Well, Jesus, this sure sounds a little, ah, sketchy. (Cheap too — what is that, a .02 percent tip?) Here’s the lead item from a New York Times round-up this morning of items “Lost and Found in New York Taxicabs”: MIDTOWN, FEBRUARY 2007 A woman from Dallas left a suitcase…
The June issue of Esquire contains its annual rundown of the Best Bars in America — and it probably comes as no surprise to D’s Adam McGill that the Lakewood Landing makes the list. But that’s only because Adam wrote the item, which goes a little something like this: “The…
Chili’s Chicken Crispers® just got extra yummy! More sauce please. And you thought Chili’s had trouble before. Next time you bite into that juicy Guiltless Chicken Sandwich at Chili’s, you may want to know that, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals today, you should probably feel at…
White Rock Lake Foundation The proposed lights around White Rock Lake Last week in the paper version of Unfair Park, Glenna broke down the fight over lights around White Rock Lake, an idea instigated by the White Rock Lake Foundation. Today comes word, via Back Talk Lakewood, that council member…
Dallas criminal defense attorney Robert Guest today documents his trying to clear a ticket case down at the Court & Detention Services Municipal Building on Main Street. A few chuckles in there, chiefly his description of the antiquated equipment attorneys are forced to use — like, oh, the computer that…
Seven years ago, my old friend Jason Cohen published a terrific book, Zamboni Rodeo, about “life on the road” with Austin Ice Bats, the official Central Hockey League affiliate of the Minnesota Wild. The Ice Bats have played in various locations in and around Austin for 12 seasons. Only, reports…
Jay Burress See, sooner or later everything in Dallas winds up in Arlington — even the folks who sell Dallas to tourists and convention-goers; “trading up,” I think it’s called. Notes the The Startelegram today, Jay Burress — currently the senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Dallas…
Today’s agenda at City Hall is a great example of the low regard they have down there for the wretched taxpayers of the world. Drum roll, please: Big and bright, up front and public at 9:30 this a.m. for your entertainment and enlightenment, ladies, gentlemen and hard-working farmhands — a…
Press release or public service announcement? Again, hard to tell. Nonetheless, here’s a fiscal win-win for those who not only like the Chick-fil-A but also like it free: On Thursday, the chicken eatery that seasons its meat with a touch of Jesus will offer a year’s worth of Chick-fil-A Combo…
Via The New York Times’ DealBook blog comes word — or, perhaps in this instance, The Word — that Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt’s GodTube is flush with dough-re-mi courtesy a NYC hedge fund. Reports PaidContent.org, New York-based GLG Partners has blessed the site with $30 million, which is…
A preview of what Brett Landes has planned in the former Hard Rock location on McKinney Avenue Developer Brett Landes of the Landes Group has unveiled his development plans for the 0.85-acre plot at Routh and McKinney that was home to the Hard Rock Café and, before that, the McKinney…
Those Friends for whom the sight of, oh, hedge clippers plunged into eye sockets is a bit too much may wanna stay away from this interview with Dallas filmmaker Israel Luna. The rest of you are welcome to visit Fangoria for just-posted sneak-peek pics from Luna’s latest offering, Fright Flick,…
According to the New York Daily News today, President Bush ain’t none too happy with the housing prices in his once and future hometown. Notes Tom DeFrank on the paper’s D.C. blog, George W. has … … been muttering about the spike in real estate prices in Dallas since he…
Nasher Sculpture Center Raymond D. Nasher Those Friends of Unfair Park wondering what to do with the spare change scrounged from their couch, take note: Sotheby’s in New York is set, this Friday, to auction off some 200 pieces in the collection of Ray and Patsy Nasher, among them works…
Whilst cleaning out my office the other day, I came across a copy of Esquire that, just so happens, hit newsstands exactly 40 years ago this month. The cover, conceived by the legendary George Lois, was a publishing first, insisted the legendary Arnold Gingrich in the publisher’s note: “the first…
Excuse me, where are the crayons? Oh, expecting lots of kids, eh? Sure, makes sense to hide their materials then. Took the 4-year-old who lives in our house to the Dallas Museum of Art yesterday, to check out the just-opened Center for Creative Connections making a freebie sneak peek over…
In case you missed the end of Stars-Starks Game 6 (and 7 and part of 8) — only because the end came long after yesterday turned into today, ’round 1:24 in the a. m. — here’s the conclusion, which sends Dallas to the Western Conference Finals for the first time…
For those who missed last night’s 60 Minutes — about how Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and the Innocence Project are taking on “the Wade legacy,” in the words of Scott Pelley — the entire 12-minute segment is after the jump. Among the reasons the story is especially extraordinary:…
Frank Campagna, as mentioned here Thursday, had all of four hours yesterday to make Rogers Waters a brand-new piggie for the former Floyd’s show last night at Starplex. We were gonna document the start-to-finish, but the Kettle Art-ist was too under-the-gun to allow interlopers. Alas, it was too bad, as…
Tonight, Chelsea Handler, the star of E!’s Chelsea Lately, takes on two Dallas venues with her stand-up-slash-book tour, during which she’s pimping Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. I got a call from the no-holds-barred comic and heard about her obsession with the small and fat, her passion for…
Looks like you can still keep ordering all your Angelyne Fan Club schwag from the same address after all. Last year, we noted that Dallas-based Gatehouse Capital Corp. pushed Hollywood icon Angelyne out of the office she’d used for 19 years in an effort to make space for a new…
Fifty U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq last month — the highest death toll suffered by the military in that country since September. And more than a year after a roadside bomb left him burned over 97 percent of his body, the so-called “Miracle Man, Marine Sgt. Merlin German, died…
