In July, SMU debuted its new ad campaign — that danged “Pony Up!” nonsense cooked up by the Richards Group for a what-the-fuh $750,000. (Over at SMU’s official Mustang Musings site, run by the university’s athletics department, folks either loved the campaign or hated it upon its debut. Loved it,…
Dallas Cowboys fans will find a troubling headline at People.com this morning: “Britney Spears Parties with Tony Romo.” That’s how he spent his bye weekend — and how she spent her Friday night, “after a long court hearing for her custody battle,” reports People. From the looks of it, he’s…
You’ve waited for it all day, no doubt. The comeback of Owen Wilson, first interview since The Event, talking to pal Wes Anderson for MySpace. And, really, nice to see him back — maybe we can all put this behind us and ease on down the road from here on…
Dwaine Caraway isn’t apologizing for being pals with Mayor Tom. Not yet, anyway. On Thursday Dallas city council member Angela Hunt told The Dallas Morning News that her group’s message of stopping a high-speed toll way isn’t reserved for one neighborhood or another. That’s a smart, inclusive message. It’s also…
Moments ago, an enormous plume of smoke was visible from Unfair Park HQ — at Maple and Oak Lawn — over downtown Dallas. (The picture above was taken a few minutes after staffers first saw the smoke. By 4:48, it has almost entirely dissipated.) And while we’re not quite sure…
At last, Pegasus News has finally posted the downloadable videos from last Saturday night’s Carter Albrecht Memorial concert at the Granada Theater. They are free, per the family’s wishes, but as the event was a fund-raiser for the fledgling Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, so too are the videos: Pegasus would…
Tracy Rowlett and Jim Schutze — man, it’s like an episode of Iconoclasts, only without the piano. Wow. Legendary Dallas newsman-anchor Tracy Rowlett just left Unfair Park HQ after spending an hour here with a camera crew. Also with him was John Sparks, KTVT-Channel 11’s executive producer for investigations and…
Another Dallas County man exonerated by DNA walked out of prison today after Judge Lana Myers reduced his sentence on another charge to time served. Eugene Ivory Henton had accepted a plea bargain of four years for a 1984 sexual assault. After serving 18 months, he was paroled. Later charged…
Mark Graham U.S. Army translator and recruiter Adnan Kirkuki, an Iraqi Kurd living in Richardson I moved here a year ago and thought, yup, this was all you needed to know about Dallas — well, this too. And maybe this. But they’re just misleading myths and faded memories. Even an…
Irving High School’s Blake Beavan has Baseball America believing in Your Texas Rangers. Watching the Boston Red Sox take a 2-0 stranglehold on the Colorado Rockies last night, it struck me: How far — really now — are Your Texas Rangers from playing in a World Series? Honestly, I’m just…
In March, the Toy Industry Association decided to move its 2007 Fall Toy Show to Dallas Market Center — which, at the time, was considered a shocker, as the Javits Center in New York City had been the preview convention’s longtime home. (And it still is for the annual February…
Paul Lukas is obsessed with pro sports team’s uniforms — hence, his Uni Watch blog, updated daily, and his gig as ESPN.com’s uniform czar, a position maintained in these parts by KTCK-AM’s Craig Miller. This week, Lukas breaks down in exquisite detail the unis of Your Dallas Cowboys. Seems he…
Dooney Da Priest thinks you might be gay if you wear saggin’ pants. Or listen to Coldplay. Dooney da Priest is about to become the most famous rapper ever to come straight outta Dallas, at least to the public-radio audience. For the second time in a week, National Public Radio…
From the sound of it, Butler & Sons Books in Rosenberg, which is about 20 miles west of Houston, is just your average rare-book store, selling for a couple thou first editions of All the King’s Men, Tarzan of the Apes and other treasured tomes. Bill Butler bills his joint…
But, Becky, it’s so easy. –Robert Wilonsky…
Before political correctness. Before Bill Maher thought he was edgy. Before Weird Al Yankovic cashed in on parodies. There was Bowley and Wilson. Or I might be wrong, because any time I went to see the legendary and raunchy comedy duo, I left doubled-over in laughter and/or triple-wasted. And you…
Please, Mommy, when I grow up, don’t let me turn into Bruce Tomaso. Wow. In today’s Dallas Morning News, Tomaso offers us yet another chapter in his serialized book about the Trinity River toll road referendum: Big Fat Lies I Would Like Very Much for You to Accept as Total…
Brian Harkin Well, I had the chance to talk to the former Sheila Farrington for a feature about her husband Don for the paper version of Unfair Park this week. Mrs. Hill says she will not cop a plea, and while I know that’s what all criminal defendants say initially,…
Mark Cuban’s dancing no more, which leaves us rooting for Dallas’ Next Top Model wannabe. It was obvious something was up this week for our fair Ambreal when, within the first minutes of the show, she was on the horn to her Daddy lamenting her poor performance last week and…
Dwaine Caraway isn’t trying to outlaw this, right? Just checking. You know who doesn’t think Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s campaign to get Dallas to pull up its saggin’ pants is all that? The editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Wuh-oh: Clearly, some lawmakers feel they have nothing better…
Jovan! J. Jovan Philyaw — a Hanna-Barbera creation, perhaps? Or maybe the manufacturer of mom jeans? A musk you get at Wal-Mart? No, silly — you remember Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, who also goes by his secret identity J. Hutton Pulitzer: He’s “one of the most prolific independent Inventors of modern…
Rod Price, by the way, was the guitarist for Foghat, whose “Slow Ride” the Dallas Cowboys QB apparently hasn’t mastered for Guitar Hero III. For those so inclined, below is something called TexasGamerTV’s brief coverage of the Tuesday-afternoon jam at Terence Newman’s house — and, yeah, the “Carmen” to whom…
