This morning, the largest commercial real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., issued a press release in which it announced it was acquiring Trammell Crow Company for $2.2 billion, more or less–or $49.51 per share of common stock, if you need to be precise. The Los…
Rudy Giuliani’s got some “sketchy” business deals, says Forbes–including one with a Dallas company. Ever hear of Lighting Science Group? Did not think so. Says here it’s “a world leader in the rapidly developing field of solid state lighting,” and for all we know the McKinney Avenue-HQ’d company may be…
Joe Bieger, who suffers from global amnesia and disappeared October 6, has been found. Last week, Jesse Hyde posted a piece here about Joe Bieger, the 59-year-old assistant athletic director at The Highlands School in Irving who went missing on October 6. As Jesse wrote, on September 21, Bieger had…
Last week deputies with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for making terroristic threats against Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Fifty-three-year-old Norman Russell had called the Garland Police Department threatening to kill “all gays and lesbians in the world” in order to prove somehow that he himself was not gay,…
Although the November 7th election is more than a week away, the prescient minds at Unfair Park are able to divine some of the day-after press coverage. Excerpts after the jump…
A few Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks whatever became of that trial concerning Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria’s allegations that Preston Hollow Elementary School’s teachers and its principal, Teresa Parker, were involved in illegally segregating the Hispanic and African-American students from the white neighborhood kids. After all, the…
You can’t be Sirius: Mark Cuban won’t host a satellite radio show after all. Didn’t know till today that Mark Cuban’s also in the hotel business. Only, it’s not here. Not even close. Try his native Pittsburgh (he grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb). Says in the subscription-only Pittsburgh…
Apparently, the Dallas and Houston areas each added more than 60,000 new jobs in the past year, and each “has posted a slightly lower number of new housing permits,” says here. Then why, wonders the Houston Chronicle, did home sales in Houston experience a “sharp” increase in September, while home…
Tony Romo’s either The One or just the next one, but either way we’ll savor this Sunday till the next one. OK, in deference to last week’s faux fiasco, that headline is a typo. But, gulp, after watching Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo last night in Carolina, he might not…
For five two bucks you can go here to find out where Dallas ranks on something called the Morgan Quinto Press’ list of America’s safest and most dangerous cities. Or you can just take our word for it when we tell you out of the 371 cities on the list,…
Bill Parcells may be an asshole, but he’s a complicated, self-torturing and very likely depressed asshole. Which has to count for something. Countless times–well, just three, actually–Richie Whitt’s called Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells an “asshole” on Unfair Park. Got no problem with that. From the far outside looking in,…
No longer just another pretty face, Elizabeth Mitchell is an Other. Which is a whole other thing entirely. At the moment, there are a handful of entertainment-industry celebs considered hometown notables: Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Erykah Badu, anyone named Something-or-Other Wilson, maybe Angie Harmon, possibly Morgan Fairchild (though, at this…
“There is a problem here”: Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Bishop James Stanton Last weekend, leaders of Dallas Diocese of the Episcopal church met at Southfork Ranch for their annual retreat and formally decided that they would remain a part of the Episcopal Church. There had been some rumblings that the…
I think Borat’s sending out press releases. Like this one, which has as its opening sentence: “Azerbaijani corner will be opened in Dallas Religious Offices Center, the chief of Human Rights Resource Center in Guba-Khachmaz region Solmaz Mehdiyeva who visits US told the APA.” Can’t tell ya much else, save…
How this lawsuit slipped past the offensive line is beyond me; maybe Flozell Adams and Marc Colombo let it through, like everybody else trying to sack whoever’s under center for Your Dallas Cowboys. But on October 16, the Dallas Cowboys and NFL Properties filed a federal suit in the Northern…
Mark Cuban’s got a fresh posting over at BlogMaverick concerning the new NBA balls, and we don’t mean rookies. Looks like he had the University of Texas at Arlington physics folks look at both the new and old basketballs to see which one was better. Cuban has his own thoughts…
I had no idea till I saw FrontBurner just now–and big ups to our pal Aaron McGill for the link–that Richie Whitt’s “two shits” made Gawker yesterday (not to mention AdRants and a host of other sites). Apparently, some folks think Richie made a typo; ah, not so much. More…
And, for once, it ain’t T.O. Dallas’ Only Daily has two fascinating Cowboys-related tales today, one featuring Terrell Owens and the other inviting punch lines about the volatile receiver’s alter ego. On a semi-serious note, a special advertising section insert (for the life of me I can’t find it online)…
A story in this week’s edition of Dallas Voice points out a surprising fact: Of 1,300 anti-gay hate-crime charges filed in Texas since 2001, when the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act was enacted, only eight have been successfully prosecuted. Paul Scott, exec director of Equality Texas, told the paper…
Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher’s got a good friend in John Wiley Price. Power to the people and all that. Margaret Keliher and John Wiley Price have made quite the political odd couple over the last four years. She’s a demure Republican county judge from Highland Park; he’s a brash,…
Pat Summerall returns to the broadcast booth Sunday after a two-year absence. Isn’t that right, John? First it was Keith Jackson who couldn’t walk away from football, now this. It’s been two years since Pat Summerall called a football game, but it seems much longer; already it feels like John…
So far, we’ve received more than 75 letters from would-be proofreaders “correcting” Richie Whitt’s lead on his sports column this week. For the record, “two shits passing in the night” was not a typo. It was a joke or–as one letter writer corrected me when I ‘splained–an attempted joke. So…
