The Book on Tony Romo

Tony Romo hasn’t even finished his first full season as the Dallas Cowboys’ starting QB, but already there’s a tome-o about Romo (cough, sorry): Tony Romo: America’s Next Quarterback. Astute readers will notice two things: It’s being published by the same Random House Publishing Group imprint responsible for Frank Luksa’s…

Chantix By Any Other Name …

As I’ve said before, we still receive a comment or two every other day to this September 4 post concerning the smoking-cessation pill Chantix, which Carter Albrecht’s friends and family partially blame for his irrational behavior shortly before his death in September. And today, a Friend of Unfair Park sends…

Dallas News from The NY Times

Kenny Goss and George Michael got Style! All the Dallas news that’s fit to print in The New York Times: Missouri Tigers QB Chase Daniel spoke Saturday about growing up a Southlake Carroll High School Dragon: “There can’t be a more supportive and nurturing high school environment in America.” Then…

Cotton Pickin’ Crazy

I can only sum up the college football season thusly: WTF?! Capping a year that was crazier than Evel Knievel, No. 1-ranked Missouri and No. 2 West Virginia lost over the weekend to send the sport into utter chaos. After the humans and computers digested and translated a season in…

Cedar Springs, You’ve Been Saved!

Memo to our very good Friend, Jack E. Jett: Do not watch the following video, courtesy those folks wandering the Highway to Hell. Whatever you do. Do. Not. Watch. –Robert Wilonsky…

Would Steve Nash Come Back to Dallas?

Steve Nash told a London paper last week, “It’s not as though there was some irreconcilable divorce with Dallas.” Steve Nash said on Friday — in a Q&A with readers of The Times on London, no less — that he wouldn’t have a problem playing for the Dallas Mavericks again,…

Texas Stadium’s a “Mess.” No, Really?

Tony Walter, a columnist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, discovered during last Thursday’s Cowboys-Packers game that Texas Stadium is a dump — gee, ya think, Tony? Turns out, he had to wait in a long line — “of at least 2,000 people (no exaggeration)” — to get a cab after…

Buffett Buys Billions in TXU Bonds

According to Fortune this morning, Warren Buffett’s holding company — Berkshire Hathaway — bought $2 billion worth of TXU junk bonds late last week, helping TXU pay down some of the so-called bridge loans accrued during the Dallas-based energy provider’s $45-billion sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Reports Peter Eavis, Berkshire…

Drew Carey Stands Up For Dallas’ Right to Play Poker, Damn It

Drew Carey’s price is right for playing Texas hold ’em in Dallas. Courtesy I Was The State, we spent part of this morning watching this five-minute-long Drew Carey-narrated video concerning the Dallas Police Department’s raid on the poker game at Audie Murphy VFW Post 1837 in April. Insists Reason.tv’s Web…

Some of Dallas’ Priceless History Has Gone Missing

John Neely Bryan’s wife’s Bible is missing from the Hall of State. Speaking of the Hall of State, as I was moments ago, seems that the Dallas Historical Society is missing a few of “its most significant holdings” from its estimable collection stored there. So reports KERA’s Arts + Culture…

Dude. No, Man, The Dude.

Haven’t yet seen The Amateurs, about small-towners banding together to make the “first full-length feature amateur adult film.” Looks funny, though, and it does have a pretty decent cast that includes Ted Danson, Lauren Graham, William Fichtner, Isaiah Washington, Patrick Fugit, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Glenne Headly…

Tracy Rowlett’s Not Retiring. Not Yet.

So, he told us in February he was done with the news business — was gonna take some time off, spend time with the missus and family, maybe do some teaching at SMU. Not so fast: KTVT-Channel 11 just sent word that Tracy Rowlett has signed a contract extension that…

Now, HP Ladies Can Stay in Town to Spend a Fortune on a Haircut

Frédéric Fekkai, who cuts Scarlett Johansson’s hair — yours, someone else will do at the same price. Oh, ladies. Big news, apparently, courtesy Women’s Wear Daily: Frédéric Fekkai is coming to town. To Highland Park, actually, beginning Monday. Surely, you know who the eff-eff Frédéric Fekkai is, right? ” A…

Say, “Cheeeeeeeese”!

It’s 4:37 p.m. Thursday. Fans that already successfully navigated the traffic jam outside Texas Stadium have begun tailgating. Inside, Brett Favre is jogging around Texas Stadium in his shorts. Let the post-game play-by-play commence…

IH-35: The Highway to Hell!

Sinners, beware — Jesus don’t want you driving Stemmons Freeway or any other part of Interstate 35, from Laredo to Duluth. Seems the highway’s due for a “purity siege,” anyway — a big ol’ street-cleaning scheduled in coming End of Days to rid Pat Robertson and Dallas-based Heartland World Ministries’…

Oh, Say, Can You CW33? Hope Not.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched CW33’s News at Nine in its entirety. Actually, I don’t think I ever had. But last night, I was rummaging around, cleaning up the house and fiddling on the laptop with the TV on. America’s Next Top Model had expired on…