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Dallas designer Marion Lee Last week we broke the news, such as it is, that Dallas will, for the first time, have a designer on the very haute Project Runway, which starts its stride on Bravo on November 14. We’ve since learned a little more about 39-year-old Marion Lee –…

U.S. Attorney Richard Roper’s throwing his annual kickoff-to-fall this morning at the Earle Cabell Federal Building. The parade’s begun, reports The Dallas Morning News, which is on Indictment Watch at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. Unfair Park has its own team on the way — by which we…

Well, you can’t say you didn’t see it coming. Exactly four months after Citigroup analyst Eileen Furukawa upgraded Belo Corp.’s stock from “hold” to “buy” based on the value of company’s TV properties alone, The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV’s parent company announced, yup, it’s separating its newspaper and TV…

Our feisty kid sister brings word that Club Dada has a new co-owner, and it’s none other than very good Friend of Unfair Park Amanda Newman. She’s now one of three owners, along with David Seeberger and A Hard Night’s Day’s Bob Cummins, who rescued the joint last year after…

There’s a battle brewing in Denton County — Highland Village, specifically — over the Texas Department of Transportation’s plans to expand FM 2499. At the DFW Regional Concerned Citizens Web site today, there’s a post about how the farm-to-market road, which will intersect with IH-35 near FM 2181, was originally…

This is a blog entry about the Dallas auditions for TV Land’s newest reality competition show, She’s Got The Look, wherein “women 35 and older who exude sophistication, beauty and confidence” compete to be “the next great supermodel.” I was going to start this blog entry by talking about how…

Ray Hunt, who’s only following in his friend George’s footsteps One week after George W. Bush said he didn’t know nothin’ ’bout no deal ‘tween his buddy Ray Hunt and the Kurdistan Regional Government, which allows Hunt Oil Company to drill for oil over the Iraq, a Bush Administration official’s…

So, this week we’ve learned that Irving is the new Farmers Branch. Two days after some 1,000-plus marched on Irving’s City Hall, protesting that city’s turning over suspected illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at least one religious leader in that suburb is insisting Hispanics are being targeted without…

Marion Lee, meet your two new best friends. Noticed last night during the first part of the Top Chef finale that Project Runway returns for its fourth season on November 14 — and, like, not a moment too soon. And, you guessed it, there will indeed be a hometowner trying…

Along with announcing the creation of the new Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, to be based in Richardson, Governor Rick Perry yesterday asked the state’s Employees Retirement System and Teachers Retirement System to divest any funds from companies doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran, for its role in sponsoring…

Sarah Jaffe Two weeks ago, we mentioned the forthcoming documentary titled At War, about U.S. combat troops stations in Afghanistan. It was directed and shot entirely by a former soldier-turned-photojournalist from Portland named Scott Kesterson, who spent a year in Afghanistan and is currently in Dallas editing the movie with…

Former city council member James Fantroy told Channel 11’s Jack Fink he’s heard rumors that indictments are “coming down pretty soon.” I just returned from a screening to discover, via FrontBurner, that a hearty mazel tov’s due Jack Fink for breaking the news that our long national nightmare’s near an…

Three days ago, an auction ended on eBay, and the winner will have to pony up $47,100 to claim the item, which was no small thing: a role in a forthcoming Will Ferrell movie. Actually, it kind of is a small thing: “Note to bidders – The role that is…

Casey Thompson: still in the saddle, one of three remaining chef vying for the title of Top Chef Wednesday was almost a very bad day for Mark Cuban and Casey Thompson, both of whom came this close to getting shipped from reality-TV back to the real world. Cuban finished in…

We see all: By the time you read this, the Great Trinity Toll Road Debate of 2007, Leppert vs. Hunt in a tag-team smack-down cage match, will be over. Unfortunately, Dallas Observer deadlines, which oddly coincide with happy hour at neighboring bars, prevent us from reporting on the outcome of…

Jeffrey Ellard lies in a bed at Presbyterian Hospital recovering from surgery. Nearly two weeks ago, doctors implanted a metal rod in his left leg in place of his femur. In June 2006, a judge ordered a special hearing allowing Ellard to be released from the Dallas County jail so…