We’ll assume that the wedding pictures of Sarah and the chief will look a little classier than this hastily assembled job. Actually, you already know her–most of you, anyway. Name’s Sarah Dodd. You know–former City Hall reporter for KTVT-Channel 11? The star reporter taken off the beat when it got…
We know of at least one girl who’ll be at the W on November 28 trying out for a reality TV show. If nothing else, we hope she takes the strong advice of The Bachelor producers, who want single woman trying out for the ABC-TV show to “dress tastefully.” (Yeah,…
Texas Pacific Group, the Fort Worth-based private capital firm ($20 billion worth) with arms in San Francisco and London, has made a roughly $8.5 billion takeover move for Aussie Qantas Airways in tandem with the Australian merchant bank Macquaried Bank, Ltd., as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The offer…
Some readers of Unfair Park’s sister in print may find something odd in their paper this week. We won’t be cute about it: It’s a fucking chain letter soliciting bucks from chumps–specifically female chumps. Seriously. We should know all about chumps here this week: The one-page insert made it into…
Gee, wonder why the NBA’s having its All-Star Game in Las Vegas this season. Nothing to do with the fantasy suites at the hotel run by the Kings’ owners, surely. I will definitely be in attendance when the NHL All-Star Game rolls through town in January. Continuing that theme of…
John Lennon’s piano will be on the Grassy Knoll today. Not kidding. Hey, wanna meet me for lunch today on the Grassy Knoll? C’mon. It’ll be fun. You know what today is, right? Right. Well, to commemorate the anniversary of John Kennedy’s final trip to Dallas, George Michael and his…
Once more, looks like someone’s trying to put their chocolate in your peanut butter, only it just doesn’t feel that right. There’s a piece this morning in American Banker–which we only take because Lithuanian Lawyer folded, and this was the default replacement–about how cell phone and credit card companies are…
Today, subscribers to Sports Illustrated will get the new issue. In there, they will find the Scorecard. Turns out, Tony Romo may, in fact, be putting the “score” into Scorecard after all: “BEING DUMPED is never fun, but Tony Romo seems to have landed on his feet after his girlfriend…
We got a missive yesterday from an SMU computer engineering student–one of many on the Hilltop upset with the resignation of “ousted advisor Leo Pucacco,” as he was referred to in yesterday’s Daily Campus. Seems there’s quite a dispute going on over the departure of Pucacco, who’s the assistant dean…
Have you read Steve Blow this morning? No? Really, you should. It’s top-notch stuff, no joke–The Man, more or less, taking seriously The Kid running for mayor. Love the headline: “Another Observer mayor? Web-savvy candidate is no joke.” Love the description of our pal Zac Crain: “He’s 32 and straddles…
Before the day ends, I did want to give you faithful Friends of Unfair Park a heads-up: In tomorrow’s Dallas Morning News, Steve Blow (all right, quiet down) will at long last run his column about our old pal Zac Crain and whether he ought to be considered a serious…
Brian Harkin Hal Samples is trying to finish his documentary Dreamtown, about Dallas’ homeless, and he could sure use your help. Whilst trolling through the usual YouTube trash heap this afternoon, I came across a gem you really should see; the video is after the jump. It was identified only…
More than a few Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Where does the money seized from poker-room raids, like the ones that took place over the weekend, wind up? Hey, it’s a good question; even some officers in vice I talked to yesterday and today couldn’t answer it. And some…
Sad news today: Robert Altman, director of some of the greatest American movies of the past 40 years (among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, The Long Goodbye and even this year’s joyful A Prairie Home Companion), died last night at a Hollywood hospital. He was 81. The cause of death…
Yesterday, fresh off a completely unsatisfying late lunch of Lean Cuisine (I believe the flavor was “Catshit in Plastic, with Rosemary Garnish”), I did a little afternoon blogrolling and came across the following Onion item from the Observer’s very own Rich Lopez and his personal blog: “Frito Lay Angrily Introduces…
One of these people is Anna Kournikova. The other’s a guy who claims this is “work.” Sorry I’m late getting to Tony Romo’s weekly coronation. Yesterday I was still basking in a hangover from my date with Anna Kournikova. More on that next week. For now, back to our crush…
It’s not even Thanksgiving, so why does it feel like tonight’s gonna be a little Christmasy up in this piece? Maybe because Terrell Owens is gonna be in (well, near) my neighborhood tonight reading from and signing copies of the book we first told you about in October, Little T…
This morning, Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones told KTCK-AM (1310) morning-show hosts Craig Miller and George Dunham that there are only so many things he can do with failed place kicker Mike Vanderjagt. “I don’t think it impacts him to stare at him real hard, do you?…
Yeah, well–The Dallas Morning News and, like, 149 other daily newspapers. It’s part of “a strategic partnership with more than 150 daily U.S. newspapers to deliver search, graphical and classified advertising to consumers in the communities where they live and work,” says the press release Belo issued today. Sounds like…
Emily Ramshaw’s leaving Dallas, but not The Dallas Morning News. She’s merely moving to the Austin bureau. Emily Ramshaw, who, for the last two years, has done a superior job covering city of Dallas business for The Dallas Morning News (even if Jim has the occasional issue with her work),…
While browsing at the Love Field Antique Mall yesterday, I found the perfect Christmas gift for the Farmers Branch city council or Preston Hollow Elementary School. What is it? Hey, baby, that’s after the jump. But keep in mind, the thing ain’t cheap: $3,500. And there’s no truth to the…
Sergio Morales, Guatemala’s human rights ombudsman, has a few thoughts about how this country treats immigrants, legal and otherwise. Guatemala’s top human-rights official is in town this week to meet with immigrants from the Central American country and push for an auxiliary consulate in the Dallas-Fort Wortharea, since the nearest…
