Tony Romo loves to win. But does he really hate to lose? After his playoff pratfalls, late-season hiccups and post-game “The sun’ll come out tomorrow” bullshit press conferences, I think it’s a legitimate question. Romo regressed dramatically this season. In ball security. In practice habits. In decision-making. And, mostly, in leadership…
Marching bands, splashy floats, horses, vintage cars and patriotic mascots filled Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for this morning’s parade outside Fair Park. Parade-watchers lined the streets, crowding the barricades and watching from atop houses and parked cars. With shouts of “Yes We Can” sounding from all directions, today was…
Hundreds gathered at Highland Park United Methodist Church this morning to celebrate the life of Dallas real estate tycoon Trammell Crow, who died in his sleep last week at a family farm in East Texas. The church’s sanctuary was full nearly an hour before the 11 a.m. service, forcing others…
A traffic heads-up for tomorrow: Unless you’re planning on protesting George W. Bush’s move to the ‘229, you may want to avoid Mockingbird Lane at N. Central Expressway between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. That’s when Code Pink of Greater Dallas is planning on celebrating Inauguration Day by…
Let’s don’t call Laura Miller and her parade plans just yet, but the Mavericks may have found something. A luxury they haven’t enjoyed since, oh, forever. Or at least since Roy Tarpley. A mobile, athletic big man. It was – who else? – Dirk Nowitizki’s calm, fadeaway 18-footer that beat the…
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, the first full-time executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King’s chief of staff, is in Dallas tonight to speak at the Belo Mansion as part of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Fourth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Arrested…
From yesterday’s Journal Times in Racine, Wisconsin, this is precisely the kind of whatever-dude Tony Romo quote that drives even his staunchest defenders absolutely nuts:”If I’m never going to win the Super Bowl, I’ll be content in life. I’ll be disappointed because that’s what I wanted to do. At that…
A Dallas-based company called WQN now sells software called WebSafety, which runs $10 a month and shuts down a cell phone when a driver is, um, driving. The software uses GPS technology, and, after the driver hits a certain speed, the software disables the phone. Which parents love, since it’ll…
You buyin’ it? The Cowboys’ changes, I mean. Pacman Jones is gone and looks like Tank Johnson won’t be asked back and there are even serious organizational discussions concerning Terrell Owens. And last Friday, of course, the Cowboys announced the firing of defensive coordinator Brian Stewart. Are these the first…
Yesterday, while exiting Walnut Hill Lane off northbound N. Central Expressway, I spotted this nattily dressed gentleman blowing his horn for spare change. Had the chance to visit during a red light, during which I discovered that his name’s “J.D.,” he’s a Dallas native and Franklin D. Roosevelt High School…
A good Friend of Unfair Park, up in D.C. for Barack Obama’s inauguration, was on Capitol Hill this a.m. to pick up her tickets for tomorrow. Alas, all did not go as planned:Hundreds of people are standing outside capitol offices to get tickets. Many were turned away from congressional offices…
That headline’s intended with all due respect — because, see, the new director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the SMU campus will be Bourbon County, Kentucky, native Alan Lowe, currently exec director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on the University of Tennessee…
Dallas mayors former and current were in D.C. over the weekend for the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual winter meeting: Tom Leppert, to once more make Dallas’s case for stimulus dough-re-mi; Ron Kirk, to calm mayors’ fears concerning his unpopular position on free trade. Leppert, like every other in mayor…
It wasn’t that I got 20 minutes of solid face time on KFWD Channel 52 Friday night. It wasn’t that I got to tour Channel 8’s spiffy HD studios in Victory Park and take a spin in Dale Hansen’s chair. (Psst, it really is unplugged!) And it wasn’t that I out-yelled…
Taken yesterday on my way to work. Seemed better suited for today…
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post are reporting today that as early as next week, Clear Channel Communications will “begin implementing a massive restructuring plan that seeks to cut $400 million in costs at the company.” Both stories say the layoffs are to begin on Tuesday; says…
Two days before Christmas, while addressing the controversy surrounding President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren deliver the inaugural invocation, John McWhorter wrote in The New Republic, “Suppose Obama had invited black megastar preacher T.D. Jakes instead.” Turns out, Obama has given Jakes a speaking slot on Inauguration Day…
Translating live improv comedy to the page is tough, so for a companion to our cover story this week about Mark Orvik, a comedian who’s fighting a life-threatening illness with humor, check out these videos of the troupe’s on-stage shenanigans. And hey, amidst waves of layoffs and foreclosures, we could…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio’s Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won’t make a comeback in February — don’t believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that,…
The top story in today’s Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Brian J. Smith, a young actor we’ve been writing about (OK, gushing over) since he wowed critics…
Dave Moore on FrontBurner wonders why “North Texas always seems to get its snout into” a big national news story — like, say, the tale of the US Airways plane that took a dip in the Hudson River yesterday. Actually, there’s a pretty good explanation in the Herald Democrat up…
Makes you wonder why the Stars haven’t been on The Ticket all along…
