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Frankly, I don’t have the time or the smarts to thoroughly explain what Dallas-based i2 Technologies Inc. is or what happened to its former chief executive officer, Gregory Brady. For the former, all you need to do is go to the company’s Web site, where you’ll find the company describes…

Allison V. Smith This is Weekly Bob, who Andrea Grimes finds so adorable she’s thinking of having a Lil’ Bob herself. Or, maybe not. Last night, the man o’ the hour and I had a lovely Valentine’s Day dinner at CiCi’s Pizza. We went to the nice one, of course,…

Dine with Iggy and the Stooges March 5. Well, kinda. Remember back in the day, when you had to actually purchase a physical object in order to listen to music — you know, records and CDs, as opposed to bits and bytes? And remember when that much-anticipated album was due…

Gurinder Chada’s expecting twins, which means she’s not expecting to direct Dallas any time soon. Looks like the big-screen version of Dallas is being pushed further off the starting line, thanks to the just-announced pregnancy of director Gurinder Chadha. She tells the Associated Press in a story that just moved…

In case you missed it last night, Stephen Colbert’s “The Word” segment dealt with Gov. Rick Perry’s issuing an executive order on February 2 directing the Health and Human Services Commission to adopt rules requiring all 11- and 12-year-old girls to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine prior to entering sixth…

On January 29, we mentioned how the South Dallas Cultural Center was but a construction-site shell of its former self, the result of the original contractor, Harrison Quality Construction, having abandoned the project in October despite being paid $600,000 for completing far less than half the work. Two days later,…

Yesterday evening, we finally talked to Bobby Hood, co-owner of Gezellig on Lower Greenville, where, last Friday, some folks were ticketed for smoking on the premises in violation of the city’s smoking ordinance. Hood and his partner in the restaurant-live-music-venue were actually among those popped, and despite the tenor and…

The mayor sends the following missive concerning the Tuesday-evening bus ride to Waco for the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition’s anti-coal-plant presentation: I made an executive decision to waive the $10 bus fee to Waco this morning while I was talking about it on KVIL. Seems like we could get…

Kathleen Diane Manning, who died February 11 Because Unfair Park is committed to spotlighting the most eye-catching paid-for obituaries in the paper, this morning we bring you Kathleen Diane Manning, who died February 11. (Our condolences, of course.) What caught our eye this a.m. wasn’t necessarily the body of the…

Bush Think Tank Twisted sense of morality: I agree that promoting rational debate over promulgating a warped ideology is paramount. So, I was disappointed to find Mr. Schutze comparing Bush to Idi Amin (“W. and Us,” February 8). Equating a policy crafted in the wake of an unprovoked terrorist attack…

Here’s what Josh Howard got you for Valentine’s: Versatile talent and a vicious temperament, which have possessed your Dallas Mavericks to grab the NBA’s best record and shed their notorious “soft” label. A reserved role model, who forged his success squeezing positive lessons from a dicey environment. A star athlete…

Plans to replace the historic Dreyfuss Club at White Rock Lake, which burned to the ground last fall, are ongoing, but what caused the fire that destroyed the vintage city building remains “undetermined,” according to a Dallas Fire-Rescue report obtained by the Dallas Observer. Arson cannot be ruled out. “Everything…

Clear as glass?: Last week, Aubrey Mayhew, an 80-year-old former music producer in Nashville, received a call from one of his sons, who had some disturbing news. Mick Mayhew told his daddy that the so-called “sniper’s perch” from the old Texas School Book Depository, from which Lee Harvey Oswald killed…

Ram Charan has a Dallas office, but he’s too busy traveling the business world to actually step foot in it. Till I saw this Newsweek story, I’d didn’t know much about Ram Charan, which the mag refers to as “The CEO Whisperer” and the “Corporate Confidant.” Turns out, he’s only…

Rafael Anchi�a is trying to kick out immigration legislation, but not immigrants. Because nothing gets the Friend of Unfair Park more riled up than the words “immigration legislation” (or “Avi Adelman,” geez), we thought it’d be a good idea to mention the press release we just received from the office…

Last week, New York-based Environmental Defense launched in Dallas and Waco television ads aimed at combatting TXU’s proposal to build at least 11 new coal-fired power plants in the state, which you surely know all about at this point. ED has also launched a “Stop TXU” Web site, which contains…

We’ll be honest: We will never forgive our former publisher, who beat a Quick retreat, for moving us out of our longtime downtown Dallas digs for an Uptown address. We loved being downtown, in the old KLIF building at Commerce and Central. So what if that meant occasionally having to…

On Friday at 11:43 a.m. Central Standard Time, someone will be the new owner of the sniper’s perch from the Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald (allegedly, whatever) shot and killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. At least, that is how a window and…