Three weeks ago, we briefly mentioned Tiffinni Young’s name in a story about Mayor Tom’s potential bid to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison if she decides to run for governor. If Leppert leaves office early, the mayor pro tem would take his place, with either Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway…
It was bound to happen eventually: Rebecca Aguilar, suspended (and eventually fired) by KDFW-Channel 4 in October 2007 following her parking-lot interview with James Walton, has finally sued the station on the ground that the Fox station terminated “her employment based upon her race.” Her attorney, Steve Kardell, tells the…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill, guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. In the photo above, that’s Hill at far left, along with Neal Caldwell and, at the drums, Randy Caldwell. Dennard…
Rick’s Cabaret issued a press release today concerning its new all-nude joint on Stemmons Freeway: XTC Cabaret, so named for its playlist. (No? My bad.) As we noted yesterday, the Houston-based chain of stripperterias is rebranding its current tops-off, bottoms-on joint due to its poor performance.And now it claims that…
As you’ll read in this week’s dead-tree version of The Sportatorium, hitting newstands tomorrow, I think Wade Phillips should be fired. Immediately. No, actually, I think Jerry Jones should’ve walked down to the sideline in the third quarter of the Philadelphia debacle after Tony Romo unceremoniously stripped Phillips of his…
Realtor Candace Rubin asks that we out Harvey Gough as a kindly soul lurking beneath a crusty burger, which is why, yesterday, she sent along the link to Steak Team Mission, which is a self-proclaimed “group of Dallas-based restaurateurs and supporters capable of providing food and supplies for soldiers’ benefit.”…
On Thursday, Neiman Marcus revealed that it had suffered a miserable Christmas, posting a 30-percent drop in revenue compared to December 2007 sales figures. Which is among the reasons Neimans yesterday began laying off 374 employees, about 100 of those in Dallas. As far as Neimans president and CEO Burt…
Known it for a while, but yesterday the head honchos at our two local dailies made it official: Beginning next month the newspaper sports war competition is over. The former rivals are now shaking hands, sharing headlines. It’s happening all over the place, with even super powers like the Washington…
KXAS-Channel 5 has wisely — nay, brilliantly — posted the entirety of Jane McGarry’s sit-down with President Bush. You know how sometimes, 10 minutes isn’t long enough? This is one of those times. A question, though: What is she saying at the start of the video? And what does it…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will vote on an ordinance that targets “apartment complexes with excessive crime rates,” as the council considers revising Chapter 27 of the Dallas City Code, which deals with code compliance in multi-tenant units. It’s an extensive overhaul that was first presented to the council’s Public…
Right before Christmas, Dallas County revealed that it just might consider lifting the condom distribution ban enacted in 1995, when then-County Commissioner Jim Jackson told The New York Times, “Sodomy is still against the law in Texas. I hear people say the government shouldn’t be in the bedroom. This isn’t…
Okay, let’s try something different. Something titillating. Since Observer staff writers Merritt Martin and Megan Feldman almost never get in a cat fight that spills over into the mud-wrestling pit, they instead want to entertain us visually-stimulated, testosterone-saturated dorks with their own list. Couple of months ago I gave you my…
Everybody needs a hobby, and, of course, Avi Adelman’s is keeping track of Lower Greenville’s drunks. Adelman, who’s taken his obsession to YouTube in recent months, has now gone one step further: He’s published the full names of 950 folks arrested on public intoxication charges during 2008. Click here to…
Of no surprise to us, former council member Al Lipscomb’s grandson, LeVar “LD” Thomas, became the first challenger to battle freshman Tennell Atkins for his District 8 council seat when Thomas held a press conference at the E Zee Shop parking lot in South Dallas Friday morning. He was joined…
View Larger MapUnfair Park has learned that Glazer’s Distributors — owners of 508 Park Avenue, the building in which Robert Johnson recorded 13 songs that changed the music world — has filed with the city a permit that would allow them to tear down one of the most historic structures…
It’s been a little more than a month since a few dozen urban planners, architects and city officials gathered at City Hall to discuss turning two blocks of downtown in a self-sustaining mixed-income “community,” as part of RE:Vision Dallas. Ostensibly, the folks behind the project are off collating their findings…
As we speak, 105.3 The Fan is in the middle of a 30-day negotiating period with the Cowboys to steal the team away from 1310 AM The Ticket and become Dallas’ official flagship station. The new sports-talk station has also hired Dallas’ Only Daily columnist Tim Cowlishaw for a regular role…
A self-proclaimed “Unfair Park reader/air breather” sends this link to Midlothian council member Ken Chambers’s blog — or “Personal Convictions” page, which sounds even better — where Chambers has opted to take on TXI and Ash Grove Cement Company. Writes Chambers, “There are now developing countries like Vietnam and Uzbekistan…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word that at 3 p.m. today, Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Standric Choice and two other men are due in U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney courtroom to face allegations that the trio were involved in a steal-to-deal cocaine arrest on Friday. The feds’ allegations follow…
Michael Young, meet Michael Finley. Seems like forever Finley was a good solider on bad Mavericks teams, the best player and the involuntarily spokesman absorbing and explaining years of losing while the cast of crappy teammates and coaches around him constantly changed. He played hurt. He played well. He was an All-Star…
Houston-based and publicly traded Rick’s Cabaret bought two local topless joints last year: the former Executive Club on Stemmons Freeway and the late Platinum Club II off Northwest Highway. Dunno how the latter, rebranded Club Onyx and “catering to African-American gentlemen,” is doing. But the former’s not raking in the…
The USA Today headline’s a little misleading: “Economy prompts more calls to suicide hotlines.” Because six paragraphs in, the story notes: Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline jumped 36% from 2007 to 2008, totaling 545,000 last year, says director John Draper. But callers were increasing before the economic collapse,…
