Damn right topless bars in Dallas are big business: Today comes nudes … pardon, news … that Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret International Inc. is buying The Executive Club on Stemmons Freeway for damned near $10 million — to be paid entirely in ones, of course. Which has enlarged Rick’s stock price…
Johnny Buzzerio If you go over to DC9, you just might find where to download — till it goes adios, anyway — a song from the Old 97’s’ forthcoming Blame It On Gravity, produced right here by the great Salim Nourallah. Titled “Dance With Me,” it’s a pretty terrific song…
From The Washington Post this morning comes this story, which tries to explain why Hillary Clinton is “the Grace Adler to [the gay community’s] Will Truman.” And it does so from the great Gun Barrel City, a short drive to the south of Dallas, where you’ll find one of the…
Some housecleaning this a.m., before finding out how Jessica and Greggo voted last night. We suggested these t-shirts yesterday, but after last night’s election results — Clinton wins Texas and Ohio, though Obama still’s the frontrunner among those who like math — a Friend of Unfair Park instead suggests these…
Seriously, caucusing in a firehouse looks much cooler than hanging out in an elementary school. By 7:15 p.m. very long lines stretched into the darkness outside the Precinct 1224 polling place — the fire station at Belmont and Abrams in Old East Dallas. When the Democratic lines were divided into…
See, if Pulle were still around, we’d be full of local results too — like, ya know, that little race for Dallas County Sheriff. Looks like it’ll be Lupe Valdez for the Dems — by a landslide. She’s got 56,112 votes so far — or damned near half of the…
Far as you know, this is not Noah Bailey. Just got back from my caucus at Eduardo Mata Elementary School in East Dallas, where 99 people showed up (approximately one third of our voter turnout). Personally I was hoping for some more fireworks — you know, a couple of thrown…
At 7:39 p.m., the line at Cigarroa Elementary was around the hallway and out the door. I dig the caucus process — it’s kinda like a neighborhood mixer, without the alcohol … which, at one point, we thought about going out to get, as 356 of us stood in the…
I had to squeeze my way through the crowd packing the gymnasium at Alex Sanger Elementary School for the Democrat caucus in Precinct 2228, which started promptly at 7:16 p.m. The noise level was so high that someone finally let out a screeching whistle to shut up everybody long enough…
We’re outs till Round 2 of the day’s events — there’s still a paper version of Unfair Park to get out the door. So, see you somewhere around 7:30ish with reports from Dem damned precinct conventions (or, if you must, the caucuses). Till then, of course, the big news from…
Herrera’s: Hillary Clinton ate here! Sort of. Got a media alert from the Clinton campaign that Hillary’d be lunching at Herrera’s today — the one on Denton Drive, near Love Field. And it promised big things — Queer as Folk star Robert Gant, Kansas Democratic Party vice chair Teresa Garcia…
Why, oh, why, do our fashionable Friends send such wonderful links too late to do anything about them? Because if I’d known about this a week ago, I would totally have bought this tee and worn it tonight (not because of the candidate affiliation necessarily, but because it’s a good…
Dubai International Capital yesterday offered Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. about $800 million for their Liverpool football club — an offer to which the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner and his business partner said, “Thanks, but pass.” Only, the story doesn’t end there: According to the Associated Press,…
BarackObama.com Obama at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo this morning At around 10:30 this morning, I pulled up to Precinct 1224’s polling place, Fire Station No. 17, mindful of the two Obama peeps nearby. I started to walk into the fire station, when I heard a young girl yelling…
Our Rich Lopez just had himself a nice lunch at Herrera’s Mexican Restaurant on Denton Drive — turns out, at the exact same moment Hillary Clinton was ordering votes with a side of queso. More from that forthcoming, but this just in from Clinton’s press peeps: At 4:30, Rob Reiner…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who cast his ballot today witnessed something today that ain’t … what’s the word I’m looking for … oh, yeah, legal: My elderly neighbor was voting with her husband, and neither of them knew anything about the Railroad Commissioner nominees. As they’re filling out…
Brian Harkin Bill Clinton, campaigning for his Hillary in Grauwyler Park on February 26 More backward-glancing from the national media this a.m.: Just as The Washington Post revisited Barack Obama’s visit to Duncanville last week, The Los Angeles Times retraces Bill Clinton’s footsteps through the DFW one week ago today…
Speaking of, this sounds looks good right about now. Last week, Adelfa Callejo got herself — and Hillary Clinton — in a wee spot of trouble, when the Latino-rights activist insisted that “when blacks had the numbers, they didn’t do anything to support us.” Today, the Chicago Sun-Times’ columnist Mary…
Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network This morning, The Washington Post uses last week’s Obama appearance in Duncanville to, once more, investigate the “movement” surrounding the senator from Illinois. Among those interviewed is a former Bill Clinton war roommate, Simon Rosenberg, who details the two campaigns’ different use…
So, that was anti-climactic. Took all of 10 minutes to vote, including drive time from and back to the house. No crowded parking lot, no line, no nothing except two campaign workers — one from Hillary Clinton’s camp, one from Barack Obama’s — shivering on the sidewalk, sharing a box…
Rrustem Neza’s case was front-page news in his native Albania. Eight years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, now-editor Mark Donald wrote about Dallas immigration attorney John Wheat Gibson, who, back then, was sparring with Immigration and Naturalization Service over the fate of seven Yugoslav immigrants — six…
Woodrow Wilson High School Oh, man, now I know I’ve taken a dive off the wrong end. Rod Dreher is quoting me in support of his own point of view. Over on the editorialistas’ blog at The Dallas Morning News, Dreher’s writing about the “Choose Woodrow” editorial in today’s paper,…
