Patrick Michels Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray, perched upon the Southfork balcony at the Dallas reunion Saturday night As I mentioned yesterday, the Dallas 30th reunion out at Southfork on Saturday was a catastrofuck — big fun for some (including the BBC), hugely disappointing for most. We’ll get…
BarackObama.com A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this photo of Barack Obama, which was taken by his campaign staff on Election Day. For at least three other Friends of Unfair Park, University of Texas grads all, this will prove much better than porn for a good day…
Interesting piece this morning in The Wall Street Journal concerning a lawsuit filed Thursday in state court in Dallas, in which one ad agency is accusing a rival of stealing clients and execs. Which would be a whole lot of inside baseball, save for two things: Agency.com — which handles…
Kudos to The Star-Telegram for yesterday addressing the fairly startling revelation on Friday that the Fort Worth paper and its longtime rival The Dallas Morning News are considering some kind of collaboration. The piece, by Mitchell Schnurman, even refers to the news as a “stunning local example” of how papers…
James Chippendale A year ago, we noted that James Chippendale was taking the likes of the Alarm’s Mike Peters, Stray Cat Slim Jim Phantom, the English Beat’s Dave Wakeling, Squeeze’s Glenn Tillbrook and other old new-wavers to Mount Everest for “the highest concert ever performed.” The rock on the rock…
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas Safe to assume that at some point, First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas will post Robert Jeffress’ Sunday-morning “Why Gay Is Not O.K.” speech, as the church does have its own YouTube channel and a well-stocked archive of its recent…
Surely you’ve seen the stats by now: 289,092 Dallas County voters went straight-party Democrat on Tuesday, 422,242 folks filled in their bubbles blue for Obama, and even Rick Noriega bested John Cornyn here by some 82,000-plus votes. Elsewhere, Burnt Orange Report proclaimed, “The Death of Travis County Republicans,” which seems…
Mark Walters Much more in coming hours and days from the Dallas reunionclusterfuckubration last night out at Southfork Ranch in Parker — the most muddled, exhilarating, disastrous (for some), astounding (for others) W-in-TF night in the history of the 30-year-old TV show, putting it mildly. (Seriously? Riots are better organized.)…
The folks at Queerty have taken national the sign outside the First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas — you know, the one pictured above advertising Sunday’s sermon “Why Gay Is Not O.K.” Dallas Voice first mentioned it yesterday, noting that Sam Fulcher is planning a protest in conjunction with the…
You’ll get to vote on this in May. Not like it’ll matter by then. Is that an injunction we smell? Like cookies! Not particularly surprising, but moments ago, Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel sent out a missive announcing that, yes, matter of fact the City Secretary has in fact verified…
From the book: “Storey Stemmons, Trammell Crow and John Stemmons pose prayerfully as L. G.Rainey of Equitable prepares to take over the permanent financing from J.D. Francis of the Mercantile Bank.” After the jump, the full press release announcing the publication of THE BOOK — Dallas/Fort Worth Commercial Real Estate…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story out of Fort Worth concerning the Star-Telegram’s likely collaboration with rival The Dallas Morning News. Says Startlegram exec editor Jim Witt: “There is absolutely no intention of diluting the powerful individual brands of these two papers. We just want to find…
“So you know J.R.?” Seriously, we heard that every single time some Israeli kid found out our group of Texas Jewboys and Jewgirls hailed from Dallas, namesake for what was easily the most popular teevee show in all of Israel in 1984 — well, that and WKRP in Cincinnati, which…
We called it: Mark Cuban will not be getting the Chicago Cubs. Well, to be accurate, we didn’t call it — our psychic friend Valentina Burton did, when she told editor Mark Donald that “someone tries to find a way to keep things in the family, he is blocked from…
Frisco’s Bookworm sounds like my kind of bookstore — family-owned, “intimate,” has a fireplace, serves coffee, good to go. Only, the worm has turned: Its Web site is currently advertising an everything-must-go sale in advance of its going out of business. In fact, Publishers Weekly this morning takes note of…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger can’t understand why the district doesn’t make superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s contract available online. Because, see, the Texas Administrative Code says that really oughta be available to anyone interested in taking a peek at the document. And…
Does Dallas’s adorable recycling-bin character have a name? Because he looks like he could use one. A month ago, members of the Dallas City Council, among them Linda Koop, balked at the idea of doing away with retailers’ plastic bags — ain’t gonna tax ’em, ain’t gonna ban ’em. Not…
Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Ron Kirk, speaking briefly at Gilley’s on Tuesday night before heading home to celebrate his friend’s election in private On Tuesday night, Ron Kirk dropped by Friendship-West Baptist Church on Wheatland Road to address the Obama faithful, then drove to Gilley’s, where he spoke yet…
It’s not one of your more dramatic, studio-pitch press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office; it’s no Freddy Lee Foots armored-car narrative, that’s for sure. Still, I did think today’s missive from The Man — concerning a big Ecstasy bust involving 13 folks from Dallas, Plano, Euless, Arlington, Grand Prairie…
As we mentioned yesterday, the Dallas Video Festival kicks off its 21st, um, festival tonight at 7 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station — and, as always, founder Bart Weiss and his crack staff have assembled an eclectic, exciting lineup. It’s truly a best-of-the-best this year, as Weiss…
The Wall Street Journal today has a story about insurance companies hiring “outside firms to help rein in the skyrocketing costs of imaging scans like MRIs.” Included in the story is a Dallas man, S. Blaine Porter, who was treated in 2006 for aggressive lymphoma. Porter says his insurer, Blue…
The Fox-y Daryl “Moose” Johnston tells the New York Post today that the city of Dallas — and, one assumes, the surrounding cities, including the one in which the Cowboys actually play — has turned on his former team, good God. And he’s shocked, I tellya, shocked! “It’s unbelievable. The…
