A Dallas Morning News staffer says folks in the newsroom have been told that 85 is, in fact, the target number Belo execs are aiming for in this latest round of buyouts/layoffs/summer vacations. The way they understand it, if 85 take the offer, nobody else will be let go; turns…
Dallas Observer editor Julie Lyons is at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at this very moment, where Transportation Security Administration and airport officials are briefing the media about increased security following the arrest in England of 21 people suspected of plotting to blow up U.K. flights bound for the United States…
You’ve tried the personals; you’ve tried MySpace; you’ve tried blind dates and virtually everything else to find a mate–or a least someone worth a second date. What, oh what, is a girl to do in Dallas’ dating desert? No. Not that. Sheesh. Get your mind out of the gutter and…
A while back, we here at Unfair Park debated the lodgerific ingredients of Slowride’s “Morals and Dogma” video, crafted by Tactics Productions (a team of locals that include Kris Youmans, Kris Hardy, Justin Wilson and others). Looks like we weren’t the only one to take interest in the piece loaded…
This morning, Belo Corp. issued a press release announcing that, at long last, it has provided to Dallas Morning News staffers details of the “Previously Announced Voluntary Severance Program.” In short, it says it’s “being offered to almost all newsroom employees” and that it’s merely part of the “newspaper’s overall…
The local Air America affiliate will carry coach Mike Doherty’s SMU Mustangs this fall…Wait, Dallas has an Air America affiliate? Wanna hear the first SMU basketball game of the Matt Doherty era? Wanna listen to Highland Park’s football team defend its state championship? Then you better start tuning to the…
On April 18, Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria filed a federal civil-rights suit against the Dallas Independent School District–as well as DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa and Preston Hollow Elementary School principal Teresa Parker–in which Santamaria alleged the school was segregating her three children. They’re not named in the suit–they’re referred to only…
OXNARD, California–Tick…tick…tick… This is how carefully, how meticulously, how extraordinarily attentively the Dallas Cowboys are handling the time bomb known as Terrell Owens. After T.O.’s third training-camp practice in Oxnard, he saunters toward the end zone to indulge the note pads and cameras which have journeyed from Jersey and Japan…
OXNARD, California–He’s obstinate, irrational, contentious, egomaniacal and, sometimes above all else, brilliant. To borrow the personality profile voiced by WFAA-Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen: “He’s a dick.” In other words, Bill Parcells is the perfect and perhaps the only coach capable of harnessing Terrell Owens. “I don’t care how…
I’m sitting across from a not unattractive gentleman in a popular Lakewood Italian place. So far, so good. Tall, athletic. Shirt’s a bit too big, though. But this is only our first date; we can work toward appropriately fitting clothing later. I tell him about an article I’m working on…
Only two years ago, Lupe Valdez was an obscure candidate for sheriff, pledging to reform a department marked by scandals and plunging morale. At the midpoint of her first term, however, Valdez’s decision not to fire one of her top chiefs for keeping an automatic weapon in his storage cabinet…
Royalty pain: Local rapper Pikahsso sends bulletins to his e-mail list members about once every 20 minutes. We ignore most of them (they get in the way of our MySpace hunt for the future Mrs. Buzz), but this headline he shipped us caught our eye: “Is Mark Cuban’s Company Exploiting…
The Expurgated Truth Milblogging: Your article on military blogs (“Other Sides of the Story,” by Jesse Hyde, August 3) never mentioned a dirty little secret: Most of them routinely censor dissenters. If you don’t believe me, then try consistently offering a contrary voice on, say, Blackfive, one of the blogs…
Since the latest paper edition of Unfair Park hasn’t reached newsstands around town just yet, here’s a recap of a plug in the issue: I’m guest-hosting “Blog Radio” on Sirius channel 26 tonight, 9-11 p.m. CST, with Chris Cantalini and Danny Balis. Chris has invited us to make fun of…
While the local girls flamed out on Rock Star: Supernova last night, Houston’s Dilana was delightful. Those of us at the headquarters of Zayra Watch 2006 just about had a conniption fit last night when, during Rock Star: Supernova, the Latina warbler commited the sin of all sins: She attempted…
For whatever reason, I wrote this thinking it might be somehow interesting, then regretted it immediately. But because there’s no way I am wasting the time I put into it, I am posting this anyway, on the off chance one person might have some interest in a press release that…
This guy (Terry Jaymes) is going to end the Middle East conflict. He’s an FM radio morning jock. You figure it out. KDGE-FM (102.1) morning show hosts Lex & Terry have a plan to end the Middle East conflict. Sure. Right. Yesterday morning, they inadvertently announced (so they’re insisting now,…
We now take this brief T.O. from T.O. to talk about positive, harmonious, winning football: So what do two consecutive mythical national championships, a 63-1 record over four years and a 32-game winning streak get you? If you’re the Southlake Carroll High School football team, it gets you a slap…
Among The Richards Group’s clients was the Dallas Times Herald. Today, the ad agency reps The Dallas Morning News. Of course it does. The Dallas Video Festival, turning 19 this year, kicks off Tuesday night at the Angelika Film Center before moving to the familiar confines of the Dallas Theater…
In the last week, I’ve developed something I never thought my sweet little heart could harbor: hatred. But I’m not going around hatin’ all willy-nilly. No, this is hate brought on by three separate experiences with transit, or lack thereof, in this city. First, I do not fault the Dallas…
This didn’t sink Joe Lieberman’s campaign. Oh, no. Not at all. It was his Web site crashing. Yeah. That did it. You probably know this morning that Connecticut millionaire Ned Lamont squeaked by Senator Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary yesterday; guess Joe’s makeout session with Dubya did not go…
Yesterday, Dallas-based ExxonMobil sent out this press release touting its Green Team, which consists of some 100 “low to moderate-income high school students [who] spend their summer vacations beautifying Dallas parks, building houses and taking classes taught by college instructors.” Noble stuff; worth celebrating; waytago, kids. The Green Team’s sponsored…
