It must be one happy Tuesday over at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. First, Heather Landy was named a finalist for the prestigious 2007 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, for her story “Radio Shack CEO’s Resume in Question.” And now comes word that arts writer and critic…
Starting this evening at 6:15, you can watch the entries in this year’s 24 Hour Video Race, which began at 11:59 p.m. on Friday — “with a theme, prop, location and line of dialogue assignment for the film,” says the Web site far more succinctly than I could have –…
The controversy over the proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library at SMU (heh) has settled to a simmer for now; even The Bush Library Blog announced over the weekend it was going on summer vacation. But it’s merely the quiet before the storm. Speaking of, here’s the latest black cloud…
Throw away your pins and climb down off your needles; this is the biggest mismatch since the Mavericks played the Warriors. OK, not the best example. But everything, remember, is bigger in Texas. So big that when the NFL awards the 2011 Super Bowl — XLV — to the Cowboys…
Tom Hicks had such a good thing going in Liverpool, where he owns the football club gearing up for tomorrow night’s UEFA Champions League final against AC Milan. Then he had to go and open his mouth: In today’s Guardian, the top U.K. read, the owner of the Texas Rangers…
Because Byron Harris needed more encouragement… With KTVT-Channel 11 giving into the Dark Side of the Force and KXAS-Channel 5 peddling fear and face creams, yeah, it’s easy to write off local TV news as the Brockmans leading the Burgundys down the primrose path. But all is not lost: Thirty…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda Last Tuesday, three days after voters in Farmers Branch voted overwhemingly for the law that bans apartment owners from renting to illegal immigrants, we posted that press release from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas…
Lane Garrison, star of Prison Break — and, yeah, we doubt he’ll need to be reminded of the irony. Dallas’ Lane Garrison coulda been somebody; the guy was on Prison Break, after all. Turns out, he’s just gonna wind up in prison, most likely: Today, he pleaded guilty in Los…
There are approximately 32 things about this clip from PM Magazine that are hysterical, not the least of which is the use of Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” during the segment on Dallas’ new-wave movement. (Thanks to our pal Steve Dirkx for the posting; he keeps…
A couple weeks back, WFAA-Channel 8 weatherman Pete “The Big” Delkus appeared on KTCK-AM’s “The Hardline”; turns out, the boys at The Ticket have a big ol’ man crush on the heir to Troy Dungan’s throne. And with good reason: He’s as smart-ass former ball player whose career as a…
Over the weekend I slipped outta town; took in some toe-tappin’ music at Texas’ oldest dance hall and screamed like a girl o’er the rapids of Texas’ shortest and coldest (70 degrees my ass) river. (FYI, if you’re headed to New Braunfels for Memorial Day, the river is running at…
This week: The breadth and depth of the Sherman Allen case; and the blind prophetess Just how big is the Sherman Allen case? Well, here’s the tally of alleged victims who’ve come forward to date: 35. Many emerged after the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News (which had…
Been spending the morning reading Business Travel News Magazine; shouldn’t have let that subscription to LAUNCHPAD lapse. But you, Mr. and Mrs. Accounts Payable, we do this for you too. And according to the latest issue of BTN, which, sadly, isn’t online yet, Dallas is a pretty average town, dough-re-mi-wise,…
Us, we’re eating lunch at our desks today, like always. But you can dine (for the odd, odd price of $12.76) with mayoral runoff candidates Tom Leppert and Ed Oakley at the Belo Mansion, where the Dallas Bar Association is hosting a forum at which the two gentlemen will try…
Tomorrow, NFL team owners will award the 2011 Super Bowl, but to whom? The Dallas Cowboys? Maybe. Jerry Jones certainly thinks his ‘Boys deserve it; he ain’t spending a billion on 100,000 seats in Arlington for just to be closer to the Judge Roy Scream. The Arizona Cardinals? No way…
Big ups to our writer Jesse Hughey, who has graciously compiled this here lovely lineup for this weekend’s Rubber Gloves anniversary blow-out (as promised this week in the paper version of Unfair Park.) Props to ya, Little D. The list is after the jump. –Jonanna Widner…
Just a reminder: Head over to Kettle Art in Deep Ellum tomorrow night for the opening of their Spring Cleaning show. Kettle owner Frank Campagna tells Unfair Park it’s a great way to get fantastic art for cheap — which is to say, a “high-quality hodgepodge” at “rock-bottom prices.” The…
This is the book that caused KinderUSA to sue a former Bush administration official, and his publishers, for libel. Kids in Need of Development, Education and Relief — or KinderUSA — is a charity that was founded in 2002 by a group of physicians and humanitarian relief workers who want…
Very little in this sad world makes us laugh. Paul Varghese — now that guy, he makes us laugh. Oh, sure, that St. Vincent girl gets to be on the blog every day because she’s smokin’ hot and unbelievably talented, singing her sulky, sultry indie pop for all — but…
Finally. At last. The case concerning The Dallas Morning News’ phony circulation numbers is no longer in legal limbo, where it’s resided for the past three years. Because today, a federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit, despite Belo Corp.’s best efforts to get the case tossed. So what does…
In April, Willie Nelson resigned from Earth Biofuels’ Advisory Board of Directors. He’s now using his remaining shares of stock as rolling papers. Here’s some exclusive breaking news; take that, Forbes. The magazine’s been all over the problems at Dallas-based Earth Biofuels, for which we’re ever so thankful. But we…
Dang it. Look like our Polyphonic Spree update is now hourly, because over at Salon, David Marchese has posted what’s now the fourth song to leak from June 19’s The Fragile Army. He’s got “Section 22 [Running Away]” available for your downloading pleasure — a cut Marchese describes as “a…
