Looks like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did OK during his recent fundraising swing through Texas: He took home some $300,000 in campaign donations, says today’s San Francisco Chronicle, including $22,300 from Affiliated Computer Services, the Dallas company with a $10 million financial management contract with the California state controller. And…
If so, Dallas director Gurinder Chadha wants to talk to you. From the sound of this, the director’s been to Texas to scout locations for the big-screen adaptation of the TV show, which probably tickles Dallas Film Commission honcho Janis Burklund; maybe they’ll shoot J.R. in, or around, Dallas after…
One day after news broke here that Sheriff Lupe Valdez flunked a required state law enforcement test, Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher is thinking that the folks down in Austin need to draw some guidelines on who exactly can ascend to the top law enforcement position in Texas counties. “You…
You may remember a profile we ran on FC Dallas striker Carlos Ruiz last month. When Ruiz started playing Major League Soccer in 2002, he scored four goals in his first two games and went on to win the league scoring title and the championship. In the years since, however,…
Texas Gigs hinted at it last week, and The Dallas Morning News confirmed it yesterday, but it was just a matter of time before it became official: Bill’s Records is moving. The announcement jumps the gun a bit, as the record store’s current lease doesn’t run out for another eight…
Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Eighteen-year-olds Joseph Robert Tellini, at left, and Ian McConnell Walker were popped for those infamous pot muffins. Neighbors in Casa Linda Estates say that 18-year-old Joseph Tellini, the Lake Highlands senior charged with felony assault by marijuana muffin, has been “out of control” for the last…
For those who can’t get enough about MADI madness–meaning, of course, the ongoing legal battle between artist Volf Roitman and the Kilgore Law Center about which we spilled gallons of virtual ink last week–there was a small development yesterday. U.S. District Judge Joe Fish sent United States Attorney General Alberto…
I went to the American Airlines Center last night, and, like you, I want to pull Steve Nash’s hair out. Little bastard did it to his old team again, scoring 10 straight points in the blink of an eye down the stretch to help his Phoenix Suns rally over Dallas…
Who doesn’t love it when Lower Greenville turn-that-noise-downer Avi Adelman gets into it with a club owner? But we feel kinda bad that his latest spat’s with former Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Joe Avezzano, who told more stories than the Bible when he showed up to present some Dallas…
No, really. And I ain’t saying this just because I do a little work for the guy. Over the last few days, news has spread about his latest venture called Content Partners; two days after NBC had the story, it’s already in the overseas papers. It works like this, best…
In wow-he-must-really-suck news, Quincy Carter got cut yesterday from the Montreal Alouettes less than a week into the team’s training camp. And the former Cowboys QB isn’t taking it lying down or toking up: “This is a joke…an insult,” he said Wednesday, just after the Canadian Football League team handed…
In the awed silence, you can almost hear the mouths watering as 50 or so people in the audience stare at the screen. The numbers are staggering. BioPerformance, Inc. was founded not even five months ago in Irving, but in that short time, Scott Chandler, standing next to the screen…
The throbbing of animal-skin drums, some almost as tall as the boys pounding them, fills a banquet room at Cityplace while girls dressed in African wax cloth, with short grass skirts tied like bustles around their waists and bells around their ankles, stamp out an ancient rhythm. Lawyers and judges…
After his team upset the 49ers in San Francisco in the 1992 NFC Championship, exuberant Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson climbed atop a chair in the locker room with an interrogative declaration: “How ’bout them Cowboys?!” After his team upset the defending champion Spurs in San Antonio Monday night in…
As Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez faces questions about her department’s skyrocketing overtime costs, at least some of her jailers have been logging hours that seem to defy common sense. For the last 24 months, Detention Service Officer Muriana Olugbode has made nearly $175,000 by working about 80 hours a…
Somebody Say Omen Rantings of an idiot: At last, someone is writing about what can only be described as completely narcissistic, despicable and criminal behavior by Davidson (“The Devil and Doyle Davidson,” by Glenna Whitley, May 18). I am astounded that so many people would listen to and follow the…
Tick-tock: It’s coming up on a year since the news broke of the FBI’s corruption investigation into City Hall’s dealings with…huh? What investigation, you ask? You remember. Last June, the FBI searched the offices of Dallas City Council members Don Hill and James Fantroy, along with the offices of Southwest…
This morning, I took a drive with my favorite tour guide, Preservation Dallas’ honcho Dwayne Jones, who offered me a sneak peek at the list of Dallas’ 11 most endangered properties, which he is releasing tomorrow. Though it won’t be official till then–there are still facts to be checked, etc.–lemme…
You’ve seen the infamous pictures of Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash drunk in a bar with a pal taken way back in 2003. Now, I think, comes the unearthing of a tribute song to said friend. There is no way it’s real. But I know it’s real bad. Otherwise, I’m…
To provide a little context to Mayor Laura’s earlier missive about the fate of the Business Assistance Center in Oak Cliff and the future of others who come before the council to request federal block grant money, here’s a note sent along by one of Unfair Park’s favorite contributors, Lorlee…
Frank Bruni, dining critic for The New York Times, today posted the results of his nine-day, 42-stop, 3,650-mile journey to review and rate the best fast food in America. From the McDonald’s in Piscataway, New Jersey, to the El Pollo Loco in Torrance, California, Bruni subjected his stomach and the…
Dirk Nowitzki is humming David Hasselhoff. Steve Nash digs Nelly Furtado. And Michael Finley, well, he’s singing the blues. Those three once had perfect harmony as the Dallas Mavericks’ Big Three, but in a cruel act of irony it’s Finley–the one forced out of Dallas–who’ll be forced to watch as…
