As Victory Park proves less and less victorious in recent months, stories have circulated that Tom Colicchio was considering moving out of the W and plying his Craft elsewhere. To which the Top Chef head judge says: Not a chance. Indeed, Colicchio tells Unfair Park he’s got two years left…
A familiar name shows up as one of the contributors to the March Popular Mechanics cover story — former Observer-er Joe Pappalardo, long time no see. Joe’s among four writers playing Fox Mulder this month as he goes in search of … “The Truth Behind UFO Sightings.” Not surprisingly, the…
Dallas County Judge Jim Foster isn’t the only guy at 411 Elm Street on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s shit list; there’s always Commissioner Ken Mayfield, last seen arguing with Price over the meaning of a “black hole.” Now, this chapter in their ongoing love affair: WFAA-Channel 8 has…
Those of you bombarding me with emails and hints and rumors of former Live 105.3 FM talk-show host Russ Martin resurfacing on satellite radio, cool your engines. Not gonna happen. At least for a while. I was reminded by a radio industry source last night that Martin’s split with CBS Radio included not…
It was strange to pick up The Dallas Morning News today and learn that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has impugned the integrity of Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze. The commish accuses Schutze of reporting comments made by two public officials — U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and Dallas…
To those paying close attention, council member Mitchell Rasansky has indicated over the past couple weeks that his support for the Trinity Turnpike is diminishing, and he took another step toward joining Angela Hunt in opposition of the road at this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting. After previously…
On Friday, Blockbuster spokesman Randy Hargrove told the Cape Gazette in Delaware that the Dallas-based video- and game-rental company was doing just fine, thanks, despite the shuttering of a store up there, one among hundreds in recent years. Said Hargrove, “Because of our brand name, we have the ability to…
Before I run out the door to Arlington this afternoon for a sneak peek at the facelift applied to Rangers Ballpark, thought I’d make a quick to-do list: *Since the Mavs suck and the Stars suck and the Cowboys suck and the Rangers will in all likelihood suck, look into other…
In recent days, sources inside Dallas City Hall have told Unfair Park they’ve been warned to expect the worst as City Manager Mary Suhm wrestles with the next fiscal year’s budget. Which comes as no surprise: At this moment, months before Suhm and the council finalize the 2009-2010 budget, city…
Here you’ll find the Petition In Support Of A House Censure For Representative Leo Berman and be able to “join the movement” — which, truthfully, could be stronger. Despite a week’s worth of news coverage concerning one man’s efforts to reprimand the Tyler state representative for remarks made during a…
Next time the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback claims he’s spent his off-season working on his scrambling, feel free to roll your eyes. …
Well, there’s at least one person in this world Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall can’t sue, at least not this week: law professor Richard Epstein, who provided a blurb for the back of Carla Main’s book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain, and the American Lust for Land. As we’ve mentioned…
Right about now, poor ol’ Merten’s settling in for a couple hours’ worth of Trinity River Corridor Project Committee talk — mostly for this morning’s Trinity Parkway Update, which, in light of last week’s revelations concerning the state of the levees, should be, oh, interesting? But Sam will also be…
This morning, Bloomberg News takes a peek at public pension funds across the country and, after adding up the dwindling numbers, finds a crisis-in-the-making: “With stock market losses this year, public pensions in the U.S. are now underfunded by more than $1 trillion.” Among those Bloomberg examined is the Teacher…
One week ago today, state Sen. John Carona introduced proposed legislation, S.J.R. No. 31, that would allow for at least 12 casinos scattered throughout the state — seven “in different urban areas,” two “located on islands in the Gulf of Mexico that are tourist destinations with at least 1,000 guest…
Yesterday it was an unexplained noise in my house. Last night it was an inexplicable performance by the Dallas Mavericks in Oklahoma City. Seriously? A 14-win Thunder team missing its top two scorers blows Dallas out in a March game with long-ranging playoff ramifications? And this, of course, on the…
Paul Rudd’s on the cover of the April Vanity Fair — also on the inside as Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. Oh, and he was in Dallas today too, at the Ritz-Carlton with I Love You, Man director John Hamburg. We all made out. Oh, sorry — like bandits. Totally…
In his campaign to unseat District 7 freshman council member Carolyn Davis, Libertarian John Jay Myers is using the city’s plans to build a publicly owned convention center hotel as a key issue, posting the footage you’ll find after the jump to his Web site a couple weeks ago. Thanks…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this just-posted piece from Politico detailing Ron Kirk’s taxing issue before the Senate Finance Committee, which just today announced it was pushing back his confirmation hearing as U.S. trade ambassador till next Monday. According to a missive sent to journalists by Finance Chairman…
Speaking of Southwest Airlines … The Federal Aviation Administration today announced that at long last it has reached an agreement with the Dallas-based carrier concerning those 46 planes that were allowed to fly despite their not having been inspected for fuselage cracks. Southwest will pony up $7.5 million in civil…
Though the challengers to its throne increase as its working margin idles, 1310 AM The Ticket remains the undisputed champeen when it comes to Dallas-Fort Worth sports talk radio. Even as Arbitron has made the switch from manual diaries to portable people meters, The Ticket has maintained an edge over long-time rival 103.3 FM ESPN…
Fortune just posted its list of the World’s Most Admired Companies — at least, admired by the other bidness folks surveyed by the magazine. Five Dallas-based companies made the list of 363, and they are, in alphabetical order: AT&T, Brinker International, Centex, Southwest Airlines and Texas Instruments. (Twenty-two Texas-based companies,…
