You know what this blog needs? More pictures of Mike Doocy. Thank God he’s quoted below, because otherwise it would just seem creepy. As the NFL season kicks off tonight and the Dallas Cowboys open their season Sunday in Jacksonville, you’re probably not real happy that Time Warner cable (previously…
Scott Murray apparently has one gig these days: hosting the DASA Awards Banquet. Will he, like, hit you with the highlights? Ties suck, unless you’re Troy Dungan, Anna Kournikova’s brother or a guy lucky enough to have tickets to next week’s Dallas All Sports Association Awards Banquet. The 41st annual…
Today, there are 13.5 miles between myself and the Dr Pepper Starcenter in Farmers Branch. That’s 13.5 miles between me and the possibility of demonstrating to Mike Modano that I am the woman of his dreams. Helen to his Paris. Guinevere to his Arthur. Liza to his David Gest. And,…
Sure enough, he’s a problem. The Dallas Cowboys awarded him that monstrous contract in the off-season for this? A mysterious injury that kept him sidelined most of preseason. The insufferable ego that has him resting on his résumé and shrugging off mistakes. A wobbly relationship with coach Bill Parcells. And,…
For years, Ric Kangas spoke to writers only to tell them to go away, he did not want to be bothered. He knew what they wanted to talk about–his famous friend, the one he knew almost 50 years ago before they went their separate ways. Kangas says he just didn’t…
Patience, patience: You can almost smell the odor of “gotcha” in the air. Four months after May’s enormous immigration marches, whose rallying cry was “Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote,” reporters and pundits are parsing the numbers, trying to figure out if there has been a spike in the number…
Bridge to Nowhere City cool: I’m with Jim and council member Angela Hunt. Build the parks, lakes, bike trails, etc. and ax the toll roads and fancy bridges (“Eye Candy for Suckers,” by Jim Schutze, August 31). Why? Well, as a 33-year-old Gen-Xer who has called Dallas home for the…
The cop is finishing his second tater tot when a call comes over the radio. Officer Spearmint has just caught a girl and her pimp. They’re across the street at the Pilot truck stop. Terry Peters looks out into the darkness. “The animals are out,” he says. Then he turns…
There have been a lot of FEMA fraud stories since Hurricane Katrina, but none like this. Late yesterday, Ken McLain, 33, of Dallas, was found guilty of scheming the disaster relief agency out of more than $70,000 in claims connected to Katrina and that other hurricane, Rita. McLain went by…
Till today, most of us heathens thought speaking in tongues was either a Talking Heads album or something Robert Tilton pretended to do. That’s why we have Bible Girl on hand, burnin’ down the house. A strange noise was coming from somewhere behind me. “Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee…” I looked up at the…
Nightline, the venerable ABC News program, will be airing a segment on Dallas Crown, the horse slaughtering plant in nearby Kaufman. The program is scheduled to air this evening and will feature interviews with Robert Eldridge, who has the misfortune of living a few hundred yards from the facility, and…
The bridge is gone. Long live the bridge. (We know, you wanna know why the bridge isn’t in this picture. Because it’s gone. This is what remains. Pieces. Of a bridge that’s gone.) The abandoned railroad bridge at Garland and Gaston roads has eaten its last 18-wheeler. Last night the…
A superior staffer at The Dallas Morning News who is not taking the buyout sends this missive regarding this morning’s post about the list posted here. It says, as follows: “1) That’s an incomplete list. A lot more good people are leaving. 2) Speaking as one of the 85% of…
Saw this story this morning in The Cincinatti Post about the shuttering of woxy.com, the acclaimed Internet-only statio, that offers a pretty hip playlist of alternarock and Amerindie–which is to say, Midlake gets played alongside Yo La Tengo and R.E.M., while Tom Waits and Johnny Cash can even find their…
If you watched him shank two field goals in last week’s preseason tie, you couldn’t believe your eyes. And if you go to his Web site, you won’t believe your ears. Even before he scores his first point in Dallas, kicker Mike Vanderjagt is already the cockiest player in franchise…
The Dallas Morning News buyout list is making the rounds; let’s go to the source, shall we? Of course, it’s all very partial and just a little early; the paper’s management has yet to accept the acceptances and have till next week to do so. But it’s an estimable queue…
Whit Meyers is all that remains of the Green Room and Jeroboam, which he shuttered yesterday. At this very moment, Whit Meyers is down at the Green Room on Elm Street overseeing the changing of the locks; he’s had to do the same thing at his other downtown restaurant, Jeroboam,…
Yesterday, South Korean prosecutors raided this building, the Korean Exchange Bank, for a second time–which apparently means all’s going well in Lone Star Fund’s sale of the joint. Go here for a brief history of how Lone Star Funds got into trouble with the South Korean government in March. The…
Of course they’re putting up nothing but “towering structures” in Highland Park. It’s easier to crap on the rest of us when you’re higher up. There’s an Associated Press story from this afternoon about how some folks in Oxford, Mississippi, are trying to get their neighborhood designated as a historic…
Next on Unfair Park, we will review diamond necklaces, silk undergarments and European sports cars–in other words, all the important things. I have something of an unfavorable reputation ’roundabouts our little cubicle cluster. I am none too patient with publicists pitching irrelevant stories. Sometimes I hang up mid-schpiel. I’m a…
Apparently, Governor Rick Perry thinks half a million bucks will clean up the Trinity River. He has been sniffing his hairspray again? Governor Rick Perry–whose new campaign ads look more like Just For Men spots, said KTCK-AM (1310) morning show host George Dunham this a.m.–announced today the state’s gonna give…
See Lawrence of Arabia the way it was meant to be seen–no, not in your underwear, but in a theater on a big screen. Dallas has many things a moviegoer should love: expansive state-of-the-art-house multiplexes, dozens of high-rent googolplexes playing first-run product, a film festival taking place every other weekend…
