Mark Cuban went to Wrigley Field last night, sat in the right-field bleachers and spent part of the game text-messagng Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. The writer insists Cubs fans want Cuban to buy their team, and from the tone of his love letter to Cuban — not to mention…
Couple of local mentions in the new issue of Forbes, as in: We’re the home to “vitamin” beer and $100 bills being illegally trucked into Mexico by smugglers now biding their time in Laredo prisons. Amazingly, these stories are not related. The first one’s about Lawrence Schwartz’s Stampede beer, which…
Ryann Rathbone and Carter Albrecht A co-working Friend of Unfair Park sends word that tonight at 10 p.m., WFAA-Channel 8 will have an interview with Ryann Rathbone, Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend, about the events leading up to his death two weeks ago today. Apparently, ads promoting the segment have been airing…
The House of Death — has to be one hell of a neighborhood, no? OK, so we’re a little late on this, but late last month a U.S. district judge in El Paso issued a ruling on what is known as the House of Death case, which we wrote about…
This morning on the YouTubes I stumbled across a fascinating slide show just posted by a user named “reluctantpaladin.” The video, set to the soundtrack from Cold Mountain, features photos taken only yesterday in a place I’ve driven past a hundred times but never stepped foot inside: the Oakland Cemetery…
If you need Jim Schutze tomorrow — and you will, you will — you’ll probably find him at Nana in the Hilton Anatole. Never tried the food there myself, but it does offer “one of the best views overlooking the Trinity River Corridor,” says a media release Becky Mayad sent…
Almost two years after this Texas Monthly story ran, Steven Phillips has been cleared of at least one sex crime for which was convicted in the early 1980s. This morning, you probably picked up your daily paper and saw the story about Steven Phillips, who was convicted of sexually assaulting…
Dunno if you read this Friday, but Slate previewed Saturday night’s Miami Northwestern-Southlake Carroll game with an essay by Robert Andrew Powell, author of We Own This Game: A Season the in the Adult World of Youth Football. Even before Northwestern toppled Southlake Carroll 29-21 in front 31,896 on the…
Sergio Chapa, who’s a reporter for Al Día, goes by the YouTube moniker TXReporter, and a few weeks back he posted to the YT a five-and-a-half minute segment titled “Fuera del Closet: Gay Hispanic Immigrants in Dallas.” Says here it made its debut over Labor Day weekend at the National…
This morning we had to use the City of Dallas’ Web site to find the address of a park — which, on Firefox, at least, proved a nearly impossible task. (We had to switch to Internet Explorer to type in zip codes, and we’re lazy, lazy people.) Of course, regular…
After Tom Leppert coasted into the mayor’s office in June, I decided he and I needed to take a little break. It wasn’t an easy decision. In the spring of 2007, I learned so much about him, from how his single mother inspired his heartland values to how he never…
Seems like now’s as good a time as any to introduce our new music blog, DC9 at Night — so named, yes, for that Flatlanders song about how Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye and so forth. And if you’ll notice, our top item…
Is Sherman Allen back on the job? So we hear … Pastor Sherman Allen has left the Church of God in Christ and is back in the pulpit preaching, according to several sources. Allen, founder and pastor of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ — the name of the…
Too liberal? Too soft? Craig Watkins would beg to differ. Late yesterday afternoon, I finally spoke with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins about his comments in Thursday’s New York Times concerning Los Angeles’ — and, by extension, Dallas’ — failure to reduce gang-related crimes. Seems L.A.’s attempts at busting…
Do you wanna see 20 women go hard for eight straight hours this weekend? Hells yes, you do. And your buddy Frank Campagna over at the Kettle Art Gallery in Deep Ellum has hooked it all up for you. From 2 to 10 p.m. tomorrow — and later, if the…
In 1991 — “eight years before my conversion,” she says — Dawn Eden was 23 and, ahem, sharing a bed with Buzzcocks Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle. Dawn Eden is taking the train to Washington, D.C., and we are talking about masturbation. Just before the connection goes bad, she suggests…
Can Dale Jr. fit any more sponsors into his hand or on his body? Yes. We’ll say yes. The Hartford Courant says Dallas will be the home next week to some pretty big sports news — if by sports, I mean sports sponsorship news. Looks like Dale Earnhardt Jr. will…
If you wanna know why Your Dallas Cowboys are worth $1.5 billion, here’s most of your reason right here. For the first time in eight years, Your Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in the National Football League — thanks to, you guessed it, that billion-dollar stadium Jerry Jones…
Scott Kesterson Over on his Web site, local photographer Hal Samples just posted the trailer for a forthcoming documentary titled At War, directed and shot entirely by a former soldier-turned-photojournalist, Scott Kesterson, who spent a year embedded with troops in Afghanistan and now lives in Dallas, at least while editing…
In The New York Times today is a piece about how Los Angeles’ attempt to crack down on gangs and gang-related crime just ain’t working. Turns out, that city’s myriad laws — among them, ones that “prohibit public gatherings of two or more people suspected of being gang members; establish…
Speaking of Arts Magnet grad Norah Jones — which I was, kinda — her publicist sends word this afternoon that she’s about to be, well, everywhere. On TV (she’s the performer on the Austin City Limits season premiere, set to debut October 6). In the movies (Wong Kar-Wai’s My Blueberry…
Apparently, Tyrell Gatewood just needs to stay out of the car. Bad news, Longhorn fans: “Texas senior safety Tyrell Gatewood remained in jail Thursday after his arrest on drug charges, the fifth arrest of a Longhorns player since June.” Also popped in the arrest was freshman defensive back Ben Wells,…
