The answer to that question is: Uh, like, no? But we just got the damnedest press release that says Dallas-based Life Media Network International is planning by year’s end “to acquire major media assets and companies,” among them XM Satellite Radio, Clear Channel Communications and Belo Corporation. No shit. Says…
This afternoon, Unfair Park will be taking a short hiatus as we remodel the Midway. This shouldn’t take long, which means, of course, it’ll take longer than expected. When we return, we’ll look different and yet very much the same; it’s just a little Botox and those new plugs we’ve…
For some reason, it looks like my head is four inches away from my neck. Must be the hair. Oh, sweet, sweet hair… Christ, at least they could have found a better picture. But, yup, I was indeed a cheerleader at Thomas Jefferson High School, only the photo that appears…
Brian Dennehy keeps on lyin’ about having been in Vietnam. But he’s still great in Silverado. Not lying about that. In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, writer Joanne Kaufman penned a delightful story about a conversation with Brian Dennehy. The great actor recently opened with Christopher Plummer on Broadway in Inherit…
It’s a good Friday, all right, when we have a reason to post a pic of Gina Miller. Look, that’s just how we roll. Ed Bark, as always, does the math so you don’t have to: He counts it up, and with the announcement this week that Scott “I Never…
This comes to us courtesy The Dallas Morning News’ Bold Types blog, and it was written, of course, by Jim Schutze’s new favorite pejorative, Steve Blow: I love it. A letter to the editor in this week’s Dallas Observer labels me as “one scary guy.” When I tried to give…
Diane Zamora gives her first interview from prison Sunday on Dateline NBC, which, apparently, has caught every predator it could find. The name Diane Zamora ring a bell? Oughta, even if you weren’t here on December 3, 1995, when then-19-year-old Navy midshipsman Zamora and boyfriend David Graham, then a 20-year-old…
For the first, and almost certainly the last, time in metroplex sports history, Your Dallas Observer softball team is the hottest sports squad in town. (This is usually where’d I insert a snappy, informative link, but, c’mon, we can’t even get our allegedly powder-blue T-shirts — a la the Texas…
C’mon, admit it — you missed Scott Sams just a little. No? Sorry, m’bad. In January, Scott Sams got WFAA-Channel 8 to pay him $660,000 in back pay, damages and attorneys’ fees after he sued the station for getting canned in 2004. Now, the Sherman-stuck anchor found a way to…
A few moments ago, a Friend of Unfair Park called our attention to Richard Durrett’s posting on The Dallas Morning News’ Texas Rangers blog, specifically the item about how Ameriquest Field is now the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. But, see, what got our Friend really interested was the way in…
We also think Darrell Jordan stole his haircut from 1924. A Friend of Unfair Park last night begged us — well, gently nudged, anyway — to link to Dave Levinthal’s kinda-like-wow revelation yesterday that mayoral candidate Darrell Jordan is a plagiarist. We just figured something that astounding would make the…
This is what The Dallas Morning News is cooking up for new mommies. Daddies, you already have this. There’s nothing less interesting to newspaper readers than newspaper writers and newspaper editors wringing their sweaty hands over the future of the newspaper business. But here’s something in which you might have…
Just a programming note: Beginning tomorrow, Unfair Park will be the host site for extensive South by Southwest Music Festival coverage, with contributions from many of the estimable writers in the Village Voice Media … uh… empire? As a bonus, it’s also serving as a sneek peak at what Unfair…
Pride Radio DFW — Clear Channel’s new local radio endeavor aimed at Dallas/Ft. Worth’s gay-lesbian-bi-transgender community (“the 6th largest in the nation and GROWING!”) — is getting plenty o’ pub for being the first such station in the area. And while most of us here think it’s way past time…
WFAA-TV Our former colleague Zac Crain found himself on Channel 8 last night, defending his voting record — or lack thereof. So, WFAA-Channel 8’s picking on Zac Crain, whilst its Belo print counterpart is stickin’ it to Tom Leppert. At least, that’s the impression this morning after both outlets ran…
A few days back, the local Warner Bros. rep called to see if we were interested in talking to Chuck Liddell about the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300. “Uh, is Chuck Liddell in the movie?” we asked. She said no, but that he’d seen the movie, liked it…
One year ago today we launched Unfair Park; I know, feels like 13 and a half months, right? During that period, we’ve learned a few things — chiefly, any posting with the words “Deep Ellum,” “Cotton Bowl,” “Standard & Pours,” “Avi Adelman” and “Bible Girl” get read and responded to…
Last night, my father and I got to talking about Deep Ellum (where our family’s auto parts store was from 1932 to 1955), Fair Park (where the store’s been ever since) and South Dallas (Dad was born on Park Row in 1944) — all the hot topics, in other words…
The Dallas Morning News has a story today in the Metro section headlined, “Review sought in judge’s recusal in double slayings.” It’s about the contretemps in Ellis County that erupted when Dallas lawyer David Finn got on the wrong side of District Judge Gene Knize. The whole thing is very…
Hey, can somebody go out and pick up that Observer box? That’d be swell. Thanks. Oh, wait. That picture’s from November. Well, that’s very breaking news. (This joke has an expiration date. Someone let me know when the News changes the photo on its home page? ‘Preciate that.) –Robert Wilonsky…
I just saw the March issue of Texas Monthly, and I guess you have two options: You can pay to read Katy Vines’ story on the 1937 New London gas explosion, which killed more than 300 school children and teachers and remains the third deadliest disaster in the state’s history…
We’ll have to give Steve Blow credit: We too noticed the odd full-page what-the-fuh? advertorial for the World Reserve Monetary Exchange on page 3B of today’s edition of Dallas’ Only Daily. Almost looked like a regular ol’ story, and it probably did to some Core Readers who were without their…
