Courtney Clenney Candace Bushnell, second from left, in what appears to be a touring company production of Sex and the City On Wednesday evening, the Garden Room at the Crescent Court Hotel was brimming with Grey Goose and twinkling with candles, Christmas lights and the setting sun as the crowd…
Mark Graham Haseeb Chishty Earlier this year, we told the story of Haseeb Chishty, a 34-year-old mentally retarded man who was beaten into a coma by a caregiver at Denton State School six years ago. The story chronicled the efforts of Haseeb’s mother to bring attention to what she describes…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is meeting, yet again, to discuss laying off some 675 teachers courtesy the $148-million budget shortfall. The link to the live feed’s here, as the “budget workshop” began promptly at 3:14 p.m. Feel free to watch along and pipe in with comments…
Jeb Hensarling casting his vote against the $700 billion bailout bill. If you thought last night’s blowout victory in the Senate meant the bailout bill was going to pass the House without a fight … well, you probably didn’t, actually. Which is why this USA Today piece on Dallas’s Jeb…
Till I read this story, about London’s National Portrait Gallery and its attempt to secure one of Marc Quinn’s Self sculptures, I had no idea that the Dallas Museum of Art currently has a Quinn in storage. But, yes, turns out that the DMA, courtesy owners Cindy and Howard Rachofsky,…
The so-called Dallas Medical District — which includes, like you didn’t know, Parkland Hospital, Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center — is on its way to securing its very own live-work-shop. A Mockingbird Properties property, it’ll be called Butler Manor and consist of “460 luxury apartment homes, retail…
Never been to the Havana Social Club in Victory Plaza, recently tapped by D as the “Best Place to Roll ‘Em If You Got ‘Em.” But the Austin outpost of Washington-based Americans for Prosperity recently made a trip to the joint, and today posted a video about how Dallas’s proposed…
Merrie Spaeth This morning, Salon, like every one else, is offering Joe Biden and Sarah Palin advice about how to conduct themselves during tonight’s vice-presidential candidate debate. Only, Salon’s quoting a local with substantial experience: longtime Republican operative Merrie Spaeth. As Salon notes today, the Dallas-based GOP strategist helped prep…
A study released today by Austin-based Sheshunoff and Co. Investment Banking reveals that the state of the banking industry in Texas is strong — except in Dallas-Fort Worth, where the assets-to-loans ratio is on par with the woeful national average. Notes a managing partner in the banking industry advisory firm,…
The Portable People Meter is listening to everything you listen to. So, like, beware? For years, this is how Arbitron measured radio ratings rather crudely, but also quite simply: Participants, selected at random, would fill out diaries in which they listed what they were listening to and when for a…
There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light books that take a good hour to read for those who scan slowly; both feature actors on the cult side of stardom who do far better…
Because it’s brilliant. Not that No. 81’s whining. Because he never whines, especially not after losses to NFC East rivals during which his number was called a little too often. Never ever. And Keyshawn Johnson will never get tired of being called “Sheshawn” after today. A smackdown in two parts…
Lara Solt, a Dallas Morning News staff photographer, just won an online-photography award from the Military Reporters & Editors Association for a collection of images that chronicled a U.S. Marine’s recovery after a bridge exploded beneath him in Iraq. Corporal Eric Morante lost a leg, underwent extensive surgeries and endured…
A mustache-loving Friend of Unfair Park sends along this note upon his return from lunch: I just sat near Karl Malone at Houlihan’s in Addison for lunch. Trying to figure out why he’s here, I came across this article about a possible comeback in Boston. With training camp ramping up,…
Over at AskMen.com, where new Dallas Star and soon-to-be movie subject Sean Avery is some kind of a “style correspondent,” the former Vogue intern’s taking your fashion questions. And while most are practical Q’s with helpful A’s — among them, if you must, “What’s the simplest way to update your…
Rep. Jeb Hensarling The Senate will vote tonight on an altered version of President Bush’s $700-billion bailout bill. And, far as Rep. Jeb Hensarling figures, the Senate will give it the okey-dokey before bailing out of Washington, “putting the House in a take-it-or-leave-it position on Thursday.” And that isn’t sitting…
The State Fair of Texas is on. So where is everybody? On Monday afternoon the midway was empty. Nobody was throwing too-big basketballs at too-small hoops to win a stuffed critter. There was no line for chicken-fried bacon. No line for Fletcher’s corny dogs. And that’s weird. Maybe it’s gas…
Flickr photo: Lost Tulsa In the wake of the news of CD World’s shuttering, a Friend of Unfair Park who swears we’ve never met but who clearly shares my love of Dallas nostalgia sends along this link to a year-old piece about Dallas’s long-lost record stores. Among those name-checked: Hit…
This morning, I was bitten, then infected, by this City of Dallas-provided public service announcement about how to prevent the West Nile, which is sweeping the land! This pilot episode has tremendous potential, and I look forward to future episodes: “What Do I Do With This Syringe?,” “How Do I…
The Los Angeles Times this morning heaps piles of praise upon Jerry Jones’ under-construction EnormoDome in Arlington, which Sam Farmer coins the “Y’all Mahal,” a nickname that will never, ever stick. Still, the piece does contain two classic Jerry quotes, the first one concerning the $1.2 billion price tag: “The…
You say this is not Sarah Palin? Hunh, coulda sworn. This time around, the Canadians have asked SMU political science prof Cal Jillson — the print journalist’s go-to guy for all things political — for his preview of Thursday night’s veep debate, wherein Joe Biden will try not to say…
Says the Hall of Fame QB-turned-ESPN talking head, Jerry Jones has the best football team in the league … on paper. Only, they’re a team without a leader or a “moral authority in the locker room.” They do, however, have a petulant, occasionally team-wrecking crybaby about whom Young knows plenty…
