Beginning in June we told you the tale of South Side of Lamar coffee house-slash-performance space Standard & Pours Coffee & Stocks and how the actual Standard & Poor’s wanted it to change its name…or else. First there were threatening letters sent from Standard & Poor’s owner McGraw-Hill Company to…
The magnificent aroma had but to waft enticingly around my olfactory receptors, and I was seduced. The bubbly sound of plastic on plastic sent my senses into overdrive. Ravenous, I pulled the Lean Cuisine from the microwave, tore the clear wrap off my partitioned Salisbury steak and macaroni and cheese…
At first glance, Deborah Williams wouldn’t strike you as a hip-hop matriarch. In her mid-40s, the soft-spoken Williams has a kind face and a sweet smile. A single mother of two sons, Cordero and Curtis (who goes by Junior), ages 18 and 20, she moves with a certain relaxed air,…
One April morning, Richard Chichakli, a slender man of Syrian descent, was sitting behind his personal computer, checking e-mail and preparing for the day. His wife and teenage son were sleeping in another room of their modest brick home in Richardson. At 6 a.m., Chichakli says, he heard banging on…
High flying: ‘Tis the season of joy and peace and that sweaty, panicking feeling that afflicts those who, like Buzz, tend to procrastinate. Still haven’t got that special someone a holiday gift? Man, you are so screwed, but fear not, Buzz can help. First, get $200,000… Hah! Of course, we…
The Minutemen Payback is coming: I can honestly appreciate what Clark Kirby is trying to do for his country (“The Hunted,” by Megan Feldman, December 14). After all, everyone needs something in their lives to make them feel significant. However, this small hobby of his is distracting from the real…
Suhhhhhnnnaaaap! With a bold, brilliant pop of its fingers, the University of North Texas placed its football program in good hands. Great hands. Skilled, innovative, virtuoso hands. Todd Dodge’s hands. “I believe we can win, win consistently and win big here,” Dodge said to a beaming, buzzing Mean Green Athletic…
On Halloween we told you that the largest commercial real estate company in the world, Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., was acquiring Trammell Crow Company for $2.2 billion. The only thing standing in the way of the deal going down was Trammell Crow shareholders’ giving their A-OK. Well,…
Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead A Friend of Unfair Park who’s been following our coverage of the closing of the Ash Creek Mobile Home Park points us to Pegasus News today. There, Mike Orren suggests ways folks can help the neediest of the some 100 residents getting…
Larry James today writes that DHA’s president and CEO Ann Lott “has been doing her part without fanfare” and now finds herself in a “battle” because of it. Central Dallas Ministries’ president and CEO Larry James posted to his blog today a lengthy essay on Dallas Housing Authority president and…
Rachel Raya in Bill Hill’s office has faxed over the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office open-file policy. You can read it in its one-page entirety after the jump. Seems clear enough, and it also seems to provide prosecutors with certain outs, like the sentence about being able to “redact portions”…
You know who was good at robbing banks? Bill Murray in Quick Change. From the There is No Smart Way to Rob a Bank Department: Four Hurricane Katrina evacuees, all with extensive criminal records, appeared before a federal judge yesterday for their alleged part in a Saturday bank heist in…
Friend of Unfair Park Scott Henson, who runs the terrific legal-issues blog Grits for Breakfast, has a suggestion for Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins: “The new Democratic DA should announce an ‘open file’ policy similar to the one” in place in Tarrant County. The Austin-based Henson, riffing on a…
Amos Lee is playing the NHL All-Star game at the AAC? There’s one more reason not to like hockey right there. Robert Randolph and The Family Band? The Wreckers? The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus? If your name isn’t Robert Wilonsky, stop me when you’ve heard of one. Amos Lee? Mary McBride?…
Who knew the Dallas Cowboys helmet actually features the star of Bethlehem? It was almost two years ago that Sports Illustrated’s Steve Rushin first wrote about then-14-year-old Tyler Kessler, whose life pretty much consisted of chemotherapy to treat his cancer and kidney dialysis necessary because his kidneys were failing. Tyler…
Tony Romo’s in the Pro Bowl, along with QBs Drew Brees and Marc Bulger. That’s a sack lunch for ya. If you saw this day coming, you’re clairvoyant. And you should’ve cashed in. Tony Romo’s remarkable emergence was validated today as the quarterback was one of four Dallas Cowboys named…
I do believe the NFL’s due to announce its Pro Bowl roster shortly; Richie will chime in at the appropriate moment. Till then, here’s this football related nugget from north of the border, where the cold air apparently does strange things to people. Dig this: Terrell Owens had the best-selling…
Know anyone on your Christmas shopping list with really eclectic musical tastes, or perhaps someone who just needs a crapload of red Tower Records shopping baskets? If so, then head to Tower on Lemmon Avenue pretty much, oh, right now. Because come Thursday, it will be gone — outta bidness,…
Craig Watkins, above, has named Terri Moore to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office — a year after she was representing a man who pleaded guilty to a sex crime. Last week, Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins announced his transition team; today, we get a hint of what the…
Did you happen to notice that The Dallas Morning News got a shout-out on the Late Show with David Letterman last night? Not the good kind, either; nothing like when a big-city daily winds up in the “Small Town News” segment. Seems Dallas’ Only Daily recently reprinted a quote from…
The old Parkland’s now without windows, giving it a far less sinister vibe just in time for the holidays. Ladies and gentlemen, you have been lied to. And it’s my fault. Not deliberately, of course, because nearly a year ago, I told you that a guy named Byron Head was…
Last week, Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka got a copy of a December 16 missive that the “Faculty, Administrators, & Staff” of SMU’s Perkins School of Theology sent to R. Gerald Turner, president of the Board of Trustees. In this letter, which is making the rounds among the SMU staff and…
