Don’t Duet, Tony Romo!

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…

Waiting for Death

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…

Wi-Fi in the Sky

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…

Sell Now, Regret It Later

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…

Pull In to the Motorcycle Ministry

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…

Lone Star Funds’ Boss Is More or Less a Hostage in South Korea

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,…

Not Ready for Crime Time

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…

Spin Class

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…

A Doc That Rocks: Artist Unknown

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…

Tuesday Morning Follow-Ups

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…

Finally, Hitting the “Reset” Button

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…

What Do Matt Pulle and Antonin Scalia Have in Common?

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…

Angela Hunt is Pissed

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…

Warning You Now: A Lot of Math Ahead

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…