Breaking news from The Wall Street Journal concerning the sale of a DallasPlano company you might have heard of. Reports the paper in a subscription-only piece at which you can sneak a peak: “Hewlett-Packard Co. was close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. for between $12 billion…
A busy day full of stuff and nonsense, to be sure. Alas, something of substance: the City Auditor’s Office’s report concerning money the Smirnoff Music Centre owes the city. And, far as the audit’s concerned, it’s not an insubstantial amount that Live Nation needs to fork over pronto — only…
Noticed that Harvard U.’s fancypants glossy 02138 has a new owner as of immediately. Also noticed the current issue’s cover: an interesting portrait of Tommy Lee Jones, who, as you no doubt know, was borned in Midland and edumicated at St. Mark’s School of Texas, where he’s been on the…
From a most curious Associated Press piece concerning the dead and their desire to posthumously watch their favorite teams, this note concerning the Dallas Cowboys no-ashes policy at Texas Stadium: “It probably happens and we sort of turn a blind eye if people are discreet,” said Rich Dalrymple, spokesman for…
Pizza Inn The first Pizza Inn, which opened across the street from SMU in 1958 Fifty years ago, Pizza Inn opened its first eatery right across the street from the SMU campus; and, far as I was concerned ’round about the time I was about 8, the long-gone location at…
We’ve been anxiously awaiting Terrell Owens’ acting debut since last month, when it was announced T.O. would guest on Flavor Flav’s new sitcom Under One Roof — which, as one Friend pointed out, sounds a whole lot like The Fresh Flav of Bel-Air. Well, guess what? Wednesday’s the big night:…
In a 2004 Rolling Stone profile of Bill O’Reilly, his former WFAA-TV colleague Byron Harris described the Fox-y one as “particularly dishonest, obnoxious, self-centered.” Really? No idea. Certainly can’t tell from this NSFW Inside Edition clip, making the Interwebs rounds this a.m. And I’ve seen this before — on an…
It’s gonna be hard to find a better headline during the rest of ’08 than this one from Friday: “3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot.” (Admit it: When you first heard about the story outta humble Humble last week, you thought three things: Doesn’t anyone use Coke…
From the “Jewtopia Infomercial” on JewTube. Plano-based GodTube, founded by Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt way back last spring, is old news ’round Unfair Park parts. But every now and then, folks still stumble across the site and treat it like the Second Coming, especially after last week’s news…
White House photo by Shealah Craighead For those so interested, there are a dozen photos from the Jenna Bush-Henry Hager weekend nuptials down the road posted to the White House Web site — including this one, in which the President Bush appears affeared of touching Jenna’s back. –Robert Wilonsky…
Like we’re not always being monitored by government satellites anyway, please. Unfair Park contributor Brian Harkin this a.m. contributes to The New York Times a photo of 15-year-old Bryan Adams High School freshman Jaime Pacheco, who gets up every morning and straps on a Global Positioning System monitor. Turns out,…
Eastern Illinois grad Tony Romo, what in the hell were you thinking? Because going to the Chicago Cubs game yesterday was so not a good idea. Unless you liked singing in the key of M and getting booed whilst tossing out the first pitch. In which case, great success. –Robert…
A treat for the weekend readers of Unfair Park: the latest video from Los Bros Kadane’s The New Year. Only, yes, it’s for an old New Year song: “The End’s Not Near,” off 2004’s The End is Near — or, ya know, that song for which an episode of The…
Angela Hunt The blog’s acting up this a.m., refusing to post comments to some items. So I thought it best not to let this one linger in the ether: It’s a response from council member Angela Hunt, who has a few words for Friend of Unfair Park Alfredo. Yesterday, in…
Nicke Mitchell Mike Haskins’ photo of the Nervebreakers has found its way to an enormous collection of Dallas music memorabilia. I am posting this at the end of the day because, well, you’ll need to clear your weekend to properly enjoy the mounds of photos, fliers, advertisements, magazine covers and…
Because, notes the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this along, we’ve got lots of available land, falling unemployment rates and, dang it, because you’re smart and beautiful. And, look, if Forbes said it, it must be true: Dallas-Fort Worth, we’re officially “Recession-Proof”! –Robert Wilonsky…
Yesterday we took a peek at Entertainment Weekly’s new issue, featuring Oliver Stone’s W — timely too, considering that just down the road tomorrow, George’s lil’ Jenna is gettin’ hitched with din-din courtesy Eddie Deen and the bridesmaids’ gowns by Dallas-born Lela Rose. Well, after we went rollin’ with Brolin,…
Courtesy Uncle Sloppy As Pete points out over on DC9, some of us ’round these parts got a classified-ad missive yesterday from one John Freeman — you know, the Dutch Treat behind the shuttered Sloppyworld. Well, Uncle Sloppy is headed to NYC to work on a rock opera with one…
Luis Yanez Last time we saw Dallas boxer Luis Yanez it was a week before Christmas, and Yanez was hardly in the mood for peace on earth. Instead he was dreaming of wreaking havoc on the Chinese, the Cubans — the entire world. Since then, Yanez has been in Colorado…
Lotta questions about last night’s bench-clearing brawl between the Rangers and Mariners, after the “gutless” Richie Sexson charged Kason Gabbard for no good reason t’all. But, first and foremost, what the hell’s going on between catcher Gerald Laird and Milton Bradley at the 1:24 mark of this nearly seven-and-a-half minute…
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who tries get around the city by bicycle, but, yup, Dallas sucks for you. That’s according to the June issue of, d’uh, Bicycling, which ranks the best and worst cities for cyclists. Says the list, which ain’t up yet, Dallas joins…
Matthew Tully Some people have the best gossip sessions under a cape, getting snips, foils and whatever else done to their heads by their stylists. Today, however, we get the dish on two Dallas ‘do-ers from Bravo as the network pimps the second season of Shear Genius (think Top Chef…
