Rebecca Miller: Let Them Eat Cake!

Uncle Barky got an e-mail from ousted KXAS-Channel 5 meterologist Rebecca Miller. He runs the thing in its entirety, and it’s worth a read. Just a highlight: I sincerely apologize for not getting to you until now. Yesterday, I found out the station had decided not to renew my contract…

If Your Name is Rebecca and You Work in Local TV, Look Out

Rebecca Aguilar, no longer part of the Fox4 team For those wondering whatever became of reporter Rebecca Aguilar, suspended in October over her interview with James Walton, Uncle Barky brings the news: KDFW-Channel 4 has fired her, via the U.S. Mail. She tells Ed Bark: “I just think it’s really…

Dick in Dallas

Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about the Secret Security and Dallas police officers perched along the Dallas North Tollway overpasses a short time ago. They all wonder the same thing: “Who’s in town now?” Why, it’s none other than Dick and Lynn Cheney. The veep and the missus…

Craig Watkins: No, Steve Blow, You’re an Embarrassment

Seems Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is no fan of Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow — get in line, Craig (if I may call you “Craig,” and I probably shouldn’t). Only, the district attorney has a very specific gripe with the columnist concerning Blow’s complaint in yesterday’s paper…

What Does Channel 11 Have Against John McCain, Anyway?

The Dallas Police Department’s Web site isn’t up at the moment, and they dunno when it’ll be operational again. KTVT-Channel 11 knows why: Because the site was hacked yesterday with anti-gummint sloganeering and artwork courtesy hackers identifying themselves as “s2rangers from Russia,” which was also an underrated early-1980s ABC sitcom…

Look Out, Belo! Redux

And just how did A.H. Belo Corp. — the “new” parent company of The Dallas Morning News — celebrate it first full day as a spun-off stand-alone media empire? By watching its stock free fall more than 12 percent, or two whole dollars. Ooof. Reports Editor & Publisher, the stocked…

Greg Williams: Life After The Hardline

Greg Williams, left, and Mike Rhyner, before their messy divorce Caught up yesterday with Greg Williams, formerly half of The Hardline. Maybe you remember him? While The Ticket rolls along toward this weekend’s Ticketstock with only occasional references to their former host as “He Who Must Not Be Named,” Williams…

Standard & Poor’s A Little Concerned About A.H. Belo Spin-Off

A. H. Belo Corporation, the newspaper-biz spin-off of Belo Corp., is expected to make its bow as a publicly traded company at week’s end — and while Robert Decherd’s thrilled with The Dallas Morning News’ “new” parent company, others ain’t as convinced. Comes word today that Standard & Poor’s Rating…

Lone Star Radio Trims Its Redbeard

Redbeard’s no longer shining at Lone Star 92.5. Big change over at Lone Star 92.5: J.D. Freeman, Dallas-Fort Worth’s market manager for Clear Channel Radio, says that as of today, local radio legend Redbeard is no longer the station’s 2-7 p.m. host. Which comes as something of a shock, as…

Justin Time, A Tony Romo Super Bowl Ad (Sort Of)

Here’s a sneak peek at a Pepsi ad scheduled to run during the Super Bowl — starring Justin Timberlake, his “Dick in a Box” bud Andy Samberg and, in a teensy cameo, Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo. Watch now, before it’s adiosed off the YouTubes. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Thanks, Sam,…

“Go for Brett Shipp.”

Fine story about grade-fixing at Roosevelt High School last night, Brett Shipp. But, really, what’s with the Bluetooth earpiece during an on-camera interview? Expecting a Priority One message from Starfleet? –Robert Wilonsky…

Spin Class

Burning question: Just how much Jose Cuervo did Randy Galloway drink when he saw the radio ratings last week? If you saw the blurb in Dallas’ Only Daily over the weekend concerning the latest radio ratings, you probably envisioned ESPN 103.3 FM spending the Martin Luther King holiday breaking out…

What Do Matt Pulle and Antonin Scalia Have in Common?

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Pardon us, Friend, while we indulge in some self-congratulatory navel-gazing. The story “Split Decision,” Matt Pulle’s incisive feature for the paper version of Unfair Park about Dallas’ embarrassing scrape with the feds over Preston Hollow Elementary School’s deliberate segregation, has been nationally recognized in the lofty…

Warning You Now: A Lot of Math Ahead

There have been plenty of Trinity River shindigs in the 10 years since the original vote to approve the project, but no event brought out more big guns than the mayor’s Trinity River Corridor Project Summit Friday at City Club. The alphabet-roster of attendees could fill Unfair Park for a…

How the Trinity-Soaked Sausage Was Made

So I was talking to city council member Angela Hunt this week — about a story I’m working on, swear — and we start chatting about the recent Transportation and Environment Committee meeting down at City Hall. One of the things we both found interesting, as did Schutze in his…

Sundancing As Fast As We Can

Unfair Park don’t take no holiday breaks — instead, we go on a working winter holiday to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Which means that beginning tomorrow through next Friday, Unfair Park won’t be all-local, all-the-time — just, well, most of the time, as we add to…

Dollars for Daisies

So, the bidding just closed on that Tripping Daisy Dallas Observer Music Award I told you about on Wednesday, and, turns out, it wasn’t worth $107.50 after all. Nope, the Lucite doorstop went for … $405. And it sold to an enormous Tripping Daisy and Polyphonic Spree fan, judging by…

I Miss Rick Reilly

Because he’s the 11-time National Sportswriter of the Year. Because he can make you laugh and cry within a column ostensibly about sports but really about comedy and heartache and life. But mostly, I miss Rick Reilly because his Sports Illustrated fill-ins suck ass. Take this week. In the midst…

Showdown at 11:10

Punch. Counter-punch. This morning at 11, 103.3-FM ESPN debuts Michael Irvin’s show. Not just coincidentally, KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) is promoting a “major announcement” around 11:10. Don’t get your radio thong in a wad over either event. Irvin, who has been in court all week fighting a former contractor, will…