Been a few days since there’s been any Jessica Simpson … uh … “news,” but here’s a tidbit worth a mention: Today comes conflicting word concerning her new country album, which she’s set to record in Nashville. One source says Yoko Romo wants nothing more than for Cowboys QB Tony…
Karl Chamberlain is awaiting execution for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. The Santa Fe Reporter this morning has a story about Karl Chamberlain — a New Mexico man awaiting execution in Texas for the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dallas woman. According to…
Schellas Hyndman, his name is my name too. This guy? Nope. The new coach? Uh-uh. We’re talking the most successful athletics teacher in all of SMU, one Schellas Hyndman. Hyndman, with more wins (466) than any coach in school history, was last weekend named this year’s recipient of the National…
Yesterday, American Airlines announced that at long last it would begin testing high-speed Internet service on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft; the Fort Worth-based carrier will begin the trial run this summer, give or take, courtesy three lightweight antennae installed on the outside of the aircraft. Not to be outdone, today…
Yeah, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 128.11 points yesterday — coulda been a lot worse. Today’s already not looking much better, but in today’s Los Angeles Times, Don Hodges of the Maple Avenue-based Hodges Fund says the sellers are making a big mistake. As in: “I can tell…
Only a few months after The Dallas Morning News ran its piece on the Hope Fellowship Church in Irving — novel because it’s housed in an old bar and some of its congregants are bikers who’ve served a little time — The Christian Science Monitor offers its take on the…
Ah, here’s that other photo of Lone Star Fund-er John Grayken. Maybe the head of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds should have requested offering his testimony via speaker phone in South Korea’s case against Lone Star Funds, as John Grayken’s short trip is quickly turning into a hostage situation. Last week,…
In the spring of 2001, I spent a day with Heath Ledger as he was driven from KDFW-Channel 4 to WFAA-Channel 8 to his hotel, then back again to yet another TV interview at TXCN — all in the name of promoting A Knight’s Tale, the rock-and-roll refit of a…
Every day I get an e-mail from Daily Crime Report for my neighborhood, otherwise known as Northwest Division Sector 530. Here’s the most recent one, which includes plenty of burglarized vehicles and homes, several aggravated assaults and acts of “criminal mischief,” an “unexplained death” and this gem: “Unknown suspect tried…
Scott Dorn At the crime scene: a photo of the Hard Rock, by the time it was nothing but rubble We are fortunate to have among us two photographers for whom Dallas provides endless opportunities: Justin Terveen, who captures, among other things, our few landmark buildings that still stand; and…
Rick Reed, former Dallas County prosecutor now interested in becoming the Travis County District Attorney From The Texas Observer comes a sneak peek at the race for Travis County District Attorney — the most powerful prosecutor in Texas, with the power to go after state elected officials. Among the fab…
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…
The work of SEKT, featured in Noe Medrano’s terrific short film Yesterday, fledgling filmmaker Noe Medrano posted to the YouTubes a nine-minute cut of his documentary Artist Unknown, about Dallas’ graffiti culture. Noe and P.J. Medrano’s doc is worth a look — and a longer version, which I hope is…
Dave & Buster’s, world-headquartered on Manana Drive, has a lawsuit with which to contend courtesy of a Detroit man who claims he injured himself whilst playing a video game in Utica, Michigan. Name of the game? MoCap Boxing, which, as you can see, is bracketed by a couple of poles…
A morning of follow-ups, it seems. First, a Friend of Unfair Park (in Richmond, Virginia, no less) sends us this story from The Daily Telegraph, which suggests that Tom Hicks’ fiscal troubles with his Liverpool football club may be more substantial than reported earlier this week. Reports The Telegraph this…
One local connection to this morning’s Academy Award nominations: the Iraq War doc No End in Sight, released by Magnolia Pictures — otherwise known as Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s distribution company. Cuban and Wagner have been here before, having financed such Oscar-nominated films as Enron: The Smartest Guys in…
Amy Adams and Emily Blunt engage in some Sunshine Cleaning PARK CITY, Utah — So much for all that pre-Sundance talk about how the writers’ strike was going to spark a fire sale at the fest. So far, not even the biggest titles have been sold — not the Tom…
A couple months back — or, the first time Tom Hicks was protested by Liverpool FC fans — I mentioned something about how, ya know, maybe it’d be a nice idea to start a petition calling for Hicks to sell the Texas Rangers. Liverpool fans, rallying right now in England,…
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…
Might as well look at a picture of the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, which stood on McKinney Avenue for 97 years. Because it ain’t there no more. For a solid year, city council member Angela Hunt worked with the city’s Landmark Commission, Preservation Dallas and neighborhood activists to protect the…
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…
Says in this media release that tomorrow, former Dallas Cowboy Everson Walls and current Washington Redskin Shawn Springs will make an appearance in the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building New Tower Ceremonial Courtroom on Commerce Street downtown. Only, this is no autograph session: The two will be joined by…
