We just received at Unfair Park HQ a copy of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 extravaganza Moulin Rouge — like we need another one? Only this one’s got the pink sleeve you see at right, courtesy Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As it turns out, 20th Century Fox is partnering…
During recent talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement in Vancouver, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab praised the 13-year-old agreement. “NAFTA works,” she told the Associated Press. The Democratic presidential candidates have been saying the opposite, citing American job loss, and they’re not the only ones who disagree with…
If you’ve ever walked around the shopping center at Mockingbird and McMillan — the one with the Pocket Sandwich Theatre, Whole Earth Provision Co., Premiere Video — you’ve no doubt run into Robert Thomas Crawford, or Bob, to the people who know him, and there are many. Among his friends…
Now we know the answer to: “What do Eva Longoria, John Legend and Lupe Valdez have in common?” Carlos Watson has been around your TV dial for the last few years, popping up as a chat-show host on such outlets as CNBC, CNN and BET. Now, it appears he has…
One of the greatest locally written and performed songs of the last 20 years, Homer Henderson’s “Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine” actually had a video — and, like, who knew? Well, the guy who made it, that’s who. And two days back, “Doyle” posted to the clip to…
You’re tired of meaningless, pre-season games. Tired of hollow, irrelevant complaining and waffling from Greg Ellis. What you, the Cowboys fan, need is a time-warp to September 9. Until then, a couple of options. If you want to meet ‘n’ greet the 2007 team all spiffied up in their formals,…
With one flag football game left before the new National Football League season means something, it’s a good time to pick up a book I’m having a hard time putting down: Mark Maske’s brand-new tome War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football’s NFC East. It’s a…
Dallas’ Connie Tipado, who took in dozens of Katrina evacuees Local filmmaker Ginny Martin spent the past two years exploring the impact of Hurricane Katrina through the lens of one African-American family. She followed them as they tried to find their way after losing their homes and community when the…
So, here’s the Web site containing all the info you’ll need to hack your iPhone. Only, not so fast, says one local attorney interviewed today by Computerworld, which is trying to figure out whether the modifications violate the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “It’s an extremely grey [area], because I…
Darren McGrady is the so-called “Royal Chef” — because, as he’s quick to remind you on his Web site, he spent “11 years at Buckingham Palace and 4 years until the tragic accident, as personal chef to Princess Diana.” He’s lived in Dallas since 1998, working as a personal chef…
You can’t travel far on the Interwebs without crashing into a story about Owen Wilson’s allegedly self-inducted trip to the hospital yesterday. And while the latest story sent by the Associated Press says my former drivers-ed classmate’s reps will soon issue a statement, TMZ.com says it has an official comment…
Even The Dallas Morning News yesterday called for the governor to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of Kenneth Foster. The September issue of Texas Monthly features a long story by Michael Hall on Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who is “rethinking the concept of guilt and innocence.” (The story deals,…
I’ll have much more in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, but in the wake of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick’s officially pleading guilty to dogfighting charges this morning in Richmond, Virgina, I thought I’d pass along this interesting nugget: Chihuahuas are meaner than pit bulls. Huh? True, according…
Reuben Armstrong and Bill Cosby, who is clearly a good friend Reuben Armstrong is a local talk-show host — his program’s on the Web, from the looks of it — and this week, he says he was supposed to publish a book called Snakes in the Pulpit. In it, he…
The Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment — or TRIAD, as it prefers to be called — announced this morning that it’s awarding more than $1.6 million in grants to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families living in the area. According to the release from the Army, “TRIAD established five…
“Can a Retail Web Site Be Social?” That’s the question posed by Liz C. Wang, an assistant professor in the College of Business at the University of Dallas, and three other Texas profs in a 10,000-word piece that appears in the latest Journal of Marketing. You could try to read…
If the National Enquirer and the Star are reporting it, then it must be true — otherwise, why would it be on ABC News.com? They’re all insisting that yesterday, Dallas’ Owen Wilson was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital, after he “slit his left wrist and [took] unidentified pills in…
Ingrid Mattson’s group is listed as a co-conspirator in the feds’ case against Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation. The Islamic Society of North America says its main purpose is to “be an exemplary and unifying Islamic organization in North America that contributes to the betterment of the Muslim community and society…
Brian Harkin Perhaps I missed a mention in Dallas’ Only Daily, but it says here that Rudy Giuliani has a new team of media consultants — and they’re right here, but of course. Giuiliani’s now in business with Scott Howell & Company, the Market Street-based firm teeming with Republican image-makers…
A little something-something for the ladies: Terrell Owens, sporting a very nice hat Tony Romo is healthy. Terrell Owens is happy. And, at 2-0, the Cowboys’ Super Bowl train is preparing to leave the station. OK, let’s not get carried away. In their last game the Cowboys scored only one…
We can think of a million questions for Jon Daniels, none of which we’d care to repeat in public at the moment. Got any questions for Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels? And, no, “How do you keep your job?” is not acceptable in this instance — at least, not…
Speaking of Dallas North Tollway closures, here’s an alternative worth considering: I didn’t know till I read this story today that Google provides an online transit guide for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, among a dozen other cities’ mass-transit systems. But, sure enough, here it is — complete with departure and…
