We never get tired of looking at John Grayken. The Robert Bass protege is one handsome man. John Grayken, chairman of downtown-based Lone Star Funds (you remember them, right?), must have been up all night. South Korean prosecutors, who’ve been after Lone Star Funds for months concerning its acquisition and…
Martin Dramatica’s Miracle in The Meadowlands notwithstanding, there lives a man capable of instantly and permanently solving the Dallas Cowboys’ kicking quandary. Unfortunately, Steve Hoffman now works for the Atlanta Falcons. “I still have the utmost respect for the Jones family and the Cowboys, but I’ve got my own kickers…
An inmate lawsuit, whose allegations of incompetence and neglect at the Dallas County jail have been echoed by a pair of internal investigations into the health care at the facility, continues to stymie the county. If that’s not exactly a surprise, the case has also underscored the ineffectiveness of the…
Fifth time’s the charm: It’s the holidays, a season to be charitable, so it’s just plain wrong to crack jokes at the expense of people who choose to get married during this joyous month. Yessiree, that would not be nice at all. It would be Grinch-like. Mean. Oh, go ahead…
Zac Attack Mumblin’ mess: Zac Crain (“The Zac Factor,” by Jim Schutze, November 30) was one of four mayoral candidates I listened to one Sunday morning a month or so ago. (One of the others was Mitchell Rasansky; I don’t remember the others.) The candidates were uninspiring. As I left,…
At the Honor Academy, a 400-acre evangelical, non-accredited Christian school just outside Tyler, serious questions of theology involving Jesus, hell and Walt Disney are being tossed around this morning. The last five minutes of David Hasz’s “Making of a Leader” lecture are reserved for questions from the 500-student class. A…
I see Mr. “Funny” Guy has posted City Manager Mary Suhm’s memo concerning Allen Gwinn’s city employee credit-card database from a few days back. Tremendous. She has answers for every questionable expense about which Allen and Unfair Park had questions. That’s why she gets the big bucks. I hope the…
Hal Samples Bobby Patterson, front and center, holds court with his new best friends (including organizer Don Cento, back row, fourth from left) Saturday night during the Reunion Tower Revue. Pardon for our taking forever to post some more tracks from Saturday night’s Reunion Tower Revue at the Sons of…
Curious to hear the new Norah Jones? All you have to do is click right here to buy “Thinking About You” for a whole 99 cents — and the best part is, you can do whatever you want with it after you buy it. None of that iTunes bullshit where…
Yeah, yeah, so we’re a little late with this; never you mind that. What’s more important is that two benefit concerts last weekend proved it’s possible for totally different artistic scenes to come together for the sake of a great show, if you just tack the words “benefit” or “fundraiser”…
Betty Culbreath, chair of the City Plan Commission, seconds the emotion that Ann Lott’s ouster as Dallas Housing Authority CEO has something to do with the city’s wanting to sell Little Mexico to a private developer. (Michael Davis at DallasProgress pointed us in Culbreath’s direction.) Indeed, she writes on her…
A good Friend of Unfair Park’s, who would prefer to keep his name to hisself for reasons that will become clear after the jump, sends a missive concerning the missus’ report from Chuck E. Cheese’s yesterday. Seems the only thing good to come out of a gig at the joint…
As I told you a couple months ago, neither the Dallas Mavericks’ collapse nor the city’s premature parade plans were the fault of Celia Barshop. Yesterday, Dallas took steps to prevent its special events manager from ever again being conveniently abused as a scapegoat. You remember what you did last…
It’s the last thing a parent wants to admit–taking the kid to the Chuck E. Cheese’s. But sometimes the library won’t do. Sometimes they don’t wanna hang at the library. Sometimes they jes don’t wanna do no learnin’, maw. Sometimes it just boils down to pushing buttons, collecting tickets, running…
Turns out WFAA-Channel 8’s Erin Hawksworth’s reporting is also beautiful. On last night’s 10 o’clock newscast, Erin provided the first interview with former Dallas Cowboys kicker Mike Vanderjagt since his unceremonious release last week. The bubbly, buxom reporter bumped into Vandershank while he was playing golf with cornerback Terence Newman…
You can age your meat at Whole Foods. Trust me, my dad’s already made that joke. Thirty minutes from now, the doors will open to the new Whole Foods in Preston Forest Shopping Center. There will be the attendant ceremony, with a mayoral proclamation read before the sliding of the…
You have to register for it, but there’s a story in Education Week this morning in which Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund leaders are questioning precisely why the Dallas Independent School District hasn’t removed Teresa Parker as principal of Preston Hollow Elementary School. As you certainly know by now,…
It is official: Your Dallas Cowboys are once more America’s Team. And Jerry Jones has the TV ratings to prove it. If the Cowboys are on TV, millions are watching. No one else even comes close. And they haven’t in a decade. Seriously, when you consider the fact there are…
If the Southern Baptists forbid speaking in tongues in order to talk to God, we did find this handy book. More than 100 Southern Baptist leaders gathered today at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington to talk about their denomination’s sharpening opposition to speaking in tongues–specifically, whether members should be allowed…
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that more than 300 people showed up to a Dallas Housing Authority meeting today to protest the firing of agency president and CEO Ann Lott. The story says they were stunned to discover that housing commission chairman Guy Brignon and the board had already…
This morning, there appeared in The Dallas Morning News a story about how the some folks at City Hall — including several council members — are working on an ordinance that would “ban distribution boxes not conforming to rigid standards for size, color and material.” Also included in that ordinance:…
On Thursday, Keven McAlester will finally find out who’s gonna get his Roky Erickson doc into a theater near you. Hard to believe that a year and a half — and now a Spirit Award nomination — after its debut our good pal Keven McAlester still doesn’t have distribution for…
