A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: How about a shout out for Lawrence Wright? He took home a Pulitzer for general non-fiction yesterday for his best-selling investigation of the 9-11 attacks, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. But he’s also the author of a great book about…
Uh. Yeah. Well. Hunh. Turns out that during our technical transition yesterday, we managed to lose some reader comments — not that many, something like a couple hundred out of several thousand. Many of them were attached to Bible Girl items; apparently, the Lord does move in mysterious ways, because…
Fifty-six of the companies listed on the new Fortune 500 list are Texas-based — and 11 are based in Dallas proper, with Centex being the highest ranked at No. 153 and our old friend Affiliated Computer Services bringing up the rear at 424. Just missing the list was Brinker International,…
Robert Decherd, looking happy — seriously Yesterday, we posted the nutty — by which we mean, totally credible and completely reasonable — press release from Dallas-based Life Media Network International, in wihch it said it’s planning by year’s end “to acquire major media assets and companies,” among them XM Satellite…
Can we go back to that item below, in which we mentioned how much money Jerry Jones gave John McCain? Because in there, we kinda skipped over something that just may answer a question that’s been nagging at us for days — chiefly, just why did Gary Griffith cut that…
Gary Griffith — and Tom Hicks, come to think of it — may be all for Rudy Giuliani, but Jerry Jones is backing John McCain. So reports the Associated Press today, as it thumbs through the presidential candidates’ first-quarter finance reports and discovers that the Dallas Cowboys owner gave $2,300…
Sam Coats says if he’s elected mayor, he’ll undo at least one thing Mayor Laura Miller’s done. Which is more than any other candidate’s said about the current mayor. This morning we showed you the letter Mayor Laura Miller sent to Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau president and CEO Phillip…
If — or, from the sound of it, when — would-be Ronald Reagan assassin John W. Hinckley Jr. gets out of the mental hospital he calls home, don’t expect the Highland Park High School product to come back to Dallas. No way, says his brother Scott, who still lives here…
The answer to that question is: Uh, like, no? But we just got the damnedest press release that says Dallas-based Life Media Network International is planning by year’s end “to acquire major media assets and companies,” among them XM Satellite Radio, Clear Channel Communications and Belo Corporation. No shit. Says…
This afternoon, Unfair Park will be taking a short hiatus as we remodel the Midway. This shouldn’t take long, which means, of course, it’ll take longer than expected. When we return, we’ll look different and yet very much the same; it’s just a little Botox and those new plugs we’ve…
Dallas Independent School District officials are finding that cheese is a bigger problem on campuses than originally believed. Turns out, on this issue at least, Gary Griffith was right. Cheese, at least of the black-tar-heroin-Tylenol PM variety, appears to be a much bigger problem than earlier thought. Not only did…
On Friday, Mayor Laura Miller booted council member Angela Hunt off the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau board. The reason: Hunt’s opposition to the Trinity River toll road and her attempt to get a referendum on the ballot come November. Wrote the mayor in a missive to Phillip Jones, president…
We took this off Sam Coats’ Web site, because, damn it, it just makes us giggle. Just don’t let Dr. Seuss’ people see this. Well, it’s time, once again, for your end-of-the-week rankings of the top eight mayoral candidates. Usually when I do this I make it clear there is…
In case you missed it, there’s been a tempest roiling at Southern Methodist University over the last couple of weeks completely unrelated to nekkid women. Professors from the science departments at SMU tried to shut down a conference beginning tonight at McFarlin Auditorium dubbed Darwin vs. Design, a program produced…
Last month, on a weekend whim, I posted to Unfair Park a link to the greatest unofficial album released via the Interwebs this year: Dylan Hears a Who. It was a most ingenious collection of songs: seven Dr. Seuss pieces, some beloved classics (“The Cat in the Hat,” “Green Eggs…
There’s a reason we posted this pic of Lil’ Wayne. But you’ll only find it after the jump, jiggy, jiggy, jump, jiggy, jump. (Yeah, we own a copy of Lights Out.) Hark! Let he who has ears to hear, let him hear, for the Latter, Latter Day Prophets have spoken…
This week, Davina Kelly details her allegations of abuse against Pastor Sherman Allen. A 33-year-old mother of three named Davina Kelly is at the center of the abuse allegations against Pastor Sherman Allen, and she is already the subject of much controversy in local black church circles. The question people…
Courtesy Crow Collection of Asian Art Phuong M. Do, Self in Street, 1998 Vietnam, it seems, is in the midst of a cultural and artistic awakening, and a piece of it is right here in Dallas, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. “Changing Identity: Recent works by Women Artists…
SMU’s Robert Kemper, who looks like he’s just itching for a fight Hey, Prof. Robert V. Kemper, Chair of SMU’s Department of Anthropology, The Christian Post just called you a wussy for refusing to debate the “intelligent design” braintrust this weekend at the “Darwin vs. Design” “conference” at McFarlin Auditorium…
Hey, we didn’t say it. The 73-year-old mayoral candidate does in his new TV spot that debuted yesterday. And since we’re giving mayoral campaign ads plenty o’ play here at Unfair Park, we figured we’d slap it up here, in the interest of equal time. God knows it’s far better…
Oliver Peck’s gonna have his own line of Vans this summer. Us, we’re lucky just to have shoes. I took a little trip down Amnesia Lane recently when a friend informed me I was in a video on YouTube. The year was 2001. The day, Friday the 13th. Me? I…
If you were planning on heading over to the Heritage Auction Galleries tomorrow to pick up the Anna Nicole Smith diaries, only you heard rumors that attorney-but-not-Smith’s-baby-daddy Howard K. Smith was looking to stop the sale by claiming they were stolen, well, you’re still in luck. Heritage will go forward…
