At the end of last week, shares of Dallas-based Brinker International stock took a bit of a dive after an analyst downgraded the stock, insisting the company behind Chili’s, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina and Maggiano’s Little Italy was about to hit a rough patch…
As those crushed cars continue to burn, baby, burn at that steel plant in Midlothian, Jim Schermbeck of Downwinders at Risk asks that we share the part of the story going “completely unreported,” as he puts it in a missive sent Unfair Park’s way: “Contamination from this fire could easily…
Those wondering which beer you’ll be guzzling at Jerry Jones’ new billion-dollar stadium in Arlington come the 2009-’10 season and way beyond, wonder no more: Courtesy The Landry Hat, we now know it’ll still be Miller Lite, blech. So says Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, which brings news of…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has been sort of on my case ever since I wrote an article this article in the paper version of Unfair Park in March. He says I made him out to be a grandstander and a flim-flam man,…
Dave Faries, best known ’round here as the man who used to answer the Burning Question, is now posted in Prague, where he’s writing for The Prague Post. Among his duties: covering the Prague Panthers, currently in contention for the EFAF Cup — top honors for European American Football clubs…
To be honest, you might not want to use this coupon … Apparently, Regal Row-based Ultimate Van Lines picked the wrong folks to mess with. Because today, the 4-year-old Dallas moving company gets a proper smackdown on Gawker Media-affiliated The Consumerist, where one unhappy family writes that Ultimate’s been holding…
Dana Archip/Courtesy AFI Dallas International Film Festival Sydney Pollack, speaking last year to a handful of very fortunate SMU students. Last time I saw Sydney Pollack in the flesh, he was grabbing a light lunch at the W Hotel in Victory Park — with, oh, Lauren Bacall, nice. It was…
In advance of tomorrow’s ExxonMobil shareholders get-together at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center — always a good time — the Irving-based oil behemoth announced today it will no longer fund some groups who insist global warming ain’t got nothing to with people. Among the organizations to which Exxon’s cut…
The Wall Street Journal notes that an international utility-meter company will announce today that it’s got a $360-million deal with Oncor Electric Delivery Co. to install so-called “smart” meters for three million homes and small businesses in Dallas. Notes the piece: “The meters will send readings wirelessly, giving consumers and…
Here’s Bacsik’s trading card, stamped with the wrong signature. It can be yours for the historically low, low price of $2.95. Some nine months after Mike Bacsik pitched his way into the history books by dealing Barry Bonds home run No. 756, ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski profiles the former KTCK-AM intern’s…
Former city council member James Fantroy, who chose prison over apology. This just in from KTVT-Channel 11, for those spending time indoors this Memorial Day: Former Dallas city council member James Fantroy, found guilty in February of embezzling about $21,000 held in trust for Paul Quinn College’s community development fund,…
Apparently, we haven’t wasted enough time trying to choose a new name for Industrial Boulevard. Because now, through Friday at 5 p.m., you can offer your half-cent’s worth in the city’s so-called “Public Interest Survey” by picking and clicking on one of the six contenders: Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Eddie Bernice…
The blond superhero at right looks awful familiar. How’d this slip past? Because damned near two years to the day since we first mentioned it, Norah Jones’ smart-assed, foul-mouthed, guitar-based, piano-adiosed side project El Madmo’s gone legit with a nifty full-lengther barely released earlier this week and available for sneaking…
Just came back from the “streetcar workshop” in the basement of City Hall. A bunch of trolley experts from around the country talked to a small crowd of downtown policy wonks, wonkettes and wonkerinas about building a trolley system in downtown. And guess what? It looks like the best idea…
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now has a Web site documenting children being taken from their mothers. Breaking news: Unfair Park just received from the Texas Supreme Court the response filed moments ago by attorneys representing some of the FLDS mothers who want their children returned…
NEWSCOM Women from the FLDS sect entering a courthouse in San Angelo earlier this week. In Texas they go in with guns, seize evidence and ask questions later. In Utah, they go in with the accountants. That’s one way to describe the two very different approaches Utah and Texas have…
A few days before Memorial Day, Los Angeles-based preservationist Susan Deal Booth has posted to The Huffington Post an essay about her father, World War II veteran Harry William Deal, who served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Susan also runs a publishing house, through which she just published her father’s memoirs…
As we mentioned in the paper version of Unfair Park, Charles Osgood’s in town promoting his new book A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail — and raiseing some dough for a local charity. Last night,…
A Chicago “traditional lighting” manufacturer offers one perspective on the proposed lights around White Rock Lake. Last night’s meeting concerning the installation of lights around White Rock Lake got “heated,” says KTVT-Channel 11’s Jay Gormley. (Didn’t really look it on WFAA-Channel 8, but, ya know.) Nonetheless, Chip Northrup — a…
Turns out that last week’s 24-hour Guitar Hero III fund-raiser, during which Mayor Tom displayed the most awkward rock moves in this history of fake plastic guitars, was good for more than raising money. Word’s circulating this a.m. that a 13-year-old from Grapevine, Daniel Johnson, set a Guinness World Record…
Say it ain’t so, Joe Ezeokeke. Because, really, if you can’t take more than three ounces of liquid onto an airplane, what in the world made you think you could bring four kilos of cocaine onto a flight? Alas, that’s just what the Nigerian citizen did on December 22 of…
Breaking Adam “Pacman” Jones news this a.m., courtesy the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting that the Clark County District Attorney’s Office has issued a felony arrest warrant for the Dallas Cowboys’ latest and greatest. The warrant was issued late last night, as Jones hasn’t paid $20,000 in gambling debts…
