Hal Samples The winning entry in the Re*Cov*Er mural competition Saturday night Took the missus and the 4-year-old who lives in our house down to Deep Ellum Saturday evening, where I was among the 93 or so judges in the Re*Cov*Er mural series contest. Re*Cov*Er’s a project sponsored by the…
Peripatetic New Testament scholar Darrell Bock, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and senior editor at Christianity Today, has a new book out this fall. Apparently, Bock travels the country for three months touting one book, then nine months later gives birth to another one. That’s a heck of a pace…
Just in time for Halloween, Dallas-based Peaches Uniforms — the self-proclaimed “leader in fashion-driven uniforms and scrubs for women in the healthcare industry” — is offering a line of hospital togs that’ll let you strut the hospital corridors looking just like Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens. Says here, ladies, that Grey’s…
Dr. Schutze has an item forthcoming — ’bout what, couldn’t say — but till then, here’s a YouTube find regarding the Trinity River toll road debate worth about the 50 seconds it takes to watch it. And, no, Schutze didn’t make it, far as I know. –Robert Wilonsky…
Will Clarke is the devil, say Rhode Island parents. Well, d’uh. The Great Will Clarke — author of Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles and The Worthy; Friend of Unfair Park; and all-around swell American — is in big effin’ trouble with the God-fearin’ folk of Rhode Island. Looks like the parents…
After the jump, Richie reviews — minute by painful minute — yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys-New England Patriots game at Texas Stadium, the highlight of which was an alleged Tom Cruise sighting, no sign of his hostage. Ah, well — to quote another visiting celebrity, “The rain on my car is a…
We always kind of knew Dallas County Judge Jim Foster didn’t do a whole lot, but now we have proof. Last week, the county belatedly released Foster’s 2007 schedule of public appointments and appearances, and, as it turns out, one of the top elected officials in North Texas puts in…
In all my travels through the YouTubes, I’ve never seen this — till today, when it showed up during my search for something else. I don’t know who made it or where it comes from; I assume it comes from one of the myriad Kennedy assassination docs floating around the…
Just when you thought the the immigration shouting match in Irving couldn’t get much louder, former president of Mexico Vicente Fox is turning up the volume. In town this week to promote his new book, Revolution of Hope, he has condemned Irving’s policing tactics as repressive and declared that America…
We doubt Quincy Carter’s rookie card is worth as much as Tony Romo’s. My old pal Jaime Aron, a longtime sports writer for the Associated Press, notes that tomorrow, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will turn 65 — and, yes, expect big doings during halftime of the Cowboys-Patriots game on…
Dallas’ powerful Democratic fund-raiser Cappy McGarr, at left, with a couple of other dudes Amazing the things you learn on the Interwebs. Like, before I read this Fortune story this morning, I don’t know if I’d ever heard the name Cappy McGarr — sounds like an Irish pirate, y’ask me…
According to Beckett Media, Leaf only made 75 Tony Romo rookie cards in 2003 — which is why they’re worth $150 apiece. Two ways to deal with going 0-2 and coughing up a cool $385, thanks to closer-than-expected wins by Oklahoma and the Cowboys last weekend. One, I could take…
Former Luqa chef David Gilbert has moved on to bigger and better things — how many, he ain’t sayin’ just yet. Chef David Gilbert, the talented young chef who got ensnared in the Luqa debacle downtown, has landed with Jack Baum and his restaurant management firm Food, Friends and Company,…
So, lesse — yesterday we featured a Zimbabwe-born Brookhaven College student about to become the biggest thing in rugby, and today we have a Zambian-born University of Texas at Dallas grad about to become the biggest thing in chess. How international of us — as in Newsweek International, which this…
Hunt County District Attorney Duncan Thomas The strange capital murder case of Brandon Woodruff, accused of killing his parents in Royse City in October 2005, has taken another odd twist. A graduate of Rockwall High School, Woodruff, now 21, has been in the Hunt County jail almost two years, unable…
Dallas’ reputation as one of the “meanest cities” in the country when it comes to its treatment of the homeless is either cemented or softened with this Associated Press story: Every night, the First Presbyterian Church on Park Avenue downtown is allowing up to 150 homeless folks to sleep in…
Right click to view image — it just might save your life, Andrea Grimes. Last night was special for me. A milestone moment in my slow descent into functional alcoholism. It was the first time I have ever had Goldschlager. Yeah, I know. I know. But, look, I hadn’t even…
Local restaurant owners and other employers worried about being forced to fire large numbers of workers can rest easy, at least for the moment. A California judge yesterday granted a temporary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to crack down on employers who have illegal workers on the…
Um, Terrell Owens, we found at least one “original 81” who ain’t you, pal. Response to last week’s homage to Blackie Sherrod was, well, yummier than a plate of scratch biscuits and red-eye gravy. So, yes, in fact, I’ll make this a weekly staple. Riddle me this: Buffalo’s Terrence McGee…
It’s been a while since we peeked in on the Stoneleigh Hotel blog, which has been keeping tabs on the historic hotel’s $30-million makeover due to debut in a few weeks. But a Friend of Unfair Park suggested we mention the latest entry: a Q&A with project manager Anne Sasso…
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Irving, you just knew this was bound to happen, right? First Farmers Branch got the national spotlight in May, when the Today show brought its cameras to capture the fight over Ordinance 2903. Now, CNN’s in Irving — specifically, anchor-reporter Rick Sanchez, who tonight will broadcast live…
Takudzwa Ngwenya, just your average radiology student at Brookhaven College Remember the name Takudzwa Ngwenya. Fine, try to pronounce it, then remember it, because the Zimbabwe-born Dallasite is about to become the biggest thing in rugby. It’s more or less because of the one play below, which comes from the…
