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Attention New Bands: Chill, For These Are the Best of Times

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Three Things The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards Results Can Tell Us About Pop Music Right Now

The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out on Thursday, March 13, and though it was happening right in Austin I'll forgive you for not noticing. In any case I'm not sure how you can have an awards show at SXSW without handing out a prize for Least Essential Social Media App To Receive Venture Capit ... More >>

Why Chefs Hate Valentine's Day, with Josh Valentine and The Taste's Brian Malarky

Last year, Dallas chef Bylthe Beck dished on how chefs -- those unseen working horse of cupid's desires -- feel about Valentine's Day. There's a lot of stress back in that kitchen knowing there's an abundance of high hopes out in their dining room. This year I tracked down a couple more chefs. Let' ... More >>

Now the News Thinks Rich Golfers Will Dream Up Plans for Southern Dallas Between Putts

With the exception of Mike Hashimoto, the Morning News' editorial team has been dutifully lining up behind the idea that a (semi?) private golf course can be "the tipping point" -- their words, not mine or anyone else's -- southern Dallas needs. "A game changer," the paper says. Next up: Tod Robber ... More >>

Holy Crap That's a Lot of Kids: Woman Delivers Quintuplets at UT Southwestern

It happens, on average, 12 times per year in the United States: some lucky woman gives birth to five children, not spacing them comfortably over the course of several years but getting them out all at once. It happened in the span of five minutes in Dallas on Thursday, when a team of 50 doctors, nu ... More >>

The Best Thing To Do with Fair Not-Really-A-Park Is Tear That Mother Down

Snow Tha Product: The Human Alarm Clock

In this week's Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Claudia Feliciano has lived in Fort Worth for the past three years, but she's flown under ... More >>

This Week's Best Food Deals, Starring Sushi, Wine, Brunch and Spun Sugar

Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week's foodfull best. It just so happens that this week's best food deals make for a perfectly frugal Friday night out. I'll pick you up at 8. LivingSocial: $15 for $30 at Sushi on McKinne ... More >>

Agatha Christie Wouldn't Take No Catfishing

Mayor Mike Rawlings Seeks Investors for Southern Dallas. Why Is That His Job?

Let me role-play this thing. I'm Daddy Jimbucks, sitting on a pile of dough. Maybe I'm looking for an investment. Maybe not. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is in my office pitching a major initiative to create prosperity in southern Dallas on terrain that has been racially segregated, bitterly poor and ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax Returns

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Giant Is Epic, Damn It!

I Ain't 'Fraid of No Quail: Bird is the Word at the Allegedly Haunted Catfish Plantation

While I was in Waxahachie a few months ago, I meant to stop by the Catfish Plantation, a Waxahachie legend, made famous because it's allegedly haunted. Eager to see some ghosts and possibly Dale Hansen, I headed back out to the 'Hachie to see what I could scare up. (See what I did there?) Before I ... More >>

WSJ Climbs Inside DFW's Control Tower

​As it turns out, according to an article that just appeared on the Wall Street Journal's website, life inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport air traffic control towers -- otherwise known as the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, or TRACON -- is sort of a cross between Airplane! and Pushing ... More >>

"Preserve Our Dreams": Council to Hear From Syracuse Prof About the Future of Libraries

Via.If nothing else, R. David Lankes's presentation will be the most entertaining and enlightening council briefing presented this year.​Only yesterday I watched as my son's school's librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trust ... More >>

New York Times' Pay-Per-View Plan Is Much More Generous Than Dallas Morning News's

​The New York Times this morning revealed its long-expected plans to erect a pay wall (again) around some of its content: Starting March 28, visitors to the paper's website will be able to access 20 articles every month without paying. After that, it'll cost $15 a month to keep reading. But there ... More >>

Microwaveable Entrees Freeze Out Brown Bag Lunch Meetings

The Dallas Historical Society this week released a schedule for its upcoming "brown bag lunch" series, an institution some statistics suggest is rapidly becoming quaint. ​Brown bag lunches continue to thrive in academic settings, where professorial types are happy to have the chance to lunch ... More >>

State Department Thinks Ex-Mustang, Cowboys Cheerleader Sarah Shahi Is Worth a Profile

​I was watching Ocean's Thirteen on USA last night -- couldn't sleep, thought that would do it, didn't, don't judge -- and was inundated with promos for a new series called Fairly Legal, about a mediator at an IKEA store who likes to strip down to her underwear, though I could have that wrong. I t ... More >>

From a Church Garden in Dallas: Proof That God Exists, and He Looks Like Lens Flare

Frank FordEarlier this year in Dallas, Frank Ford saw this light.​Maybe you were up on the roof gawking at some more pedestrian astral dealings over Dallas last night, but today, with Christmas just a few days off, Frank Ford is here to blow your mind with the sun. Ford's launched a site today, ca ... More >>

If You Win We'll Go Shopping

Not All Bullies Are Mexican And Vice Versa

Too Much of a Bad Thing: Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addiction

The Pearl Cup Celebrates One Year Serving Up Choice Espresso on Henderson

Photos by Daniel RodrigueInside Pearl Cup on Saturday, where there's usually more room to stand.​On a bitter-cold Sunday afternoon, when a bad case of the drags and the more-errands-to-run blues has Roasted feeling down, there's no elixir that can jazz us up quite like a double dose of straight es ... More >>

The Dark, Cloudy Future Of Your Music Collection

Oh, Sure, Gabachos Loved Amnesty When It Was Applied To Confederates, But Not Mexicans

From the City Auditor, Our First List of 2010

If nothing else, we're pretty sure the city owns Dallas City Hall. Then again, who really knows?​Dallas City Auditor Craig D. Kinton just published his department's audit of maintenance of city-owned buildings, which makes for some mildly amusing reading this morning. It's after the jump, but what ... More >>

City, Texas AG's Office Close to an Agreement Concerning W.W. Samuell Land, Trust Fund

View Larger MapOn Wednesday, the Dallas City Council is expected to get a look at the Texas Attorney General's Office's findings concerning its yearlong look into how the city manages the W. W. Samuell Permanent Foundation, the Samuell Trust Fund and the properties willed to the city by the physicia ... More >>

Is Victory Park Verschraubt?

A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten the ... More >>

The Marcus House, Once Threatened, Is This Much Closer to Becoming a Historic Home

Stanley Marcus's former house as it looked during construction in 1938Speaking of Dallas iconic landmarks ... On August 11 of last year, Unfair Park discovered that Mark and Patty Lovvorn had filed with the Texas Historic Commission a demolition permit that would have allowed them to tear down The H ... More >>

Play Tonight, Learn Dance Skillz Tomorrow With MTV and Play-N-Skillz

Play-N-Skillz will be showing MTV around town this week as the network films for an upcoming special, My Block: Dallas, and you've got two chances to rub elbows with the Dallas rapper/producer stars.Tonight, the brothers are celebrating their Grammy nominations (for their production work on Lil Wayn ... More >>

Erykah Badu's Out of the Black Forest, But the Theater's Owners Swear a Rebirth by Summer

When I spoke to Erykah Badu in February 2008, shortly before the release of New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), she strongly suggested all was not well with the Black Forest Theater, from which Badu had hoped to save the soul of her native South Dallas. "Financially, it's a burden," she said. "It ... More >>

Hootie And The Other Fish

Edwin McCain visits the HOB

A $4-Mil Restaurant and "Basement Ultra Lounge" Planned for 1400 Main

View Larger Map What you see above is 1400 Main Street, directly across from the Davis Building and next door to City Tavern. Right now, it's but 11,000 square feet of nada, a 1954-built building on the tax rolls for some $2 million that isn't generating a cent in tax revenue for the city. Which is ... More >>

Party In the Back

The Backyardigans visit Nokia

Today, Mayor Tom to Deal With Downtown's Empty Buildings

Collins Street Bridge to Get Penetrated, Vibrated This Weekend

Craig Watkins Takes More Shots at Henry Wade in AP Story

Cast Your Ballots

That's One Pricey Billboard; and a New North Dallas Multi-Use "Street Fair"?

Ashlee Simpson "Rocks" Purgatory

Schutze on the Street (View)

Have A Mav-ulous Holiday

Mark Cuban Suits Up for Football

Merry SeXmas

Get ready for a new jack holiday

U2 Can Love The First Unitarian Church Choir

Guitars in a Van--That's Quite the Gamble

Radio is a Sad Salvation

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