As a girl growing up in Mumbai, Niloufer Bustani viewed the United States the way generations of ambitious youngsters always have, as the pinnacle of opportunity for those who want to make their mark on the world. Now, she’s not so sure. After earning a master’s degree at the University…
The line of cars stretches a few hundred feet back from the window where a clerk in a tie-dyed shirt is handing a case of Corona over to a guy in a low-rider pickup truck. Standing somewhere down the line between a Kia and a Ford is Jazmin, who wears…
Late-breaking news from Oklahoma: “A retired horse trainer from Sallisaw who used Dallas Cowboys players’ jerseys to select her lottery numbers won $600,000 in Saturday’s Powerball drawing.” For those playing at home, those numbers were 2-8-23-29-35. And what will Nita K. Jacobs do with her winnings? Why, attend her first…
Hey, hey, Paula — Bible Girl’s losing faith in you. I learned everything I need to know about living a sexually pure life in the ghetto. You heard me right. I came to a tough neighborhood — to a black Pentecostal church in the heart of South Dallas — with…
Mark Allen is a contributor to The New York Times and National Public Radio — and, of course, he maintains a blog that’s updated every now and … then. Today, Allen posts about what’s clearly one of his favorite movies: 2004’s Primer, the Sundance-award-winning debut from local filmmaker Shane Carruth…
According to Dave Richard, CBS Sportsline’s senior fantasy writer (a job I used to hold at Hustler, incidentally), “There isn’t a team in the NFC with as many startable Fantasy options as the Dallas Cowboys.” Among his every-week picks to click: Tony Romo, Julius Jones, Marion Barber, Terrell Owens, Terry…
This morning, we received word that a former Fort Worth Police Department officer has written and self-published a history of the department. Thirty-year vet Dale Hinz’s book is titled Panther’s Rest: History of the Fort Worth Police Department 1873-21st Century, and while we can’t cop to the quality of the…
A couple of Carrollton-living Friends of Unfair Park — Tavis Schriefer and his wife Jill — have a son in Iraq: Nicholas serves in Apache Company of the 1-501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. At the moment, Jill says, Apache Company is located in the Triangle of Death — “a lawless, seething…
Too bad Senator Larry Craig didn’t go trolling for tail at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, rather than in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom stall. Because here, Craig would have had far less of a chance of getting into trouble, according to this morning’s New York Times: At Dallas/Fort Worth…
It was either a photo of Mark Cuban or Gisele Bundchen, so we flipped a coin and it came up tails. Nope, sorry, Mark, but it ain’t gonna happen. And, yeah, the official announcement was only this morning on Good Morning America, but already a Dallas-based marketing firm has compiled…
Bishop James Stanton, who is not a lesbian The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting this morning that Rev. Tracey Lind — a lesbian priest — is among the finalists for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Also being considered are two other women — and this is the first time…
We just received at Unfair Park HQ a copy of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 extravaganza Moulin Rouge — like we need another one? Only this one’s got the pink sleeve you see at right, courtesy Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As it turns out, 20th Century Fox is partnering…
During recent talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement in Vancouver, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab praised the 13-year-old agreement. “NAFTA works,” she told the Associated Press. The Democratic presidential candidates have been saying the opposite, citing American job loss, and they’re not the only ones who disagree with…
If you’ve ever walked around the shopping center at Mockingbird and McMillan — the one with the Pocket Sandwich Theatre, Whole Earth Provision Co., Premiere Video — you’ve no doubt run into Robert Thomas Crawford, or Bob, to the people who know him, and there are many. Among his friends…
Now we know the answer to: “What do Eva Longoria, John Legend and Lupe Valdez have in common?” Carlos Watson has been around your TV dial for the last few years, popping up as a chat-show host on such outlets as CNBC, CNN and BET. Now, it appears he has…
One of the greatest locally written and performed songs of the last 20 years, Homer Henderson’s “Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine” actually had a video — and, like, who knew? Well, the guy who made it, that’s who. And two days back, “Doyle” posted to the clip to…
You’re tired of meaningless, pre-season games. Tired of hollow, irrelevant complaining and waffling from Greg Ellis. What you, the Cowboys fan, need is a time-warp to September 9. Until then, a couple of options. If you want to meet ‘n’ greet the 2007 team all spiffied up in their formals,…
With one flag football game left before the new National Football League season means something, it’s a good time to pick up a book I’m having a hard time putting down: Mark Maske’s brand-new tome War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football’s NFC East. It’s a…
Dallas’ Connie Tipado, who took in dozens of Katrina evacuees Local filmmaker Ginny Martin spent the past two years exploring the impact of Hurricane Katrina through the lens of one African-American family. She followed them as they tried to find their way after losing their homes and community when the…
So, here’s the Web site containing all the info you’ll need to hack your iPhone. Only, not so fast, says one local attorney interviewed today by Computerworld, which is trying to figure out whether the modifications violate the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “It’s an extremely grey [area], because I…
Darren McGrady is the so-called “Royal Chef” — because, as he’s quick to remind you on his Web site, he spent “11 years at Buckingham Palace and 4 years until the tragic accident, as personal chef to Princess Diana.” He’s lived in Dallas since 1998, working as a personal chef…
You can’t travel far on the Interwebs without crashing into a story about Owen Wilson’s allegedly self-inducted trip to the hospital yesterday. And while the latest story sent by the Associated Press says my former drivers-ed classmate’s reps will soon issue a statement, TMZ.com says it has an official comment…
