You know who hates you? Best Buy. Which doesn’t stop us from shopping there, but, still, thought you should know. I learned the hard way Black Friday is more of a curse than bargain blessing. My body has yet to recover from my in-the-wee-small-hours venture out to three Mesquite retailers…
SMU may get rid of Phil Bennett, but it’s likely to extend a two-year deal to his mustache. Unfortunately for SMU, notsamuch. But almost. The Mustangs came within four points of a remarkable resurrection this season, but their 31-27 loss at Rice Saturday afternoon dropped them to 6-6 and off…
You know how much we’re fascinated by the whole Afflilated Computer Services Inc. stock-option manipulating scandal; it’s been all over Unfair Park in recent months. Well, if you read the Wall Street Journal this morning, you know it just got a little better: “The options-backdating scandal claimed more high-level officials,…
Last night wasn’t an easy one for Tony Romo. He has to endure KTVT-Channel 11 sports anchor Babe Laufenberg’s cheap-ass come-ons during “The Score”: graphic gags involving Romo’s head being Photoshopped onto Mount Rushmore and a Hall of Fame bust. (Only days earlier, during a 10 p.m. newscast, anchor Tracy…
In The New York Times this morning, you will meet 22-year-old Gloria Castillo, who is “married, a mother of two, a Latina from the rough side of Dallas [and] on the low side of making it.” Castillo is profiled for the paper’s “American Album” section, and her snapshot is intended…
John Grayken says his Lone Star Funds is innocent of wrongdoing in South Korea. Which didn’t stop him from killing the deal that got him in trouble in the first place. Here, before we leave for the weekend, are a couple of business news quickies involving some familiar names (including…
The first sentence of the first chapter of Noel Monk’s 12 Days on the Road: “Sid Vicious’ face is smeared with blood. Not all of it is his. The Sex Pistols have hit Texas, and Texas has hit back.” No doubt you’ve heard about it–the night the Sex Pistols played…
Sally Horchow says she’s been called a “Lifestyle Guru,” a “Trend Expert” and a “Pop Culture Diva.” Dreams can come true. Sally Horchow–a “journalist,” writes People, so it must be true–is out there pimping the book The Art of Friendship: 70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections, which she wrote…
Every guy in this city officially has a man-crush on Tony Romo. Hey, what’s Jessica Simpson got Richie Whitt doesn’t? I went to Texas Stadium for the Cowboys’ mauling of the Bucs, and this season has suddenly transformed from sad to surreal. Yep, all because of an undrafted free agent…
Before the game we get Kelly Clarkson. At halftime it’s Carrie Underwood. And if the Dallas Cowboys are interested in a female mascot for Thursday’s annual Thanksgiving Day game at Texas Stadium, they should reach out to Anna Nicole Smith. Too imbalanced to fully embrace yet too tempting to totally…
Up-and-coming visual artist Tony Bones is looking forward to his next show at the Webb Gallery out in Waxahachie. Things have really started picking up for the 23-year-old in the past several months, with various incarnations of his trademark character—a stick figure with droopy hands—making appearances at local art galleries…
Kicked out: When the bearded son of a Dallas Morning News metro columnist gets kicked out of the downtown library for eating a banana, that’s news—or at least it was to former columnist Sherry Jacobson, who wrote about her kid’s plight last December. Apologies were in order, and they came…
The Donkey Brays Waitwe elected who?: Why the tone of arrogance and condescension in your “election special” (“Accidental Victors,” by Matt Pulle, Jim Schutze and Megan Feldman, November 16)? You kick Craig Watkins and Jim Foster to the curb as if they had a moral obligation to recognize themselves as…
His books may be about Little T, but they’re really just about how much the world picks on Big T. You know who seems to genuinely like kids, probably a lot more than he likes their parents? Terrell Owens. Last night at Borders Books & Music in Preston Royal, T.O…
We’ll assume that the wedding pictures of Sarah and the chief will look a little classier than this hastily assembled job. Actually, you already know her–most of you, anyway. Name’s Sarah Dodd. You know–former City Hall reporter for KTVT-Channel 11? The star reporter taken off the beat when it got…
We know of at least one girl who’ll be at the W on November 28 trying out for a reality TV show. If nothing else, we hope she takes the strong advice of The Bachelor producers, who want single woman trying out for the ABC-TV show to “dress tastefully.” (Yeah,…
Texas Pacific Group, the Fort Worth-based private capital firm ($20 billion worth) with arms in San Francisco and London, has made a roughly $8.5 billion takeover move for Aussie Qantas Airways in tandem with the Australian merchant bank Macquaried Bank, Ltd., as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The offer…
Some readers of Unfair Park’s sister in print may find something odd in their paper this week. We won’t be cute about it: It’s a fucking chain letter soliciting bucks from chumps–specifically female chumps. Seriously. We should know all about chumps here this week: The one-page insert made it into…
Gee, wonder why the NBA’s having its All-Star Game in Las Vegas this season. Nothing to do with the fantasy suites at the hotel run by the Kings’ owners, surely. I will definitely be in attendance when the NHL All-Star Game rolls through town in January. Continuing that theme of…
John Lennon’s piano will be on the Grassy Knoll today. Not kidding. Hey, wanna meet me for lunch today on the Grassy Knoll? C’mon. It’ll be fun. You know what today is, right? Right. Well, to commemorate the anniversary of John Kennedy’s final trip to Dallas, George Michael and his…
Once more, looks like someone’s trying to put their chocolate in your peanut butter, only it just doesn’t feel that right. There’s a piece this morning in American Banker–which we only take because Lithuanian Lawyer folded, and this was the default replacement–about how cell phone and credit card companies are…
Today, subscribers to Sports Illustrated will get the new issue. In there, they will find the Scorecard. Turns out, Tony Romo may, in fact, be putting the “score” into Scorecard after all: “BEING DUMPED is never fun, but Tony Romo seems to have landed on his feet after his girlfriend…
