Maybe–oh, please, God, please, please, prettyplease–this’ll be the last item we ever run about the big-screen adaptation of the movie Dallas. I know–you figured the thing was already on Cinemax; that’s how long we’ve been discussing this would-be disaster. Really gonna hate to see it go adios, mofo. But that’s…
Guess if you live in Houston, there’s always hope you’ll be like Dallas; what else ya got, right? At least, that’s what some Democrats are figuring: They’re looking to their neighbor in the north–at least, the Houston Chronicle is–and figuring that last week’s lean to the left might some day…
We don’t really watch Nancy Grace, unless one of our own’s on the show. Tonight is such a night. Yessssss. Great news! Tonight at 7 on CNN Headline News we finally get the answer to the age-old question: Who’s crazier, Nancy Grace or Lisa Diaz? Guess we gotta go with…
A Friend of Unfair Park read our earlier item about Craig Watkins’ Web site comments and sent a missive directing us to his comments in the League of Women Voters’ campaign insert that appeared, among other places, in the paper version of Unfair Park. Whyohwhy don’t we actually pay attention…
Normally around the holidays, an album title like, oh, Kill My Distant Relatives That Are Overstaying Their Welcome and Jacking With the Cat Because My Holiday Spirit Has Been Robbed of Me would be most appropriate. But we haven’t even gotten to Thanksgiving yet, so we’ll take a deep breath…
The judge who presided over Emily Dowdy’s three trials was voted off the bench this week, giving Dowdy’s family hope for a new trial. Here’s some election news from our neighbor to the north; no, not Canada. Oklahoma County Judge Susan Caswell, the pro-prosecution jurist who has presided over three…
Mark Graham A month before the election, Craig Watkins took off his law firm’s Web site a page proclaiming his desire to defend his clients “by any means necessary.” Man, I really wish I hadn’t thrown away all that campaign junk mail that filled my mailbox in the past few…
The Foxymorons will have a song on ABC’s Men in Trees tonight. C’mon, be happy for ’em. You would be if they were Rhett Miller. I’ve seen all of 42 minutes’ worth of The Tonight Show since Jay Leno took over, and I won’t be watching tonight. Sorry. Guy’s not…
C’mon, does this look like the face of a guy who would assault anyone? A Tarrant County jury sure didn’t think so yesterday when it acquited Paris, Texas star Hunter Carson. I see this morning that a Tarrant County jury acquited the host and director of the TV show Cheaters…
Richie would rather watch these guys Sunday and not Your Dallas Cowboys. At least these guys are supposed to keep their hands off the ball, eh, Terrell? Last night I was lucky enough to rub elbows with Cowboys named Rayfield Wright and Tony Romo at a fancy-schmancy shindig up at…
Well, lookie where Terrell Bolton has surfaced. Seems the former Dallas police chief’s up for a gig in DeKalb County, Georgia; if nothing else, he’s on the list of finalists for the top cop spot, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But this is probably not how you want to be described…
I see my boy Jeff Liles is posting some unused footage from his documentary about Bill’s Records and Tapes, The Last Record Store, on YouTube. Mighty nice of the guy. Here’s some of it: a snippet during which my boyhood hero George Gimarc, Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis, Hydronic Sound System’s…
Mike Jones blew Ted Haggard’s cover. Patty Calhoun, editor of Denver’s Westword–one of the Dallas Observer’s sister papers–suggests in her column this week that Ted Haggard was deeper into the gay lifestyle than his statements might have led you to believe. Mike Jones–the male prostitute who blew Haggard’s cover last…
You a Will Smith fan? Of course you are. Who doesn’t love the Fresh Prince? Well, if you wanna meet him–or at least see him from a relatively close distance–show up Tuesday to the AMC Loews Cityplace 14 at 2600 N. Haskell Avenue. Smith’ll be attending the Texas premiere of…
Eric Kruger, the brother of singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq last week. A Friend of Unfair Park who introduced us years ago to 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards-winner Kristy Kruger sends sad news. Kruger, who took the trophy for Best Female Singer, posted on…
If you go see the Dixie Chicks doc Shut Up & Sing, which opens tomorrow, and come away thinking, “I’d really like to see less of the band and more of the protestors,” well, we have a movie for you. It’s called Protesting the Dixie Chicks, and, if nothing else,…
Not that Mavs owner Mark Cuban is criticizing our fair medium; it’s just that “newspapers don’t see their own value,” which is a point well taken. So that doesn’t stop Cuban from touting The Dallas Morning News in the latest issue of Esquire, in which Cuban shares “What I’ve Learned”…
Yesterday, Our Man Matt Pulle attended the Dallas County Democratic Party’s victory press conference, during which many of the local Dems paraded up to the podium to offer, well, not terribly much. But, hey, you don’t wanna blow it your first day; really, give them a week before they self-destruct,…
Judge Keith Dean, who gave a pot-smoker life and let a murderer walk, was voted off the bench Tuesday. 20/20 is kinda taking the credit for that one. Dunno if you saw this last week, but during 20/20’s special report on “Privilege in America” last week, it included a piece…
Brace yourself, Tony Romo also has a publicist. But unlike Li’l Kim Etheredge, Terrell Owens’ monstrosity of a mouthpiece, Vivian Fullerlove doesn’t smack her gum, use her client’s salary as a grossly misguided punch line or, from all indications, get her hair did at Salon de Katrina. In fact, Fullerlove…
Something wasn’t right. Jack Cox could feel that in his gut. The seal on the trailer had been broken. The trailer’s identification number had been painted over. And now the trucker didn’t want to get out of the cab. Cox stood behind the spotlight mounted on his squad car and…
In December 2004, Roy Combs, a career criminal who ran a South Dallas car lot, was named as one of 23 members of a criminal organization that smuggled hundreds of pounds of cocaine each month from Mexico to Dallas and beyond, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Ohio. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
