It’s not quite eight in the morning, and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage. Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political…
Looking as pale as a ghost, her once raven-black hair now gray, Sandra Camille Bridewell shuffled into a federal courtroom in North Carolina for a hearing on Monday. Wearing red prison garb, hands cuffed behind her back and shackles on her legs, the “Black Widow” from Dallas was sandwiched between…
CharleyPride.com The Pride of North Texas: Charley Pride, that is, an annual fixture at Rangers spring training SURPRISE, Arizona — Eight months from now we’ll either remember this as the day your Texas Rangers commenced a stunning turnaround. Or, more likely, the day they unofficially officially began a ninth consecutive…
Perhaps the translation’s slightly off, but it seems Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía has given us a sneak peek into his future political plans. Today Radio Euskadi — which is broadcast throughout Basque Country in Spain, where Anchía’s family comes from — ran an interview with the Haynes & Boone attorney…
Last week came news that the Dallas Independent School District would be repaying federal grant money is was using rather inappropriately — like, $316,000 worth of federal grant money. That dough, provided by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant, was supposed to go to HIV prevention education efforts…
I guess it makes sense, as the Dallas Cowboys great is an Arkansas native: Today Cliff Harris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. As in, “Many told me I would never play in the NFL, let alone win a Super Bowl ring or two. Similar cynics may say the same thing…
Mark Graham In more Plano-based author news: Kerry Max Cook — the innocent man imprisoned for 16 years for a horrific crime he didn’t commit — has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, for his book Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two…
Irving-based Zale Corporation, which moved from Wichita Falls to the Mercantile Bank Building in downtown Dallas in 1946, has hit a rough patch — again. Fourteen years after getting out from under Chapter 11, the company, which once boasted some 1,700 locations, announced today it’s shuttering 105 stores this year…
In early December, we mentioned the then-impending publication of Robert Rummel-Hudson’s book Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter. Since then, the University of Texas at Arlington architecture communication coordinator has been popping up in plenty of places — as has his daughter Schuyler, who’s finding the words,…
Dallas Stars/NHL Brad Richards, now a Dallas Star — the hockey team, I believe Out here in Surprise, Arizona, it’s sunny and 82 degrees and far, far removed from hockey season. But back there, I hear the team I said never makes any noise actually made some noise, eh? Not…
Over at DC9, music editor Pete Freedman — who I will stop calling “the new guy” in, like, a year — brings word that last night’s Erykah Badu release party-birthday throwdown brought in an extra extra-special guest: some dude named Dave Chappelle, who apparently comes out of hiding only at…
HillaryClinton.com Feel the love, because come a week from today, we’re getting dumped. First thing’s first, as today Barack Obama’s in Duncanville at the Sandra Meadows Memorial Arena on Camp Wisdom; the so-called “Stand for Change” town hall event begins at 4:45 p.m., with doors opening two hours earlier, and…
Tomorrow’s city council meeting is filled with several interesting items — though once again, the addendum is where the most titillating items can be found. So much to get to: the convention-center hotel, natural-gas drilling, cell phones … You know what? We need more room to stretch out. Like maybe…
Brian Harkin As promised, here’s a slideshow featuring Brian Harkin’s photos of Bill Clinton’s visit to Grauwyler Park this morning. Above, a personal favorite. And, no, it doesn’t remind me of this picture. At all. –Robert Wilonsky…
The greatness of Gorilla vs. Bear has hopped into the Wayback Machine and dialed up 1994 — back when one “J. Kidd” collaborated with Digital Underground’s Money B. on the shit … dang it … hit single “What the Kidd Didd.” It’s been kinda making the rounds in recent weeks:…
The Dallas Center for Architecture — no, really The Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the name of the architect chosen to design the interior of the Dallas Center for Architecture, scheduled to bow in September at 1909 Woodall Rodgers Freeway — overlooking the thus-far hypothetical…
Brian Harkin Former president Bill Clinton, speaking moments ago to a small crowd near Grauwyler Park. A surreal scene a couple of hours ago, a real WTF moment: Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, standing in the back of a blue pick-up truck off Harry Hines Boulevard and…
Dean Fearing, already tapped as the greatest thing since toasted bread in Esquire a few months back, gets a nice, lengthy shout-out in the new Newsweek: He’s “A Chicken-Fried Gourmet,” haw-haw. Writes Julia Reed of the Ritz-Carlton eatery: “Fearing’s is unpretentious, not crazy expensive and lots of fun — it…
I’m headed out to Surprise, Arizona, today for a week at Texas Rangers spring training, which, I know, sounds about as inviting as a lunch-time waterboarding session. But, hey, duty calls. Like most of you, I’m not real jazzed about this Rangers season. We’re not alone. Fox and ESPN have…
Speaking of High School Reunion, as we were yesterday, here’s the promo for the TV Land series starring 16 former J.J. Pearce High School Mustangs who, apparently, really wanted to go to Hawaii. Go, Class of ’87! Takeaway: “You slept with your best friend’s ex-wife.” “And I’m man enough to…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking last week at Reunion Arena, hopes to create the same kind of event in Fort Worth on Thursday. I’m leaving shortly to see Bill Clinton speak at Grauwyler Park off Harry Hines Boulevard; was thinking of grabbing breakfast at the Original Market Diner anyway. Also,…
Thomas O. Hicks Jr., VP of Hicks Sports Group Thomas O. Hicks Jr., what in the hell is wrong with you? I ask only because a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story about how the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars’ owner’s sonny boy went to a pub in…
