Charlie Sheen

Does Anyone Have a Notion of What JC Penney Even Is Now?

I'm trying to think if there is a way the latest news about Plano-based JC Penney could be any more depressing. I was already pretty depressed when I read about the billion dollars in 2012 losses on a four billion dollar drop in sales this morning, and that was before I got to the story about the Ma ... More >>

Charles Swan III: Not Even a Coppola Can Make a Charlie Sheen Vehicle Watchable

Inside the Mind of Charlie Sheen

Free Wheel'n Cafe Makes Little League Way More Bearable

I was going to start this out with a little baseball anecdote, but I don't actually know much about the rules of the sport so it would have read something like this: Number 8 on the green team hit the ball and then a bunch of kids ran around, then someone on the red team caught the ball and the um ... More >>

Anthony Jeselnik: The Best Comedian You Don’t Know

Roasted to a Turn

Wiping the Sheen off Conservative Rich Guys' Morality

​Today, a commenter on a previous blog item of mine about GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain suggested it was mighty mysterious that President Obama doesn't have any sexual peccadilloes in his closet when so many Republican presidential contenders seem to. "Joshua," the commenter, suggest ... More >>

Born to Fill … Bingo Cards

Ingergalactic Invasion

Good Friday: Kings Of Leon, Band Of Horses and The Best of The Rest This Weekend

The Kangs​The biggest show this weekend, for better or for worse, is headlined by a group of Followills known as Kings Of Leon. The show will take place tonight at Gexa Energy Pavilion. And, with Band Of Horses as the opening act, we suggest that the tour be called The Bands That Started Off Great ... More >>

Shaved Ice, Bubble Tea, and Other Ways to Counteract the Presently Hellish Outdoors

​After 24 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures, there seems no way to escape the vile clutches of a sweat bath the instant you leave the house. Fortunately, City of Ate has found some places to bring your core temperature down from scalding. So before you rush out to the movies to see ... More >>

The Tease That is Rangers Pitcher Derek Holland Continues, Escalates

​One night he's Sandy Koufax; the next Sandy Duncan. For two starts he's Kate Upton; then last night we get a heaping, hideous dose of Kate Smith. More? No? Get the picture? Good. Because when it comes to Rangers' starter Derek Holland, you never know if you're getting beauty or the beast. Af ... More >>

Whitt's End: 7.1.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Rangers return from Houston today to start a series in Arlington against the lowly Florida Marlins. Did anyone go to the airport to see the Silver Boot as Nolan Ryan triumphantly raised it? ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.24.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Love the Mavs' draft. Turning the 26th pick into Rudy Fernandez is a big win. Think of Fernandez, 26 and a three-year veteran with the Blazers, as a younger, better Peja Stojakovi ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.29.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Most surprising thing about Cowboys first-round draft pick Tyron Smith? According to scout Walter Juliff, he's related to a former Cowboy with the same last name. Goes by the nam ... More >>

Divine Intervention: Last Night's Show Proved Only Charlie Sheen Can Save Us From Ourselves

A still from the short film Jeff made about last night's "performance," which follows after the jump​It was a Wednesday afternoon, so I traded my neighbor's vintage Fender Telecaster for an eight ball and locked myself in the hallway bathroom. I pulled out the dirty mirror from underneath the sink ... More >>

Charlie Sheen at AAC: My Top 10 Observer-ations

Not exactly a sellout at Sheen's supposed 8 p.m. kickoff 10. I'm not real good sucky at math, but I'm estimating there were 1,500 people at American Airlines Center last night for Charlie Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth" Tour. The AAC holds 20,000, and no way it was 10 percent full. Sad. 9. ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Black Lips at The Loft, Lauryn Hill at House of Blues, James Taylor at the Music Hall at Fair Park and Seryn at Renfield's.

A fairly packed Wednesday night of music awaits the discerning listener who wishes to venture out this evening. Oh, and Charlie Sheen will be winning with tiger blood at the AAC tonight, too.

A Fuzzy Empire, Rare Puns and More This Week on Food Blogs

​If you like lists or food trucks (and who doesn't?) it was a good week to be a Dallas blog reader. Nancy Nichols ate a bunch of steak, a blog post inspires readers to plug their iPods into onions, and Fuzzy's Tacos shops are popping up like.... Something that pops up quickly and all over. Lik ... More >>

TC's Shaved Ice: Don't Wait for Your Butt to Sweat to Enjoy a Treat.

The Atomic Pie: Go Ahead. Drop the Big One on Your Heart.

Martellus Bennett Ruins Texas A&M's One Shining Moment

Danielle Adams: Charlotte Barkley?​And you thought I was actually going to blab about women's basketball? Okay, here goes: Texas A&M beat Notre Dame for the National Championship last night. Love coach Gary Blair, who cut his coaching teeth at South Oak Cliff High School. But, let's be ... More >>

The Problem With... Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now (Feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes)"

I tell ya, Chris Brown's pattern of emotional breakdowns makes for some good drama. It's kinda like watching a show about cakes -- I don't really care about the cakes, I just want to see them fall over. Cakes and celebrities are similar in that way.Anyway, Brown's been complaining lately that we pra ... More >>

Charlie Sheen, Mark Cuban and Jimmy Kimmel. Surely You Too Have Had a Dream Like This.

​Sure Sign No. 4,928 that a celebrity's "breakdown" is a bit: He interrupts a celebrity guest's late-night chat-show appearance to shine the spotlight on himself for a while by acting "crazy" while simultaneously hawking an entire catalog's worth of product and upcoming appearances on the concert- ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Bringing His "Violent Torpedo" Tour to the American Airlines Center

​Apparently, Charlie Sheen's not going anywhere. Matter of fact, according to The Hollywood Reporter, he's coming to Dallas on April 27 at part of his Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option tour -- tickets for which go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m., says Ticketmaster. And w ... More >>

Oh, Lordy: First Baptist's Jeffress Preaching About Quakes? I Think I'll Head Out of Town.

​I'm really worried about what the Reverend Robert Jeffress is going to say at Dallas First Baptist Church Sunday about the quake in Japan. I live within a three-mile radius of First Baptist, and I'm afraid I won't be far enough away. The ad for his sermon that appeared here on Unfair Park ye ... More >>

Just Remember, Mayor Dwaine: Confession is Good for the Soul, Better for the Memory

​I covered part of last week's school board meeting on the budget crisis. I was way back in back of the room gossiping with other reporters, which is really the only thing I like about news events any more, and nobody wanted to talk about the school board crisis. We all wanted to talk about Dw ... More >>

Grab Your Green Hat! More Ideas for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day Early

He's got his green hat. Got yours?​Unless you're hanging out at Charlie Sheen's Sober Valley Ranch tomorrow and trying to stay, um, sober, you're not going to want to miss our St. Patrick's Day Concert featuring the Toadies, Ishi and more. But if you're not going to make it to our party, we've got ... More >>

Listomania: 11 Songs That Remind Us Of Charlie Sheen's Winning Ways.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinning.​It doesn't seem to matter what's going on in Libya, Egypt or even Washington D.C.; somehow, a pretty mediocre actor's personal life has been managing to lead every newscast and dominate discussion on every talk radio show throughout the past week. I ... More >>

Part II of ABC News's Extremely American Makeover: Home Edition For One Dallas Family

ABC NewsJon and Anna Usry and the family, right before ABC News stole all their stuff​Yesterday we watched ABC News's David Muir do Diane Sawyer's bidding and empty the Snow White Drive home of Jon and Anna Usry of everything not made in the U.S. and A. Though, as several Friends of Unfair Park no ... More >>

A Man Among Boys

Today In Music News: Train Causes Sheen Fight, Jack White Rants Against Hipsters And Mark Wahlberg Over Marky Mark

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010...The Train hit song "Drops of Jupiter" was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn't like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music ... More >>

Wild Sheen

Former Cowboy Mark Stepnoski Is a Pro-Bowl Conspiracy Theorist

Greed Machine

Wall Street moves to Main Street

Living Single

See The Merry Widow in Fair Park

Feeling Feverish?

(Definitely Not) America's Team

Less Than One

Swords and Swashes

Men in tights take the stage

Daddy, Help!

Big Daddy's Grill House is good, but bring a defibrillator

Elmore or Less

There's little merit toThe Big Bounce

Over and Dunne

Lisa Picard treads a well-worn path

Well Dunne

The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

Angel, Low To The Ground

Fox hits another iceberg

Out of bounds

Stone fumbles the rock in Any Given Sunday

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Out there

The Arrival's creepy tale of alien infiltration makes believers out of us

Buzz

Black and white

Madonna isn't a failed icon; she's a failed artist