As promised, the Dallas billionaire was on The Daily Show last night promoting his book and his plan. About halfway through the interview concerning Pickens’ desire to get America’s trucks running on natural gas sooner than later, Jon Stewart fell in love. And a May-December bromance begins. –Robert Wilonsky…
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where to place it among the series’ finest. Was it better than Goldfinger? Probably not, but close. The Spy Who Loved Me? Maybe so. From Russia With…
Word out of City Hall today is that the Jeffries Street Learning Center — a nonprofit on Grand Avenue whose mission is to provide Fair Park-area kids with “a positive environment and positive role models” — will receive its own bailout package courtesy Bank of America. Says the release announcing…
Rogelio Reyes Cannady A week from today, 36-year-old Rogelio Reyes Cannady will be dead. That’s the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s plan, anyway: Cannady is scheduled to be executed on November 19 for murdering his cellmate in October 1993. Cannady, once a waiter, was in prison in ’93 serving out…
At this very moment T. Boone Pickens is in New York City, where today he reiterated to reporters at a Forbes-sponsored energy confab that he’s tapping the brakes on his wind farm in the Texas Panhandle. But he insisted the slowdown on the $10-billion project has nothing to do with…
Turns out Jessica Simpson may be the Dallas Cowboys’ Yoko Romo after all. Consider: Dallas has gone 9-7 since she made her Thanksgiving game debut last season, lost to the Giants in the first round of the ’07 playoffs, and watched Tony Romo turn so-so just before he was relegated…
General Growth Properties Inc.’s shares are worth next to nothing today — 40 cents, following an all-time low of 24 pennies earlier today. And though the company is based out of Chicago, its fate will have dramatic repercussions locally should it either file bankruptcy, as expected, or disappear altogether in…
Ruben Bohuchot Allen Gwinn just texted me with today’s news: Ruben Bohuchot, the former Dallas Independent School District associate superintendent for technology indicted last year and convicted in July for screwing the district out of millions, was just sentenced in federal court. Writes Allen, U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay has…
Linda Harper-Brown, who doesn’t look happy even in her campaign Web site photo By now, you’re probably aware that a week after Election Day, the dust hasn’t settled in Irving, where three-term incumbent Linda Harper-Brown and Democratic challenger Bob Romano are still tussling over who gets to rep Texas House…
Right now, one ball’s about all George Gillett, left, and Tom Hicks can afford. The headline is more or less the assessment of the chairman of one of England’s largest investment banks, who today tells The Times in the U.K. that the owner of Your Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers…
Late yesterday a Friend of Unfair Park lamenting the loss of Brothers Chicken sent me an e-mail bearing potentially catastrophic news for lovers of Ćevapčići or chicken paprikash: Franki’s Little Europe in Casa Linda Plaza is closed. Another Friend confirmed last night that there was indeed a note on the…
Sam, you forgot to pour this into your pot: Terrell Owens presenting the Top Ten list on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. Little T is not amused. –Robert Wilonsky…
View Larger Map Earlier this afternoon, a Friend of Unfair Park shot us this brief, cryptic message: “Brotha’s fried chicken on Gaston is gone … There is no God.” Spent the better part of the day trying to track down my childhood pal Jimmy Kazanas, co-owner of the chicken shack…
The word from Sports Business Journal, without comment from Your Dallas Cowboys, is that Jerry Jones is looking to borrow $350 million — and, like, pronto too. Seems he’s attempting to refinance by December 1 a previous loan on Jerryworld, “as well as add new debt to cover cost overruns…
Just spotted this announcement on the Dallas Independent School District’s Web site and thought we’d pass it along, as the deadline is tomorrow. –Robert Wilonsky Attention: Recently RIFed Personnel Personnel who were part of the recent reduction in force will have an opportunity to address a panel composed of a…
Hard to believe, as Harold’s has been a part of the local retailing landscape since forever, but four days after announcing it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Dallas-based chain is, indeed, shuttering all 43 of its stores, it was announced today — including its four Dallas-Fort Worth…
We’d be remiss this Veterans Day if we didn’t point out this commentary that aired this morning on KERA-FM (90.1), courtesy attorney and good Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston, an all-around swell human being. It’s especially touching as Bill’s father, now 86 and recently hospitalized, served in the Army…
Because at this point I figured the least we could do was let Robert Jeffress speak for himself in this brief excerpt from his Sunday-morning sermon about homosexuality … and, um, iPods? Wait, what? –Robert Wilonsky Robert Jeffress from Dallas Observer on Vimeo. Update at 2:11 p.m. on Wednesday: FBC…
Started way back in February ’07: Former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Herb Adderley and Bernie Parrish, a former Cleveland Browns defensive back, decided to take on the National Football League Players Association, about damned time. Adderley and Brown, front men for thousands of other ex-ballers…
After the jump, courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the tale of Dolores Arriola Espino, who managed to steal $84,000 from the Garland Independent School District — her employer for 22 years. (Loyalty, schmoyalty.) Sentenced Friday to 10 months in prison for theft and embezzlement and ordered by Chief U.S. District…
Patrick Michels This was how you got Ken Kerchival’s Cliff Barnes: bug him during a smoke break Not two hours after we made mention of the chaos in Parker Saturday night, during the Dallas reunion that more or less turned into a barbecue-scented Star Trek convention, the Associated Press returns…
Alexander Flores So happens our great art director, Alexander Flores, found hisself in front of First Baptist Church in downtown yesterday morning, where he grabbed some photos of the 100 or so protesters who didn’t take too kindly to Robert Jeffress’ “Politically Incorrect” sermon, which we’ve mentioned, oh, once or…
