For several weeks, the car-lovin’ Web site Jalopnik has been obsessing over the story of Farmers Branch-based Unique Performance, which had a deal with racing great Carroll Shelby to manufacture “official” knock-offs of the legendary 1967 Shelby GT500E. It began earlier this month, when KTVT-Channel 11 ran a story about…
Back in June, Firehouse.com wrote a lengthy profile of Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Alex Eastman — “the first physician who’s every day job is to be on a major metropolitan SWAT team,” as the good doctor explained at the time. More than a year earlier, Eastman was among the doctors who…
The Ice Bowl, about which you might hear one or two things over the next week Go ahead, be thankful. The Dallas Cowboys ripped the New York Jets to improve to 10-1 for the first time in the franchise history. Even better, they jumped to a 21-0 lead to prevent…
This note tonight, from Camp Taji in Iraq — where it’s just like home (complete with fast-food eateries and workout facilities) and so not at all like home. While the atmosphere at the dining facility was festive, it just wasn’t the same as being home for many Soldiers who said…
Kelly Clarkson’s the “fallen Idol” now; “idle when ready,” so they say. So claim the copious concert reviews following Clarkson along the tour trail, at last under way after a summer stall-out caused by low, low ticket sales and the giddy gossip-mongering following her fall out with Old Man Music,…
Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since the release of The Princess Bride, if only because it hasn’t aged a day. Bereft of the pop-culture gags that curdle the Shrek movies and absent the cynicism of most other kids’ films used solely to peddle fast food and impulse…
Hearts of Darkness:A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Paramount) At last available on DVD, Eleanor Coppola’s 1991 documentary about her husband’s tumultuous trek downriver remains, easily, the best film ever about the making of a movie and unmaking of a man. Francis Ford Coppola thought he was going to spend 16 weeks in…
Well, a very disappointing outcome today in the situation I am wrote about in my column this week: The Dallas Homeowners League has opted to bar the Belmont Neighborhood Association from membership in the DGHL. Why? Because Avi Adelman is a member of the BNA. The DHL’s six-page letter of…
UT-Arlington UT-Arlington guard Cardell Hunter, a sophomore playing, well, like a junior, at least Though it would make total sense, this isn’t a writers-strike retread posting from the days of Snake LeGrand, Bill Blakely and peach baskets. Believe it or not, it’s true: UT-Arlington will host North Texas tonight at…
There, Jack E. Jett — this better? ”The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you are afraid of it.” Thus spoke James Beard. Restaurateur Mark Maguire admits he had a fear of soufflés. When amateur gourmet Hedda Gioia Dowd — founder of the French…
Far as I know, there’s no ESPN the Magazine cover curse. Hell, far as I knew till a couple of minutes ago, there was no ESPN the Magazine — gave it up a while back, after my five-year free subscription finally ran out. But in a few days, three of…
Michael Morris, Director of Transportation for the NCTCOG, lives in Arlington. Which doesn’t stop him from poking his nose into other cities’ bidness. Michael Morris sighting this morning. I want to read it into the record. Morris, of course, is my least favorite local politician. Nothing personal. Morris is “transportation…
ABC News/Good Morning America Rev. Rickie Rush and Isaac Booker appeared on ABC this morning. The things you miss by not watching morning shows. Good Morning America today hosted Rev. Rickie Rush of the Inspiring Body of Christ Church on South Westmoreland Road. And he was joined by a congregant,…
Dallas resident Brandon Friedman, vice chairman of VoteVets.org A couple of times in recent months, I’ve mentioned Brandon Friedman, a Dallasite who served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s currently vice chairman of VoteVets.org and the author of the awfully…
This Peanuts strip fetched a small fortune at auction last week; you can print this version for nothing. Called it. After selling one of Charles Schulz’s original Peanuts strips earlier this year for $77,675, Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries obliterated that figure by nearly 40 thou with the iconic…
Charles Hatley, world champ Oak Cliff’s Charlie Hatley may not be headed to the Olympics, but he now has another title to add to his resume: world champion. Over the weekend, Hatley won the Golden Gloves World Championship, and he couldn’t have done it in more impressive fashion. He knocked…
It was nothing short of a Major Event when Minyard Food Store opened a 50,000-square foot grocery at Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert B. Cullum boulevards in the Fair Park area in the September 1995. “I can’t believe we finally have what most people have in their communities,” a…
On September 4, we posted to Unfair Park an item about the smoking cessation drug Chantix, which Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend, parents and bandmates blamed on his erratic, violent behavior the night he was killed. Every other day since then, someone has posted a comment to that item. Only last week…
I won’t pretend to know whether this is The Real Deal, but an eBay’er with much positive feedback is selling — for the low, low price of $2,000, so far — what he says is a football signed by the entirety of the 1967 Dallas Cowboys roster. Which means, yes,…
A 9-year-old from Richardson came up with this invention. Oh, like you could do better. Most of the time, when I tell people what I do — which is, make fun of myself and my peers for a living — people respond with a hearty, “That’s so cool! You must…
More than two decades after being convicted of murder, Clay Chabot will get another trial. Susan Campbell, spokesman for the family of Galua Crosby, who was murdered in 1986, wants families of victims to be informed about developments when someone convicted of killing their loved one has been granted a…
Looks like you are paying for the new Cowboys stadium after all. If you’re a Dallas Cowboys season-ticket holder, you’ll soon be getting in the mail a silver envelope, the contents of which will be seat pricing for the new stadium. Warning: Before opening, please sit down. Got my grubby…
