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One Day Before Winspear Event, Jamie Foxx Cancels Due to Work on Tarantino Movie

​The AT&T Performing Arts Center is about to send out a formal release, but long story short: Jamie Foxx isn't coming to the Winspear Opera House tomorrow night after all. The Terrell native was supposed to take part in the Brinker International Forum, for a Q&A hosted by none other than G ... More >>

AT&T PAC Vows to Find "Inspirational" Replacement for Now No-Show Jamie Foxx

​Over on Unfair Park I just posted the note that Jamie Foxx's Brinker International Forum appearance at the Winspear, which was scheduled for tomorrow night, is now a no-go. The reason: Something to do with his inability to get away from the set of Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino movie ... More >>

What About Bob? He's at the Mavs Parade Too. Along With Some Guy Named Jamie Foxx.

Photo by Leslie Minora​Early this morning Mavs fans packed the intersection of Griffin and Young, setting up chairs and coolers and settling in behind the barricade along the first block of the parade's route. And there, amongst the growing throng, was none other than the ubiquitous Robert Crawfor ... More >>

Go, Um ... Mavs, Was It? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Basketball.

​Two things I could have done to make my dad really happy with me would have been to become religious and to care about baseball. I failed him in both. Let's not talk about the religion thing and say we did. But professional sports: I can't even tell you why I never developed an interest. I s ... More >>

Watch: The Mavericks End Celebratory Parade With "We Are The Champions" Singalong

Patrick MichelsJason Kidd and Terrell's Own Jamie Foxx​ After going on Letterman last night to talk about their win, their potential new Kardashian boos and their very dirty habit of licking the Larry O'Brien Trophy, the Mavericks paraded around Dallas today like the champs they are and ended up a ... More >>

Before the Mavs' Parade, Fans Sweated in the Streets While Local Officials Fawned

Photos by Patrick MichelsLike Jim says, don't let yourself get carried away. It's just sports.​After hanging out along the parade route for a while this morning, Nick and I ducked into the convention center for what we'd been told would be a half-hour interview session with the Mavs before they fl ... More >>

Really, We Have to Wait a Whole Year Till Modern Family Cast Comes to Brinker Forum?

Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

Watch: Westlake's Own Nick Jonas Performs At White House As Part of Motown Tribute. Huh?

Disney Channel swag.​Last night, to celebrate Black History Month, President Barack Obama invited a whole cast of big name musical performers to the White House to participate in a tribute to Motown. Among those invited to perform? Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, T ... More >>

The Problem With... Jamie Foxx's "Fall For Your Type"

After getting an Academy Award for Ray in 2004 and showing off his classically-trained voice, I'd say Terrell's own Jamie Foxx had a pretty great decade. But there's always been one thing that makes me think twice about heaping praise on Jamie. That's the single "Blame It." With Auto-Tune screwing u ... More >>

Idol Rich: The Final Four Get Foxxy and Pair Up

​Jamie Foxx. He's an Oscar winner and has sold his fair amount of R&B records. He's also been a mentor on American Idol before. Last season, he got all up in people's grills. And he did it again this one. Foxx Face! This time, though, he gave out T-shirts with big words on them: There was ... More >>

Idol Rich: "Blue Skies" Were Smiling on Casey James

​American Idol opened its results show with the Top Five performing a medley of Frank Sinatra classics and the announcement that, next week, the remaining contestants would get the guidance of Jamie Foxx. Genre? Songs of the cinema. With Foxx, I would've expected vocal impersonations (what up, Fau ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Erykah Badu, Jamie Foxx At The Palladium Ballroom

Erykah Badu, Jamie FoxxPalladium BallroomSaturday, February 12, 2010Danny FulgencioErykah Badu at the Palladium Ballroom Saturday night. For more pictures, check out our slideshow.​Better Than: Any other All-Star event going on that night--especially considering it was free. It was a night of oppo ... More >>

NBA All-Star Week Shootaround

​One of the more intriguing concerts scheduled around the NBA All-Star Week is a Saturday-night Haitian-relief benefit at the Palladium featuring Erykah Badu and Jamie Foxx. A couple of Friends of Unfair Park have asked how they can buy tix. Problem is, the event's more or less sold out; I was tol ... More >>

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He'll Be There: Every Time You Hear That Song, Remember, Willie Hutch Wrote It

Willie HutchIn the paper version of Unfair Park this week, I make mention of my interview with Willie Hutch, the Carrollton-born great who, during our 1998 chat at his Cedar Hill recording studio, recounted how he came to write the Jackson 5's immortal "I'll Be There." The story about The Mack, who ... More >>

Lazare's Bar Hosts A Grand Opening, But Will Anyone Remember?

Anastasia JakseThe new mojitos: blueberry on the left, raspberry at right. "Blame it on the a-a-alcohol...," DJ Christopher Tracy puts his spin on Jamie Foxx and T-Pain's rap song amidst a forest of black and red balloons. Blame it on the alcohol, indeed. Or the 'any excuse to party' ethic that dri ... More >>

The Soloist fiddles with schlock

Last Night's American Music Awards: A Synopsis

What I gleaned amidst the crooners and cleavage:*Former Stone Temple Pilots' front man Scott Wieland is (still) on something. *Paris Hilton is (still) annoying. *Mariah Carey is (still) hot. *Jamie Foxx is cocky with a capital 'K'. *Kanye West wants to be Elvis. Making the feat even more unlike ... More >>

Big Deal Johnson

See Don play with his dog

Shooting Blanks

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

What You Say?!

Jamie hits the road...Jack

Celluloid Combat

The battle for Oscar is hashed out on a big screen

Jamie Foxx to Play Nokia. Wonder If He Does Any Ray Charles.

T.I.

Saturday, January 13, at the Majestic Theater

Dream Works

But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model.

A Masterpiece on Canvas

Where Do You Buy Your Hair?

...And other questions reporters can't ever ask

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann's visceral cop-series update

That's the Ticket

Star Search

Our top DVD picks for the week of January 17.

The War on Film

Iraq Hits the Big Screen

Reform School

The College Dropout rethinks his stance on education in the year 2010

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Make Believe

Everyone's Watching

Oscar visits Big D

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Messed Around

As Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx turns an ordinary bio into an extraordinary one

Best Place to Go for a Romantic Rendezvous

Hotel ZaZa

Collateral Damaged

When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't very good

Short Cuts

Sly Foxx

He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

Hook, Line, Stinker

Don't bite, even if Bait does

Yo Momma

Martin Lawrence proves there's a fine line between fat and phat

Out of bounds

Stone fumbles the rock in Any Given Sunday

Cattle call

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