Church of Scientology

Of Lance, Scientologists and Other Liars, Or Why the Truth Hurts

The weekend draws mercifully close, and I feel a need to revisit a couple themes touched on here earlier in the week. We started with Lance Armstrong on Monday. I predicted he would fake-confess and then offer a jail-house rationalization to the effect of, "I didn't do nuthin'." I admit this predict ... More >>

The Atlantic Magazine Flunks the Truthfulness Test With Scientology Ad

The Atlantic magazine has stumbled badly on that really hard multiple choice question at the end of the Journalism 101 final exam: "Lying to your readers is: 1) a good thing, or 2) a bad thing." One pictures them hunched over the bubble sheet, eyes squinted closed and pencil tips to their tongues, b ... More >>

The Mango Creme: New Girl Scout Cookie or STD?

It's known that I love Girl Scout cookies pretty hard. But, seriously Girl Scouts? Mango Creme NutrifusionTM cookie with vitamins in it? You thought that would please the masses?

Is Barrett Brown the Threatening One, or Is It the Guys Who Locked Him Up?

After the "Anonymous Spokesman's"arrest, toeing the line between speech and threats.

Christeene Vale is Your New Piece of Celebrity Meat

Christeene Vale is Your New Piece of Celebrity Meat

"I lost my old hair in Denver, girl, so I had to get new hair today," Christeene Vale says over the phone. "But, ya know, I have to fuck it up, wash it in the sink." Vale, who has been labeled a "drag terrorist," a nightmarish gutter of filth, bruise and overflowing sexuality, is telling me about t ... More >>

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson talks 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film.

You Aren't Expecting What The Master is Giving

Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

Best Films: 10 for 2012

You better watch out.

A Look Back at 11 Crazy-Great Holiday TV Moments

T'was the night(s) before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring 'cept you and your mouse. Click, click, click to these 11 merry moments of TV Christmas specials past -- some classic, some bizarre -- preserved online and ready to be rediscovered on YouTube and Hulu. Prese ... More >>

Kevin Devine Talks Nirvana, Politics and Your Texas Rangers: "You Guys Got a Good Club!"

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine is such an avid fan of the New York Mets that he named his first band Miracle of 86 in honor of that baseball club's surprising victory overthe Boston Red Sox in that year's World Series.But Devine is far more than a fan of The Great Game. He's an astute ... More >>

Listomania: The Ten Best Bands That Might Actually Be Cults

Listen: When you all wear the same uniform, people are gonna accuse you of being a cult.​There are plenty of bands over the years who have used the word "cult" in their names. From '70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult to '80s Brit rockers The Cult to '90s art rockers Cloud Cult to current indie darl ... More >>

At DTC, Many Reasons to See pretty; DSM's Xanadu Exudes Strange Magic; Theatre Arlington's Spelling Bee, a Winner

Richardson Theatre Centre And Onstage in Bedford Present More Jewish Comedy Than You Can Shake A Shiksa At

There's Greggo, One in a Series

​Reason No. 239 blog comments are a good thing: On Christmas, Friend of Unfair Park "whiskey a go go" posted a note to the Hawaii Bowl item that said, simply, "Here's a link to greggos show from last week." And, sure enough, one click later there was The Hammer on Wichita Falls AM radio. The archi ... More >>

The Sad View from Valley View

Signs like this one decorate dozens of empty storefronts at Valley View Center.​When I was a kid, Valley View was my mall -- bought my first skateboard (a Powell-Peralta purchased at the stand beneath the escalators), my first album (KISS's Double Platinum at the Disc Records) and my first guitar ... More >>

Chelsea Hardly

Dallas Fed Has OK News About Texas Economy. Son of Dallas Fed Head Has OK American Psycho Homage.

Guess this could go under the "From the RTF Department" category, since Miles Fisher has quite the estimable demo reel -- which includes a snippet from the video in which he parodies Tom Cruise's infamous Scientology promo. Or maybe "Business News for People Who Don't Read Business News," since Mile ... More >>

Wanna See Inside the Church of Scientology's New Las Colinas Digs? Here Ya Go.

A scene from the Dallas Scientology Center's making-of, not the way Tom Cruise intended. L.R.H. would so not be amused.Courtesy the very Vimeo "retriever" comes the most breathless making-of ever made documenting the construction of the new Church of Scientology Center in Las Colinas, which opened o ... More >>

Mother Hubbard: The Scientology Celeb Centre on Buckner's Still for Sale

Odd timing, but in the last couple of days, two Friends of Unfair Park have inquired about the for-sale sign in front of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre on Buckner. Yes, it's for sale -- has been since 2006, matter of fact, says Perry Jones of J&B Commercial, who's repping the 1940s m ... More >>

Blowing Smoke|Red-Faced Profession|From the Inside Too

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

Deck the halls with bombs of Xenu

Sci-Fi

Check out an Unauthorized musical

Dallas and Those "Scary" Chemtrails

More On Wilco Not Playing The Cavern..

We Could Listen to These Anonymous Anti-Scientology Rants All Day

Oh, Mother Hubbard!

Geeks v. Xenu

Metrosexual Cowboy

Keith Urban plays the AAC

Frozen Assets

Once the darlings of Dallas, the Stars and their sport are mired in obscurity

Skin-Deep

If you have the money, life as a MILF can be purchased at the mall

So Very Beck-cellent!

Mocking the Draft

Don't look now, but it's sports' biggest waste of time

Zed Again

Odds & Ends

Necrogazm, Six Past Hell and others sacrifice eardrums to remember the Dimebag anniversary

Letters

Punk Ranger

Letters

FC's Footing

Paradise Found

The Velvet Teen might have been stars. They'd rather be a great band.

Cracked Up

Conway and Korman make themselves--and everyone else--laugh again

Mr. Mom

Eddie Murphy plays Daddy, once more, and it becomes him

Miller's Crossing

Rhett Miller's The Instigator isn't the wreck of the Old 97's. It's just what he does.

Freaks of the industry

A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about

Follow the winners

Major-label survivors Royal Trux peel away experience to make a fresh, funky new album

Feel the force

John Travolta can feel your presence -- what's that all about?

Mia & Peter & Liza & Mazursky

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Less than a stranger

She said it was abuse. He said it was manipulation. By the time a Denton court got through with this messy custody battle, a good mother would lose her kids forever.

Prophet with honor

Santos & Santos burns up DTC's stage