Paul Quinn College president Michael Sorrell “We are embarking upon a journey to become one of America’s elite small colleges,” writes Paul Quinn College’s newly installed president, Michael J. Sorrell, on the school’s Web site. And he has a long, long way to go: As the Associated Press noted yesterday…
And in other Sunday Times reading with local ties, a Dallas man whose “entertainment company had enlisted” several hundred high school girls to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had to scramble to find a way to get the girls into the few Broadway shows not shuttered by the…
This is more Andrea Grimes’ bit. But as November 22 is nigh upon us, a company called Avatar Promotions is celebrating by setting up in Second Life a virtual Dealey Plaza as it appeared in August 2007 and as it looked on the Friday John Kennedy was gunned down in…
Four years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald of Dallas — a former pharmaceutical saleswoman turned health-care equipment purchaser — filed a federal lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Becton Dickinson, Merck and nearly a dozen more health-care equipment manufacturers. The suit, which was unsealed in 2007, alleges that “improper sales practices, together with…
It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of next year’s sheriff’s race, since its outcome will likely affect two other prominent Dallas County seats: county judge and district attorney. If the Democratic incumbent, the perpetually embattled Lupe Valdez, wins, then Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who has received nationwide…
If you mail a threatening letter to Bob Mong, editor of The Dallas Morning News, you just might wind up with 20 years in federal prison. That’s just what happened today to Alan Van DeLaughter, who was convicted in August of “mailing threats to damage or destroy property and mailing…
Last week, Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens was in Washington, serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary shindig for The American Spectator. On November 6, Pickens apparently said he’d give $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single one of the allegations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for…
Found this today on the Web site for Agency.com’s Irving offices on N. Belt Line Road: “There’s a little saying in Texas: If you can’t think big, you’d better think of moving.” It’s doubtful that the employees there — charged with handling such clients as Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Hilton,…
Dr. Kern Wildenthal, which is the third-most amazing name of all time ‘Twas but a week ago folks all around town were poring over The List to see if they were among UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas’ 6,400 VIPs. The hospital hustled to contain the story, and on Saturday,…
Carlos Quintanilla, before he got arrested … for failure to maintain financial responsibility. No justice, no peace! If you missed the ironic news flash, controversial Dallas activist Carlos Quintanilla went from preparing to lead a protest against Irving’s treatment of illegal immigrants to sitting in the Irving jail yesterday. The…
You think when Tony Romo was at Eastern Illinois, he thought he’d wind up in People or the Post every other week? Tony Romo’s dating an older woman from New York who’s got her own dough, thank you very much, and who used to be Derek Jeter’s gal pal not…
Last week, Fort Worth police chased 24-year-old Jose Garcia from near Hulen Mall in Fort Worth all the way to the Dallas Zoo, damned near, after he allegedly stole a GMC pick-up from an apartment complex parking lot. You might have read about it, but thanks to the YouTubes, you…
Twenty-four percent of all children in the state of Texas are “at risk of hunger,” says a report released yesterday by America’s Second Harvest, the country’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization. The report’s titled Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2003 — 2005, and it analyzes data collected by the…
Alex W. Spence’s very own Greg Pak is writing Hulk comics these days — and I could not be more envious, damn it. Heading out early today — going over to Lone Star Comics on Mockinbird Lane to see my old junior-high pal Greg Pak, easily the most famous student…
Bizarre as this sounds, I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon calling Southwest Airlines with the express intention of being put on hold. Normally, I despise having to wait on the phone and being held captive by Muzak and that creepy electronic voice that sweetly says, “We’ll be right…
Not only is Jason Witten’s wife Michelle an E.R. nurse, but she also has 20/16 vision in both eyes. Scattershooting while wondering what ever happened to legendary, old-school press like Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins and, of course, Blackie Sherrod. Cool, they’re right here. Hold a sec while I find my…
Apparently, John Wiley Price was talking about the Knights of Pythias Temple today on KNON. Great minds, hunh? So, a Friend of Unfair Park was doing some Interwebs browsing today came across a piece from the Dallas Business Journal in 1996, wherein Dallas developers Cliff Booth and Randy Moses of…
I don’t know much about Robert Edwards, save for what I read here, where he lists his interests as “Poetry and the Supernatural.” But he’s also a regular contributor to Associated Content (“The People’s Media Company,” right on), where he posted his account of a Tuesday-night scuffle outside the Day…
Brian Harkin Fox News would like us to suppress our use of this photo of Rudy G. at Wild About Harry’s. But Judith Reagan said it was OK. Courtesy Damon Frazier of Plano-based Frazier Photography & Video, we’ve been invited to the September 8 Rudy Giuliani fund-raising shindig at Lombardo…
Robert M. Edsel Robert Edsel sent us a nice note over the weekend, after we posted this item concerning his donating to the National Archives two albums of photographs documenting the art looted by the Nazis in France during World War II. At the end, he wrote, “They’ll be more…
Arts Magnet grad Elisa Jimenez — easily the kookiest contestant on Project Runway in four seasons I know, we all got a little tired of the Top Chef recaps. So we’ll try something a little different for Project Runway, which kicked off last night with two locals: Urban Flower/Grange Hall’s…
Late last week, police arrested three people — 21-year-old Harry J. Rivera Perez, 40-year-old Hector Osorio and 36-year-old Carla Osorio — for breaking into apartment complexes in Euless, Plano, Irving and Lewisville. They were stunningly efficient: Police say they hit dozens of apartments between September 10-12 and October 2-3, taking…
