We’ve written a fair amount about Richard Chichakli, the mysterious accountant who spent 19 years in Richardson but is now living in exile because of his alleged connections to Viktor Bout, the world’s most notorious gunrunner. Last we left Chichakli, U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas had dismissed a…
Chances are you’re on the Internet right now. You’re one of those consumers who last year contributed to $80 billion in online commerce. (Which doesn’t include, ya know, porn.) And, most of all, you’re hungry. Welcome to Resercom. You’ll actually never eat at the Irving-based company, but you’ll likely use…
Chef Daniele Puleo has shifted into expansion mode. The brains behind Daniele Osteria on Oak Lawn, Puleo is branching to Fort Worth on South Hulen, near TCU, with a wine bar-cum-pizza parlor. It’s called Brix and will feature genuine tossed Neapolitan pies. How genuine? The Brix kitchen will be manned…
After the jump, Girl on Top explains precisely why Dallas-based Match.com is a sexist, clueless, women-hating bastion of evilness. Frankly, we think she’s just PMSing…
A Friend of Unfair Park shoots us a fascinating, inside-baseball lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tarrant County. In it, the Texas Collegiate Baseball League, the 4-year-old college summer baseball league, accuses seven of its teams of conspiring to take control of the league or destroy it altogether. It’s a long story…
The New York Post is reporting this morning that Home Solutions of America, which is HQ’d on Dragon Street, is in considerable trouble with the government and a major stock market. Turns out that HSA — which has “big plans for the New York real-estate market,” reports the paper –…
A Friend of Unfair Park who works for Neiman Marcus says our earlier item about 100th anniversary exclusives is nothing: “The real big deal,” she writes, “is going to be the NM Exclusives Event starting September 10. We have over 100 items designed exclusively for our 100th anniversary by the…
The September GQ, with Barack Obama on the cover, features the, ugh, “Young Guns” of the National Football League — such QBs as Vince Young, Matt Leinart, Jamarcus Russell, Brady Quinn and Ben Roethlisberger. But none of ’em gets the spread bestowed upon Tony Romo — whose “exhilarating debut made…
Soccer’s the new poker, if the talk around the poker table last night was any evidence. Seems all the kids wanna talk about is soccer — pardon, “football,” though I am not about to take that shit from a guy born and raised in Dallas who really oughta know better…
Mark Graham Billy James Smith spent almost 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now, he wants the city to make it right. This morning Billy James Smith became the first man exonerated through DNA evidence to file a federal civil rights and malicious prosecution lawsuit…
No place like home: The Dallas crew behind the local Samsung short-film contest entry. Starting today and throughout the next week, you can vote on the teen-made films entered in Samsung’s Fresh Films contest — and, of course, there’s a Dallas entry. In this case, it’s an “action/thriller” short film…
Mark Stuertz recently chronicled the ills at Luqa, where drama’s apparently the only thing left on the menu. See, an old college pal of Friend of Unfair Park’s who made his bones as a kickin’-it sports writer was supposed to meet another old pal on the beat for dinner at…
So. I’ve been looking at Hal Samples’ photos from Tuesday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards — and I must say, that was one beautiful crowd. Especially you, rock star. And you. You too. And you guys — handsome, stunning. Miss anyone? Oh — you. Well, hello. And, of course, hello,…
Southern Methodist University In coming days watch for this Trend Piece in Your Daily Newspaper: More people are using their Interwebs for online gaming than they are for eyeballing videos or social networking sites. That’s according to Dallas-based new-media market research company Parks Associates, which today issued a short report…
Tré Wilcox almost got kicked off Top Chef last night — but at least he got in the plug for his restaurant. For a change, guest Top Chef blogger Anthony Bourdain’s post concerning this week’s episode is up in a timely fashion. So rather than belabor the obvious — when…
This is at least one of the rooms in Troy Aikman’s for-sale home in which the QB went long, deep. If you’re a pasty, doughy dork, you could use the fortune ransacked from the couch cushions to monopolize Madden ’08. Or, if you’re true blue Cowboys fan, you can live…
Almost one month ago, there appeared in the Florida Times-Union a story I’ve yet to hear or see commented upon locally: Bob Hayes, holder of more than 20 Dallas Cowboys records (including 71 career TDs and 20 yards per reception), is buried in an unmarked grave in his hometown of…
This morning USA Today surveys which ZIP codes are giving the most to presidential wannabes, and coming in at No. 31 on the list of top-contributing ZIP codes is 75205 — which, in case you’re new ’round these here parts, resides “north of downtown, including Highland Park and the Dallas…
A few years ago, a Dallas businessman named Buckeye Epstein was invited to an underground fight in an abandoned discotheque in Southern California. He had no idea what he was in for. “There were these Charles Atlas-sized guys at the door, 50 bucks to get in, cash only and inside…
The Godzilla theme of this year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards can be interpreted in many ways. Godzilla could represent the growing presence of corporate venues, their monstrous feet crushing everything in sight. Or it could represent the ubiquitous destruction/construction cycle we’ve seen in Big D over the past, oh, gazillion…
Pretty Vacant Give Jim Foster a chance: You need to leave the guy alone (“In and Out,” by Jim Schutze, August 9). If you were actually trying to inform citizens of what the judge was doing to help Dallas County citizens, he would talk to you. But you guys and…
Taking the bait: Buzz just knows we’re going to regret this. Arguing with captious demagogues is always a losing proposition, but goddamn, The Dallas Morning News really outdid itself this week with its story answering the not-burning question: What did we think we were voting about in the 1998 Trinity…
