Ken Mayfield, who doesn’t have a calendar. Shame. Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield called this morning — one guess why. As he was out of pocket yesterday, Mayfield didn’t get the chance to respond to commissioner John Wiley Price’s comments to Unfair Park in which he branded Mayfield a “racist…
Well, OK, he kinda mentions the Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation. It’s nothing too earth-shattering, mind you, but yesterday the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat down for a chitchat with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editors and reporters. And one of the questions posed to him had to do with…
A full book report is forthcoming; Schutze has been handed his homework — a copy of Harvey Graff’s The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, being published this month by the University of Minnesota Press. Graff, currently a professor of English and history at Ohio State…
I like the way the Associated Press leads its story about Jerry Jones’ latest way to pay for his billion-dollar-plus Jerryworld in Arlington: “Fans of the Dallas Cowboys who might not be able to get tickets to the team’s new stadium in Arlington can leave their mark — underfoot.” In…
Karen Hughes Karen Hughes — you know, SMU grad, former KXAS-Channel 5 reporter and longtime Bushie — has a new gig, it was announced this morning. She’s now Global Vice Chair at Burson-Marstell, one of the top five public relations companies in the world — and, certainly, among the most…
Forbes throws some light down the mineshaft and finds former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, in her new position as non-lobbyist, non-publicist for Washington State-based Summit Energy. The piece is about Summit, for the most part — specifically the man behind the $2.8-billion plan to “develop the first large-scale coal-gasification power…
MLW Air The Dallas Mavericks’ Boeing 767-200 Mark Cuban has a piece of a pretty nifty fleet of planes: a Boeing 767-200, which holds 102 passengers in cushy comfort, and a 757-200, which’ll travel 63 folks willing to suffer with “lavatories so large they have windows.” Both appear to be…
From John Wiley Price’s self-published 2001 calendar JWP: Fit at 50. Not kidding. Speaking of responses, we spoke with Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price this afternoon. We were just kinda wondering why he got so angry with fellow commissioner Ken Mayfield yesterday, when Mayfield referred to Dallas County’s ticket…
So, this morning, because I’m a masochist who clearly needs to find something better to do, I e-mailed Nils Lundblad, a publicist at the Food Network, asking if he could find someone there to explain the discrepancies between the footage that aired Thursday on Rachael Ray and Sunday night on…
Wacky, wacky Southwest Airlines. Looks like the Dallas-based airline, already responsible for one of the greatest print ads in recent memory, has done gone and rounded up Fort Worth-based comedy quartet Curtis Needs a Ride for this zany travel-tip infomercial regarding airport security do’s and do-not-ever’s. Note to Southwest: I…
Behind the break-up. T-Minus 24 hours. I’m sure the Sportatorium blogdom is all atwitter about my opinions on Angels 9, Rangers 6. Okay, let me label rookie catcher Max Ramirez’ miraculous effort as baseball’s “Double Play of the Year”. But, really, who am I kidding? If I own a McDonald’s…
Jay Fox owns the six local Up in Smoke shoppes, which are scattered across the DFW — from Uptown to Frisco. So, it’s no surprise he’s against Mayor Tom’s effort to ban smoking in Dallas bars, pool halls, even tobacco shops; his profits go up in smoke, dig? To that…
So, just maybe The Dallas Morning News won’t be able to deliver, heh, on its promise to litter rich folks’ front yards with those unwanted single-section papers called Briefing, blech. The latest adventure in CueCatting is due to touch your more manicured lawns come August 27 — but today Editor…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders why we’re talking about those folks getting the boot from a Southwest Airlines flight when there’s a far more interesting story concerning an American Airlines flight from Miami to New York. In short, notes the NYC newsman, there was a “pitched battle between the…
Justin Terveen A couple of weeks ago, the great Justin Terveen — or The Urban Fabric, as he’s known — posted to his fab Flickr page this panoramic pic of the city’s skyline snapped at dawn. Our miniature version doesn’t do justice to the original, which can be appreciated here…
Hope Solo Had no idea till this morning that Dallas was getting yet another pro sports franchise: a Women’s Professional Soccer team, matter of fact, beginning in April 2009. Only reason I know about it is this morning the WPS announced how it’d be filling its franchises here and in…
The greatest current one-on-one battle in all of sports. As a stupid guy once famously said in a super movie, “Sorry I had ta fight in da middle of ya black pantha pawwty,” but I can’t let another day pass without opining on the greatest tennis match I ever did…
134th Civil District Judge Anne Ashby Dave Palmer, a disabled veteran living in Folsom, California, ain’t happy with the way some Texas legislators and judges are spending their campaign donations — so much so he’s filed a heap of complaints with the Texas Ethics Commission. Among those singled out: 134th…
CBS-TV Steven Daigle Trust me, Big Brother, the 10th season (!) of which debuts on CBS July 13, is one reality TV show we won’t cover. Instead, we’ll just introduce you to the contestant getting the most buzz in preview pieces: Dallas resident Steven Daigle, whose CBS bio describes him…
You could just read about T. Boone Pickens’ plan to ween U.S. off foreign oil, yawn, or you can hear the man hisself in a 10-minute video made for his Web site, where the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat financier does his best H. Ross Perot and takes to the…
Just a quick note to John Wiley Price and Judge Thomas Jones, because, gentlemen, I’d really like to loan you my copy of the greatest movie ever to star Maximilian Schell, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster and Yvette Mimieux. It was awesome when I was 11; I think you’ll…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this late-afternoon link to a story out of Seattle, about a woman and her unruly brood given the boot from a Southwest Airlines flight from Detroit to the Pacific Northwest. The plane made a pit stop in Phoenix, where Wendy Slaughter says she…
