I left a message earlier today for Bob Mong, president and editor of The Dallas Morning News, for further details concerning this morning’s announcement that, beginning immediately, A.H. Belo will reduce its workforce by 500 employees spread amongst its four newspapers. Mong, who was relatively forthcoming with Unfair Park during…
Jesse Hughey Lewis Black built his entire stand-up comedy career on appearing as though he’s about to blow a blood vessel from sheer outrage at world’s stupidity. Years of Daily Show segments and television specials have proven that the closer he comes to suffering an onstage stroke, the bigger the…
Kenny Cooper Yesterday, FC Dallas forward Kenny Cooper scored two goals in two minutes on his way to embarrassing the David Beckham-led L.A. Galaxy 4-0 in Frisco. Today comes word that Cooper, a beloved native son, may have played his last game for the Hoops. Really, you can’t blame him…
Courtesy Deadspin — which got it from here, which got it from here — a reason to watch local television after all: Adam Jones and Deion Sanders’ Drivers Select ad, which, notes Deadspin’s Clay Travis, features “the most persuasive opening to a commercial in the history of television.” Which is?…
Obviously you guys get turned on by tuning in. I repeat, I’m not an Ed Bark starter kit attempting to become Dallas’ radio beat reporter. But, then again – in the essence of “the customer is always right” – here’s the latest news that filled my email and voice mail…
Yesterday, the teaser for Oliver Stone’s W made its online debut. Please, do get your popcorn ready. –Robert Wilonsky…
View Larger Map From GlobeSt.com late Friday came this good-news exclusive: Dallas-based NorthPoint Properties is set to sink $30 million into a sprawling “retail gateway” at the intersection of Samuell and Buckner Boulevards. It’ll be called Buckner Crossing, with the first phase scheduled to open next summer. Notes Connie Gore…
Sarah Ann Walker Last October, it took a Collin County jury just three hours to sentence Kosoul Chanthakoummane to death for the July 2006 murder of real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker. Walker, as you no doubt recall, was showing a model home in The Hemingway at Craig Ranch in…
Jeffrey Yarbrough, the man who shot Liberty Noodles Our old pal Jeffrey Yarbrough surfaces this morning in the Dallas Business Journal, which notes that Hillwood has hired the former co-owner of Club Clearview and Liberty Noodles to revamp the menu in Victory Park, where it costs a fortune just to…
You will find here this morning several “arguments why A.H. Belo would be a good investment,” among them “experienced and shareholders-aligned management” (meaning Belo’s chairman, president and chief executive officer Robert Decherd) and its estimable catalog of valuable properties. The analysis comes on the morning A.H. Belo announced a net…
This just in: No one is flawless. As you read this I’m likely flying to Oxnard, Calif. where – promise – the Cowboys blogging will commence Tuesday morning if not sooner. But first, a little vacation catch-up. While I was braving 80-degree weather in upstate New York and Canada, you…
As promised, the first of a few sneak previews from Lifetime’s Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which bows on the ladies-only network August 2 at 8 p.m. — set your DVRs accordingly. Course, this is the fictionalized retelling of the McKinney North High School scandal involving the cheerleaders who…
Didn’t think it was possible to make Bachman Lake look almost pretty, kind of peaceful. I was wrong. –Robert Wilonsky…
From the looks of this photo, among many others currently posted on the KDFW-Channel 4 site, this morning the La Madeleine at 3906 Lemmon Avenue became a drive-thru. At least, that’s what the driver of a yellow Corvette figured. –Robert Wilonsky…
Former Dallas Burn’er Brandon Pollard, educating my boy about bees at Dallas Farmer’s Market two weeks back The Washington Post is wrapping up its “Eat Local Challenge,” in which the paper’s asking folks to eat “food that has been grown or raised within 100 miles of home.” Among those taking…
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed the Military Child Education Coalition’s annual conference today, held in the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center’s enormous ballroom. Speaking to the fact that three out of five service members deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan war zone have families…
Daniel Rodrigue Ray Hunt The New York Times today reveals that earlier this week, Harold W. Geisel, Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State, sent several lawmakers a missive in which Geisel revealed his office is investigating just how Dallas’s Ray Hunt and Hunt Oil Company scored that…
For those interested in a sneak peek at the made-for-Lifetime movie The Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premieres August 2 at 8 p.m., the cable outlet’s posted a few short behind-the-scenes videos over here. But, by day’s end, Unfair Park will host some exclusive footage from the film…
Only a couple of days ago the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees didn’t seem to think the whole furor over the name “Hamon Arts Magnet” was all that big a deal; Edwin Flores told Unfair Park earlier this week he wasn’t even sure why Booker T. Washington High…
Denton County A YouTube director from Denton named Jim, who goes by the moniker SilkOlive, has posted today a haunting two-minute film about the Old Alton Bridge just south of Denton, which has been on the National Register of Historic Sites since 1988. Only, it’s better known amongst the local…
Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander exchanged a few e-mails yesterday with Mark Cuban, one of three finalists still in the running to acquire, for more than $1 billion, both the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Cuban wouldn’t tell Telander how much he thinks the Cubbies are worth — the…
News from Comic-Con International — and, no, nothing about the new RoboCop movie, The Spirit, Watchmen prop photos or Hugh Jackman. Rather, it’s about Dallas-based Blockbuster, which schlepped out to San Diego those in-store kiosks from which customers can download movies directly to their Archos player for now, what an…
