Inside the hallways of the School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, which is either the best or 14th-best high school in the nation, depending Thomas Jefferson High School’s the highest-ranked high school in the land, says the issue of U.S News and World Report…
It’s 4:37 p.m. Thursday. Fans that already successfully navigated the traffic jam outside Texas Stadium have begun tailgating. Inside, Brett Favre is jogging around Texas Stadium in his shorts. Let the post-game play-by-play commence…
Sinners, beware — Jesus don’t want you driving Stemmons Freeway or any other part of Interstate 35, from Laredo to Duluth. Seems the highway’s due for a “purity siege,” anyway — a big ol’ street-cleaning scheduled in coming End of Days to rid Pat Robertson and Dallas-based Heartland World Ministries’…
I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched CW33’s News at Nine in its entirety. Actually, I don’t think I ever had. But last night, I was rummaging around, cleaning up the house and fiddling on the laptop with the TV on. America’s Next Top Model had expired on…
Elizabeth Villafranca, protesting Farmers Branch’s anti-illegal-immigrant measures in November 2006 Last fall, Elizabeth Villafranca was getting into political activism for the first time, attending protests against the crackdown on illegal immigrants in Farmers Branch and holding community meetings at Cuquitas, the restaurant she owns with her husband. A year later,…
Philip Wuntch, seen here signing copies of his book Martin Jurow Seein’ Stars in 2003 at UTA Well, well — look who’s back. After taking some time off, courtesy the Belo brain trust, former Dallas Morning News film critic Philip Wuntch makes his return to the dark side, reviewing the…
Oh, good, my favorite dish. Time for a bite of crow. In my column in the paper version of Unfair Park this week, I wax rhapsodic — apparently catatonic — on urban redevelopment taking place in the concentric rings around downtown — “without any help from and often in spite…
Notes from the lunch-time feed bag, which is more like a grab bag: Over-priced and over-rated NOKA Chocolates of Plano announced today that it’s getting a primo spot in Harrods’ Food Halls — otherwise known, says here, as “one of the most luxurious and indulgent gastronomic experiences known to man.”…
Over the course of the next few days, we’ll be offering the occasional tip for gift-giving — keeping it all-local, far as you know. This particular item’s devoted to the sports fan in your life, who might want, oh, a 1901 Dallas Griffins ball cap for his noggin or a…
We all know how Tony Romo’s tried to downplay his adoration of Brett Favre. And how watching tonight’s clash between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers will be difficult today and expensive tomorrow. And how, considering NFL Network is available in only one-third of the country, the national draw…
Courtesy Dallas Is My Home, I’ve just spent the last too long browsing Bandit Tracker, where local and federal law-enforcement agencies are posting surveillance-cam photos taken during bank robberies. It’s been around since the spring, Mark White, the FBI’s local media relations coordinator, tells Unfair Park this morning, but it…
Plenty of news from last night’s CNN/YouTube Republican debate — like, oh, did Hillary Clinton’s peeps plant a plant in the audience to ask the candidates about gays serving in the military. Also, from Dallas, came The Question of the Night: Asked Joseph Dearing, “Do you believe every word of…
This version is the “final cut” only because Warner Bros., director Ridley Scott and the producers have run out of cuts to peddle 25 years after its initial release. By most estimations, the latest offering—in which the biggest change is the revelation that Harrison Ford’s 21st-century Bogie is really a…
Hot Rod (Paramount) Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod Kimble, a wannabe stuntman with very little “man” in him. He lives with his mom (Sissy Spacek, not kidding) and a stepdad (Ian McShane), who needs a new heart at…
Wow. Now this takes a little bit of work to follow, but I think it’s worth it. And here is where we are headed: First, The Dallas Morning News hides the ball. Then, to cover themselves, they show the ball — very briefly, sort of a sneak peek. But now…
Poor Tom Hicks. Guy’s hated overseas. At least he is today. And has been for a while, by fans of the football club he owns — Liverpool FC. Today, before the club’s Champions League group match with FC Porto, some 2,000 Liverpool fans rallied in support of the team’s manager,…
Victoria Clark, in the role that won her a Tony two years ago Hockadaisy Victoria Clark gets a rave today in The New York Times, following her Monday-night performance at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse. Clark, a Yale University grad in 1982 who made her Broadway bow three years later in…
Justin, who was physically abused before trying to escape from TYC in January, is one of four young men to be profiled in the forthcoming documentary. Via Grits for Breakfast, we learn today that investigative reporter Emily Pyle — who wrote an oft-cited piece about former Dallas school board president…
Bravo Jeffrey Marion Lee, at left, with the dress that got him kicked off the Runway last week As we didn’t post on Thursday, which was some kind of a holiday, we didn’t get to mention that Project Runway is short one Dallasite: Grange Hall/Urban Flower’s Jeffrey Marion Lee, who…
A cell phone with Sprint TV service, that is. Go to Sprint’s Web site today and sign up — it’s free — for Sprint NFL Mobile, a service that will allow you to view live game footage on your cell phone. Sprint customers need merely text “NFL” to 7777. The…
I am totally getting my Deion Sanders rookie card signed tonight. If I had one. And if I were going to Borders. Rich Eisen, host of the NFL Network’s NFL Total Access will be at the Borders Books and Music in Preston Royal tonight at 7, signing copies of his…
GlobeSt.com has the lowdown on the $60-million expansion at Arlington Highlands, the megamall at I-20 and Matlock Road full of “lifestyle retailers”; there’s a new hotel on the way, along with anchor tenants including a 33,000-square-foot Dave & Buster’s. But buried in the piece about the mall — which, says…
