This morning, The Wall Street Journal has a story about the stock-option scandal that’s hounding technology-outsourcing Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a subject about which we’ve written a few times. ACS is mentioned at length as part of a larger pattern of conflict-of-interest issues arising as other companies across the country…
Terrell Owens can’t sell his $4 million New Jersey house. Wanh. And wanh. If you’re like me, you could probably do without another Terrell Owens story right about now. But for some reason, this one makes me kind of happy. Apparently, T.O. is having some trouble selling his house in…
Doyle Davidson is an old-fashioned kind of guy who likes to write love letters. To married women, yeah, but still. Water of Life preacher Doyle Davidson has been posting weird “messages to Lisa” again, including one that seemed to signal a possible change in his “marital” status. As Dallas Observer…
One of the most beloved and respected hoteliers is coming back to Dallas to oversee the redo of the Stoneleigh Hotel, which looked awfully nice 80 years ago. Saw this morning that Jeff Trigger’s La Corsha Hospitality Group has been named to take over the Stoneleigh Hotel, which is about…
Those of you not attending the Spoon for Cancer Party in Fort Worth (or the Eels show at Gypsy Tea Room) would be wise to make the trek up to Denton tonight, where a fine double bill awaits you at Rubber Gloves. Headliners Ladyhawk hail from the same Vancouver, British…
The Save Our Scene posse is in its second week of life and is already keeping its watchful eye on all city matters that affect its home, Deep Ellum. In particular, they attended yesterday’s city council meeting and reported on some of the Deep Ellum news to come out of…
A Friend of Unfair Park read the item this morning about a federal lawsuit, and the resulting trial, alleging racial segregation at Preston Hollow Elementary School and offered this insightful anecdote: “My son was a student there some time ago, with a different administration. The first week of second grade,…
Barbara Lorenz Carly Patterson is gonna be on reality TV. With Cyndi Lauper. On Fox. Those are the teardrops of pride, my friend. Remember two summers ago when a spunky 16-year-old from Allen won our hearts and the gold medal in women’s gymnastics at the Athens Olympics? Then, like, remember…
A Dallas Morning News staffer says folks in the newsroom have been told that 85 is, in fact, the target number Belo execs are aiming for in this latest round of buyouts/layoffs/summer vacations. The way they understand it, if 85 take the offer, nobody else will be let go; turns…
Dallas Observer editor Julie Lyons is at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at this very moment, where Transportation Security Administration and airport officials are briefing the media about increased security following the arrest in England of 21 people suspected of plotting to blow up U.K. flights bound for the United States…
You’ve tried the personals; you’ve tried MySpace; you’ve tried blind dates and virtually everything else to find a mate–or a least someone worth a second date. What, oh what, is a girl to do in Dallas’ dating desert? No. Not that. Sheesh. Get your mind out of the gutter and…
A while back, we here at Unfair Park debated the lodgerific ingredients of Slowride’s “Morals and Dogma” video, crafted by Tactics Productions (a team of locals that include Kris Youmans, Kris Hardy, Justin Wilson and others). Looks like we weren’t the only one to take interest in the piece loaded…
This morning, Belo Corp. issued a press release announcing that, at long last, it has provided to Dallas Morning News staffers details of the “Previously Announced Voluntary Severance Program.” In short, it says it’s “being offered to almost all newsroom employees” and that it’s merely part of the “newspaper’s overall…
The local Air America affiliate will carry coach Mike Doherty’s SMU Mustangs this fall…Wait, Dallas has an Air America affiliate? Wanna hear the first SMU basketball game of the Matt Doherty era? Wanna listen to Highland Park’s football team defend its state championship? Then you better start tuning to the…
On April 18, Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria filed a federal civil-rights suit against the Dallas Independent School District–as well as DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa and Preston Hollow Elementary School principal Teresa Parker–in which Santamaria alleged the school was segregating her three children. They’re not named in the suit–they’re referred to only…
OXNARD, California–Tick…tick…tick… This is how carefully, how meticulously, how extraordinarily attentively the Dallas Cowboys are handling the time bomb known as Terrell Owens. After T.O.’s third training-camp practice in Oxnard, he saunters toward the end zone to indulge the note pads and cameras which have journeyed from Jersey and Japan…
OXNARD, California–He’s obstinate, irrational, contentious, egomaniacal and, sometimes above all else, brilliant. To borrow the personality profile voiced by WFAA-Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen: “He’s a dick.” In other words, Bill Parcells is the perfect and perhaps the only coach capable of harnessing Terrell Owens. “I don’t care how…
I’m sitting across from a not unattractive gentleman in a popular Lakewood Italian place. So far, so good. Tall, athletic. Shirt’s a bit too big, though. But this is only our first date; we can work toward appropriately fitting clothing later. I tell him about an article I’m working on…
Only two years ago, Lupe Valdez was an obscure candidate for sheriff, pledging to reform a department marked by scandals and plunging morale. At the midpoint of her first term, however, Valdez’s decision not to fire one of her top chiefs for keeping an automatic weapon in his storage cabinet…
Royalty pain: Local rapper Pikahsso sends bulletins to his e-mail list members about once every 20 minutes. We ignore most of them (they get in the way of our MySpace hunt for the future Mrs. Buzz), but this headline he shipped us caught our eye: “Is Mark Cuban’s Company Exploiting…
The Expurgated Truth Milblogging: Your article on military blogs (“Other Sides of the Story,” by Jesse Hyde, August 3) never mentioned a dirty little secret: Most of them routinely censor dissenters. If you don’t believe me, then try consistently offering a contrary voice on, say, Blackfive, one of the blogs…
Since the latest paper edition of Unfair Park hasn’t reached newsstands around town just yet, here’s a recap of a plug in the issue: I’m guest-hosting “Blog Radio” on Sirius channel 26 tonight, 9-11 p.m. CST, with Chris Cantalini and Danny Balis. Chris has invited us to make fun of…
