Yesterday’s news concerning the pilot program at Bryan Adams High School, which involves outfitting chronic truants with Global Positioning System monitors, has sparked one hellacious conversation amongst Slashdot readers. The item was at 212 comments when I first checked at 4 p.m. yesterday; this morning, it’s double that. And, yes,…
Folks who visited a Dave & Buster’s in ’07 might want to take note: Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that during a five-month period last year, hackers got into the Dallas-based fun-and-games chain’s database and swiped customers’ credit card numbers, expiration dates and security codes while they were…
Megan Henderson Uncle Barky’s all over the comings and goings of one Megan Henderson, Good Day co-anchor at KDFW-Channel 4 since August ’03. The reason? She’s about to jump, or not, to the mothership: the “raw” and “unscripted” and unfortunate Fox & Friends Weekend, where, as Ed noted last month,…
The dream is all but dead. Well, that’s what it feels like, eh? For three games and 180 minutes over five days in two rinks your Dallas Stars have hurled their unyielding will at the Detroit Red Wings’ superior skill. It’s not that they haven’t won a game. They have…
Still a good guy. Still a good player? Story goes something like this: Roy Williams sucks. The end. No, wait, actually there’s more. A lot more. The Cowboys’ safety sucks in coverage, blames the media for picking on him, tells teammate Greg Ellis last year in training camp that he’s…
Breaking news from The Wall Street Journal concerning the sale of a DallasPlano company you might have heard of. Reports the paper in a subscription-only piece at which you can sneak a peak: “Hewlett-Packard Co. was close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. for between $12 billion…
Newsiest interview in a busy Sundy night Every once in a while I like to get greedy. I’ll make a third trip through the buffet line or, sometimes, I’ll watch all four of our local TV Sunday night sports shows. My own little version of checks and balances, if you…
A busy day full of stuff and nonsense, to be sure. Alas, something of substance: the City Auditor’s Office’s report concerning money the Smirnoff Music Centre owes the city. And, far as the audit’s concerned, it’s not an insubstantial amount that Live Nation needs to fork over pronto — only…
Noticed that Harvard U.’s fancypants glossy 02138 has a new owner as of immediately. Also noticed the current issue’s cover: an interesting portrait of Tommy Lee Jones, who, as you no doubt know, was borned in Midland and edumicated at St. Mark’s School of Texas, where he’s been on the…
From a most curious Associated Press piece concerning the dead and their desire to posthumously watch their favorite teams, this note concerning the Dallas Cowboys no-ashes policy at Texas Stadium: “It probably happens and we sort of turn a blind eye if people are discreet,” said Rich Dalrymple, spokesman for…
Pizza Inn The first Pizza Inn, which opened across the street from SMU in 1958 Fifty years ago, Pizza Inn opened its first eatery right across the street from the SMU campus; and, far as I was concerned ’round about the time I was about 8, the long-gone location at…
We’ve been anxiously awaiting Terrell Owens’ acting debut since last month, when it was announced T.O. would guest on Flavor Flav’s new sitcom Under One Roof — which, as one Friend pointed out, sounds a whole lot like The Fresh Flav of Bel-Air. Well, guess what? Wednesday’s the big night:…
In a 2004 Rolling Stone profile of Bill O’Reilly, his former WFAA-TV colleague Byron Harris described the Fox-y one as “particularly dishonest, obnoxious, self-centered.” Really? No idea. Certainly can’t tell from this NSFW Inside Edition clip, making the Interwebs rounds this a.m. And I’ve seen this before — on an…
It’s gonna be hard to find a better headline during the rest of ’08 than this one from Friday: “3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot.” (Admit it: When you first heard about the story outta humble Humble last week, you thought three things: Doesn’t anyone use Coke…
From the “Jewtopia Infomercial” on JewTube. Plano-based GodTube, founded by Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt way back last spring, is old news ’round Unfair Park parts. But every now and then, folks still stumble across the site and treat it like the Second Coming, especially after last week’s news…
White House photo by Shealah Craighead For those so interested, there are a dozen photos from the Jenna Bush-Henry Hager weekend nuptials down the road posted to the White House Web site — including this one, in which the President Bush appears affeared of touching Jenna’s back. –Robert Wilonsky…
For the Stars to keep playing, he needs to stop slashing and start scoring, eh? Good news: Dallas Stars catalyst forward Mike Ribeiro will play in tonight’s Game 3 of the NHL’s Western Conference Finals at 7 p.m. in American Airlines Center. Bad news: Lose tonight and the Stars might…
Like we’re not always being monitored by government satellites anyway, please. Unfair Park contributor Brian Harkin this a.m. contributes to The New York Times a photo of 15-year-old Bryan Adams High School freshman Jaime Pacheco, who gets up every morning and straps on a Global Positioning System monitor. Turns out,…
Eastern Illinois grad Tony Romo, what in the hell were you thinking? Because going to the Chicago Cubs game yesterday was so not a good idea. Unless you liked singing in the key of M and getting booed whilst tossing out the first pitch. In which case, great success. –Robert…
Thanks to Ozzy Osbourne and Mike Ditka, this is not the worst 7th inning stretch in the history of the friendly confines. — Richie Whitt…
A treat for the weekend readers of Unfair Park: the latest video from Los Bros Kadane’s The New Year. Only, yes, it’s for an old New Year song: “The End’s Not Near,” off 2004’s The End is Near — or, ya know, that song for which an episode of The…
Angela Hunt The blog’s acting up this a.m., refusing to post comments to some items. So I thought it best not to let this one linger in the ether: It’s a response from council member Angela Hunt, who has a few words for Friend of Unfair Park Alfredo. Yesterday, in…
