Ten pages behind the Fred Baron story you’ll find one about — wait for it, wait for it — Jenny the elephant and her potential move to either Mexico or Tennessee. Very catch headline too: “What to Do With Traumatized Elephant Stirs Up Dallas.” Can’t say the Association of Zoos…
Mark Graham Fred Baron, the Sgt. Schultz of Dallas attorneys Hey, look, there’s Dallas attorney Fred Baron on the front page of The New York Times this morning — where it’s revealed, likely to no one’s surprise, that he played a significantly larger role in the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair…
A little bit ago, Yahoo! Sports’ Greg Wyshynski linked to yesterday’s Sean Avery item; awful nice of him. Thought I’d return the favor, then, and point out that Wyshynski stumbled across the hockey-playing fashionista’s appearance on Bravo’s Web site last night following Project Runway, where the newest Dallas Star and…
Courtney Clenney TNA, it’s dynamite? From left: Shark Boy, Curry Man and Black Machismo, the latter of whom doesn’t wear a mask because he’s “too beautiful” Lucky us, as Unfair Park found itself this afternoon at the Best Buy on LBJ Freeway and Midway Road, where Jay Lethal (also known…
Methinks our pal Tim Wagner’s day just got a little bit longer, as the Associated Press noted moments ago that the Federal Aviation Administration has fined American Airlines $7 million for “safety and drug-testing violations.” Update: Here’s the FAA’s media release detailing the reasons for the penalties. And the Dallas…
Somehow, Stephen Colbert’s dig at Canton on Tuesday night’s Colbert Report is making national news today, as the Comedy Central host insults, then apologizes to, Cantons across the country. Alas, this breaking news has yet to make it to the Canton Herald. Me, I find this video much, much, much…
I went to the city’s Web site a few minutes ago in search of something when I stumbled across this in the “Latest News & Announcements … ” section: “Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Deputy Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine R. Caraway, Rickey Smiley, KBFB 97.9 The Beat, The City of Dallas, Out…
Where the Ross Brothers are buried, really, from the Save Ross Web site Speaking of Ross Avenue, a Web site has been created to save the street — at least, its original name. The site, which comes complete with a petition, warns people that renaming Dallas’s proud Ross Avenue for…
As you no doubt recall, the United States Bowling Congress is moving from Wisconsin to Arlington. Should happen around November 3, says Mark Miller, spokesman for the USBC, who tells Unfair Park today that some employees with school-age kids have already made the move and gone to work in temporary…
Heelys, Inc.’s stock is way, way up this a.m. — 60 cents since the market opened, putting it at the $5.47 mark. No surprise why: The Carrollton-based maker of roller-skate-sneakers has once more been approached by Skechers USA Inc., which is offering big money for a buyout. Three months after…
Maybe you’ll see Charles Barkley around town in coming days, as it looks as though he’ll be in the DFW to shoot a series for the Golf Channel about how awful he is with a stick. Barkley will be here specifically to work with Hank Haney — Tiger Woods’ coach,…
Well, at least the city gave the Woodards less than two years to pack nearly 100 years’ worth of stuff. My dad and his dad were in the car parts business from 1932 till, oh, few weeks back — first in Deep Ellum, then on Second Avenue near Fair Park…
When he’s not trying to save the U.S. from foreign oil, and making himself a little richer in the process, Dallas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is writing books about saving the U.S. from foreign oil and making himself a little richer in the process. In coming days, Crown will…
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies—a savage beast with a rough touch featuring Tom Cruise in a career-resurrecting role as bald-headed, big-gutted, foul-mouthed studio boss Les Grossman, who does the fuck-you dance like…
The cell phone rang at 10 last night, and Lily Tomlin was on the other end at long last to talk about, right, Jenny the elephant — though she did have some to say about her canceled HBO series set in Dallas, 12 Miles of Bad Road, including a story…
This New York Times story from today, about a flashy full-length trucking documentary that also serves as an advertisement for a brand-new big-dollar big rig, is sorta making the rounds today. Gawker’s already dubbed Drive and Deliver as “the most efficient product placement of all time!,” a tagline not likely…
This full-page ad, featuring Star Sean Avery, will appear in the September Details Alas, let us now consider our latest and greatest Dallas Star, Sean Avery, who this morning was branded “considerably less recognizable” than John Mayer and Sarah Silverman, poor baby. True enough, but the unidentifiable one is in…
For a man about to spend at least the next 40 years of his life in prison, Roy Arredondo hardly seemed nervous. Arredondo, the reputed leader of a Dallas-based cell of the Texas Syndicate prison gang, was sentenced this morning in Dallas federal court to life for his role in…
A picture of Don Hill we never, ever get tired of running When last we heard from former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, he was insisting that the U.S. government’s case against him — you recall, has to do with low-income housing — was racially motivated, politically charged and…
Mark Stepnoski Yesterday, one Edward Rynearson — no, not Ned Ryerson — directed our attention to his blog and this lengthy interview with former Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Mark Stepnoski, who, as we noted, is among those trying to launch a privately financed 9/11 commission in New York City. Turns…
I am trying to figure out what the Dallas Cowboys’ motto is this year. It’s on the tip of my tongue. Wait, wait, wait, give me a second. It’ll come to me. –Robert Wilonsky…
The original Dickey’s barbecue, founded in Dallas in 1941 Back in October, Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey’s son Roland Dickey Jr. told the St. Louis Post Dispatch he expects to open 60 brand-new Dickey’s Barbecue Pits by the end of 2012. Now comes this announcement from the eatery’s president: He…
