TomLeppert.com Apropos of nothing, here’s our newest favorite photo of the mayor, with his newest lil’ buddy, Andy Hardy. As Schutze mentioned earlier, the non-vote on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board appointment highlighted the craziness at today’s city council meeting. The other big item of the day was a…
Luis Galvan Mexican President Felipe Calderón finished his test before Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert yesterday, while the rest of the class was ordered to put their heads on their desks. Hundreds of Mexican ex-pats from across the U.S. gathered yesterday at the Renaissance Hotel to see President Felipe Calderón kick…
No, Evan Smith, “exonerated” is not “too strong a word” when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn’t guilty of the crime for which he’d been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor…
The City of Dallas, case ya didn’t know, has a water-conservation effort called Save Dallas Water — catchy, no? And just a few moments ago, it posted to the YouTube an animated short starring the mascot cleverly named “Dew,” cute. Only, c’mon, City of Dallas, give credit where it’s due…
Why can’t the Mavs’ coach take his own damned advice? On second thought, Dirk Nowitzki shouldn’t have turned the other cheek. He should’ve hauled off and cold-cocked David West during last Saturday’s Game 1. Or, at least, put him in a headlock and bludgeoned his nose Nolan Ryan-style. That way,…
A Quick Word With Kids In The Hall – Now on tour! In anticipation of Wednesday night’s Kids In the Hall As Live As We’ll Ever Be performance at Nokia in Grand Prairie (tickets for the show are still available here), I chatted with Kid Kevin McDonald. Surely, you’ll remember…
Item No. 3 on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research’s agenda today reads as follows: “Public Hearing on the Institute for Creation Research, Dallas,” simple as that. Of course, Friend of Unfair Park know there’s nothing simple about today’s hearing, which will preface tomorrow’s…
It started on a site called The Dirty. Then it started crawling its way through the rest of the blogosphere — and, really, Kissing Suzy Kolber is a great name. Then, on Tuesday, it went legit — or Philadelphia Daily News, anyway, where gossip writer Dan Gross spent a few…
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright—Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor—is scheduled to preach Sunday at Friendship-West Baptist Church for the 25th Pastoral Anniversary Celebration of Senior Pastor Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III. Wright, incidentally, name-drops Haynes in his notorious “America’s chickens coming home to roost” message. Haynes might not be well-known to…
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The Smoking Gun Jonathan Lee Riches© As a few of our Friends pointed out back in January, when we first mentioned his name in connection with a nutty local sports lawsuit, Jonathan Lee Riches© loves, loves, loves to sue the rich and famous — and all from his cell at…
Pardon, for a moment, as we take a pause for something musical and decidedly non-local — though Tommy Stinson did used to have a Dallas girlfriend, so there is that, and the 32nd-best best ‘Mats show I ever saw was at an old roller-skating rink off Northwest Highway and Abrams…
Had a hell of a time just now trying to make the 0.8-mile drive from Oishii to Unfair Park HQ. Outta nowhere, Dallas police officers brusquely blocked off Wycliff Avenue from the Dallas North Tollway to Maple Avenue; officers also closed off Maple, back to God knows where as it…
View Larger Map After reading yesterday’s story about the new aloft (yes, it’s a lowercase “a”) hotel project near the convention center, we called developer Larry Hamilton, founder and CEO of Hamilton Properties Corporation, to get the scoop on his latest project — and, just maybe, shoehorn in some questions…
Amid headlines about record-high crude prices, strained airlines and a deepening housing slump, True.com’s Herb Vest has some rosy news: Apparently, the crap economy isn’t dissuading daters from their zealous quests for love, no matter the cost of their sushi dinners, movie dates and weekends away. Vest, founder and CEO…
Last night, in advance of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Jon Stewart hosted Barack Obama on The Daily Show. Which is so not what gives this clip its local flavor. For those so interested, scroll to the 4:22 mark, when Stewart asks Obama to “hope up” a “very common phrase” that…
This is how ugly it’s gotten for Tom Hicks: U.K. cops have begged the co-owner of Liverpool FC to stay away from tonight’s Champions League semi-final match against Chelsea, set to start shortly at Anfield. According to myriad reports from England, Merseyside Police warned Hicks and co-owner George Gillett, with…
Incidentally, those wondering what will replace the Fare East, formerly on Greenville Avenue and Milton Street, need wonder no more. The city’s Office of Economic Development kindly dug through its records for us this a.m. and found a permit for new construction for … you guessed it, no fair …..
Till there’s fresh meat, courtesy tonight’s Mavs-Hornet’s Game 2 tipoff set for 6 p.m. , plenty of folks are still gnawing on Saturday night’s leftovers. The question remains, apparently: Should Dirk Nowitzki have socked David West, after the Hornet stung Dirk with a love tap, or did he do the…
View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park, no doubt a little beaten down by the 2505 Turtle Creek talk, sends along this photo of another recently demolished local “landmark” about which no one’s said boo … or boob, teeheehee. Because as of last week, there ain’t no more empty…
Katherine Seale, executive director of Preservation Dallas Reaction’s mixed, to say the least, concerning yesterday’s surprise demolition of 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard. Some of the Friends of Unfair Park are saddened and sickened that a Canadian developer without concrete plans for the site bulldozed Harwood K. Smith’s building anyway; others…
Angela Hunt talks arts in a city-produced film to air on City Channel 16 in June. Or on your computer right now. Says The Dallas Morning News today, the City of Dallas is all set to debut a show called Dallas 360° on City Channel 16. Only those of us…
