Tony Bones’ Breakfast Bunch The great Tony Bones, whose artwork has decorated the likes of Zac Crain’s mayoral CD fundraiser and Unfair Park HQ and countless exteriors from here to NYC, will debut plenty of new work beginning tomorrow night at The Public Trust in Deep Ellum; opening-night reception runs…
View Larger Map You probably don’t to want to drive between Dallas and Fort Worth this weekend — at least, not on I-30. Because beginning at 7 p.m. tonight, and lasting through Sunday night, the Texas Department of Transportation is going to reduce both eastbound and westbound I-30 to a…
Well, it might be a bad head — a bad cow’s head, to be more specific. Because, see, yesterday Dallas City Packing, Inc., located just south of downtown, recalled nearly a million pounds of cattle heads after the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service noticed that the company hadn’t completely…
For those concerned about the fate of Dallas-based Reddy Ice, which had its offices raided by in March by Department of Justice officials looking for evidence of price fixing, this morning The Wall Street Journal provides an update. Looks like the FBI discovered, via wiretapping, that some ice industry execs…
Far as folks in Huntsville are concerned this morning, Dallas is back in the junk business. Walker County Sheriff’s Department deputies yesterday stopped a car loaded down with about $600,000 worth of black tar heroin, and while it was likely intended for Houston, chances are some it may have been…
Tomorrow night this officially becomes last season. With about 50 of the team’s 53 roster spots locked in, there’s been little competition at Cowboys’ training camp. With coach Wade Phillips’ “Camp Marshmallow” approach, there’s been little hitting. And with team leaders like Terrell Owens, Tony Romo and DeMarcus happy, healthy…
On Tuesday morning, we received a rather unremarkable e-mail from Gary Underwood, spokesman for Time Warner Cable North Texas, in which he noted that the company’s main customer care telephone number (972-PICK-TWC, and how adorable is that?) was kaputs. Few hours later came another missive: Service has been restored. Only,…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm City Manager Mary Suhm today provided the city council — and the media, including Unfair Park’s brand-new Intern Courtney — with a sneak peak at the “recommended” 2008-’09 budget, which the Dallas city council won’t approve for another few weeks. Courtney brought back Suhm’s summary,…
If you’ve wondered where I’ve been with all the snips, clips and blow-outs — and, from the deafening cries of outrage, not so much — I took a two-week hiatus from Shear Genius coverage because, well, nothing was really happening when it came down to our primary interest: co-owner of…
I expected a little more from the HBO crew. You? The boys at Deadspin have condensed last night’s first episode of Hard Knocks into four minutes. I, however, can name that tune in 40 words: T.O. on the beach. Witten changing diapers. Pacman dumps water on Felix Jones. Jason Garrett:…
Randy Couture, where we shop for edible underwear and coconut bras Looks like dreams of a Mark Cuban-sponsored mixed martial arts smackdown for the ages are on hold. For the last several months, Cuban’s HDNet cable network has been working behind the scenes to put on an MMA rumble between…
Dunno? Well, let’s find out, courtesy CNN, which was in town this week to meet and greet a most interesting assemblage of folks hanging out in front of City Hall. –Robert Wilonsky…
A good Friend of Unfair Park named Bob J. yesterday noted in the comments section to this little-commented-upon item that, well, the Dallas Theater Center’s not playing fair with folks looking for seats in the DTC’s under-construction home at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Notes our Friend, who’s been…
Stars general manager Les Jackson helps Sean Avery get dressed — just the way he likes it. For those who missed yesterday’s press conference, during which Sean Avery “officially” became a Dallas Star, here ’tis in its entirety courtesy the Stars. Interesting fact you probably did not know: He shares…
Back in May, ESPN noted that Duncanville High School grad and former Ticket intern Mike Bacsik is toiling away in the minors, after having become a footnote in history following his serving up home run No. 756 to Barry Bonds exactly one year ago. Today, Sports Illustrated plays catch-up with…
A Friend of Unfair Park living in Denton sends along this warning, which greeted Pineapple Express riders yesterday at the Cinemark on Wind River Lane. “Water damage.” You mean, like this? –Robert Wilonsky…
What some Morning News readers are apparently discovering for the very first time today — T. Boone Pickens is really, really into money! — Los Angeles Times readers figured out, like, nine days ago in this opinion piece about who, precisely, will fund Pickens’ Plan: Well, Californians can clarify exactly…
On his blog last week, Carl Ichan noted that it was his idea to install Jim Keyes as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster and that Keyes “has saved approximately $100 million in operating costs over the past year, a laudable result.” Keyes has also managed to increase the Dallas-based company’s…
Cool. Just wish he’d carve a Mavs’ logo in his scalp once in a while. Got into a teensy tiny debate last night/this morning over the Olympics. My friend – like NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol – says there’s nothing like wrapping yourself in the flag and rooting for try-hard…
Wall Street Journal “Cheapskate” Neal Templin writes today about trying to ditch his Dallas house in a down market, in advance of his family’s relocation to the East Coast. In short, a house that went on the market in February for nearly half a mil didn’t get a single nibble…
Oxnard, California: This season will be Texas Stadium’s last hurrah. The same fate shouldn’t be reserved for Wade Phillips. It’s all—well, mostly—caviar dreams and champagne wishes at Dallas Cowboys training camp this summer. The team’s headquarters at the Marriott Residence Inn River Ridge complex is saturated with testosterone, yet somehow…
Shocking: Like many of you, Buzz recently received our electricity bill for July. Don’t ask us how much it was; just picture a middle-aged man doing the bulging-eyes thing you see in old Warner Bros. cartoons, accompanied by the sound of a horn blaring, “Aaahoogaa!” Not a pretty sight. So,…
