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One-Year-Old Child Dies After Being Left in Locked Car at Elementary School

A 1-year-old child died after being left in a locked car in the parking lot of Frank Guzick Elementary School in Pleasant Grove. The child's mother is a teacher at the school, according to a statement from Dallas ISD. A statement from the Dallas Police Department says that a witness observed the c ... More >>

Fox 4's Captioning Service Really Sorry for IDing Zooey Deschanel as Boston Bomber

We somehow missed this in the chaotic aftermath of last week's Boston Marathon bombing, partly because we don't watch the news with closed captioning on, partly because we don't follow Zooey Deschanel on Twitter. But local Fox affiliate KDFW seems to have labeled the 33-year-old actress/indie songst ... More >>

Flags, Sacks and Hats: How The Cowboys Conquered The Bucs

A week after being thoroughly handled by the Seattle Seahawks, the Cowboys returned to Dallas to be thoroughly handled by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fortunately for Dallas, Tampa didn't have a running back near the caliber of Marshawn Lynch, and their punt coverage team couldn't resist going for Cow ... More >>

Seth McFarlane's Ted is Unbearable Stuff

Scott Ian: "If More People Worshipped Music, The World Would Be a Better Place."

For three decades, Anthrax has been one of the most consistently interesting bands to emerge from the thrash metal heyday of the early 1980s. Founded by guitarist Scott Ian, Anthrax has always stood out among the sweaty throng. The band was one of the first metal bands to incorporate rap music int ... More >>

Whitt's End: 9.2.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Raymond Radway was thiiiiis close -- three seconds, in fact -- to making the Cowboys' final roster. Then in Thursday night's 17-3 meaningless loss to the Dolphins the rookie free- ... More >>

A&M to the SEC: Didn't We Just Have this Conversation?

​The grand ol' Southwest Conference lived to be 80. The Big 12 Conference may die a teenager.Only 17 and just a year removed from turmoil that left it with just 10 teams but supposedly unity and cohesion, the conference is again this morning reeling with the news that Texas A&M -- irked b ... More >>

Head of Dallas Film Commission on Why City Needs (To Pay For) Larger Production Studio

2901 S. Lamar, site of the would-be TV and film production facility that would be used for Dallas if TNT picks it up and Warner Horizon decides to film it here​On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on whether or not to give Jack Matthews's CCH Lamar Partners that $235,000 economic develo ... More >>

It's National Doughnut Day. UPDATE: Homer Simpson Weighs In. Seriously.

No specials on bacon doughnuts? Anyone?​UPDATE 1:53 p.m.: We called FOX Broadcasting Company to see if Homer Simpson wanted to weigh in. We got a response. This is what Homer (THE Homer Simpson) had to say:"In honor of National Donut Day I will take a moment to remember all the brave donuts that ... More >>

Ron Corning Will Save WFAA's Morning Show?

​A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who's leaving Kabletown's Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous ... More >>

Breaking News: The Rich Get Richer While The Rest of Us Get Squeezed. Oh. Wait.

​David Cay Johnston, author of the best-seller Free Lunch, has a great piece out this week called "9 Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes," providing powerful evidence that middle and working class Americans are being played for suckers and dupes by the plutocrats in this country ... More >>

Photos: Kid Rock Isn't Messing Around at SXSW

Nick RalloKid Rock was very serious about American Idol being lame.​Kid Rock doesn't seem to be a huge American Idol fan. At last night's Jim Beam Live Music Series, hosted by Mr. Rock and flowing with copious Jim Beam and coke's, he ranted against the Fox series-as he's done in the past, accord ... More >>

On Super Bowl XLV's Performances: Lea Michele! Christina Aguilera! Black Eyed Peas!

​Hey, the Big Day is here! And, with it, those highly anticipated music performances! It's all so exciting. I'll be honest: I didn't pay too much attention to the pre-pregame stuff -- meaning Maroon 5's and Keith Urban's performances in tents outside of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. I caught some, ... More >>

Let's Not Complain About Super Bowl Weekend.

In TV Series News: Dallas Is Coming to Look at Dallas. And: ABC Gives Bitches an Order.

Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at Southfork Ranch at the Dallas reunion in November '08​The teevee networks, major and minor and cable and otherwise, are starting to slow-roll-out their next-season pilots. And two, very specifically, affect Dallas -- which would love to ... More >>

Packers 21, Bears 14: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Awesome. In this microwaved society of information, I learned Bears' third-string quarterback Caleb Hanie -- thanks, Twitter -- was a former Forney Jackrabbit before Fox TV viewers. 9. Personally, I don't find Pam Oliver attractive. But when it's like 15 degrees outside and she's wearing ... More >>

Creature Feature: Somewhere Beneath Young Frankenstein's Monster, Preston Truman Boyd

Paul KolnikBoyd as The Monster, with Christopher Ryan as Frederick Frankenstein, in Young Frankenstein at the Winspear​"It isn't easy being green," sang Kermit the Frog. For actor Preston Truman Boyd, starring as the mad doctor's stitched-together Monster in the Broadway tour of Mel Brooks' music ... More >>

For Those Wondering If Kyle Killen Ever Found a New Home for the Late, Great Lone Star ...

Hal SamplesJon Voight and the cast of Lone Star at the Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, serving as a set during a summer shoot​Not a week goes by that a Friend of Unfair Park doesn't ask: Is Lone Star coming back? It's a fair enough question. After all, back in September, the day after ... More >>

Is Tea Party Darling and Republican Congressional Candidate Stephen Broden Still Electable After Endorsing Violence As a Means of Changing the Government?

So, How's Hinojosa Doing in Nevada?

​[Update at 9:40 a.m.: Hinojosa is being interviewed at this very moment. You can watch here, if you have RealPlayer.]This morning, as you're no doubt well aware, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will be interviewed by the Clark County School District board of tru ... More >>

Let's Now Cut to the Chase

NBC Universal​It's getting close to that most wonderful time of the year -- when the fall teevee season commences. Later today we'll post a few peeks from Hal Samples and my visit to the set of Lone Star, the so-far-so-great (based on the pilot, at least) FOX series currently shooting all over tow ... More >>

Developer Jack Matthews Among Those Partnering to Build Movie, TV Studio in Cedars

​For weeks we've wondered: When will Dallas get around to building an honest-to-God movie-television production facility? Because the city's filling up with shows, but production companies have scant options: Fair Park, which The Good Guys will have to adios upon its August return (fingers crossed ... More >>

A Video Round-Up: Acclaimed Animator Makes Ads for Children's Dallas. Plus, Many, Many Sneak Peeks at NBC's Chase and FOX's Lonestar

Jubilee and her doll beat cancer from Children's Dallas on Vimeo.I was looking for something entirely unrelated earlier this afternoon when I came across this video on Vimeo. It was posted today by Childen's Medical Center, which is debuting a new series of animated ads made by Jamie Caliri -- quite ... More >>

Is Another TV Show About to Start Shooting in Dallas? Right Now, No One's Saying. Officially.

​Rumor 'round town is that another TV show's setting up production offices in Dallas -- this one, from the man responsible for everything from Armageddon and Top Gun to the C.S.I. franchise, among his myriad hit teevee shows. And, yes, that's one Jerry Bruckheinmer, the man who once told me he mak ... More >>

This Just In: American Idol Sucks. Seriously, They Missed HER?!

Cherisse Symons​ I don't watch American Idol because I  don't believe in American Idol. Other than Carrie Underwood and (sorta) Daughtry, the "winners" don't really become rock stars. Simon's about to leave for Ellen. What the what? But mostly, I just think the show jumped ... More >>

Advertisements for Itself: Or, Dallas Is Great City in Which to "Jump on the Hood of a Car"

Burn Notice creator Matt NIx, also responsible for the working-titled Code 58​Just a quick follow-up about Code 58, the FOX buddy-cop series set to shoot here beginning January 26 with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. Yes, yes, as the great Ed Bark noted yesterday on something called LocateTV.com ... More >>

Next Month, You'll Find Out How ABC Managed to Make Dallas Look Like Los Angeles

Patrick MichelsBilly Zane and Timothy Busfield on the set of The Deep End at The Studios at Las Colinas last month​If you're just dying to see how Dallas looked as Los Angeles's stand-in, your wait is over: ABC just sent word that the Fox-produced The Deep End -- known to the Friends of Unfair Par ... More >>

On the Set With Billy Zane, a Cool Dude and, Now, "a Citizen of Dallas and So Happy To Be"

Patrick MichelsTimothy Busfield, ex of thirtysomething and The West Wing, is in town to direct the fourth episode of The Deep End starring, of course, Billy Zane. He also did the second show.​Tales of Billy Zane sightings are not hard to come by in recent weeks, from kids' hospital charity fundrai ... More >>

Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.

McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding

Film Fast

Lola hightails it through the Inwood

The Sympathetic Spy

It's a...Hit!

Judd Apatow delivers another spot-on geek fantasy come true in Knocked Up

Tubal Migration

TV brings big Break, hot Lights to Dallas actors; plus, theater's best 10 of 2006

Seattle Swan Song

What is Radiant Doing New Year's Eve? Nothing, Except Rockin' Jimmy Kimmel's World.

Gina Miller Changes Channels. Sort Of.

Hell's in Lakewood

Funny Voices

Pennywise

The Fuse (Epitaph)

Home Runs

Can great chefs cook ordinary food?

Idol Worship

From Kelly to critics: I ain't going nowhere, darn it

Wrong Number

Colin Farrell's stuck in a Phone Booth. Shoot, already.

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

TV or Not TV?

That's no longer the question for visionary Stephen J. Cannell, who now lives the novel life

Donal in the Middle

Grounded for Life

Freaky, Not Scary

Web site mysteries

Holiday Howl

Buzz

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