s tribute to Leah Siegel, a Dallas-based producer for the network who, during her tenure at the Worldwide Leader, garnered a handful of Emmy Awards. Leah died early this morning, about two years after doctors discovered she had stage four breast cancer — right after she’d…
The release just sent by the AT&T PAC folks announcing the sudden and surprise resignation of Mark Nerenhausen, who was named president and chief executive officer for the then-Dallas Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2008, doesn’t say what led to the decision this morning. Though it’s “effective…
Sports Business Journal calls it a “unique marketing effort,” which is one way of putting it: The University of Texas at Austin, Crescent Court-based Branded Retail Energy Company and Houston-based Champion Energy Services this morning announced the creation of Texas Longhorn Energy. Which is? Well, put simply, it’s a marketing…
First, there were the billboards. Then, the poster. Then, the song. Then, the worldwide picture-taking campaign. And now, this: From an e-mail that just showed up in the Unfair Park in-box, “Liverpool fans kick off poster campaign against Tom Hicks. These are apparently going to start appearing in Texas.” So…
Roy Williams can’t carry Dez Bryant’s jock, so why should the Dallas Cowboys’ rookie receiver carry the veteran’s pads? Because he’s a rookie, that’s why. Troy Aikman baked cookies and took them on the team plane. As a Texas Rangers’ rookie, Jarrod Saltalamacchia wore a diaper on a road trip…
