A Chicago “traditional lighting” manufacturer offers one perspective on the proposed lights around White Rock Lake. Last night’s meeting concerning the installation of lights around White Rock Lake got “heated,” says KTVT-Channel 11’s Jay Gormley. (Didn’t really look it on WFAA-Channel 8, but, ya know.) Nonetheless, Chip Northrup — a…
The Texas Rangers just announced that colorful color analyst Tom Grieve will undergo prostate surgery and miss 2-3 weeks of the team’s TV broadcasts. They say these things are pretty common these days — Mavs head coach Don Nelson and Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo come to mind — but…
Turns out that last week’s 24-hour Guitar Hero III fund-raiser, during which Mayor Tom displayed the most awkward rock moves in this history of fake plastic guitars, was good for more than raising money. Word’s circulating this a.m. that a 13-year-old from Grapevine, Daniel Johnson, set a Guinness World Record…
Say it ain’t so, Joe Ezeokeke. Because, really, if you can’t take more than three ounces of liquid onto an airplane, what in the world made you think you could bring four kilos of cocaine onto a flight? Alas, that’s just what the Nigerian citizen did on December 22 of…
Breaking Adam “Pacman” Jones news this a.m., courtesy the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting that the Clark County District Attorney’s Office has issued a felony arrest warrant for the Dallas Cowboys’ latest and greatest. The warrant was issued late last night, as Jones hasn’t paid $20,000 in gambling debts…
They’re soon to be Dallas’ dynamic duo of daytime TV: Mark Donald, who wrote the first substantive profile of Phil McGraw for the paper version of Unfair Park way back when, notes that CBS Television Distribution is prepping a syndicated series hosted by The Potter’s House honcho and frequent Dr…
Jeff Koons The fine-art world is all atwitter this a.m. with the news that Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are parting with one of their prized possessions: Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” described in The New York Times this morning as “monumental.” Till it was sent to Germany for polishing –…
Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels may have traded for the AL MVP Gotta tell you, my first impression of Josh Hamilton wasn’t so swell. I was out at Rangers Ballpark last January for the team’s annual Fan Fest when Hamilton, the team’s new center fielder and born-again-and-again-and-again Christian, started talking to…
As many Friends know, Tim Wagner is the spokesman for American Airlines. He’s also a frequent contributor to Unfair Park’s comments — especially, oh, when it comes to items concerning American Airlines, which are more and more frequent during these troubled times in the airline industry. To that end, Tim’s…
An aerial view of the Dallas Convention Center As expected, the city council voted 12-1 to rubber stamp two items on Wednesday’s briefing agenda, with Angela Hunt in opposition and Mitchell Rasansky and Dr. Elba Garcia recused because of a conflict. This authorized the issuance of $42 million in certificates…
Rick Noriega — beloved in his native Houston, yet all but unknown here — brought his mounting battle to unseat Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn to Dallas this morning. Standing outside City Hall, the Democrat and National Guard Lieutenant Colonel criticized Cornyn for “consistently voting against veteran services and benefits”…
NEWSCOM Women from the FLDS sect troop into the courthouse in San Angelo earlier this week. When I was down in San Angelo this week covering this story, which appears in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, lawyers representing members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter…
We’re not exactly known at UP for posting help-wanted ads, but we’ll make an exception for a notice we noticed this afternoon. Seems the American Airlines Center’s looking for a new director of event marketing, which sounds from the description like a very big gig: “Develops and implements public relations…
After the jump, the official announcement concerning the Fourth of July shindig at Fair Park, as previewed yesterday. Very catchy cumbersome name they’ve given the event, for which I hope the city made a pile in naming rights: Dr Pepper Snapple Group Fair Park Fourth. Happens, duh, July 4 from…
In hockey, two heads are better than one. In news that should surprise no one, the Dallas Stars have inked co-general managers Brett Hull and Les Jackson to concurrent three-year contracts running through the 2011 season. It seemed a desperate move when owner Tom Hicks fired former GM Doug Armstrong…
Look ma, no feet?! On a nightly basis you can head down to Victory Park’s plaza and watch Pete Delkus spar with Dale Hansen. And earlier this week it was the Mavericks’ Jason Terry trying to hit golf balls to the moon. Now? Would you believe motorcycle jumping? With a…
Maybe not, but certainly a … um … rockin’ New Year, as evidenced by the few seconds of new music previewed in the trailer below, for the band’s eponymous release due September 9 on Touch and Go. The label has just released the song titles and album cover (oooh, fall…
Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow but lives in Parker, that Collin County hot spot; moved here when she was little, with her very famous and very decorated parents, both of whom were Soviet champion gymnasts. Fourteen years ago, her father, gold medalist Valeri Liukin, opened the World Olympic Gymnastics…
American Airlines’ decision to charge $15 per checked bag gets a rave review this morning from Claes G. Fornell, a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan: “Seems really, dare I say it, stupid.” Also noted in there: American does not plan to offer refunds if suitcases do…
Rev. Andrew Weaver Every few days or so, there appears in the Unfair Park e-box a missive from one Andrew Weaver, a Brooklyn-based Methodist minister and Perkins School of Theology grad who, from jump, has been trying to keep George W. Bush’s think tank off the SMU campus. Weaver, whom…
More than likely, he will probably, possibly, potentially be a part of the Cowboys’ offense this seson. Maybe, that is. Ken Hamlin (unsigned), Roy Williams (family vacation) and Terry Glenn (gimpy knee) weren’t present at yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys’ OTA (back in my beat writing days we called them “quarterback school”)…
Oh, all right already: Its outside smells like street-person pee. Its inside, when Buzz was in the bar years ago, looks like your parents’ basement rec room. Its concrete and metal exterior reminds one vaguely of the nicest hotel ever built in the old Soviet Union. So Buzz, who considers…
