Jennifer Hudson, at far right, is the one Dreamgirl you can meet at NorthPark this afternoon. What’s that noise? It’s probably all the Oscar buzz surrounding Jennifer Hudson’s performance in the film Dreamgirls. The movie comes out Christmas, but the former American Idol contestant’s already been mentioned as a likely…
Just a friendly note to the mayor, who we’ve seen on numerous occasions pushing a shopping cart through the aisles of Whole Foods in Preston Forest: The grocery store’s closing on December 3. Three days later, it’ll re-open at its new location across the street — you know, the one…
Last week we told you all about the shuttering of every Eatzi’s location across the U.S. save for the Oak Lawn mothership, which founder Phil Romano’s in the process of taking control of. But we just knew this story wasn’t going to have an entirely happy ending, and after trolling…
Joseph Wambaugh was in town last night, and for the first time ever, the writer actually read his stuff to actual people. Best-selling author Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD cop, did something last night he’s never done before: He read from one of his books. In public. Twice. And it…
About an hour ago, cops on horses and motorcycles and in vans and squad cars showed up near the corner of Maple and Wyclif, which is just north of the Observer office. More than a dozen officers are now on the street, stopping drivers to check for license and registration,…
Aaron “T-Bone” Walker gets a Kim Pendleton makeover Saturday night. Can. Not. Wait. Really, are you keeping your Saturday night open? Already told ya twice about the impending Reunion Tower Revue taking place at the Sons of Hermann Hall; but third time’s a charm, dig? Even better, we have a…
So, the best the Rangers could do this off-season was acquire Frank Catalanotto? Been there, done that, right? The Ron Washington Era is off to a stumbling start. Phil Bennett is coming back to SMU. Bill Parcells has been invited back to the Dallas Cowboys. But, as for your Texas…
The cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has a spot for you–just ask one very smart 10-year-old boy from Dallas. If you’re a good speller, have I got the show for you. The ginchy gimmick in the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,…
Nick Lachey’s gonna own a minor-league baseball team with Dallas’ Kirby Schlegel. Pinch me. Since Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson aren’t dating after all–no surprise there, since, like, isn’t she supposed to be with John Mayer?–guess we’ll have to settle for Kirby Schlegel and Nick Lachey. I know. Kind of…
Yesterday, very good Friend of Unfair Park Michael Corcoran stopped by the office, and the talk quickly turned to “the blog.” (Yeah, it was as exciting as it sounds.) Anyway, we got around to discussing how much folks dug the Nirvana anniversary-brawl video and the 28-year-old footage of the Sex…
Mark King: He’s out. In July. Till then, it’s $53,000 a month for him. Merry Christmas. In all those stories written yesterday and today about the, ahem, resignations of Affiliated Computer Services CEO Mark King and CFO Warren Edwards in the wake of the back-dating stock option scandal, one thing’s…
Adrian Jones was All-District at Carter. Now, he’s a New York Jet–and has something else in common with Joe Namath. You ever see Adrian Jones play football, back when he was named first-team All-District during his senior season at Carter High School? Me, neither. Guess he must have been pretty…
In case you missed it last night, here’s MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spending, oh, six minutes talking about the proposed George W. Bush library and think tank at SMU. His guest for the segment–it was the No. 3 story on Olbermann’s Countdown–is Arianna Huffington, who today has her own column today…
During an online chat today, Washington Post media writer (and CNN’s Reliable Source) Howard Kurtz was asked to name the Top 10 newspaper in the country. You might recognize the name of one of ’em. (OK, all of them, but, c’mon, play along.) Washington, D.C.: Mr. Kurtz, in your column…
On November 16, which musta been a real slow news day, we mentioned how TXU was restarting its 575-megawatt Unit 2 at the Big Brown coal-fired power station in Freestone County, which is about 90 miles southeast of Dallas. It had been shut down a few days earlier because of…
Somebody was trying to sell this Mike Vanderjagt-signed helmet on eBay. We’re pretty sure they had to pay the winner to take it off their hands. Mike Vanderjagt just kept on being right. Which, ultimately, was wrong. In a move that displays how serious the Cowboys are about winning a…
When you see this man carrying his blade on to your AA flight, just let him through. He’s cool. Turns out, you can take a four-foot sword on an American Airlines plane flying from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Los Angeles. Who knew? Apparently, no one till Annie Jacobsen of…
Some of us worked Friday. And some of us–by which I mean Owen Wilson and his mother–were at Harry Winston’s in Highland Park Village. Shopping for what? Well, his people–and, really, even when Owen and I took driver’s ed together at St. Mark’s, even then I knew he would have…
Yesterday, the New York Daily News reported that George Dubya was rounding up “mega-donors”–“wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry”–to pay for $250 million of the $500 million library and think tank the paper claims Bush wants at SMU. Well, this morning the Waco Tribune-Herald, which has a slightly…
Local soul-singin’ great Bobby Patterson will perform with some young upstarts Saturday night at the Sons of Hermann. Christmas just came a little early this year. A couple of weeks back we mentioned the impending Reunion Tower Revue, taking place this Saturday night at the Sons of Hermann Hall. Don’t…
Few things get the left more worked up–or at least confused–than these two phrases: “President George W. Bush” and “think tank.” Now imagine they’re in the same sentence. Can’t? Then you did not read the New York Daily News today. See? It’s right there: “Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered…
So, just got back from doing a little CD shopping at Tower Records…with Ron Kirk. OK, well, sorta. See, I was there scoping out the deep discounts and happened to bump into the former mayor, who was looking for some gospel and Christmas music (me, not so much). He accosted…
