Cowboys, out in the first round. Stars, out in the first round. Mavs, out in the first round. Rangers, out in the first month. As one of the longest summers in local sports history commences, I can think of nothing more therapeutic than going to the driving range and pounding…
Did the mayoral election already happen? Because, all of the sudden, it seems like we’re deep in Trinity River mud, and it ain’t even May 12 yet. Unfair Park just received a press release from the Greater Dallas Chamber begging folks not to sign Angela Hunt’s Trinity Parkway petition. Indeed,…
On Friday — hey, only eight days before the election, what’s the rush? — Ed Oakley debuted his new TV spot, in which he promises to tear down “aging, rundown apartment complex[es] that have become a haven for crime.” Actually, Oakley doesn’t promise anything; he never says a word in…
There’s a piece in The New York Times this morning about the National Basketball Association’s download service, from which you can buy individual playoff games for three bucks — or a whole series for $12.99…or the entire playoffs for $79.99. The NBA’s going to start hyping the service today, even…
It’s going to be a long week; can you feel it? So before we get all political up in this piece, here’s our way of easing into it — with some five and a half minutes of Joseph Haydn, courtesy the Gyros String Quartet. Yesterday, the group — which has…
Don Hill, we love your style — goin’ all aginner eight days before the election. Love it. Fabulous. Keep it up. You’re now officially Jim Schutze’s kind of guy. A mere afterthought in the mayor’s race just a few weeks ago, the Trinity River Project — specifically, the fate of…
My son is white. Which makes sense, since his parents are white. But see, my son is really white. His skin is virtually translucent, to the point where you can see the web of green, pink and purple veins between skin and skull. Now my son was the sole white…
Dallas native David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, the forthcoming Sundancer Snow Angels) told Unfair Park back in January he’d be shooting a “1970s stoner comedy” some time in the summer — a marked departure from his moodier, downbeat fare. Well, earlier this week, the Hollywood Reporter…
The fish tank is getting cloudy. Good thing I’m not a goldfish. Last night I made dinner on a camp stove and smoked up the entire house. Everything smells like seared olive oil and teriyaki sauce. I got dressed in the dark this morning, which some people say I do…
Early last week we posted a short item on the ongoing tiff between former TWA flight attendants and American Airlines. It has since generated 61 comments and counting, one of which came from an American Airlines spokesperson defending his company’s position. Who knew that Unfair Park is the place where…
We were gonna run a picture of John Cappello, till we read on his blog that it’s the media’s fault he’s gonna lose. So, instead, here’s Jennifer Gale. Nothing personal, John. If you’ve read my weekly rankings of the mayoral candidates, you know I go to great lengths to diminish…
Stunning. Unfathomable. Disgusting. Embarrassing. Nauseating. Devastating. Empty. Never thought I’d see it happen — especially in the first friggin’ round against the tricked-up Golden State Warriors — but the Dallas Mavericks totally and utterly wilted last night in getting eliminated in Game 6, 111-86. No other way to say it:…
You saw this, right? OK. Maybe not. Maybe you shut off the teevee before the fourth quarter. Maybe you threw it out the window. Maybe you shotgunned the sumbitch. So maybe you missed seeing Owen Wilson — good ol’ Dallas boy, fer Chrissakes — cheering on the Golden State Warriors…
Well, thank you, Steve Blow, for clearing up why I shouldn’t sign the petition calling for a vote on what sort of road I want along the Trinity River. It’s because I’m far too dumb to have a say in how the city spends my money on the Trinity project…
This man says he can prove that God exists. Big deal. So can we, in two words: Jessica Biel. This week’s paper version of Unfair Park features a cover story on Roy Abraham Varghese, who founded the Institute of Metascientific Research in Garland four years ago. Its mission: to refute…
Do we really need to remind you that Peter Schmidt is a great musician, a great human being and a great football player? No, we thought not. Ah, the local-scene comp CD. That was so mid-’90s of us, back when we hunted for and gathered rare and unreleased tracks from…
Why bother with an hour and a half in the kitchen when your spouse is just going to come home and complain about how the throw blanket in the living room isn’t folded properly? Who cares about a quality spread created with time and love when the kids are just…
Last time I was in the Love Field Antique Mall, I saw this stashed in the corner — for $3,500. No truth to the rumor it was bought by someone from Farmers Branch. For 17 years, the Love Field Antique Mall stood at the corner of Mockingbird Lane and Cedar…
Don’t know about y’all, but my neighborhood, in southwest Dallas, looks like a hurricane plowed through. We haven’t had power since about 7 p.m. last night, and large trees are in the streets, on cars, on houses and on sheds. Some very large trees were completely uprooted. When the storm…
Local sports teams have a particularly lousy history besting Bay Area franchises. Just a friendly reminder. And to think, Tuesday’s pulsating, improbable rally from nine points down in the final three minutes was the easy part. For the Mavericks, the difficulty arrives in about 10 hours in Game 6 against…
The U.S. military is cracking down on soldiers who write or post to blogs, Wired reported yesterday. In the piece, a milblogger named Matthew Burden says this action represents “the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging…No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This…
This morning, President Bush gave a brief speech to mark the National Day of Prayer. And we saw that Mike Buster, executive pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church, joined Dubya at the White House for the six-minute how-dee-do. Buster even got a shout-out from the president, according to the White House…
