Jonathan Finley For more photos from yesterday’s town hall meeting, there’s a slideshow right here. When I got back from Barack Obama’s town hall meeting at Duncanville High School last night, my friend Jeff called and said, “So, how was hanging out with the black Jesus?” Seems he’d had dinner…
I’ve yet to attend a city council meeting I didn’t enjoy, and yesterday’s was no exception. How can one not feel satisfied after bearing witness to important votes on the convention center hotel and gas drilling, a council member admitting to witnessing a drug deal in progress and doing nothing…
Till a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned the astounding convergence of events on Saturday, I wasn’t sure I was going to attend Hillary Clinton’s rally at Fair Park, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. with doors to the Fair Park Coliseum opening at 1 p.m. Might take the kid, who…
Pastor Sherman Allen portrayed his marriage to first wife Edwina Cunningham as a sort of fairytale, with his wife in the role of a needy Cinderella and he as the prince who rescued her from material and emotional poverty. When Edwina died in 2003 of complications from scleroderma, a skin…
Former city council member James Fantroy has just been found guilty of stealing thousands in federal funds. Here’s the link to the September 2007 federal indictment in which former Dallas city council member James Fantroy was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from Paul Quinn College. And why do we…
SURPRISE, Arizona — Regardless of your sports pangs, you should be plenty satiated today. The Mavs and Jason Kidd play at San Antonio. The Stars and Brad Richards host Chicago. The Cowboys — who appear willing to let Julius Jones walk — begin free agency. And out here in Arizona…
Yesterday on DC9, music editor Pete Freedman mentioned Dave Chappelle’s surprise appearance at Erykah Badu’s House of Blues show on Tuesday night. Thankfully, someone captured it at least part of it — because, damn it, I miss Dave Chappelle. Actually, from the look of this video, everyone captured it. So,…
MySpace is sending Jessica Simpson to Kuwait — no, not for good (although …), but for a concert for the troops stationed in Kuwait. She’ll be on a bill with the likes of the Pussycat Dolls, Disturbed, Filter, DJ Z-Trip and, says the media release curled up in our in-box,…
This just in from Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía, concerning yesterday’s post about comments he made — or didn’t make — on Spanish radio yesterday, where it was reported “he is satisfied with the idea of becoming Dallas Mayor.” Writes Anchía, “Yes, the synopsis and translation is way off. The allusion…
Adelfa Callejo Amazing how these stories come out of nowhere and are suddenly everywhere and mean everything when it’s all just a big bunch of nothing. Few days ago, Adelfa Callejo was Dallas’ well-regarded 84-year-old Latino-rights activist about whom Stanford Law students wrote glowing biographies. She was also a Bill…
Sophia, the one Bush we can get behind this election season As usual, a few election-related items of note this a.m. — these involving famous faces not running for office. A Friend of Unfair Park with impeccable taste points our attention back toward the University of Texas at Dallas –…
No Joy For This Ode Richie Whitt’s ode to Steve Orsini (“Mustang Maniac,” February 14) left me confused. I teach at SMU and serve on the faculty senate, and can assure both Whitt and Orsini that the assumption of faculty support for the massive infusion of millions of more dollars…
“Jason isn’t the guy who could take us to the next level. Management wasn’t comfortable putting the franchise in his hands.” —Mavericks interim general manager Frank Zaccanelli upon trading Jason Kidd on December 26, 1996 “Kidd’s skill set and leadership will help us close out games and series. Because of…
German engineering: Like many, Buzz is confused by the Democratic Party’s process for selecting a presidential candidate. You’d think it would be simple—voters vote, votes are counted, whoever gets the most, wins—but we’re talking Democrats here, so things are not that straightforward. We tried to read the original blueprint for…
It’s not quite eight in the morning, and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage. Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political…
Looking as pale as a ghost, her once raven-black hair now gray, Sandra Camille Bridewell shuffled into a federal courtroom in North Carolina for a hearing on Monday. Wearing red prison garb, hands cuffed behind her back and shackles on her legs, the “Black Widow” from Dallas was sandwiched between…
CharleyPride.com The Pride of North Texas: Charley Pride, that is, an annual fixture at Rangers spring training SURPRISE, Arizona — Eight months from now we’ll either remember this as the day your Texas Rangers commenced a stunning turnaround. Or, more likely, the day they unofficially officially began a ninth consecutive…
Perhaps the translation’s slightly off, but it seems Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía has given us a sneak peek into his future political plans. Today Radio Euskadi — which is broadcast throughout Basque Country in Spain, where Anchía’s family comes from — ran an interview with the Haynes & Boone attorney…
Last week came news that the Dallas Independent School District would be repaying federal grant money is was using rather inappropriately — like, $316,000 worth of federal grant money. That dough, provided by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant, was supposed to go to HIV prevention education efforts…
I guess it makes sense, as the Dallas Cowboys great is an Arkansas native: Today Cliff Harris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. As in, “Many told me I would never play in the NFL, let alone win a Super Bowl ring or two. Similar cynics may say the same thing…
Mark Graham In more Plano-based author news: Kerry Max Cook — the innocent man imprisoned for 16 years for a horrific crime he didn’t commit — has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, for his book Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two…
Irving-based Zale Corporation, which moved from Wichita Falls to the Mercantile Bank Building in downtown Dallas in 1946, has hit a rough patch — again. Fourteen years after getting out from under Chapter 11, the company, which once boasted some 1,700 locations, announced today it’s shuttering 105 stores this year…
