For those not keeping track of D.C. doings this a.m., former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is talking to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary. And, for one, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith, the Republican from our great state’s 21st Congressional District, isn’t terribly pleased about the…
A couple of days ago, the Dallas Police Department posted this video of a man taking his sweet time to play stick-’em-up at the the Shell station at 13910 N. Central Expressway at 9:13 p.m on June 12. Says Det. Martha Sanders this a.m., the guy’s also wanted in conjunction…
This morning, the missus called from the road: “Kinky’s on KRLD, talking about how he’s going to run for governor again in 2010 — as a Democrat.” And, sure enough, that’s just what he said — needs, oh, $3 to $5 million, far as he figures. And over on KRLD-AM’s…
Tennessee Tech University Harrison Hong’s a highly regarded 37-year-old professor of economics and finance at Princeton University. He’s written articles with titles like “A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets” and “Does Fund Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? The Role of Liquidity and Organization” –…
Never too early to make plans for November, especially since you need to act between July 2-11 in order to make the date. That’s when Whirlpool Corporation’s accepting applications for its Building Blocks Annual Community Build, during which Whirlpool and Habitat for Humanity will marshal their forces to build danged…
“Nasty” Nathan Biller, in a Nathan’s national qualifier last year in Minneapolis Today, in our ongoing efforts to fill our Friends’ bellies before Saturday’s Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest, Unfair Park brings you the competitive eater currently ranked No. 30 in the world by the International…
Well, OK, maybe it’s not your bunny. But it’s somebody’s, because the kindly council member swears her temporary house guest isn’t a wild hare: “He’s a tame bunny,” she says. “It’s apparent he’s house-trained.” And she’d like him back in the house in which he belongs, which is why she…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is heading to Houston, to help former Houston Police Department chief C.O. “Brad” Bradford raise some dough in his bid to become the Harris County District Attorney. And he’s bringing from friends, says the Houston Chronicle: former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk and State Sen…
A few months back, my pal Bob Musgrave — and that’s Bob Mapplethorpe to you — was giving some dude from Criterion Collection a tour of the local sights and sets from Bottle Rocket, which is only, like I said before, the best movie ever made in Dallas. We knew…
Yesterday, during our weekly staff meeting, the question was raised concerning the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2007, a preliminary version of which was released last week. We wondered if perhaps we’d missed it in The News; all I can find concerning the report’s release is this very general Associated…
Fascinating piece in the new Economist about how some Americans are choosing the neighborhoods to which they’re moving — based on a little something called “political segregation.” Using Bill Bishop’s new book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart as its jumping-off point, the…
A Friend of Unfair Park, by which I mean The Big Bossman, shot me a missive early this morning in which he alerted me to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s revamped Web site. Seems it’s a big deal now, what with the real-time Flight Tracker and search engine that allows you…
A close-up of Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” from the Christie’s interview with the artist As we noted last month, Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are selling one of their beloved sculptures: Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta).” Christie’s will handle the sale on June 30, so the Rachofskys can expand their…
Last month, while turning our big bills into singles, we noted that Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret was expanding its presence in the DFW with the purchase of the Platinum Club II on Northwest Highway near Stemmons Freeway. Today, Rick’s has sealed the deal by closing the $7.5-million purchase: $1.5 million “in…
Gone, but absolutely not forgotten. A very curious note this morning, courtesy The Miami Herald. Because in its story about the Seminole Tribe striking a deal to put a Hard Rock Cafe inside the new $1.3-billion Yankee Stadium, along with an eatery called NYY Steak, there was this reference to…
On March 9, 2007, Paul Rudd walked into a room in the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin wearing a faded T-shirt bearing the iconic Boston logo from the band’s 1976 debut—the spaceship with the blue flame, or whatever. “Dig the shirt,” I told Rudd. “It’s for Brad,” said the actor,…
Fucking Weezer. Rivers C. and the other dudes (till Matt Sharp returns, who cares?) make one-third of a decent record—pure pop for now people, if your “now” happens to be somewhere between the blue debut and Pinkerton. “Troublemaker” goes nowhere, but it’s a catchy rut nonetheless; “Pork and Beans” is…
Upon first listen: amiable and ambitious, a step in the right direction after the overcooked banalities of 2005’s X&Y—which, still, had its share of keepers (“Fix You,” “Till Kingdom Come,” “Low”). Upon second listen: well-produced wallpaper courtesy Brian Eno, who can and will make every band with whom he works…
William Dean Singleton Journalists love to gossip — so much easier than picking up a phone. And word around the anxious Fort Worth Star-Telegram newsroom is that the budget-slashing McClatchy Company is making such deep cuts over there — 130 staffers are losing their jobs, 50 of those from the…
Marc Laureys: a little man with a big appetite for Skittles and meat Yesterday, we told you about Dallas’ first-ever qualifier for the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest and introduced you to homegrown rookie Bryan “The Chazzer” Lipchitz. In his Q&A, Lipchitz said he hopes…
The cover of publisher Little, Brown and Company’s September 2008-March 2009 catalog, which can be perused in its entirety here, features the cover for The Heretic’s Daughter, due in bookstores in, well, September. But you’ll likely hear about it well before then, as the author, Kathleen Kent, is a Dallasite…
Having attended a Star Wars convention or two — for the kid, swear — I’m certainly in no position to gig folks gathering for a four-day shindig devoted to series of books (and movies, course). Besides, everything I know about Harry Potter I could fit inside a Golden Snitch, wee!…
