The Wall Street Journal

American Airlines Is in Shambles, Says Pretty Much Everyone

Scott McCartney, the Wall Street Journal's veteran (and Dallas-based) travel reporter, recently offered a word of advice to the literate public: If you or a loved one is considering stepping onto an aircraft in the foreseeable future, make sure it's not one operated by American Airlines. "American' ... More >>

How America Fell in Love with the Chicken Breast, and Why We're Finally Falling Out of It

Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal published an article noting the increased demand for chicken legs at grocery stores. The story claims that shoppers have been driven by TV cooking shows that celebrate dark meat's richer flavor and softer texture. Finally, people have realized: It tastes bet ... More >>

Hostess Is Going Bankrupt. Again.

Hostess, the Irving-based maker of beloved school-lunch snacks like the Twinkie and the Ho-Ho, is in financial trouble, according to the Wall Street Journal. A source tells the paper that the processed food giant will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as this week. Hostess also owe ... More >>

There's One Borders Left in Dallas. If a Savior Doesn't Step Up Tuesday, There May Be Zero.

Courtesy Paula BosseByron Nelson signing copies of his 1993 book at the Preston Royal Borders​A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Centra ... More >>

WSJ Climbs Inside DFW's Control Tower

​As it turns out, according to an article that just appeared on the Wall Street Journal's website, life inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport air traffic control towers -- otherwise known as the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, or TRACON -- is sort of a cross between Airplane! and Pushing ... More >>

It's a Film! It's an Infomercial! Actually, It's Both. WSJ Sneaks One Dallas Film Fest Entry.

​Saturday afternoon's screening of Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang at NorthPark Center, among the handful of family-friendly offerings at the Dallas International Film Festival, is nearly sold out; all that remain are rush tickets. But if you're desperate to see the 50-minute short about kids w ... More >>

New York Times' Pay-Per-View Plan Is Much More Generous Than Dallas Morning News's

​The New York Times this morning revealed its long-expected plans to erect a pay wall (again) around some of its content: Starting March 28, visitors to the paper's website will be able to access 20 articles every month without paying. After that, it'll cost $15 a month to keep reading. But there ... More >>

Young The Giant, Kitten

Sunday, March 6, at The Loft

Dallas City Hall's Really Not Worried About Taxi Drivers' Threat to Boycott the Super Bowl

Patrick MichelsFrom the cabbie protest at Dallas City Hall last September​A couple of days back, a Friend of Unfair Park asked, via e-mail: "Have you noticed the number of cabs in Dallas recently? We drove home last night from Cole and Armstrong to the Lakewood area and counted 20 cabs. It looked ... More >>

Send us Your Earmark: Could Congress Turn off the Tap on Trinity Money?

What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project

U.S. Army Corps of EngineersFrom the Dallas Floodway Extension Project Description, this 1989 photo: "US175 blocked by water backed up into White Rock Creek. Normally, this is a busy traffic artery leading to the central business district."​Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal artic ... More >>

Let's Get High With Newy Scruggs

​I felt like I was watching Dazed and Confused last night -- though, to be honest, the whole Tim Lincecum-as-Mitch Kramer meme's been around for a good long while, well before The Wall Street Journal asked Wiley Wiggins about it during Giants-Braves. And speaking of pot -- well, I was -- Newy Scru ... More >>

Mark Cuban, Joule's Tim Headington Sink Millions Into Company That Tracks Devices

​Mark Cuban has taken the $5 million he intended to invest in Turtle and tequila and put his dough-re-mi elsewhere: in something called BlueCava, which tracks every single device you've got hooked up to the Internet, which doesn't sound too Minority Report at all. From the how-it-works: "No two de ... More >>

Liverpool Fans' Hatred of Tom Hicks Makes Page One of The Wall Street Journal

The picture of Tom Hicks Jr. and his old man that spurred this morning's front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.​That Reds fans loathe Tom Hicks -- and have almost from the moment he bought Liverpool FC in August 2007, then began making promises he couldn't afford to keep -- is certainly no s ... More >>

A Year After Dallas Federal Judge Booted SEC's Case Against Mark Cuban, It Lives Again

Sam Merten​In July 2009, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission's complaint that Mark Cuban violated insider-trading laws when, in 2004, he sold off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock. Cuban, of course, poo-poohed the claim when originally brought by the SEC ... More >>

Texas Rangers' Latest Court Filings Reveal That It Sure Does Pay to Be in First Place

Patrick Michels​The Texas Rangers are out of Chapter 11 and Tom Hicks's hands, but that website devoted to the prepackaged bankruptcy remains alive and well weeks later. New filings are being added to Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site every day, including two docs detailing how well ... More >>

News & Notes With Tom Hicks, Mark Cuban, Luke Wilson and The Wyly Bros' Broker

Kit NelsonOne of Liverpool FC supporters' myriad posters advertising their disgust with Tom Hicks's asking price for the club​Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting ...Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, ... More >>

Oy Vey: As It Turns Out, My Rabbi's Tweeting the Passover Story

​Passover, which I like to call the Jewish St. Patrick's Day, is almost upon us. And while my parents and I argue over who's smoking the brisket this year, this much is certain: Our formerly extravagant seder will continue to inch further toward becoming just a pain-in-the-tuchus dinner with a few ... More >>

Q&A: The Great Bucks Burnett Lets Us Inside His Eight-Track Obsessed Mind In Anticipation of His NX35 Museum Opening

Sl. BurnettBucks Burnett​If there's one man on the planet poised to make 8-track collecting cool, it's Bucks Burnett. Not that collecting cartridges wasn't "cool" before--I mean, you can't even buy a new player for them at your neighborhood indie record store. How snobby-cool is that? And, it's no ... More >>

PISD Off: How Redistricting Fight Was Both a Look Back and a Preview of What's to Come

​This morning, The Wall Street Journal takes up the issue of newcomers filling up the Plano Independent School District -- specifically, "a flood of poor, minority students" whose entry into the district prompted the contentious fight over redistricting. The district voted on a feeder alignment pl ... More >>

On Tuesday, State Law Will Allow Prosecutors, Parole Board Access to Suspects' DNA

​Former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman has a piece in The Wall Street Journal today concerning a new state law that takes effect tomorrow -- one that allows Texas prosecutors and parole boards to "see DNA evidence that links a suspect to an old sexual assault, even though the statute of limitations has ... More >>

Tithe is Tight

​This morning, The Wall Street Journal goes to church -- Bent Tree Bible Fellowship Church, specifically, on International Parkway in Carrollton, where membership is high (4,000-plus pray at the arena-rock-sized megachurch) and shekels are low. Which has necessitated a few cuts superficial (lawn c ... More >>

Going Green While Making Green? WSJ Ponders Bush Turnpike's Toll Collection.

One day after the President George Bush Turnpike went to all-electronic toll collection, The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog takes note of one of the North Texas Tollway Authority's reasons for ditching the quarter-catchers: "Air Quality and Fuel Efficiency." As in: "Transitioning t ... More >>

Addison's Blowin' Up

Flying High With Southwest

Back in March, CNN and The Wall Street Journal profiled David Holmes, at right, otherwise known as the rapping Southwest Airlines flight attendant -- and one of the stars of Saturday night's SWA employee banquet at the downtown Sheraton, where, from all appearances, the airline spent far more than p ... More >>

What the Frack?

This morning's Wall Street Journal investigates the cause of the 18 earthquakes that have rattled the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2008 -- from just east of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport down to Cleburne most recently -- and concludes, well, ya know, not really sure. Because on the one han ... More >>

Taking It Off the Top for the Economy: What The Lodge and Neimans Have in Common

Observer contributing photographer Brandon Thibodeaux landed himself quite the gig: shooting local strip joints for today's Wall Street Journal story about how gentlemen's clubs are "striping down" (hawhawhaw) their upscale offerings to lure in customers afeared of dropping major coin in a down econ ... More >>

WSJ Says Tom Hicks "Could Eventually" Lose Control of Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars

At some point, no doubt, we'll get an official statement. Till then, well, here's what the Wall Street Journal (subscription-only, sorry) has to add to the story of Tom Hicks's refusal to pay off Hicks Sports Group's debt:Creditors to Texas financier Tom Hicks's Hicks Sports Group have declared the ... More >>

Speaking of Former Dallas Journalists ...

... a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to D.L. Hughley's interview with ex-Dallas Morning News-er Michael Precker, whose move to The Lodge was mentioned twice last week in the Wall Street Journal. Precker now has a new nickname: "The Wolf Blitzer of Thongs."Embedded video from CNN Video

Are You Too a "Bewildered and Angry Flier"?

The Wall Street Journal this morning examines airlines' inconsistently, almost arbitrarily enforced rules and regulations -- you know, the kind that result in "bewildered and angry fliers." As a prime example, the paper checks in with a frequent flier who found himself subject to the whims of an Ame ... More >>

The WSJ Polices Insurance Companies' Image Scanning Police

These Are Grim Times for the Hotel Business. But, Shhh, Say Nothing.

That Ain't Cartwright, Hoss: Bonanza Chain Might Meat its Maker

GameStop Makes a Fistful of Money, Then Watches Stock Plunge

Price-Fixing: Legal and Lovin' It!

Good Times Are in the Bag! Or Not, As Ice Investigation Continues.

The Shock Wave Felt 'Round the Amusement Park Business

Home Prices Down (Slightly) in Dallas; So Too is Housing Stock

Bad News Idea Makes Gawker

Wall Street Journal Wonders if American Airlines Might Be in Play

A Different Kind of Social Security Card

Nellie and Cuban and the Love Lost

ACS Loses CEO and CFO. Wuh-O.

And Qantas Never Crashed

Statute Stomp

Bells Will Ring

Designers add high-fashion baubles and bows to DIFFA's annual charity event

Letters

Fat is where it's at

NorthSouth's taste suffers from weight loss

Surplus labor

The fashion for corporate downsizing cuts into the economy in many ways

True crime story

Forget the usual tales of rape and pillage--consider the sins of corporate America