The 67th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, and, today at least, WFAA-Channel 8 has something in common with 30 Rock, The Colbert Report and Project Runway. From the media release: In a strong year for local television news, Dallas’ WFAA-TV was…
A couple of days back, we broke the, ah, news that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had come up with the world’s most unique timeshare out at Jerryworld: You and some friends could purchase a single ticket for a Cowboys game, then take turns going into the new Arlington stadium…
Hal Samples will see you this weekend. Well, actually, he kinda sees you now. So, we’ll see you Friday night at the opening of our dear Friend Hal Samples’ new gallery, right? You know — at 2814 Main Street in Deep Ellum? From 6 to 10 p.m.? Right. Awesome. ‘Cause…
Found out from looking here that a couple of days ago, Richard Florida — and stay creative classy, Richard Florida — posted to his Web site “A Singles Map of the United States,” in which he breaks down “which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) — and…
A couple months back, Elaine Liner found herself with some free time and decided to document for Unfair Park the protest staged outside the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre on Buckner Boulevard — looks like fun, no? Turns out there’s another protest scheduled for April 12, again staged by the…
Amy Redford, like her father, is ready for her close-up. Several of filmmakers in town for the AFI Dallas International Film Fest, which wraps this weekend, are doing on-camera interviews for the festival — only, they’re kind of difficult to find. The fest’s Web site is only hosting daily montage…
Hadn’t heard from former Dallas mayor Laura Miller in a while — then, twice yesterday. And she shows up again today, this time in a Detroit Free Press column about Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s ever-expanding security detail. At first it looked like Miller was just recounting an anecdote about Kilpatrick…
Robert Riggs, among those laid off at KTVT-Channel 11 In recent days Ed Bark has brought plenty of news concerning layoffs and cutbacks at KTVT-Channel 11 — including Robert Riggs, the ace investigator; anchor and reporter Maria Arita; sports reporter Chuck Fisher; producer John Sparks and reporter Kaushal Patel, among…
How we missed this Huffington Post piece yesterday … well, no idea. Anyway, any story that begins … … at recent hearings before a House Judiciary subcommittee, new revelations emerged about how the Justice Department failed to investigate illegal mailers sent to African-Americans in Dallas threatening criminal punishment if they…
Now we know why Nolan Ryan’s the president of Your Texas Rangers: to move his meat. The headline of the release says it all, in capital letters: “TEXAS RANGERS ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP WITH NOLAN RYAN BEEF.” As in, “The Texas Rangers announced today that all concession stands, suites and fine dining…
Brad Zaun, a Republican State Sen. from Urbandale, Iowa, says he’s “going to be watching Pizza Hut,” and not in a good way either. And, no, he’s not referring to the Dallas-based chain’s ridiculous April Fool’s joke involving a name change. Nope, what he’s referring to is Pizza Hut’s policy…
Robert De Niro, John Turturro and Stanley Tucci wonder What Just Happened? This just in from the AFI Dallas International Film Festival folks: Today, they’ve made available on the Web site 75 more tickets for Friday’s 1 p.m. screening of Barry Levinson’s adaptation of producer Art Linson’s book What Just…
Thanks to a few incendiary soundbites, recordings of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons are circulating among church people, making their way from hand to hand and e-mail to iPod. A politically active young man in my church gave my husband a copy of the full message from which the infamous…
So you’re saying wearing one of these will not get you into the Mavericks’ locker room, then? Damn it. I’ll have much more on Bloggergate in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park. (Wait till you get a load of how the thing really started.) But this morn’ I get…
The nonprofit America’s Promise Alliance of which Colin Powell is the founding chair, this morning released a report titled Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation, which disputes the notion that 85 percent of all high school students get their diplomas. Says the study, it’s more…
Beginning on page 138 of today’s agenda for the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting you’ll find Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ request for some $823,000 with which he’ll keep funding the county’s efforts to use DNA evidence to free the wrongly convicted. That figure is for two years’ worth…
Someone’s actually selling this bit of Dallas music history here, as well as many other local rock-show handbills from the 1980s. In The Los Angeles Times today, there appears a brief paid obituary without any further explanation; all it says is the name of the deceased, William David Bindler, along…
Former Dallas mayor Laura Miller don’t waste no time. After her initial e-mail blast early this a.m., I asked her precisely what she means when she writes that she’s “negotiating” to get an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, carbon-capture power plant built in Texas, courtesy a Washington State-based energy company. And…
In October, Waxahachie High School sophomore Paul “Pete” Palmer was given the heave-ho from his classes because he was acting up. By which we mean the troublemaker was wearing a T-shirt that read, very simply, “John Edwards 08.” The outrage! Anarchy, anarchy, anarchy! District administrators said, sorry, but the shirt…
For someone not doing PR, as she claims in a missive Unfair Park and FrontBurner received this a.m., former Dallas mayor Laura Miller is doing a pretty good job of, ya know, PR. But, no, insists the anti-coal Miller — she ain’t handling public relations for Washington State-based Summit Energy,…
Hal Samples The winning entry in the first Re*Cov*Er mural competition back in October, from Reel FX’s Ronnie Bates Back in October, we spent a lovely Saturday strolling the streets of Deep Ellum whilst perusing and parsing the entries in the first Re*Cov*Er mural series contest, wherein 16 contestants decorated…
Speaking of Jerryworld, as we were below, a Friend of Unfair Park sent his missus to a meet-and-greet with the Dallas Cowboys’ owner last week. During that chat — with “prominent citizens,” says our Friend — Jerry Jones offered this novel approach to dealing with the exorbitant prices being charged…
