USA Boxing Duncanville’s Luis Yanez is already being hyped as USA Boxing’s best and brightest — we’ll find out this week in Chicago, just maybe. Duncanville High School product Luis Yanez turns a whopping 19 on Thursday, and as an early birthday present, the kid is the recipient of a…
Neither of these Web sites actually work, but who has time to write down the URLs while driving, anyway? Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s campaign to get Dallas to pull up its pants made it to National Public Radio; so too did Dooney Da Priest, whose “Pull Your Pants…
Back in March, we brought word — or should that be Word? — of GodTube, which was Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt’s answer to, yup, YouTube. But only now, as the Dallas-based site — its HQ is off Skillman Street and Lovers Lane — becomes one of the hottest…
One thing that’s so wrong with blogging is that you have to do it so fast. I am literally grabbing a cup of coffee between appointments today, but I can’t let George Rodrigue’s new post on The Dallas Morning News’ Web site go unanswered until tomorrow. Many things to get…
Look, we went almost a whole day without mentioning the Trinity River toll road and The Dallas Morning News — I know, right? Alas, seems we oughta point out that The News’ managing editor, Gentleman George Rodrigue, is back at it today with another shot across Jim’s bow. In today’s…
This morning, the Dallas Museum of Art confirmed what everyone already knew: Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is returning to the DMA … in, oh, a year from now. DMA members can’t even buy tickets till April 2008; non-members, July ’08. But Dallas is the first city…
No, this isn’t the new Modest Mouse video — which is to say, the old Modest Mouse video. Rather, it’s the latest short from going-for-baroque Dallas-based pop-rockers The Happy Bullets. Titled “The Vice and Virtue Ministry” — an MP3 of which the band’s offering here, absolutely gratis — the clever…
Weird game yesterday: Dallas rolls into its bye week at 6-1 after yesterday’s 10-point victory over the Vikings that felt more than 30. Didn’t it? Tony Romo was 28 of 32 in the first half, yet somehow Dallas trailed by seven. The second half featured the Cowboys’ first return of…
Those who missed the Carter Albrecht Memorial concert Saturday night at the Granada Theater — and there were not many who did; it was packed with old friends and familiar faces — will find it a copy of the show, in its entirety, beginning tomorrow on Pegasus News’ site. You…
If you need Schutze today, he’ll be with Mayor Tom at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, where the Williams Institute is holding its third annual conference. Jim’s moderating a crime panel this afternoon — and, says the latest Wholeness Index, crime in Dallas is the worst in northwest Dallas, “mostly west…
Moments ago on The Dallas Morning News’ Web page, the paper’s managing editor, George Rodrigue, posted a long criticism of my work in which he accuses me repeatedly of being a polemicist. According to my copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, that would make me a writer of controversial,…
Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Joseph Robert Tellini, at left, and Ian McConnell Walker received their sentences today for their pot brownie prank. Pamela Karnavas, a 10th grade English teacher at Lake Highlands High School, took the morning off to be in the court of Judge Lana Myers — for the…
More than two decades after being convicted of murder, Clay Chabot will get another trial. Clay Chabot stays in prison — for now. For 21 years, Clay Chabot has been imprisoned for the 1986 murder of Galua Crosby. But a A DNA test has implicated the state’s chief witness against…
Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue just accused you of “lunacy.” Called you a “polemicist.” Says you “demonize.” Insists you are “no longer acting as a journalist.” And he just hates my headline. Says it wasn’t “civil.” Oh, why do I get the feeling George Rodrigue ain’t seen nothing…
At this very moment, beloved Club Dada doorman John “Beard” Brewer is being released from Parkland Memorial Hospital — great news after a long, hard week during which Beard was, for the most part, confined to an intensive care unit after suffering a seizure last Friday. This morning, “Gentleman Musicianer…
Jaime Pressly’s still coming to town tomorrow night. But the rest of Dallas International Fashion Week’s gone out for cigarettes till further notice. Per an e-mail from Some Publicist this morning: “Dallas International Fashion Week is announcing its postponement of its planned launch October 20 – 26, 2007 until a…
Let me get this straight: Greg “The Hammer” Williams is on “personal leave” from KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). And, right now, Jennifer Engel is announcing that today’s show will be her last on ESPN-103.3 FM. Hmm. How do you feel about The Ticket’s new afternoon drive-time show: Rhyner & The…
Seems yesterday’s Dickey’s item is almost as popular as Wednesday’s posting about Rebecca Aguilar’s suspension — well, OK, not quite. Regardless, for those so interested, news that Dickey’s is franchising across the country — not to mention across the pond — has spawned a heated debate about where to find…
Jim Larkin, left, and Michael Lacey As many of you know, the paper version of Unfair Park is part of the Phoenix-based Village Voice Media chain of alternaweeklies; we’re one of 16 papers nationwide. Michael Lacey is executive editor of Village Voice Media; Jim Larkin is chief executive officer. And…
Speaking of Tony Romo’s love life … A couple of weeks ago, Richie mentioned that Romo co-hosts a radio show every week from the Gaylord Texan. And it’s kind of awesome: Romo, usually dressed in a white tee and jeans, will talk about damned near anything he’s got on his…
We would be remiss if we didn’t start off Friday by reminding you where you need to be Saturday: at the Granada Theater, starting at 7 p.m. As we’ve mentioned before, tomorrow night’s the Carter Albrecht Memorial concert, tickets to which are $30, with the proceeds going toward the establishment…
In the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly, Carrie Underwood says, yeah, she and Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo were this close to being a couple. (This, after previously insisting they were just good friends.) But Romo wouldn’t commit — couldn’t, says the former American Idol, who’s now dating some other…
