In lawsuits filed today, 10 children and their parents describe horrific conditions in the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility — or prison, for short — in Taylor. We told you it would happen yesterday, and it has come to pass: Today down in Austin, the American Civil Liberties Union…
This week’s cover story in the paper edition of Unfair Park — on newsstands beginning tomorrow — deals in part with a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was demoted, passed over for promotions and eventually forced into retirement because he blew the whistle on two different cases of alleged…
Pride Radio DFW — Clear Channel’s new local radio endeavor aimed at Dallas/Ft. Worth’s gay-lesbian-bi-transgender community (“the 6th largest in the nation and GROWING!”) — is getting plenty o’ pub for being the first such station in the area. And while most of us here think it’s way past time…
Mary Poss has always been very close to Ebby Halliday. Now, Poss is working for the legendary realtor, selling historic homes. Every so often, when we have nothing to do except daydream about living in luxurious historic digs, we browse Preservation Dallas’ compendium of “Historic Properties for Sale.” Well, just…
Yeah, we were smiling before the season too. Then Matt Doherty rolled out the rock, and that was that. In the middle of his desk at Moody Coliseum, SMU basketball coach Matt Doherty displays a large cinder block inscribed with “RTC” and signed by every member of his team and…
Former Dallasite James Scurlock is becoming the Upton Sinclair of the credit-card industry. It was exactly one year ago that James Scurlock debuted his documentary Maxed Out, about the suffocating crush of credit-card debt, at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. Since then he’s written a just-published companion…
Ralph Babb, the Comerica bossman, is moving his company to Dallas. Nicer winters than Michigan. Technically, this falls under the category of Breaking News: Just this morning, Comerica Bank announced it was moving its corporate HQ to Dallas, which, we are happy to announce this morning, still qualifies as a…
Yeah, this looks like a good place to house kids. Like a daycare center, but with barbed wire. The T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility down in Taylor has been getting lots of bad publicity lately, and it’s about to get worse. Looks like the converted maximum-security prison used to…
An old, old Friend of Unfair Park sends word that INXS played a private birthday party at the Granada Saturday night for Scott Kipp, a partner at the real-estate investment firm Cardinal Capital. Kipp and his missus were celebrating their 40th birthdays, which apparently fall a few weeks apart, and,…
We’ve known Robert Gomez a long time now — ever since he was a pimp, matter of fact, which is to say a Latin Pimp, the band with which he’s picked up more than a few Dallas Observer Music Awards. But now, he’s the latest local (which is to say,…
To this point our interaction has been limited to her staring at me during a backyard pool party, no doubt her thought bubble filled with, “Who’s that old man?” But today I’m officially claiming Haley Day as my own. I know, you’d also like to claim a close, personal relationship…
Ya know, Stephanie Ussery’s right: Rats (like her lil’ Moe here) are adorable. No, wait. That can’t be right. Surely on February 23 you saw the video of those rats scurrying around the KFC-Taco Bell double platter in New York City. Well, a few days later, New York magazine’s Daily…
We still say Pizza Patron’s mascot looks like Kinky Friedman. When Antonio Swad, founder and CEO of Pizza Patron, announced in December that his 60-location franchise would start accepting pesos, he got more attention than he ever thought possible — including death threats. The promotion was supposed to end last…
On Friday, Variety was reporting that Dallas-based Blockbuster Video was in “advanced talks to acquire Movielink,” a movie-download site launched by NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and MGM five years back. (Yeah, it was so successful that till now, most likely, you never heard of Movielink.) But…
Channel 5 first aired this video on March 2; since then, it’s been everywhere. Say what you will about KXAS-Channel 5’s obsession with the violent and the seedy, the station’s certainly getting plenty of pub for airing Friday night the disturbing story about the 2- and 5-year-old boys in Watauga…
We don’t do this often, linking to non-local items of interest, but in this case, we’re going to make the weekend exception. Why not? Don’t cost ya nothin’. Besides, plenty of locals have kids, right? And plenty of locals dig Bob Dylan, dig? So, here’s a discovery worth downloading: an…
The influential Bishop Gilbert Patterson has a tie to Pastor Sherman Allen, who’s been accused of abusing several women. Patterson’s executive secretary is married to Allen. The Church of God in Christ — one of the oldest, most historically significant Pentecostal denominations in the United States — has flown well…
Charles Hatley’s not giving up on his quest to join the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Here’s what you need to know about Charles Hatley: The dude’s got a punch named after him. It’s a step back cross to the chin, says here. Ever since that story came out, we’ve been…
The strippers are coming! The strippers are coming! Quiet, wholesome city of Richardson, prepare yourself for a full-on thong invasion! EVERYBODY PANIC. If you saw a WFAA-Channel 8 story last Saturday by Craig Civale called “Sex District Planned For Richardson,” you might think an army of busty, silicone-stuffed women were…
Our old colleague Sam Machkovech is right: The Galaxy Club is — for the moment, at least — no mas. What you see at right is the seizure notice slapped on the club yesterday by Randy Brestrup, a local officer for the Office of the State Comptroller. Unfair Park has…
We always felt bad for then-Mavs coach Gar Heard, who deserved better than to coach an 11-win team–and get replaced by Quinn Buckner. In you case you were too distraught over Drew Bledsoe’s departure or the current bad karma of Mercury to notice, your Dallas Mavericks won their 14th consecutive…
So, the Unfair Park braintrust has selected a winner for those Toadies tix and accompanying VIP pass: Laura Archer, whose simple suggestion mirrors one offered up earlier in the week by our very own Merritt Martin. “You should give it to the first person who can produce a receipt for…
