By now, perhaps you’ve heard that earlier this week, Addison-based American Community Newspapers –publisher of the Plano Star Courier, the McKinney Courier-Gazette and the Frisco Enterprise among dozens of papers scattered across four states — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said there would be “no change in…
Quite the shocker to pull up Courthouse News and see a big ol’ Texas Rangers logo. Then again, when Daddy needs his money, Daddy needs his money, and he’ll go to Tarrant County District Court to get it. Because, according to the complaint filed yesterday, Dallas-based Highland Capital Lending owes…
Best. House Energy and Commerce Committee Meeting. Ever. From this morning in D.C.: “The Bowl Championship Series: Money and Other Issues of Fairness for Publicly Financed Universities.” Smokey Joe Barton of Arlington wants to ditch the BCS and go to a college-football playoff system, and he’s got the legislation to…
“Bummer.” That’s how Dallas Independent School District board trustee Edwin Flores initially responded yesterday when Unfair Park asked for comment concerning the Texas Attorney General’s opinion yesterday that the board “was not authorized to change the length of its members’ terms of office” from three to four years last November…
Used to be a time when procuring a real Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper meant hoping that case of bottles you ordered from Dublin arrived mostly intact; though, years ago, my old man bought a few cases of the 12-ounce cans from a guy in a parking lot on…
GlobeSt.com notes that Dallas-based 7-Eleven is making a list of stores and checking it twice to see whether it’s paying too much for leases in some locations. Everyone’s doing it — trying to get a break on rent in these tough times, looking for a little landlord love just to…
For weeks at the end of 2008, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger insisted the DISD board of trustees’ decision to extend its term limits from three to four years was illegal. She posted to her blog items in which she wrote that the decision to do so “was…
Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a “Future Connect leadership development conference” on May 4-6, followed by a “MARKETECHNICS® technology event” May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at…
The kind folks at SpikeTV have passed along this sneak peek at Michael Irvin’s Fourth and Long, his limited-run series featuring a bunch of washed-out Dallas Cowboys wanna-bes set to debut on The Dude Network next month. The series was shot earlier this year at the Cotton Bowl and features…
So, this morning we heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s reasons for supporting the convention center hotel. Today, on her Web site, Angela Hunt offers several reasons why she’s against it. She also has some words for those who insist that Dallas will become a “ghost town” without the…
Last week, when District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin started circulating to the media a copy of a $482,337.09 federal tax lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service against Brint Ryan, who’s also running for Mitchell Rasansky’s soon-to-be-vacated seat, I contacted the IRS for further explanation. At the time,…
Just got off the phone with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, who, moments ago, announced that the district is closing Daniel Webster Elementary from tomorrow till May 11 due to one confirmed case of the swine flu at that campus. (It will remain open throughout today to accomodate…
On The View this morning, when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said Dallas County has exonerated 19 wrongly imprisoned men using DNA evidence, he received an enormous round of applause. But the appearance was less about Watkins than it was his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and Johnnie Lindsey, who,…
In February, the Dallas Business Journal ran a Q&A headlined “Two Minutes with Saul Meyer,” referring to the founder of and partner at Harwood Street-based Aldus Equity. In the piece, Meyer said that what set Aldus apart from other private equity firms is its “degree of governance and transparency,” which…
We missed the pro-convention center hotel wingding in front of Dallas City Hall last night. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway did not. Here’s his pitch for the hotel, and it apparently has something to do with … cell phones?…
An out-of-state colleague wondered late yesterday, “Is it true that the state of Texas has canceled all sports events till May 11? Does that include Astros and Rangers?” Um … no. Alas, such was his reading of a breathless, since-vanished New York Times story concerning the University Interscholastic League’s decision…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the first film—the, yawn, origin story during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood traumas and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast…
On the long-out-of-print 1998 Criterion Collection release of This Is Spinal Tap—the only DVD version of the 1984 film on which Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer provide commentary as themselves, not their shaggy alter-egos—the trio offered generous insight into the band’s origins, which date back exactly 30 years…
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he’s not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I’m…
Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales has a lengthy “Web exclusive” about the post-presidency of George W. Bush — specifically, how he’s looking to “reshape his legacy,” both alone and with the assist of former White House colleagues. From Bush’s March 17 speech in Calgary, Sales offers this highlight:The…
Back in January, Clear Channel laid off 1,800 employees, several of whom were good Friends of Unfair Park and most of whom worked in ad sales. Today comes news that the San Antonio-based conglomerate has laid off more folks in a second round of budget-cutting — and gone even deeper…
For as long as I can recall, El Rincon Tapatio Tres sat at the corner of Knight Street and Maple Avenue. Clearly, that’s about to change…
