Yaser Abdel Said, still on the run three weeks after the murders of his two daughters Megan Feldman’s tied up on a cover story at the moment, but she sends some notes concerning the hunt for Yaser Abdel Said, the 50-year-old Egyptian-born cab driver suspected in the New Year’s Day…
Toothpaste for Dinner As I wrote in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, something’s going on here. And it ain’t good. Just like that, “Happy New Year” has dissolved into “Same Old Shit.” Our sports rut is deeper and dryer than ever. South Oak Cliff High School has forfeited…
Hunter S. Thompon’s doc makes its Dallas debut at AFI in the spring. The Sundance Film Festival’s not quite wrapped in Park City, Utah; the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin is still some six weeks from opening with the real-life blackjack thriller 21. But this morning we bring…
Nobel Prize-winner Robert Curl, who’s opposed to allowing degrees in creationism. Because he’s a scientist. A couple weeks before Christmas, we noted that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research in Austin was seriously considering a request from the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research for…
So, maybe we’re done here; maybe this is the last we’ll ever write about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson. Because, maybe, they’re finished. As in: “Tony is now starting to blame her himself,” says an alleged buddy of the Cowboys QB. “Before dating Jessica, he was Texas’ golden boy. Now…
Um, did anyone else know Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief were meeting with President Bush and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez today, to discuss expanding free trade agreements? Well, if you didn’t, there’s a report here from the meeting, at which…
This has become the iconic image concerning Liverpool FC fans’ sentiments toward Tom Hicks. Tom Hicks and his Canadian padnuh in Liverpool FC are, at long last, close to finalizing their refinancing of the storied franchise — much to the chagrin of Liverpool fans, who want the Texas Rangers and…
Been a few days since there’s been any Jessica Simpson … uh … “news,” but here’s a tidbit worth a mention: Today comes conflicting word concerning her new country album, which she’s set to record in Nashville. One source says Yoko Romo wants nothing more than for Cowboys QB Tony…
Karl Chamberlain is awaiting execution for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. The Santa Fe Reporter this morning has a story about Karl Chamberlain — a New Mexico man awaiting execution in Texas for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. According to…
Schellas Hyndman, his name is my name too. This guy? Nope. The new coach? Uh-uh. We’re talking the most successful athletics teacher in all of SMU, one Schellas Hyndman. Hyndman, with more wins (466) than any coach in school history, was last weekend named this year’s recipient of the National…
Yesterday, American Airlines announced that at long last it would begin testing high-speed Internet service on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft; the Fort Worth-based carrier will begin the trial run this summer, give or take, courtesy three lightweight antennae installed on the outside of the aircraft. Not to be outdone, today…
Yeah, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 128.11 points yesterday — coulda been a lot worse. Today’s already not looking much better, but in today’s Los Angeles Times, Don Hodges of the Maple Avenue-based Hodges Fund says the sellers are making a big mistake. As in: “I can tell…
Only a few months after The Dallas Morning News ran its piece on the Hope Fellowship Church in Irving — novel because it’s housed in an old bar and some of its congregants are bikers who’ve served a little time — The Christian Science Monitor offers its take on the…
Ah, here’s that other photo of Lone Star Fund-er John Grayken. Maybe the head of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds should have requested offering his testimony via speaker phone in South Korea’s case against Lone Star Funds, as John Grayken’s short trip is quickly turning into a hostage situation. Last week,…
In the spring of 2001, I spent a day with Heath Ledger as he was driven from KDFW-Channel 4 to WFAA-Channel 8 to his hotel, then back again to yet another TV interview at TXCN — all in the name of promoting A Knight’s Tale, the rock-and-roll refit of a…
Every day I get an e-mail from Daily Crime Report for my neighborhood, otherwise known as Northwest Division Sector 530. Here’s the most recent one, which includes plenty of burglarized vehicles and homes, several aggravated assaults and acts of “criminal mischief,” an “unexplained death” and this gem: “Unknown suspect tried…
Scott Dorn At the crime scene: a photo of the Hard Rock, by the time it was nothing but rubble We are fortunate to have among us two photographers for whom Dallas provides endless opportunities: Justin Terveen, who captures, among other things, our few landmark buildings that still stand; and…
Rick Reed, former Dallas County prosecutor now interested in becoming the Travis County District Attorney From The Texas Observer comes a sneak peek at the race for Travis County District Attorney — the most powerful prosecutor in Texas, with the power to go after state elected officials. Among the fab…
Burning question: Just how much Jose Cuervo did Randy Galloway drink when he saw the radio ratings last week? If you saw the blurb in Dallas’ Only Daily over the weekend concerning the latest radio ratings, you probably envisioned ESPN 103.3 FM spending the Martin Luther King holiday breaking out…
The work of SEKT, featured in Noe Medrano’s terrific short film Yesterday, fledgling filmmaker Noe Medrano posted to the YouTubes a nine-minute cut of his documentary Artist Unknown, about Dallas’ graffiti culture. Noe and P.J. Medrano’s doc is worth a look — and a longer version, which I hope is…
Dave & Buster’s, world-headquartered on Manana Drive, has a lawsuit with which to contend courtesy of a Detroit man who claims he injured himself whilst playing a video game in Utica, Michigan. Name of the game? MoCap Boxing, which, as you can see, is bracketed by a couple of poles…
A morning of follow-ups, it seems. First, a Friend of Unfair Park (in Richmond, Virginia, no less) sends us this story from The Daily Telegraph, which suggests that Tom Hicks’ fiscal troubles with his Liverpool football club may be more substantial than reported earlier this week. Reports The Telegraph this…
