Down in Austin — Central East Austin, to be specific — they’re wrestling with how to keep giant McMansions from over-running a neighborhood filled with small lots and smaller houses, which doesn’t sound familiar at all. Yesterday the Austin American-Statesman profiled a neighborhood group trying to further tighten existing regulations…
Seem to recall it wasn’t so long ago that Dallas-based virtual advertising agency imc2 was recognized as a top-10 “digital agency” by Advertising Age. In May, the Dallas Business Journal ranked it as a pretty swell place to work, and only last week Adweek wrote a nice profile of the…
C’mon, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. Can’t you just hug it out? Far as I know, all the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name. But that’s just not good enough for Dallas’ William J. Murphy III, who happens to be…
This wine tastes very … Northwest Dallas, with a hint of pepper. “This is one of the most unique and unusual holiday gifts opportunities ever available to Dallasites.” Hey, I’m all for that — especially if it’ll get you drunk. And, yeah, as it turns out there are some 300…
From an October 2007 Today show story — ironic, right? Question for Tim Wagner, The Voice of American Airlines and Friend of Unfair Park: Is it customary for American to return lost luggage to its rightful owner at 3 in the morning? Just wondering, because it happened to Don Teague,…
John Brown, lookin’ for oil in all the wrong places? Israel ain’t much of an oil-producing country — “only a couple thousand barrels of oil a day,” according to Slate last year. Which isn’t stopping Dallas-based Zion Oil and Gas, HQ’d on Abrams Road, from digging into some Holy Land…
A video double feature this a.m., courtesy “eyeontv,” who yesterday posted to the YouTubes these ancient KXAS-Channel 5 promos featuring Chip Moody and shockingly topless sports guy Jim Brinson, who really puts the “action” in Action News. Moody, during this period, was particularly hunky — Dirty Harry, with only a…
ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” + Neiman Marcus 100th anniversary shindig in downtown + free alcohol + rented tuxedos + white people “dancing” = exactly what you’d expect. I expect this was posted to the Interwebs yesterday as part of some kind of extortion scheme? Also, a version for those who prefer…
Ponder’s just a few miles southwest of Denton; ’bout 430 folks live there, give or take. HQ’d there is a private school by the name of Freedom Christian Academy, where, my guess is, they don’t teach bar mitzvah classes. Probably a safe bet to say the phone doesn’t ring off…
In keeping with today’s hot-or-not theme, by which I mean this item about Benny Hinn-some and then some, I just browsed myself straight into Us magazine’s “story” from yesterday about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s dry-hump party-party in L.A. a few days back. (As in: “They were on top of…
Abacus’ Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox, booted way too early from Top Chef back in August, has nonetheless been regularly providing the Bravo site with recipes for its “Football Foodies” page — like this week’s recipe for Beer Braised Sirloin Chili. Sounds good — good and complicated. Wilcox will also…
Grammy nominations were announced today, and though there aren’t just a whole lot of locals on the list — LeAnn Rimes (who barely counts these days), Brave Combo (best polka album, whadya think?) and the Combo’s Bubba Hernandez and Alex Meixner — there is one album recorded in Dallas up…
The Hardline’s Mike Rhyner and Greg Williams Lawyers. That’s the latest update on the continuing saga of host Greg Williams and KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). The wind has drastically changed directions since I wrote in my November 22 column that “The Hammer” would be back on the air at The…
From The New York Post today, via Fox Sports: Jason Kidd was “on strike” last night, faking illness and riding the pine in order to expedite a trade that would get him outta New Jersey. And to where, you ask? Well … Another source said the Nets were planning on…
The Dallas Theological Seminary this fall starting offering courses in Chinese, though only online — for now. Says the DTS here, it wants to offer its “language-based theological education to Chinese-speaking people,” since, ya know, they do speak the “most spoken” language in the world. Which makes sense, strictly speaking…
I have so thoroughly enjoyed the barrage of mail and comments received about my $30,000 millionaire expose in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. Even (or especially) the part when a guy wrote in calling me a “jaded, man-hating cunt.” I just wish he hadn’t held back, you know?…
We now know the perfect way to describe Benny Hinn’s hairstyle, thanks to 23/6.com. Grapevine’s Benny Hinn today tells Sen. Charles Grassley, via the Associated Press, to go take a flyin’ leap. Which would be fine, except Grassley’s the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee who wants Hinn and…
KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar — gone, but not forgotten Courtesy Uncle Barky, this morning we find over at the Poynter Institute an article wherein TV news directors and general managers from across the country debate — long after the fact — whether KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar acted properly when she…
Ninjatune This ridiculously small version of Justin Terveen’s photo doesn’t do it justice. A larger photo is available here. Per a Friend of Unfair Park, this morning I checked out the forum on DallasMetropolis.com, where, in mid-November, Justin Terveen mentioned that a photograph of his had “been selected by the…
I would just like to thank “kxmas” for posting to the YouTubes this clip from a 1975 interview with Roger Staubach. Though I’m not sure the best part isn’t when Phyllis George asks the Cowboys QB, “Do you enjoy it?” Oh, and in related news, Staubach is growin’. –Robert Wilonsky…
$30K Millionaires Great article! (“Douchebags in the Mist,” by Andrea Grimes, December 5.) I totally read it on my iPhone while cruising in my BMW 3 series (top down, of course) listening to “Ants Marching” by Dave Matthews. “Chris Chris,” via dallasobserver.com It’s about sleeping with hot chicks. You play…
Help wanted: Here’s a little inside Dallas Observer baseball stuff for you: Our editor, Julie Lyons, is departing in January to write a book; Girl on Top Andrea Grimes is leaving to attend graduate school at UT-Austin and continue her work as a stand-up comedian; staff writer Matt Pulle is…
