Gawker has “Jessica Simpson’s Forbidden Workout Video,” for those so interested. And it comes with a commentary track courtesy Mrs. Romo’s business manager — allegedly. Seems awfully, ah, erm, coincidental that this four-year-old vid leaks today; Ashlee will not be happy. You, on the other hand? Dunno. Still, better late…
As the Dallas City Council goes into executive session before breaking for lunch, a few notes. As Dave Levinthal mentions, the Dallas City Council postponed till next month votes on two downtown projects seeking tax increment financing money. One of them is 1400 Main Street (better known as Plush), which,…
Humor me for a minute. Imagine you’re a city council member on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee. You walk into yesterday’s meeting and Page Six of this schematic is on the screen as Dan Chapman, project manager of the Trinity Turnpike for the North Texas Tollway Authority, is in…
Came across this photo of Mavs’ press row (circa 199 … 5?) recently and it made me: 1. Laugh hysterically. 2. Miss Reunion Arena. 3. Realize, “Hey, not a bad pic.” Free subscriptions to the Dallas Observer and Sportatorium for anyone correctly identifying four people. Free use of my ice…
Fascinatingish little story this morning in the Northumberland Gazette concerning a rare coin and a faraway country club — the Lakewood Country Club, to be a wee bit more specific. A hospice in Northumberland was sifting through some coins donated for a fund-raising auction when it discovered a particularly odd…
The 5-year-old who lives in my house woke up earlier than usual, ’round 6 a.m., only to discover school had been canceled on account of skating-rink conditions. Which means that after a few hours spent reading the collected works of John Updike and reproducing Georges-Pierre Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à…
One of our football coaches is headed to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Surprise, he has nothing to do with your Dallas Cowboys. I blogged, oh-so briefly, about Grapevine Faith’s Nov. 7 high-school game against the Gainesville State Tornadoes. Ring a bell? Rick Reilly’s terriffic ESPN The Magazine column is here. For…
More than likely, the Dallas City Council will spend at least the next month re-examining the plan to expand Central Expressway downtown. Council member Angela Hunt called Unfair Park with the news late last night: She has spoken with Ricardo Galceran, head of the city’s Public Works and Transportation department,…
As mentioned earlier, John Updike’s last visit to Dallas was exactly one year ago, when he visited with WFAA-Channel 8’s John McCaa at the NasherSalon 2008 Lecture Series. After the jump, a wonderful photo of the two men on the Nasher stage courtesy Kristen Gibbins, communications manager at the Nasher…
As Schutze mentioned earlier, the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee met this morning to get an update on the Trinity Turnpike, with reps from the North Texas Tollway Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on hand to walk everyone through the PowerPoint presentation. Of most interest was how…
Been a while since we’ve heard from Lily Tomlin, easily the most famous faces among the concerned citizens for Jenny who refuse to lose their battle to move the elephant to the sanctuary in Tennessee. The city’s steadfast refusal to pack the elephant’s trunks has Tomlin mighty miffed today in…
On Friday, J.P. Morgan Chase announced it’s shuttering 23 Washington Mutual locations in Dallas and another six in Fort Worth by the end of March. Only, it didn’t say where, just that it was letting customers know, so there. Alas, Friend of Unfair Park Steven R. just snapped this photo…
The Senate Committee on Finance doesn’t have Ron Kirk’s confirmation hearing penciled in on the schedule; so, for now, Bush appointee Peter F. Allgeier is the acting U.S. Trade Representative, the position to which then-President-elect Barack Obama appointed Kirk last month. But the former Dallas mayor took at least one…
Intended to post this early, but got otherwise distracted — was too busy answering the age-old question, WWJD? Alas, the delightful Adam McGill has reminded me of something I thought I only hallucinated last night during a midnight-thirty Comedy Central tune-in: Pastor Ed Young, Fellowship Church’s “sexpert” (ewwww), appeared on…
Unfair Park just received this brief, sad missive from Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knopf:It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. He was one of our greatest writers, and he will…
View Larger MapAs mentioned last week, the Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Committee is scheduled to discuss this morning offering $50,000 in historic tax incentives to three buildings, one of which is the Masonic Temple at 507 S. Harwood Street. Shortly after posting that tidbit, a Friend of Unfair Park…
Since there’s nothing to do today other than stay inside and pray for these glaciers of ice to somehow melt by Spring Break, let’s take a look at the Cowboys shall we? Remember what owner Jerry Jones said immediately after his team’s 44-6 season-ending loss in Philadelphia? I do. “Where…
Been a while since we’ve heard about Tom Hicks’s adventures in Liverpool — where he’s headed this week, matter of fact, in advance of Liverpool FC’s weekend’s shoot-out with Chelsea. And depending upon which UK paper you read, the owner of Your Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars is either looking…
You pick — the long version or the short. The long version is an eight-page article from the most recent issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes titled “Elapsed Time in Emergency Medical Services for Patients With Cardiac Complaints: Are Some Patients at Greater Risk for Delay?” Tufts researchers looked…
Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty, perched at the top of Reunion Tower, doesn’t officially make its bow till February 10’s grand opening. (It began its soft opening last week.) But Brian James has posted to Flickr a photographic tour of the rehabbed eatery, which is well worth a peek for those…
Over the weekend, Martellus Bennett posted this video in which he’s sporting a Dallas Cowboys helmet while throwing down some decidedly NSFW rhymes that are, let’s face it, not terribly tight for a tight end. Only way it coulda been worse? If he’d been sporting Mom jeans, which are worth…
In an effort to make some of us wonder what treasures we might have in our dry-walled apartments — or perhaps to rub salt in the wounds of those who unsuccessfully submitted their antiques to the appraisers at Dallas Convention Center last summer — PBS is airing the first of…
