Jason Garrett had second interviews with the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons about their head coaching jobs. But, come on, he never really had second thoughts about actually leaving the Dallas Cowboys. Garrett’s decision to stay in Dallas and become the team’s unofficial head-coach-in-waiting shocked absolutely no one with even…
Well, Austin is south of Dallas. And, don’t lie. Even though you can still find a certain Andrea Grimes in the Night & Day pages of the paper version of Unfair Park, you miss Girl on Top. Well, stop whining and pouring out 40s in her honor already. She’s right…
While we’re on the subject of selfless good deeds, we really do need to mention how Pikahsso, of P.P.T., is planning on celebrating his birthday February 1: with a Help the Homeless Community Event & Birthday Party at Hal Samples’ Space Studios on Main Street. Organizers are asking for “old…
Uncle Barky’d like for us to remind you to clear the calendar Saturday: It’s time for the second live-to-hard-drive taping of the Uncle Barky Show at Stratos across the street from Bachman Lake, this time with the ain’t-quite-retired Tracy Rowlett of KTVT-Channel 11. Show’s at 4 p.m., and from all…
On Christmas Eve, The New York Times noted that Dallas-based Chemistry.com — a Match.com spinoff aimed at coupling “independent-thinking, confident, diverse singles” — was out to out eHarmony.com as homophobic. (But only because it is?) Over the course of 2007, Chemistry.com ran several ad campaigns mocking eHarmony’s refusal to make…
DART board of directors chairperson Lynn Flint Shaw, who also ran for city council — very briefly Dallas lawyer Michael Sorrell told Unfair Park yesterday he had received less than $2,000 as a consultant to one-time city council candidate Lynn Flint Shaw — even though Shaw’s campaign finance reports show…
Scott Henson, our pal dishing out Grits for Breakfast, points out this Dallas Morning News story from yesterday, about $9-mil-plus being spent on overtime pay at the Dallas County jails, and wonders if that ain’t just the tip of the penal iceberg. After all, Henson asks, what happens in February…
Now, she’s from Houston, but 18-year-old Kady Malloy was among the 13,000 wannabes who sweated to the oldies at Texas Stadium and the W last summer. And last night, during American Idol’s Dallas-auditions segment, Malloy proved herself a capable mimic and a fine singer all by her lonesome. “Of all…
If Diane Keaton were a comer in 2007, she’d likely be stuck in romantic comedies cooked up in movie studio test kitchens. No Godfather for her. No Annie Hall, no Shoot the Moon, no Reds. Filmmakers who now use Katherine Heigl as their go-to girl would be flummoxed by the…
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (Fox) As someone with no use for Seth MacFarlane’s potty-mouthed Simpsons rip, I’ll admit to choking out a few giggles during his Star Wars send-up — though, truth be told, it’s slightly less daring than Spaceballs and, sure, Porn Wars. Stunningly faithful to the 30-year-old…
This is what Roger and Marc Andres have in mind for Henderson Avenue — in place of an abandoned Carnival. I went to the Andres Brothers’ deal last night, where they unveiled their plans for the redevelopment of the Carnival site on Henderson Avenue near Ross Avenue. A real East…
Just two links today — one of which is from NBC’s Today, matter of fact. Reporter Don Teague made the trip to Stephenville for hisself, to discover whether that “something weird” in the sky was really a UFO or a “whatever.” Turns out, Don Teague was in Stephenville at the…
Not gonna lie — it might be easier to get me into virtual synagogue than the real thing. Sure, I went to Israel when I was a teenager — Teen Tour, y’all? And during that time I discovered several important things about my faith: Mogen David should not be consumed…
Dallas City Attorney Tom Perkins Yesterday I asked Dallas City Attorney Tom Perkins why Mayor Tom Leppert and/or Lynn Flint Shaw, a City of Dallas appointee to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors, are not in violation of the city’s ethics code, which prohibits a city appointee from…
Unfair Park absotively does not condone the spray-painting of police vehicles; let’s make that perfectly clear. But we posolutely condone our Friends sending us photos of spray-painted police vehicles. This one comes from near Greenville Avenue and LBJ Freeway. After the jump, an explanation from the finetastic Friend who sent…
Luke Wilson stars in Mark Pellington’s Henry Poole Is Here, making its Sundance bow this week. Welcome to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Circumvent the Writers’ Strike. But seriously, folks: As Park City, Utah’s famed independent-film trading post opens for seasonal business…
Not funny, sure. But, face it, who wants to see Tony Sparano. As expected, Dallas Cowboys assistant head coach Tony Sparano was officially named head coach of the Miami Dolphins this morning. What does it mean for him? A couple seasons of ugly losing with a horrible team and having…
Lone Star Funds’ chairman John Grayken For damned near two years we’ve been mentioning, off and on, the mess into which Dallas-based Lone Star Funds got itself in South Korea — long story short, it bought Korea Exchange Bank for cheaps, then tried to sell for big dough without paying…
Houston-based Joe’s Crab Shack today announced it’s hired itself quite the fancy-schmancy executive chef and director of culinary: Dallas’ Matthew Dunn, best known for having been in the kitchens of Star Canyon, Stephan Pyles and Hibiscus. Apparently, the former Central Marketeer got the gig because he “epitomizes ‘seafood with an…
So, that Fashion in the Park shindig in the NorthPark Center parking lot’s not going anywhere: Yesterday, the dates were announced for the spring fling, March 26 through March 29, with tickets going on sale February 1. (Dallas promises to be extra-fab that weekend: The AFI Dallas International Film Fest…
Robert M. Edsel Dallas’ Robert Edsel, now famous for paying homage to the folks who tracked down millions of artistic and cultural art items stolen by Hitler and the Nazis, is profiled this morning in The Wall Street Journal — though I almost stopped reading right about here: “In a…
So, it’s safe to eat clones — even if they’re made from Jango Fett? Oh, sorry: Says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about a ton of evidence-supporting docs released yesterday, “meat and milk from cow, pig, and goat clones and the offspring of any animal clones are as safe…
