The real question is, what will June Jones do with his no doubt estimable collection of Hawaiian shirts? New SMU coach June Jones is the 15th highest-paid coach in college football. Fifteenth. Let that sink in for a second. At five years and $10 million, the Mustangs are paying for…
In May 2006, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about the rise in requested Caesarean sections amongst the area’s “affluent, well-educated women.” Turns out, according to the government, that was the year during which so-called maternal request Cesareans rose to an all-time high — and the trend shows no…
Melinda French doesn’t do just a whole lot of interviews — she usually lets her husband, departing (or is that, departing?) Microsoftie Bill Gates, do the couple’s heavy high-profile lifting for the two of them, as she’s off running their foundation and raising their three kids. But this week, the…
Editor’s note: Now’s as good a time as any to introduce Unfair Park’s newest contributor, Sam Merten, whose work we’ve long enjoyed over at Dallas Blog. Sam will be writing for the blog and the paper version of Unfair Park, beginning … now. A new and improved timeline for the…
And here I thought I was the narcissist. I ain’t got nothing on Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, who, according to CNN’s Web site today, had a wedding cake made that looked just like her. Oh — and it was “person-sized.” Said the bride: “The cake actually fulfilled my childhood dream.”…
And now, on to something that should scare Cowboys fans much more than Tony Romo in Mexico. Like, Terrell Owens in street clothes. If you were hoping coach Wade Phillips would pronounce the receiver good to go during his afternoon press conference moments ago at Valley Ranch, prepare to be…
On Saturday I was in the AT&T store on Northwest Highway when I got a call on my new cellphone. Couldn’t make out a damned thing my friend on the other end was saying. I turned to the AT&T employee who’d just put me on the waiting list. Asked him,…
Tony Romo, at left, and Jason Witten, far right, have the damnedest way of studying game film during an off weekend ever. Just ask the odds-makers. I know it shouldn’t matter, but it does. Just doesn’t feel right, ya know? Seeing Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in Mexico over the weekend…
This just in from ESPN.com: “June Jones will be introduced at a news conference today as the head coach at SMU, according to three sources familiar with the decision.” And if three people said it, it must be true. –Robert Wilonsky…
At noon today, the city council’s Public Safety Committee will meet at City Hall, and among the items on the agenda is “Proposed Adjustments to Sworn Disqualifiers.” In short, the committee will discuss whether the Dallas Police Department should lighten up on folks who want to become cops. There are…
Didn’t know it was hard to get, but thanks to The Dallas Morning News, it’ll now be easier to get The New York Times round these here parts. As in: The New York Times announced today that it has entered into an agreement with DFW Printing Company, the commercial printing…
They’re muy delicioso! And Lee Harvey Oswald smokes ’em too! –Robert Wilonsky…
I had no idea it paid so well to be a DISD student. That’s what it says in the new issue of U.S. News & World Report: In Dallas, high school students can pocket about $100 for every passing score on college-level examinations. The Advanced Placement Incentive Program “has created…
John O’Malley The New York Times this morning carries the obituary for John O’Malley, the Fort Worth-born, Plano-trained dancer and choreographer who died on December 26, at the age of 46. Says his paid bio this morning: He trained at the Chamberlain School of Ballet in Dallas before receiving scholarships…
June Jones said on Christmas Day he wasn’t coming to SMU. What’s he thinking today? Coulda sworn over the Christmas break that Hawaii head coach June Jones said no way he was interested in the SMU gig — as in, “I’m not gonna hear from them.” Two weeks later, and…
Fine, so Tony Romo might have been watching the New York Giants-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game from Los Cabos, Mexico, where the Cowboys QB and Jessica Simpson allegedly spent the weekend. But that ain’t Antonio Ramiro Romo in that People mag pic smuggled off the patio — not unless he grew…
Josh Venable, headin’ to the City of Angels Turns out, Josh Venable still works for Clear Channel after all — only, now it’s in Los Angeles. Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager, J.D. Freeman, sends words that today, it was officially announced that the former Adventure Club host and KDGE-FM (102.1)…
Pete Freedman See, on occasion it pays to get out of the office. As in, some of us were dining this afternoon at the Taco Diner in the West Village — enh — when, on the way back, Merritt Martin’s back-seat passenger snapped this pic of the fire at the…
Pastor Tony Evans of the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church For the last several days, the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, has been running classified ads in which free English Bulldog pups are being offered. Only, once you respond to the e-mail address at the bottom, you get another…
This morning we received a media release from Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute, about which I wrote a couple of years back, celebrating U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn’s decision today to uphold the state’s law mandating that schoolchildren start their mornings with a moment of silence. David and Shannon Croft,…
Personally, I’m rooting for Snøhetta to get the museum gig — if only because it designed this building, which is scheduled for construction in the United Arab Emirates. It seems … I dunno … very Dallas. This just in: At 2 p.m Tuesday at the Victory Park Sales Center, reps…
Tomorrow night, Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art in Deep Ellum will play host to a singular event: a retrospective of films made in and about — where else? — Deep Ellum. The lineup encompasses both past and present, with such offerings as historian Alan Govenar’s 1985 film Deep Ellum Blues (a…
