So, the city council just approved giving $515,000 to a man named David Dean? Who dat? Well, says on the council’s agenda he owns something called Dean International, which The Dallas Morning News called in June “a public policy consulting firm working for the city on the inland port.” He’s…
Becky Fischer is the leader of the Jesus Camp depicted in the controversial documentary being distributed by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. As promised in an earlier Bible Girl column, here’s a black evangelical perspective on Jesus Camp–from occasional Bible Girl contributor Stephanie Morris: I have to admit I’m always…
Whenever we see a picture of Chris Young in a Padres uniform, we cry just a little. Then we drink and cry some more. Then we drunk-dial Adam Eaton. Since firing Texas Rangers manager Buck Showalter a week ago, general manager Jon Daniels has been quiet about a replacement. Hitting…
PETA wants to protect these cockroaches, which are being served in the Six Flags buffet line. To PETA, an exterminator must be like Idi Amin. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals usually protests against the fur and cosmetics industries’ abuse of animals. Yesterday it took up the mighty cause…
The state owes Roger Staubach $4.20–which is my favorite number, if you know what I mean. Be cooler if you did. On Sunday, the Texas Comptroller’s office will once more publish its annual list of folks whose missing money the state has in its possession. Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s peeps sent…
It was a big story early this summer that has since been forgotten: a rich woman from around these parts and her cousin are in Los Angeles, see a 17-year-old mother and her baby and offer the mother $6,000 for the kid. The mother refuses. The two women come back…
This is why Mary Suhm’s getting a raise tomorrow, after city council approves the hike from $255,000 to $267,750 in her annual base salary. Today, in a memo marked “Important Highway Closure Notice,” she notified the honorable members of the city council (and city attorney Tom Perkins and some other…
This isn’t quite what the “secret” bathroom at the Cotton Bowl looks like, but to Corby on Saturday, well, it kinda looked just like this. Really, this is news you can actually use, actually. Yesterday on KTCK-AM’s (1310, The Ticket) afternoon-drive show “The Hardline,” co-co-host Corby Davidson recounted to Mike…
Dan Kramer K.A. Paul wants Dennis Hastert to stop worrying about Mark Foley and start concentrating on K.A. Paul. Damn right. It seems airplane-loving, leper-stealing, orphan-abandoning evangelist K.A. Paul has added another high-profile personality to his circle of associates. The Associated Press just reported that Paul–the Houstonian whose ministry has…
An old Friend of Unfair Park’s, Steve Dirkx, sure does love him some YouTube (though not as much as Google, heh). Over the past few days, the former Teenage Queer and Telefone (for the young and uninitiated, those are local punk bands of days long since past) has posted quite…
Darrel Rundus wants to preach at the State Fair of Texas. The city and State Fair say, “Unh-unh.” Meanwhile, everyone in the midway prays to God they don’t die. On the city council’s agenda tomorrow is a closed-session briefing concerning a lawsuit filed against the city. No big deal. Happens…
Parking is bad on Lower Greenville. But it could always be a little worse. Last night, about 35 members of the newly forged Belmont Neighborhood Association came together to talk with–and at–DPD’s Head Finest, Chief Kunkle, about the fact that crime is shitty, bars are loud and parking blows for…
Dean Karnazes is running, running, running into the record books. Us, we can barely bother to drive anywhere these days, much less run. Like Forrest Gump, one day Dean Karnazes (rhymes with oh-NASS-is) just started running. And so far, he hasn’t stopped. If you’re looking for a kook crazier than…
Till we went back and re-read Zac Crain’s 1999 story here, we forgot that Jessica Simpson was signed to a record deal in 1997. So, we almost done here? It’s been a while since we’ve had news about the big-screen version of Dallas, which is supposed to start shooting around…
At Abacus, Kent Rathbun and his peeps are selling garbage at premium prices, and that’s no knock, my friend. The subcription-only Wall Street Journal has a piece today on the surge of prix fixe and tasting menus popping up in restaurants across the country. Such menus are not only instruments…
According to Dallas’ Only Daily, Andrea Yates, pictured here, and Dena Schlosser are BFF! Like, OMG. No, really. They killed their kids because God needed them to. What they said, anyway. Yesterday, The Dallas Morning News offered the front-page story about how Andrea Yates and Dena Schlosser, who’re killin’ time…
Come this time, oh, December, the company that books the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie just might be runnin’ this lil’ ol’ South Side honky-tonk. AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. Really–that’s precisely what it says on the company’s Web site. And I…
There’s no good reason for posting this; has no local connection whatsoever, though, for argument’s sake, let’s just say there’s a very small chance someone here made it, in which case, well, we’d be remiss in not directing your attention to the best thing to hit YouTube since, ah, this?…
This may be the only time you see Terrell Owens getting behind Drew Bledsoe, because after the loss to Philly yesterday, Owens kinda threw his QB under the bus. Wish he’d taken a tire for the team, as well. Overlooked and underthrown, The Artist Formerly Known as T.O. officially deteriorated…
I have some notes from the weekend–something about “vote for Chris Bell, I guess,” “look into the price of foreign steel” and “find out more about this Terrell Owens”–but before we get to all that, here’s something from the archives worth opening your Monday with: David Bowie in 1978 at…
In May, our former colleague Rick Kennedy wrote about the Center for Media and Democracy’s report Fake TV News, in which the group blasted television networks and their affiliates for passing off paid-for news as The Real Thing–including, in one instance in February, our very own WFAA-Channel 8. Wrote Rick…
It took us a long time to realize this, but the printed word is dead. We know what you really want: videos. Well, that and Bible Girl, and if we can ever figure out a way to put those things together, hey, you will be the first to know. Among…
