From what I can tell, Michelle O. Edens is a Dallas attorney. And as of today, she’s also most definitely the holder of a United States patent, along with Frisco’s Ronald Burns. Says the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Edens and Burns have invented … wait, this can’t be right…
Brian Harkin Larry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries In February 2005, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson stood at a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and announced that HUD would be doling out $1.4 billion in grants nationwide whose sole…
Channel 11’s new weatherman, Larry Mowry, likes turkey sandwiches, Poison, Oprah Winfrey and working out. KTVT-Channel 11 just shipped out a mediawide missive in which it announces a few changes to its nightly-news line-up. Chief among the alterations: Doug Dunbar, already anchoring the station’s 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts,…
Fred — the guy who owns the World’s Best Burger joint, located at the corner of Highway 11 and 36 in downtown Burlington, Wisconsin — doesn’t know for whom to root Thursday night. Like, should it be Green Bay Packers’ QB Brett Favre? Or Dallas Cowboy Tony Romo, the hometown…
I am a MFFL through and through, but I have to get this off my chest: Mavs Man, now in his seventh season (!), is safely the creepiest, scariest, grossest, most disgusting, weirdest, most terrifying mascot this world has ever seen. Ever. (And that includes the Dallas Cowboys’ universally loathed…
Save for this tiny story on KXAS-Channel 5’s Web site, there’s been no mention, far as I can find, of Southwest Airlines Flight 438’s engine troubles, which occurred on November 17. The flight, which originated from Love Field, was bound for Little Rock, but turned around 30 minutes after takeoff…
Clay Chabot, not yet one of those technically exonerated by DNA evidence In an Unfair Park item I posted last week about the case of Clay Chabot, I quoted Susan Campbell, spokeswoman for the family of Galua Crosby. Chabot has served 21 years in prison for her Crosby’s 1986 murder…
A scene from Brian De Palma’s Redacted, which will not be seen in Dallas come Friday as originally planned In news sure to make Wick Allison’s heart race, we just received word from the Landmark Theatres national publicist that Bill O’Reilly’s Film o’ the Year, Redacted, will not open in…
C’mon, you know Tony Romo has a picture of Brett Favre hanging somewhere in his locker. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is unofficially dating everyone. But, turns out, he was never really in love with Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. Or was he? “I was more of a basketball…
A Friend of Unfair Park shot us a link this morning to this video, featuring a woman named “Catherine” who claims she moved from France to Dallas because she loves George W. Bush. (She posted to the YouTubes under the moniker “georgemonamour.”) And to prove it, she climbs a billboard…
Fred Holston Grimes’ suggested headline for this farewell: “Wherein The Girl On Top Announces Her Plans To Go Down.” It is with both sadness and excitement that I announce to you, dear Friends, my impending departure from this fair city I have called home for the past two and a…
Very interesting piece on The Wall Street Journal op-ed page today about “cool cities” versus “family-friendly cities,” suggesting cities like Dallas do better because they attract well-employed young breeders rather than sidewalk hipsters. The essay, by The New Geography author Joel Kotkin, cites research that runs against the grain of…
Don’t wanna post; just … can’t … stop. Also, a little confused. First, People.com “reported” yesterday that Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson had dinner with 25 friends and family members at Hotel ZaZa’s Dragonfly following the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving spanking of the NY Jets. (Funny, that’s been our family tradition too,…
The U.S. Conference of Mayors today released a 17-page report titled The Mortgage Crisis: Economic and Fiscal Implications for Metro Areas, and it makes some fairly dire predications for the coming year — among them, that the growing number of home foreclosures will “result in 524,000 fewer jobs being created…
If you couldn’t make it to the American Airlines Center on Wednesday night, when the Dallas Stars feted Mike Modano for becoming the league’s all-time leading American-born scorer — and, man, that asterisk is a mouthful — someone has kindly posted to the YouTubes the JumboTron video tribute screened during…
As some of our Friends clearly need their daily Greg “Hammer” Williams update, here ’tis: Despite speculation here and elsewhere that Williams would be returning to KTCK-AM’s “The Hardline” this afternoon at 3, that will not be the case. “He’s not in the building today,” Ticket program director Jeff Catlin…
Brad Oldham Via MediaBistro, and an ABC-TV press release, comes this curious note concerning Good Morning America’s holiday window dressing: Located in the heart of Times Square, GMA’s ground level studio windows will be transformed to represent three cities — New York, Chicago and Dallas — with the help of…
This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in the case James LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Assoc., Inc., et al., which probably means nothing to you. Unless, that is, you’re invested in your company’s 401(k) plan, in which case, this Dallas-based case is plenty interesting. Because,…
So, Mike Sherman’s the new coach down at Texas A&M. Sure, fine, whatever. This morning’s Houston Chronicle has the potentially bigger story concerning the Aggies, at least as far as most locals sans Aggie ties are concerned: Sunday’s Dallas Morning News story that reported A&M and Arkansas are “close to…
The New York Times this morning notes that the locally published Success magazine may be the most ironically named magazine in history, as it’s never, ya know, really succeeded. Hard to believe: The small-bizzer mag’s been around since 1891 (it was founded by this fella), and though you’ve probably never…
Law.com reports this morning that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is co-authoring a book with Dallas’ Bryan Garner, whose LawProse, Inc., is HQ’d on Sherry Lane. Garner’s written some 20 books — among them, The Elements of Legal Style, Black’s Law Dictionary and, easily the most important of them all,…
Now I remember why I stopped listening to National Public Radio in the morning — stories like this one this morning, about how Texas is all plugged into the national conversation about energy consumption and climate control. I mean, really? Texas is the nation’s largest energy hog because it has…
