Luxury retailers, beware: Shoppers are suffering a bad case of ennui, and they’re not likely to get well soon. Causes for their illness include everything from rising oil prices to slumping housing prices to “a lack of confidence in the political process in both major parties and in the executive…
Alas, our final post of 2007 (maybe) — the highlights, lowlights and stoplights of a year that included a nasty but somehow boring mayoral election, a bitter dispute over the Trinity River toll road, Jim Schutze’s endless tussles with editors and writers at Dallas’ Only Daily, Tony Romo’s baggage carousel…
Well, this would have gotten her to Dallas faster than a real American Airlines plane. Catherine Ray says American Airlines held her prisoner. No shit — “false imprisonment” is among the myriad charges the Arkansas woman makes in a lawsuit filed last week, in which she wants AA to pay…
It figures that one of our final items of 2007 would deal with sports radio — though, to be fair, it has nothing to do with KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). Well, not really, though if memory serves former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin did used to have a weekly…
Where’s Greggo, you ask? Why, right here — in a Ticket promo from 2004, posted to the YouTubes over the weekend. There’s also one from ’04 starring the morning-show boys — and it’s very Larry Craig. –Robert Wilonsky…
KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar — still missing more than two months later Rowlett’s Marisa Trevino is a friend of Rebecca Aguilar’s; she’s very clear about that in her Scripps News-syndicated column about Aguilar’s continued absence from KDFW-Channel 4, from which Aguilar was indefinitely suspended in October following her polarizing parking-lot…
KDFW-Channel 4 It’s a pretty good bet that when Priscilla Ceballos told WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris last week that she didn’t want to be on camera for faking her daughter’s contest-winning Hannah Montana essay, she didn’t figure on making national and international headlines days later. But, hey, shit happens. Like,…
Two weeks, Tony, two weeks … Our year-ender’s forthcoming, but a few quick ones beforehand. As in: While prepping the ’07 adios, and watching Tony Romo throwing for 86 yards and one pick yesterday, I was reminded of this October quote from Carrie Underwood, concerning her break-up with Tony Romo…
Mark Donald, the new editor of the Dallas Observer The Dallas Observer will begin the new year with a new editor: Mark Donald. His should be a very familiar name to longtime readers of the paper version of Unfair Park: Mark — who now demands to be called Mr. Donald,…
I’ve packed up my carnivorous plant and my reporter’s notebook-sized marker drawing by Tony Bones. The mini-cassette of my brief interview with Gavin Rossdale is carefully tucked away in Ziploc. The Hornbuckle research practically needed its own box, but I managed to get what’s left of every unused promotional item…
Richard Chamberlain — not, not that one. In case you missed Today yesterday — we did — Chamberlain’s Steak & Chop House bossman Richard Chamberlain was on the NBC morning show offering up his menu for “an easy at-home NYE feast,” which included pomegranate-glazed salmon, mini beef medallions with honey-glazed…
Moments ago, Macy’s announced that it would be shuttering nine “underperforming stores,” and Dallas is on the list — more precisely, the Valley View Center location, which opened as Sanger-Harris in 1973 before turning into a Foley’s. According to Macy’s, the department store takes up 300,000 square feet and employs…
Southwest Airlines is trying to lure folks who think the airline’s boarding and seating-selection process is tantamount to “chaos,” in the word of one business traveler quoted this morning in USA Today. The Dallas-based carrier is also looking to make, oh, an extra billion in annual revenue by 2009. Hence,…
“We’re so much more than Dallas the TV show,” says a Dallas tourism rep in a story that I swear I read back in 1987. Only, nope, it’s from today — in a Chicago Tribune by way of Kansas City Star piece about how Dallas is still trying to recover…
The most interesting revelation from this lengthy Associated Press story about Tom Hicks’ ownership of Liverpool FC? This one, easily: Hicks could have purchased Dallas’ MLS franchise but decided not to. “In hindsight, I probably made the wrong decision,” he said. Still, he’s always welcome to sell the Texas Rangers…
Yes, yes, the sale price of existing single-family homes is dropping all over the place — in Dallas, even, for the first time ever. But this morning Investor’s Business Daily finds the one place in the DFW where land is going, going and dang near gone: Oak Cliff. As in:…
Whilst tending to the morning YouTube sweep, I stumbled across surveillance-camera footage shot at a 7-Eleven at 9820 Walnut Street, taken just before the store was robbed by two men. The video was posted by the Dallas Police Department, and it marks the department’s debut on the YouTubes. “We are…
Getty Images’ John Moore was on CNN moments ago, talking about his hell of a day. A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that my old pal John Moore — who, as I mentioned this morning, was in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, attending the rally at which Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto…
O dream of dreams, o hope of hopes fulfilled! For truly, Blonde Ambition is now available in its entirety online. Now we can all get educated on the issues and talk about the politics of gender and why everyone’s shitting on Jessica Simpson for this embarrassment of a film and…
Turns out, Joel Harloff won’t be cookin’ at the Screen Door in One Arts Plaza after all. Contrary to what was noted in our final meal of 2007, Joel Harloff will not be commanding the kitchen in the upcoming Screen Door (a Modern Southern Kitchen) when it opens in One…
It all began on May 5, 2006, when the Dallas Business Journal reported that during an April 28, 2006, speech in Dallas, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said he wouldn’t award HUD contracts to folks who “have a problem” with his boss and good pal President Bush…
From a Childress production of The Kidnapper’s Foil, with Melton Barker at right For years, Caroline Frick — founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image in Austin — has sought the answer to a seemingly simple question, “Who was Melton Barker?” She knew only the…
