Carlos Quintanilla, before he got arrested … for failure to maintain financial responsibility. No justice, no peace! If you missed the ironic news flash, controversial Dallas activist Carlos Quintanilla went from preparing to lead a protest against Irving’s treatment of illegal immigrants to sitting in the Irving jail yesterday. The…
You think when Tony Romo was at Eastern Illinois, he thought he’d wind up in People or the Post every other week? Tony Romo’s dating an older woman from New York who’s got her own dough, thank you very much, and who used to be Derek Jeter’s gal pal not…
Last week, Fort Worth police chased 24-year-old Jose Garcia from near Hulen Mall in Fort Worth all the way to the Dallas Zoo, damned near, after he allegedly stole a GMC pick-up from an apartment complex parking lot. You might have read about it, but thanks to the YouTubes, you…
Twenty-four percent of all children in the state of Texas are “at risk of hunger,” says a report released yesterday by America’s Second Harvest, the country’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization. The report’s titled Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2003 — 2005, and it analyzes data collected by the…
Alex W. Spence’s very own Greg Pak is writing Hulk comics these days — and I could not be more envious, damn it. Heading out early today — going over to Lone Star Comics on Mockinbird Lane to see my old junior-high pal Greg Pak, easily the most famous student…
Bizarre as this sounds, I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon calling Southwest Airlines with the express intention of being put on hold. Normally, I despise having to wait on the phone and being held captive by Muzak and that creepy electronic voice that sweetly says, “We’ll be right…
Not only is Jason Witten’s wife Michelle an E.R. nurse, but she also has 20/16 vision in both eyes. Scattershooting while wondering what ever happened to legendary, old-school press like Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins and, of course, Blackie Sherrod. Cool, they’re right here. Hold a sec while I find my…
Apparently, John Wiley Price was talking about the Knights of Pythias Temple today on KNON. Great minds, hunh? So, a Friend of Unfair Park was doing some Interwebs browsing today came across a piece from the Dallas Business Journal in 1996, wherein Dallas developers Cliff Booth and Randy Moses of…
I don’t know much about Robert Edwards, save for what I read here, where he lists his interests as “Poetry and the Supernatural.” But he’s also a regular contributor to Associated Content (“The People’s Media Company,” right on), where he posted his account of a Tuesday-night scuffle outside the Day…
Brian Harkin Fox News would like us to suppress our use of this photo of Rudy G. at Wild About Harry’s. But Judith Reagan said it was OK. Courtesy Damon Frazier of Plano-based Frazier Photography & Video, we’ve been invited to the September 8 Rudy Giuliani fund-raising shindig at Lombardo…
Robert M. Edsel Robert Edsel sent us a nice note over the weekend, after we posted this item concerning his donating to the National Archives two albums of photographs documenting the art looted by the Nazis in France during World War II. At the end, he wrote, “They’ll be more…
Arts Magnet grad Elisa Jimenez — easily the kookiest contestant on Project Runway in four seasons I know, we all got a little tired of the Top Chef recaps. So we’ll try something a little different for Project Runway, which kicked off last night with two locals: Urban Flower/Grange Hall’s…
Late last week, police arrested three people — 21-year-old Harry J. Rivera Perez, 40-year-old Hector Osorio and 36-year-old Carla Osorio — for breaking into apartment complexes in Euless, Plano, Irving and Lewisville. They were stunningly efficient: Police say they hit dozens of apartments between September 10-12 and October 2-3, taking…
The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride is crushingly disappointing: no Rob Reiner commentary track, no outtakes, no making-of doc, no nothing, save for a lousy game and a few short interviews with Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Guest, and…
As Richie mentioned yesterday, Terrell Owens signed copies of his epic tome Little T Learns to Share yesterday out at the Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop at Grapevine Mills Mall. And from the looks of it, about two million people showed up — more or less, bad at math — so…
Arts Magnet grad, and Project Runway, contestant Elisa Jimenez Really, all we’re doing the rest of today is killing time till the 9 p.m. premiere of the fourth season of Project Runway on Bravo — which, as we told you way, way back when, features a Dallasite. Course, the official…
Cheer up, Big Tuck — you’re in Vibe! In case you missed this when it appeared on DC-9 at Night yesterday, Jeff Liles has posted to the original item some thoughts about Dallas’ musical standing elsewhere. And, he has a question for our Friends. The latest issue of Vibe, which…
Does she go by Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana? Hannah Montana’s at the Fort Worth Convention Center tonight — oh, come on, like you didn’t know that. But it’s not too late to get your ducats to tonight’s sold-out show: We’ve located plenty on eBay, ranging from $102.50 for a…
I’ll have much more on this saga in next week’s paper version of Unfair Park, but after finally talking with KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) afternoon co-host Greg Williams last night, I can answer the most pertinent questions: He’s alive. If not totally well. His on-going absence is indeed drug-related. He’s…
Jim Lites now gets to build soccer stadiums in England. Better than running the Stars, sounds like. The Dallas Stars Web site has the news: Jim Lites, who’s been both president of the hockey club and the head of Hicks Sports Marketing Group, is moving over to HSMG. Which means…
As we mentioned early last month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has made Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones the head of the league’s NFL Network committee, charging Jones with getting the league’s channel on cable services — among them, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter and Cablevision — that claim the network’s too…
Craig Watkins is for the death penalty. Also, against it. Newsweek wonders in the new issue whether Texans have lost their taste for the death penalty. Yes, the state “still accounts for more than half of all executions in the United States,” report Evan Thomas and Martha Brant, but “Texas…
