This Wright Amendment float was among the few political statements made during my neighborhood’s July 4 parade. Well, Mitchell Rasansky did say hi to me. As I began writing this, at 9 p.m. July 4, I could hear from the backyard the snap-crackle-boom of nearby fireworks (either that, or gunplay–hard…
There’s a piece in (or is that on?) Salon today about the 15th anniversary of the most overrated indie movie of the 1990s, Richard Linklater’s Slacker. Now, it’s been years since I’ve seen it, and maybe I’ll soften toward it if you feel like giving me your copy of the…
Here’s some awesome news to greet you the day after a holiday off: AT&T is releasing today a study that says more than a quarter of all U.S. companies aren’t prepared to handle a disaster, whether it’s natural or man-made. The study indicated many of them have flawed or outdated–or…
The man will actually sing “Whiskey River” while changing your wiper blade and filling your tank. Willie Nelson and former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson share more than just a thing for Hawaii; seems both are willing to bet a little bank on biodiesel fuel, damned hippies. In The New…
Why is this man smiling? Maybe because some video company paid Bill Parcells a lot for an instructional video. How much? Dunno. Too much? Yeah, probably. My birthday is Saturday. Since I know you’re wondering, here’s one thing you can cross off your list: a football instructional video hosted by…
I hear the best stuff in the most unlikely places. Last week, I was fighting off a heavy case of the Zs at the back of a room in City Hall, waiting for the item I was interested in to come up. Meanwhile, a bunch of police and fire officials…
Word is Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and “political consultant” Sheila Farrington tied the knot this weekend at a small wedding. Word is D’Angelo Lee, Hill’s appointee to the City Plan Commission, was the best man. Word is all three are being investigated by the FBI. Word is no…
Just when you thought we had it all here in Dallas–a W Hotel full of posh turds and some semblance of, um, something happening with that Wright Amendment thing–we get even more. O, karma, how you shine upon us! For now comes DallasForHire.com, a Web site wherein you can bid…
In news intended to make you feel safer on downtown Dallas streets–where 11 people were shot a month ago in a single incident–says here that Dallas-based Safeguard Security Holdings will take over the Dallas Central Business District Safety Patrol staff. Apparently, the business owners who pay for the patrol–you know,…
When we sat down over yesterday with The Dallas Morning News’ mammoth front-page “exclusive” in which three reporters “found thousands of suspect purchases on district credit cards–and serious questions about whether anyone is watching how the tax dollars are spent,” well, we thought two things to ourselves: Wow, that sucks…
Either some dude in Dallas County’s jail was inspired by the Fox show Prison Break, filming around town, or just decided he’d better go elsewhere for medical treatment. Perhaps inspired by the Fox-TV show Prison Break, which is filming around town for the next few months, an inmate at the…
Cuba Gooding Jr. gets paid to do things like Rat Race (above) and show at Ghostbar grand openings. That’s one hell of a way to make a living. Friday night’s part-two opening of Ghostbar atop the W Hotel provided the most interesting Dallas crowd I’ve seen in a long time…
People love Love Field–the airport, not the movie, which sucked. During the heat of the debate over the Wright Amendment, some of us around the offices where we publish the paper version of Unfair Park were arguing about the merits of Love Field. Some of the old-timers hate the place…
Tommy Lee spun some records Saturday night at Ghostbar, which which we mean he hit “play” on a computer keyboard. This picture is not from Saturday night. I already fear for Ghostbar, the top-o’-the-W-Hotel bar that opened last week. Tommy Lee was there Saturday–yes, he of Motley Crue and failed…
You can buy cans of Dr Pepper for a few hundy. And ya get some signatures from famous people too. And other stuff. Or, at least, be treated like one. OK, would you settle for just getting hold of the really cool free shit celebs get? For last weekend’s Reebok…
Concerning my post this a.m. about the fab opening of the W Hotel last night, Lorlee Bartos sends this missive, which is supposed to make all of us hobbing and nobbing last night feel guilty. Me, I just feel a little tired and queasy. (Note to self: Tequila, white wine…
Fred Baron is very powerful. And influential. And he does not like the Dallas Observer. Says here that attorney Fred Baron, co-founder of local law firm Baron & Budd, has been included on a list of the nation’s 100 most influential attorneys as selected by The National Law Journal. The…
Chandler Jackon was killed a year ago during a freak golf-club accident. Tomorrow, his family will officially debut the foundation named for the 12-year-old. A year ago tomorrow Charmane Jackson bid her son Chandler farewell as he left their Frisco home early for the family’s annual July 4th reunion in…
There were a million photos we could have run. We decided to go with this one of swimming pool model Daniel and KDFW-Channel 4’s Good Day Dallas producer Dana Rogers. Former mayor Ron Kirk wouldn’t engage in a little nyah-nyah-toldya-so last night at the everybody’s-a-VIP opening of the W Hotel…
The Rafael Palmeiro most of us remember, before the steroid test that ruined his career. This morning’s Baltimore Sun contains the first interview with former Texas Rangers first baseman Rafael Palmeiro since Congress cleared him of lying under oath. The paper’s reporting that a year after failing a test for…
As promised in this week’s And Another Thing, here’s the Astronautalis freestyle recorded over the phone on Tuesday morning. After you have a laugh at the fact that I actually beatboxed on this recording, consider how hard it has to be to come up with a freestyle rap off the…
Today, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he’s shut down a housing scam that his office claims defrauded folks “out of tens of thousands of dollars” locally. This permanent injunction stems from an April 2005 lawsuit filed under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), which claimed that Dallas-based FCI…
