Not going to lie: The only reason I am linking this story — about the first synagogue in Frisco — is because I wanted to run this picture. Because when you’re a 10-year-old Jewish kid in the summer of 1979, there’s nothing better than a movie starring Dr. Frederick Frankenstein…
Them prison bars are made of gold for portfolio manager Jamie Cuellar. Jamie Cuellar is a portfolio manager at Brazos Mutual Funds on Sherry Lane; I know, exciting, right? Only, yeah — at least Forbes thinks so in its new issue. That’s because Cuellar has seen the future of investing…
Hal Samples is featuring over on his photog blog the latest video from self-proclaimed local “reggae-jazz-dub” band Aton. Writes Hal, the video for the song “We Are All” is “compiled of images from a live performance they recently did for some of my homeless friends. Most of the DV you…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that in June, the Institute for Creation Research relocated its headquarters to Dallas, all the way from California. And, no, it’s certainly not Big, Big News — say, Comerica big — and the ICR has had an office in Dallas for several months,…
Mike Godwin feels your pain. Eighteen years ago, I was the managing editor of The Daily Texan, and Mike Godwin was the editor of the University of Texas student daily. We did not get along well — something having to do with me trying to lead a mutiny, and, oh,…
Now that my 4-year-old’s been exposed to more lead than a pencil factory, I would like to thank RC2 Corp. for the $2.49 check we received on Friday — to cover the cost of sending back the tainted Thomas the Tank Engine toys we hustled out of the house faster…
Peter Schulte: He passed the state law enforcement test on the first try! Last month I talked to Peter Schulte about his nascent campaign to unseat incumbent Sheriff Lupe Valdez in next year’s Democratic primary. He seemed smart and nice, but a little too timid for the game, as though…
Akin Ayodele wants Tony Romo’s publicist. His stylist too, no doubt. The woman who only recently began watching football is suddenly tackling some of the biggest and best Dallas Cowboys. You may remember Vivian Fullerlove — you know, the anti-Kim Etheredge. While T.O.’s former mouthpiece was bathing the entire publicist…
NASA’s Earth Observatory “Similar in shape to the traditional metropolis made up of a central city core and its commuter-linked suburbs, the Aerotropolis consists of an airport city core and outlying corridors and clusters of aviation-linked businesses.” That’s University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda writing…
Because it’s early and we have a long day ahead of ourselves, we’ll leave it to you to read precisely why Barking Dog Avi Adelman and Whisky Bar owner Jim Slaughter have a beef with each other. Us, we’re not really that interested in the whys and hows, only in…
We’re pretty sure this is Dallas boy Zac Baird, who’s currently playing keybs in Korn. Like, his nickname is Horse, of course, of course. Some housecleaning before the weekend: Jeff “Cottonmouth, TX” Liles writes in to remind us that Zac Baird — the homegrown keyboardist who’s played with the likes…
Despite the fact that there have been three armed robberies of pedestrians in the Lower Greenville area in the past month, people still think the area’s just full of yard-pissing drunks. Not my man of the hour! He recently moved into new digs in The LG and christened my first…
We’ve written a fair amount about Richard Chichakli, the mysterious accountant who spent 19 years in Richardson but is now living in exile because of his alleged connections to Viktor Bout, the world’s most notorious gunrunner. Last we left Chichakli, U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas had dismissed a…
Chances are you’re on the Internet right now. You’re one of those consumers who last year contributed to $80 billion in online commerce. (Which doesn’t include, ya know, porn.) And, most of all, you’re hungry. Welcome to Resercom. You’ll actually never eat at the Irving-based company, but you’ll likely use…
Chef Daniele Puleo has shifted into expansion mode. The brains behind Daniele Osteria on Oak Lawn, Puleo is branching to Fort Worth on South Hulen, near TCU, with a wine bar-cum-pizza parlor. It’s called Brix and will feature genuine tossed Neapolitan pies. How genuine? The Brix kitchen will be manned…
After the jump, Girl on Top explains precisely why Dallas-based Match.com is a sexist, clueless, women-hating bastion of evilness. Frankly, we think she’s just PMSing…
A Friend of Unfair Park shoots us a fascinating, inside-baseball lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tarrant County. In it, the Texas Collegiate Baseball League, the 4-year-old college summer baseball league, accuses seven of its teams of conspiring to take control of the league or destroy it altogether. It’s a long story…
The New York Post is reporting this morning that Home Solutions of America, which is HQ’d on Dragon Street, is in considerable trouble with the government and a major stock market. Turns out that HSA — which has “big plans for the New York real-estate market,” reports the paper –…
A Friend of Unfair Park who works for Neiman Marcus says our earlier item about 100th anniversary exclusives is nothing: “The real big deal,” she writes, “is going to be the NM Exclusives Event starting September 10. We have over 100 items designed exclusively for our 100th anniversary by the…
The September GQ, with Barack Obama on the cover, features the, ugh, “Young Guns” of the National Football League — such QBs as Vince Young, Matt Leinart, Jamarcus Russell, Brady Quinn and Ben Roethlisberger. But none of ’em gets the spread bestowed upon Tony Romo — whose “exhilarating debut made…
Soccer’s the new poker, if the talk around the poker table last night was any evidence. Seems all the kids wanna talk about is soccer — pardon, “football,” though I am not about to take that shit from a guy born and raised in Dallas who really oughta know better…
Mark Graham Billy James Smith spent almost 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now, he wants the city to make it right. This morning Billy James Smith became the first man exonerated through DNA evidence to file a federal civil rights and malicious prosecution lawsuit…
