Two weeks ago, The Dallas Morning News ran an Associated Press story in which it was announced that Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Inc.–which is, oddly, enough, based out of Wichita, Kansas–was being sold to the Dallas-based private-equity firm Lone Star Funds. (“There is no affiliation between Lone Star Steakhouse…
Rose Renfroe didn’t exactly call her Democratic opponent Scott Chase a pedophile, but she came awfully close. Now he’s refusing to support her in her race against Republican incumbent Ken Mayfield, bucking the time-honored political convention of putting party ahead of principle. “I’m not supporting Rose Renfroe or Ken Mayfield…
Hard times: Thousands of words have been written on the Dallas Observer’s blog, Unfair Park, as well as D magazine’s The FrontBurner and elsewhere online about impending job cuts at The Dallas Morning News, but so far nothing has appeared in our print edition. The reason for that is that…
Hog Hell The whole hog: I can’t understand you guys, and I don’t have to, I guess; everyone has their own opinion (“High on the Hog,” by Todd Spivak, August 24). What I don’t understand is why you guys don’t tell the whole story. Maybe you just don’t know it…
What kind of boring, unromantic soul could fail to see the wonder of Dallas’ plan for new bridges across the Trinity River? Where now a row of dirty concrete slabs crosses a river that looks more like a drainage ditch, instead a majestic procession of fancifully modern suspension bridges would…
Seems the Standard & Poor’s v. Standard & Pours Coffee and Stocks battle, which we’ve been guzzling since June 27, is turning into big news–or, at least, it gives folks plenty to talk about over coffee. Here’s some video from Monday’s CNBC segment on the brew-ha-ha (can’t believe it took…
During Terry Hornbuckle’s trial, no one ever disputed his womanizing. His attorney just said he didn’t need to drug women in order to bed them. That is not an answer to the question: WWJD? Not at all. When I moved to Dallas in 1990, it took me a while to…
Don Nelson can get ya 50 wins, no sweat. Then it’s off the bench and on to the beach, which is what happens when you got no defense. On Salon today, King Kaufman–a self-proclaimed “lapsed but still-sympathetic fan of the Golden State Warriors”–writes about former Dallas Mavericks head coach Don…
Carly Patterson’s trying to make it as a singer on Fox. We can think of worse ideas, such as…uh…wait…uh…give us a sec. You’ve heard of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx, but the Richie Whitt Dallas Observer sports column jinx? I’m just sayin’. It almost got kick-started last night on the…
Life was so much easier when Braniff was flying out of Love Field. Remember its “Terminal of the Future,” pictured here? Yeah, that worked out well. Turns out some folks in the Justice Department aren’t the only ones finding “Problems with the New Wright Amendment Deal” reached by the Dallas…
Today’s the day The Dallas Morning News sets its “voluntary” buyout list: Staffers have till 5:30 p.m. to withdraw their acceptances, which some folks have done and others are contemplating as the end draws near. But there’s at least one person in this world high on Belo, and his name…
This is Noah Bailey, and he is “throwing the stone.” We have other pictures of him “passing a stone.” We kept those to ourselves. Sunday afternoon my compatriots and I found ourselves driving toward Duncanville in the middle of a raging thunderstorm. Why, you ask? Olympic dreams, that’s why. You…
Courtesy EatLiver.com Last year, the paper version of Unfair Park ran a piece on FreePAC, the Dallas-based right-wing political action committee founded by Richard Ford–who’s so right-wing that in 2002 he went after Jeff Wentworth, a five-term Republican state senator from San Antonio, even though Wentworth wrote legislation that would…
These days, people are becoming increasingly paranoid about what unseemly things may appear about them on the ol’ Interweb, especially in light of the fact that potential employers are Googling everyone on the planet. But everybody’s got a MySpace page. And anybody who’s graduated from college in the past three…
Don Nelson’s getting back to basketball. Coulda sworn he quit forever when he left Dallas. Hunh. So now we know exactly how much Don Nelson disliked Mark Cuban. After quitting the Mavericks and saying he was just tired of the travel and ready to settle down with his wife on…
The new Polyphonic Spree EP’s out next Tuesday. Most of it’s somewhere online right now. The new Polyphonic Spree album’s being released a week from today. Well, kinda. First off, it’s not really the new album, which will be titled The Fragile Army and released next year. It’s actually just…
With the signing of a first major title sponsor, the Dallas White Rock Marathon continues to run in the right direction. At a press conference this morning at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, race officials and Mayor Laura Miller announced that Atlanta-based real estate company Wellstone Communities has signed…
AT&T officials want you to know this WFAA-Channel 8 story from Friday is right. And very wrong. I got an e-mail this a.m. from Natasha Seeley at AT&T announcing a press conference tomorrow morning at the Dallas Museum of Art, during which Mayor Laura and the Kilgore College Rangerettes will…
A singer of Hebrew spirituals: Joshua Nelson would get me to synagogue every day. Too bad he was in Dallas for one day. Sunday I told the missus I was thinking of converting to Judaism, till she reminded me I am, in fact, one of the Chosen People. Hunh. Really…
This picture was taken yesterday, when Jerry Jones tried to take back Terrell Owens’ jersey. Sorry. That’s just wishful thinking. I watched as late as I could, but it was exhausting and I was exhausted: Some time around 1:30 this morning, Andre Agassi won his first-round match at the U.S…
A Friend of Unfair Park who used to work for Dallas’ Only Daily sends this e-missive concerning just who it is Belo Corp.’s trying to please with this latest round of buyouts: “Maybe the whole lack of understanding on the part of the professional journalists (as opposed to the professional…
Wanna know how The Dallas Morning News is advertising itself to advertisers? All you gotta do is click here to visit the paper’s new Web site, which, it says here, is designed to serve as a “a one-stop solution site for its advertising clients and employees.” Says Bernie Heller, the…
