Already folks are lining up for next month’s special screening, with George Romero, of Night of the Living Dead. Texas Frightmare Weekend — which bills itself as “the Southwest’s premier horror convention,” and who am I to argue — takes place February 22-24 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference…
Do you really wanna see Jason Kidd as a Maverick again? Depends on what Dallas has to give up, doesn’t it? While one familiar face is departing, two more may be returning. President Bush delivered his seventh and final State of the Union last night, prompting interruptions for applause a…
Back in May we mentioned that five women who were treated at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas for anorexia and bulimia were suing the hospital and doctors who treated them. The women, who had participated in Presby’s Eating Disorder Program, claimed “the hospital and doctors there took part in a fraudulent…
Olympia Dukakis, in the role for which she’s perhaps best known. Or, like, not. In just-announced news sure to tickle my mother, Olympia Dukakis is coming to Dallas on February 28 to take part in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s NasherSalon chitchat. The cousin of at least one failed presidential candidate,…
Till this morning, I only vaguely recalled the time Dallas Cowboys great Ed “Too Tall” Jones guested on a March 1981 episode of Diff’rent Strokes — the Season Three premiere, actually. Thanks to the magic of the Interwebs, now I will never forget it. –Robert Wilonsky…
Terrell Owens might be a Dallas Cowboy, but according to The Philadelphia Inquirer today, he owes the Philadelphia Eagles about $800,000. Turns out an arbitrator ruled Friday that the Eagles could indeed collect on some of that signing bonus Owens’ former team claimed he forfeited in 2005, when he was…
Parkland Memorial Hospital Trauma Room No. 1, buried but not forgotten A very significant piece of Parkland Memorial Hospital now resides in Lenexa, Kansas, just slightly south of Kansas City. Only, you will likely never again see this bit of Dallas history: The former Parkland trauma room has gone underground,…
Jennah Durant, Dallas’ latest Jeopardy contestant A Friend of Unfair Park who works for Dallas County sends word that a pal of hers makes her bow on Jeopardy this week — though whether she’s a big winner, well, we won’t say, lest it spoil the surprise, surprise, surprise. The contestant…
This building, at Cockrell Avenue and Alma Street, is among the properties to be considered in the Urban Land Institute’s contest involving the Cedars neighborhood. So far as I can tell, there’s been no mention elsewhere of the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in…
Back in 1999, Josh Hamilton was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with the No. 1 pick in the draft. He was fresh out of high school, where he dominated at the plate, and on the mound Hamilton had all the tools, including a mid-90s fastball. All I ever…
A hell of a place to hold a film school, but this is where the young filmmakers behind Wade in the Water learned their craft — in Central City’s Life Insurance Building Over the weekend, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal took home the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for…
Just saw this moments ago, about how some 30-50 members of Dallas-Fort Worth’s Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now chapter were ushered out of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Dallas offices this a.m. I called ACORN’s local offices on Maple Avenue, and there was indeed a march on the senator’s…
Assistant City Manager Ramón F. Míguez delivered some bad news to the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee on Friday. Sam Merten’s heading to City Hall this afternoon for the 2 p.m. Transportation and Environment Committee get-together. Thrilling, yup. Only, there is an item of considerable interest on the agenda: Michael…
The program from the Ballpark’s sole hosting of MLB’s All-Star extravaganza Spent a cold, damp, freaky foggy Saturday at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the team’s annual mid-winter Fan Fest. Biggest news: A li’l baseball birdie told me the Rangers are in the process of officially bidding to host the…
Emilio Gonzalez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is in Dallas today, paying a visit to the Dallas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office. And he’ll be greeted by “dozens of legal residents waiting to become U.S. citizens” who are marching on the North Stemmons Freeway location to protest…
Erykah Badu’s “Honey” video, the first single from the out-February 26 Nu AmErykah, makes its official bow this a.m. — and does it ever bring back the art of the album cover. Worth a few dozen spins before yer day gets under way. –Robert Wilonsky…
Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on Dr. Phil today If you don’t have the time or the energy to watch today’s episode of Dr. Phil, devoted entirely to “The Baggy Pants Debate,” his TV show’s Web will do just fine, with a preview full of slideshow photos and…
Mark Graham Attorney Fred Baron, Dallas Dems’ fave bread-maker The Houston Chronicle this morning tallies up the state’s biggest political donors in 2007 — “a year in which there were no high-profile races and only a few constitutional amendments on the ballot” — and second only to Houston home builder…
Director Courtney Hunt, accepting the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition from Quentin Tarantino for her film Frozen River PARK CITY, Utah — As the 2008 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close with a bizarrely country-and-western-themed awards ceremony hosted by William H. Macy, a jury headed by…
Jim Bowles, former (and, he hopes, future) Dallas County sheriff In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we take a look at former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles’ attempt at getting back his old job. He had plenty to say — too much to squeeze into the pages of…
Two weeks ago I linked to the heartbreaking Clayton Holmes profile, penned for ESPN.com’s Page 2 by Jeff Pearlman, who’s the author of two sports books (about the ’86 New York Mets and Barry Bonds). As Pearlman noted in the article, he uncovered Holmes’ story while working on a book…
Chuck Norris’ KICKSTART has two offices, one in Houston and another on Forest Lane here; its goal, says the KICKSTART Web site, is to “change and save children’s lives.” Apparently, no one told that to KICKSTART’s former Chief Executive Officer James Brasher, who yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing $130,000 from…
