No idea how we missed this one, but a couple of weeks back, the Barbie Doll Collectors Convention came to town — well, the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, close enough. Far as I can tell, there was a fashion show during which growed-ups dressed like Barbie dolls; fine,…
The thing I like about Fox News is how reliable it is. I needed something to scare me into believing the country is being overrun with immigrants who will take away my American way of life and my unalienable rights to drink Bud Light and listen to Toby Keith. And…
In news that prompts an initial reaction of “Why, oh, why couldn’t it be Tom Hicks?”, Mark Cuban’s interest in buying the Chicago Cubs has escalated from superficial to serious. Cuban has filed the official paperwork with Major League Baseball, joining a prestigious pile of prospective buyers for the fabled…
Joseph Farah looks a little like Doug Henning, if you kind of squint your eyes. Or Yanni. Ron Glass, maybe? In the past, Joseph Farah has advocated resurrecting the Hollywood blacklist (all because of Johnny Depp and George Clooney — sorry, “George Looney,” oof) and the murdering of cheating spouses…
Earlier today we mentioned the Associated Press story about Earth Biofuels’ creditors seeking Chapter 7 liquidation of the Knox Street-based company. Well, Forbes has just followed it with a piece that pretty much lays it all out there: “The Party’s Over,” reads the headline, which is old news to folks…
Frankie Campagna, son of good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna and front man for self-proclaimed greaser punks Spector 45, needs your help. This morning, his van was stolen — and inside was all his gear, which he’d packed for a show tonight down in Deep Ellum. After the jump,…
Texas Rangers director of communications Gregg Elkin, an all-around fine American, today e-mailed Unfair Park a pic of the new sign installed this week over the Home Plate entrance at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Says Rangers president Jeff Cogen, “This signage replacement at the home plate entrance represents the…
Courtesy KDFW-Channel 4 First Jim Schutze had to go and ruin that Trinity River buzz, now it’s the Drug Enforcement Agency. Says here that DEA agents just today found “a large number of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area near the Trinity River.” KDFW-Channel 4’s reporting that the stuff…
Cat Cora will be here in September to debut Dallas’ chapter of Chefs for Humanity. So, all together now, allez cuisine! At the bottom of the press release announcing what we already knew — The Ritz-Carlton Dallas is opening August 15 — there’s a note with some actual new news:…
Meet Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy Saturday. Bask in his Quiet Strength. Sickened by yet another Texas Ranger complaining, when he just should shut up and start homering? Bummed that OU’s 2005 football team, in hindsight, actually went 0-4? Depressed that, despite repeated first-round playoff flame-outs, the Dallas Stars are…
Doesn’t seem so long ago that Dallas-based Earth Biofuels was a company on the rise: Julia Roberts, Willie Nelson and Morgan Freeman were shareholders and on the board of directors, and exactly one year ago, Roberts signed on to act as spokeswoman for the alternative-fuels company HQ’d on Knox Street…
Sandra Bridewell’s never been convicted of murder. But now she’s got federal forgery charges pending, which makes her like, what, Al Capone? It’s been, what, six days since our last item on the Black Widow; we’re due an update, right? Especially when it turns out to be this interesting: Yesterday,…
Rub it in, dude, rub it in. In today’s Chicago Tribune, columnist Phil Rogers — a former Dallas Times Herald man, I might add — offers up his mid-season baseball honors, and as far as he and the stats are concerned, there’s no better pitcher in the National League than…
Ellis Short is co-founder and vice chairman of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds — you remember, the company that can’t seem to get out of trouble with the South Korean government over the Korean Exchange Bank. Turns out, Short, who was a wanted man in South Korea only a few months…
Casey Thompson: It’s my pantry, and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Casey Thompson, executive chef at Lynae Fearing and Tracy Rathbun’s Shinsei on Inwood Road, may be an evil genius. Dunno much about her, other than what the editors have chosen to show of…
The Texas Rangers stink and, fittingly, general manager Jon Daniels feels like raw fish. “I put our name on the list,” Daniels says as I arrive for lunch at Las Colinas’ Blue Fish restaurant. “Should just be a few minutes.” Cool. Wait. I mean…huh? You’re telling me the Rangers’ No…
At first blush, Timothy Ralston seems like any other professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has a gray beard, neatly parted hair, and a vast knowledge of Christian scripture. But there is something unusual, some would even say subversive, about this conservative former pastor. He’s a Harry Potter fan. To…
To hear him tell it, Richard Chichakli would like nothing more than to return to his humdrum life as a Richardson accountant. But thanks to the U.S. government, that may never happen. In April 2005, federal agents with guns drawn stormed Chichakli’s modest brick home, informing him that they had…
When the Levee Breaks The Corps’ fault: Jim Schutze’s July 5 article, “Go With Your Gut,” holds the Corps of Engineers blameless for its faulty design of the levees that failed after Katrina. Mr. Schutze goes on to swear that had the Corps been left alone, there would have been…
Emily Dowdy and her father Charlie, at home in Hillsboro Exactly two years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, we wrote about Hillsboro native Emily Dowdy, a former University of Oklahoma student who, in May 1999, was driving a car that rammed into one driven by Ryan Brewer,…
Harry Hunsicker has “a flair for turning phrases.” And really nice hair too. In case you missed it a few weeks back, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for some Dallas commercial real estate appraiser named Harry Hunsicker, who writes damned good books in his spare time. Hunsicker’s third Lee…
Harriet Miers’ SMU yearbook pic from 1967 — and I gotta say, kinda cute. Hey, looks like Harriet Miers won’t have to make the trip from Dallas to D.C. after all. Apparently, it doesn’t matter if Congress commands you to testify before a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday investigating the…
