If Don Hill can’t be No. 1, he figures it’s time for Tom Leppert to take the title. Ed Oakley, of course, feels betrayed. Don Hill called Ed Oakley minutes before his 2 p.m. press conference to give him the devastating news: Oakley’s longtime political ally and the mayor pro…
Well, the immigration bill the Senate’s been haggling over for what seems like 10 painful years has narrowly avoided a potential pitfall — or a redeeming change, depending how you view the amendment proposed by Senator John Cornyn. The former Texas Attorney General’s bid to bar felons — including immigrants…
At left, the cover of the Observer two weeks ago. At right, today’s Sports Day in The Dallas Morning News. Yeah, we know — these things happen. And, no doubt about it, Jeff Milburn — who, this very Friday, takes his tiny NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team out to the…
Michael Davis over at Dallas Progress has made no secret who he’s voting for next weekend: Tom Leppert — or, as Schutze now calls him, “The Leppert of Two Evils.” So it’s no surprise that Michael takes offense at the way Ed Oakley keeps turning an allegedly nonpartisan race into…
Today, Gawker features an item about how batshit some folks went for a recent T-shirt giveaway on The New103.7: Lite FM (or whatever the former KVIL calls itself these days). Looks like Gene & Julia were giving away Gawker’s “Don’t Free Paris” T-shirts, eliciting quite the frenzy from fashionable fans…
Surprise, surprise, surprise: Don Hill is moments away from holding a press conference at City Hall, where he is about to endorse…wait for it…wait for it… Tom Leppert? Yup. More TK from Matt Pulle, who’s on his way this very second to the 2 p.m. eff-you to Hill’s former city…
Kevin Moriarty, the new artistic director at DTC, digs him some must-see TV. Scoop much? Kevin Moriarty is the new artistic director at the Dallas Theater Center. He comes here from Brown University, where he teaches in the MFA theater program, and from the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York,…
Alleged accountant to the “Merchant of Death,” Richard Chichakli disputes a federal judge’s ruling that his constitutional rights were not violated. Yesterday we reported that on Monday, a U.S. District Judge David Godbey dismissed the claims of a former Richardson resident who says his constitutional rights were violated when federal…
Ben Kweller is no Billy Corgan, thank God. Oh, how Ben Kweller tries valiantly to make something out that squishy Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream anthem “Today.” God knows it’s cuter than the original — and more decipherable. And it’s more than likely the best thing about the Pumpkins trib Spin’s…
HPHS’s Stark Sands, up for a Tony this weekend Our Elaine Liner will report back shortly from the press conference announcing the debut of Kevin Moriarty as the Dallas Theater Center’s new artistic director. Till then, feel free to read today’s New York Sun profile of Stark Sands, the Highland…
Herb Adderley’s in the Hall of Fame. He’s a Super Bowl champ several times over. And he wants nothing to do with the NFL, ever. Back in February, we mentioned how Herb Adderley — Pro Football Hall of Famer as a Green Bay Packer and former cornerback for Tom Landry’s…
Getty Images photographer John Moore Those of us who worked with John Moore at The Daily Texan in the late 1980s knew he’d be successful for two very important reasons: He’s an astoundingly talented picture-taker, and he’s awfully handsome; guy just looks like one of them mythic flak-jacketed war-zone photographers…
As Richie’s out on vacation this week, I thought this would be as good a time as any to forward you baseball fans — who aren’t to be confused with Texas Rangers fans — to Lone Star Ball, which I began reading only a few days back, hoping to find…
Yeah, we know — it’s all happening at Victory Park, or so everyone else in town’s been telling us since it was deemed hip and happenin’ to hang out in a large concrete alley twixt a surf shop (?), an ice cream joint, a steakhouse where a slab of meat…
Hot damn. We were just about to throw away a flier — by which we mean “cry for help” — from perennial mayoral write-in candidate Rich Sheridan when a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to this item on The Dallas Morning News’ Bold Types blog. Looks like Sheridan…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed me wondering why we haven’t posted Ed Oakley’s Tom-Tom-pounding ad; a few seem to think we’re Leppert lovers, whatever. Only one’s wondered where Leppert’s repsonse is. Me, I just miss Sam Coats’ ads; at least they were clever and folksy, as opposed to…
While I don’t have a lot of patience for dudes who validate their manhood via fast cars or jacked-up trucks (nothing turns me on like a guy with a shitty car, seriously), the sport/hobby/total wastes of time that are car racing and other forms of automobile enthusiasm have become less…
A federal judge says the government’s charges against Richard Chichakli ain’t as secret as he’s been claiming. Yesterday we wrote about Richard Chichakli, alleged accountant to the “Merchant of Death” (arms dealer Viktor Bout), and how he’d really like to return to his hum-drum life as a soccer dad in…
What — it’s been a good week or so since we’ve posted some Polyphonic Spree. And it’s been damned near a month since we first posted this video, compiled from our good Friend Hal Samples’ photos (70,000 of ’em? That can’t be right) of the band. Only, it’s now officially…
Tom Hicks — beloved on two continents. Seems the Union of European Football Associations spokesman William Gaillard said yesterday that the Tom Hicks-co-owned Liverpool football club has some pretty shite fans — something to do with their forging ducats to the team’s face-off against AC Milan in the Champions League…
Who knew so many of our Friends were fans of the Ron Paul? (And by so many, I mean 11. Ish.) Well, you know who else loves the sole Texan running for president? Yup — Jon Stewart, who last night had the Gulf Coast Congressman on The Daily Show and…
Over at Tom Leppert’s Web site, the mayoral wannabe has just posted a response to Ed Oakley’s “Truth”-telling ad — ya know, the one that makes Leppert look like a jaundiced spastic. Leppert doesn’t really attack the attack. Instead, he just says things like, “Negative attack ads won’t fight crime,…
