Sandra Bridewell’s never been convicted of murder. But now she’s got federal forgery charges pending, which makes her like, what, Al Capone? It’s been, what, six days since our last item on the Black Widow; we’re due an update, right? Especially when it turns out to be this interesting: Yesterday,…
Rub it in, dude, rub it in. In today’s Chicago Tribune, columnist Phil Rogers — a former Dallas Times Herald man, I might add — offers up his mid-season baseball honors, and as far as he and the stats are concerned, there’s no better pitcher in the National League than…
Ellis Short is co-founder and vice chairman of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds — you remember, the company that can’t seem to get out of trouble with the South Korean government over the Korean Exchange Bank. Turns out, Short, who was a wanted man in South Korea only a few months…
Casey Thompson: It’s my pantry, and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Casey Thompson, executive chef at Lynae Fearing and Tracy Rathbun’s Shinsei on Inwood Road, may be an evil genius. Dunno much about her, other than what the editors have chosen to show of…
The Texas Rangers stink and, fittingly, general manager Jon Daniels feels like raw fish. “I put our name on the list,” Daniels says as I arrive for lunch at Las Colinas’ Blue Fish restaurant. “Should just be a few minutes.” Cool. Wait. I mean…huh? You’re telling me the Rangers’ No…
At first blush, Timothy Ralston seems like any other professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has a gray beard, neatly parted hair, and a vast knowledge of Christian scripture. But there is something unusual, some would even say subversive, about this conservative former pastor. He’s a Harry Potter fan. To…
To hear him tell it, Richard Chichakli would like nothing more than to return to his humdrum life as a Richardson accountant. But thanks to the U.S. government, that may never happen. In April 2005, federal agents with guns drawn stormed Chichakli’s modest brick home, informing him that they had…
When the Levee Breaks The Corps’ fault: Jim Schutze’s July 5 article, “Go With Your Gut,” holds the Corps of Engineers blameless for its faulty design of the levees that failed after Katrina. Mr. Schutze goes on to swear that had the Corps been left alone, there would have been…
Emily Dowdy and her father Charlie, at home in Hillsboro Exactly two years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, we wrote about Hillsboro native Emily Dowdy, a former University of Oklahoma student who, in May 1999, was driving a car that rammed into one driven by Ryan Brewer,…
Harry Hunsicker has “a flair for turning phrases.” And really nice hair too. In case you missed it a few weeks back, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for some Dallas commercial real estate appraiser named Harry Hunsicker, who writes damned good books in his spare time. Hunsicker’s third Lee…
Harriet Miers’ SMU yearbook pic from 1967 — and I gotta say, kinda cute. Hey, looks like Harriet Miers won’t have to make the trip from Dallas to D.C. after all. Apparently, it doesn’t matter if Congress commands you to testify before a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday investigating the…
Exerting minimal effort, you can come up with two reasons to patron Twin Peaks. No, not that one. Or those guys. I’m talking about this place. After a laughably hollow petition drive designed to cock-block the joint generated a whopping five signatures, the Plano sports bar/tease-atorium opened two months ago…
Late yesterday we were alerted to “another catastrophic collapse in Deep Ellum,” as the headline reads over at Save Deep Ellum. Turns out that around 4 p.m. yesterday, “the bricks along the roof of 2932 Main came crumbling down upon Main St. [falling] from along the roof of the building…
Hell of a morning to wake and find this in the paper. Only thing I took out of The Dallas Morning News’ pieces on how Dallas isn’t really No. 1 in crime is because we report too many of ’em, because, see, “the data can’t account for the willingness of…
You know what Dallas-Fort Worth could use more of? Yup — barbecue restaurants. And says here we’re getting … this can’t be right … “up to 55 locations” of the Brentwood, Tennessee, chain called Bar-B-Cutie. The company’s first location in Fort Worth — at 5710 Rufe Snow Dr., to be…
This week’s Sports Illustrated has a story about “The King of Texas” — who is, like you didn’t already know, Dallas Cowboys “wildcat” owner Jerry Jones. Actually, it’s about his billion-dollar bid for football immortality in Arlington, because writer Richard Hoffer sure does seem to be in love with a…
Kate Mackley Always thought Ben Fleming sounded a little like Neil Young, come to think of it … A good Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention this evening to Neil Young’s Living With War Web site, where there are listed nearly 2,000 anti-war songs submitted from performers all around…
Meet the new boss, Jaime Cortes, who’s not nearly the same as the old boss. Not even close. Every now and then, taking the high road pays off. Jaime Cortes, who twice ran and lost against The Constable Formerly Known as Mike Dupree while never responding to the incumbent’s personal…
He’s no Kevin Garnett, but Chris Webber would be a fascinating off-season move for the Mavs, to say the very least. ESPN.com’s Marc Stein sends word today that Chris Webber may not be on the verge of retiring after all. Webber, who’s already playedworn out his welcome with the Golden…
Last week in the paper version of Unfair Park, we wrote about Steve Asmussen, who is either the greatest horse trainer in America or one of the sport’s biggest cheaters. Personally, I found Lone Star Park’s prodigal son to be a pretty likable dude; others say he’s a jerk. What…
Eisley — named 2003’s Best New Act in the Dallas Observer Music Awards, for those of you with short attention spans — has returned from Narnia, or wherever it is the band summer vacations, for a new disc. Shruggingly titled Combinations, it’s out August 14 — but the first single,…
World of Longmire.com This is really just a post to let you know where I’ll be tomorrow through Saturday, if you need to find me: at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, for the 27th Annual National Conference of the Romance Writers of America. You must respect the list of conference sponsors…
