This Arlington attorney is one of the most powerful Christians in the country. Who, just who is Frank Sommerville? Keep readin’. Five folks with local ties — well, six, if you count Your President — have made The Church Report’s list of the “The 50 Most Influential Christians in America.”…
Jerry Jones kinda, sorta blew up on The Ticket this morning. But he’s still in love with Tony Romo, Bill Parcells and Terrell Owens. That’s so cute. Let me start off by apologizing to the herd of elementary school kids and the wide-eyed crossing guard I scared the bezeevers out…
Yesterday, Kenny Brattain, the owner of Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack in Lewisville and the man who plans to re-open Trees as a live-music venue some time this spring, sent to a few local media outlets a missive in which he kinda knocked around a city official and city procedures he…
From a press release just sent out: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS – News), a premier provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions, announced today that it will host the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) to promote…
Bill Parcells says he wasn’t looking for a Giants job. Dang. We were so hopin’. I once had a helping of Irate Tuna at a Japanese restaurant; little too pink and puffy for my tastes. But Irate Tuna’s on the menu today in the New York Daily News, where the…
Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead As you Friends of Unfair Park should know by now, the residents of the Ash Creek Mobile Home Park are supposed to be out of their homes by February 9 — the date set by owner Steve Crossett in an eviction letter…
The comments posted on Unfair Park are always fascinating; keep ’em coming, unless they’re libelous, in which case, keep ’em coming. But this one, posted to Grimes’ Visual Dictionary item, merits a special mention: As the taker of the Dallas photo (and a native Dallasite), I have to say that…
So, guess this is gonna be a Very Special Deep Ellum Episode of Unfair Park. Just moments ago, Kenny Brattain, the owner of Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack in Lewisville and the man who plans to re-open Trees as a live-music venue, sent to Unfair Park and other local media outlets…
Sometimes you find yourself wand’ring the streets of our fair city (in a car, of course) passing strip mall after strip mall (nail salon, retail postal outlet, doughut shop), McMansion after McMansion (second mortgage, whut whut!), panhandler after panhandler (they’re always veterans, aren’t they?), and you may ask yourself, “How…
You know who called that Florida blowout last night? The Ticket’s own Greg Williams, at right. Genius. I didn’t see it coming. Neither did you. But Greg Williams did and said so on Monday afternoon’s episode of “The Hardline” on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). Shr’nuff, while local media Ohio State…
Whit Meyers has some corrections to make concerning our Gypsy Tea Room item this morning. Whit Meyers, who has worked tirelessly to keep the Gypsy Tea Room’s doors open despite bankruptcy proceedings that have been carrying on for more than a year, says I have my facts wrong concerning at…
While the last vestige of the Entertainment Collaborative gasps in a big-bucks creditor hunger jungle, restaurateur Mike Hoque, founder of American Limos & Transportation and Go Fish Restaurant & Lounge, has released full-frontal renderings of his upscale-ish Dallas Fish Market restaurant. It’s set to take shape in the Kirby Building’s…
We’ve had a few Friends of Unfair Park inquire about the filming today in front of the Hotel St. Germain on Maple Avenue. Seems traffic’s being redirected in the area because of it. Well, if you guessed, “Prison Break,” you would be right, according to our good friends at the…
We have heard many things of late concerning the fate of the Gypsy Tea Room, which is still in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But, for the moment, we dismiss all rumors and theories and consider only the facts: The club’s owner, Whit Meyers, still owes creditors and the government and David…
Bill Parcells wants to go back to New York, says sources. Fine. Let him. OK. Fine. Richie’s right. Bill Parcells is an asshole. I’ve defended the guy a little here; got nothing better to do, apparently. Actually, I felt sorry for him more than anything; that NYTimes Mag piece sure…
Harold Dieterle, winner of Top Chef’s first season, knows his way around meat. Wait. That sounds wrong. I told the missus I gots plans this weekend: to audition for our fave TV show, Top Chef. (Actually, it’s our second-fave, but Project Runway’s fourth season is a loooooong way off.) The…
George Quartz of Faux Fox, which, on the strength of its “Nothing Gold” video alone, might be our new fave local band. Today, anyway. Got an e-mail tip today to check out something that’s “pure freakin’ genius.” So, since this missive came from a trusted source and all, of course…
Yeah, yeah. Tony Romo muffed the field-goal hold. Whatever. The Seahawks woulda scored again anyway. And Romo still gets to wake up next to Carrie Underwood. You? An empty can of Coors Lite. Just know that it’s going to get worse before it gets better: Romo: Built in a day,…
Olympic weightlifter Cheryl Haworth has been taking meals with ex-Tom Hicks partner Charles Tate. No word if Tate’s actually on the menu. Seems Tom Hicks ain’t the only member of the Fab Four — which is to say, the buyout artists formerly known as Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst –…
Salim Nourallah’s got several gigs scheduled at the new ellum: ONSTAGE venue. So there’s one reason to go, if nothing else. Friend of Fair Park Cindy Chaffin points us to the latest all-ages venue to dip its toes into the murky waters of Deep Ellum: Life in Deep Ellum, which…
Here’s a letter you probably don’t want to get if you’re a bar owner. On Lower Greenville. And your bar is called Suede. –Robert Wilonsky…
OK, so that’s a bit of a stretch. Nonetheless, the latest issue of Time attempts to pinpoint exactly when it was Gerald Ford got his religion, and the closest it came come up with is a pre-game prayer service conducted by Gospel Films president Billy Zeoli in Washington, D.C., before…
