Getting your toes done at the W is Bliss. Getting your car after your pedicure, not so much. In a vacuum, the W Hotel’s in-house pampering locale, Bliss Spa, is a fantastic place to get a pedicure. But Bliss is not in a vacuum; it is in the W. And…
As the sun sets over the rolling waves of Ventura County, the Cowboys say adios before moving on to…San Antonio. Not the same. Not even close. No one’s particularly happy that the Dallas Cowboys have broken training camp in Oxnard, California, for the last time. Not the media, which drools…
The Dallas-Fort Worth Business Group on Health–“a coalition of Dallas and Fort Worth area employers committed to working with our partners in the community to promote and maintain a health care delivery system that provides quality, accountability and affordability for our employees,” says its Web site–issued a report today dealing…
Belo Corp. issued a press release this morning announcing that while its television group’s making money–revenue increased 8.6 percent in July 2006 versus last year–its newspaper group revenue is down. Says here, “Newspaper Group total revenue decreased 4.2 percent for the month of July versus the prior year, with a…
In the September 4 issue of Fortune–see, Unfair Park is so far ahead of the curve that we’re into the future now–there’s a lengthy piece about the so-called “Lunatic Fringe” at Texas Instruments. (We’d link you to the story, but it’s not even on Fortune’s Web site yet.) Leading the…
Without Robert Hoffman (and Doug Kenney and Henry Beard), there would have been no National Lampoon. That would have sucked. If you’ve read The Dallas Morning News this morning, you know Robert Hoffman died yesterday at 59 of acute myelogenous leukemia. His death received mention on the front page of…
It was a fairly simply instruction. Last July, Governor Rick Perry’s office wrote a letter to Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher recommending that the Commissioners Court spend its Homeland Security dollars on–wait for it–homeland security. “The County should re-evaluate the priority of Homeland Security funding to focus on the ability…
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Or evil snakes. Whatever. Some things in life just don’t live up to the hype. Take the 2006 NBA Finals, for example. Or the “Awesome” Blossom. Or…
E! wants some video of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott for an upcoming special titled 25 Most Chilling Hollywood Murders. His brother’s management wishes E! lots of luck, with a capital “F.” Wish this were a more surprising or harrowing story, but we are talking about the genius and standards…
Tonight you can watch Evander Holyfield fight Jeremy Bates. Or you can ask your father to start a bar fight with some random dude at a truck stop. Same difference. Ever applauded a grown man wearing only his undies? Me neither. Until yesterday, that is. Of course, I’d never been…
Jerry Jones Jr. is gonna get hitched in September. So who’s gonna wear the Rowdy costume during the honeymoon? Cross one of the metroplex’s most desirable bachelors off your list. Unless you’re Bedford-bred Lori Lemon, Jerry Jones Jr. is now officially unavailable. According to extremely reliable sources, the 36-year-old heir…
To the laundry list of problems facing The Dallas Morning News, add another: A judge in El Paso ruled yesterday that a libel suit filed by a Mexican newspaper can proceed and will, in fact, likely go to trial in February. Says here–and not in Dallas’ Only Daily, far as…
These two people were at the Gypsy Tea Room. Apparently, just being around them makes people very, very horny. No idea why. Anybody who thinks this music gig is loaded with perks wouldn’t necessarily be mistaken, but one of those wasn’t a ticket to the Justin Timberlake concert at the…
On Wednesday night, Kelly Clarkson was at a club on the Sunset Strip. And, from the looks of it, she was very, very drunk–on Chivas out of the bottle, which only proves my point that she is indeed ready to become the future second Mrs. Wilonsky. Till then, here she…
Really, I think we can all do without a little Terrell Owens these days; it’s 104 out, last thing I wanna think about’s football. Wake me in November. Till then, you can read this Sports Illustrated Web site story about precisely why Owens finally got his ass back to practice…
Dallas fared well in Hispanic Magazine’s Top 10 Cities for Hispanics. But then again, is it really a surprise? The magazine’s determining factors included a checklist of items the city could mark off with ease, for the most part: “Hispanics want cities with low unemployment, low crime rates, low average…
� Danny Moloshok/Blue Pixel for MBP 2006 Dallas’ Zayra Alvarez is outta contention to join Supernova. We’d offer her our sympathies, if only we could figure out how that’s supposed to be a bad thing. Those of you watching Rock Star: Supernova last night know that Zayra Watch 2006 has…
A week ago today, WFAA-Channel 8’s Brad Watson aired a piece in which he spoke to two women who had been the victims of attempted carjackings in Northwest Dallas. Fact is–both of the incidents, which involved possible “young males” following the women (and their young children), blocking their paths and…
Terrell Owens is now the spokesperson for something called the National Alliance to End Abuse, though it’s unlikely that refers to coaches and teammates. The most famous cyclist in Dallas Cowboys history returned to the field yesterday. But just because Terrell Owens is back with his team doesn’t mean he…
This comic, featuring the first appearance of the Spectre, went for $119,500 over the weekend. I know, that means nothing to you. Just stop laughing. Over the weekend, Heritage Auction Galleries started offloading the famous Davis Crippen comic-book collection about which we’ve written a few times–and the three-day auction of…
Is this Phil Haberman’s real military ID or a phony, like the man pictured on it? Phony Special Forces soldier Phil Haberman, the self-proclaimed war hero who was anything but, is still out there spinning his stories on MySpace and dating sites. And he’s tangled with Greensickle, a blog whose…
In case you’re wondering, Dallas is obsessed with weight loss, trucks and gay cowboys. That’s what we here at Unfair Park have uncovered after a good half-hour of research on Google’s best new time-waster, Google Trends. Just enter a word. Any word. Or a phrase. Any phrase. “Bill Parcells,” for…
