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Chocoholics Beware: The Chocolate Conference & Festival Comes to Town this Saturday

I've called this emergency meeting of the Dallas Area Chocoholics Anonymous to prepare for the onslaught of chocolate temptation coming our way this Saturday at the Chocolate Conference & Festival.

Greatest Version of "Bingo" Ever Played? Ben Kweller and Two-Year-Old Son Collaborate

And Bingo was his name-o. Taken from a 2009 encore of Ben Kweller's set in Salt Lake City, Utah. At least that's what the Youtube tag says.

Can Mormons Be Trusted? A Shallow Guide to Managing Your Most Ill-Informed Fears.

Mitt Romney CampaignConcerns have been raised over Mormonism's decision to move to Cleveland. Because, you know, it's Cleveland.​Last month evangelical leaders gathered in D.C. for the Values Voter Summit, where disciples of the Pissed-Off Jesus harrumphed and yammered about how much America sucke ... More >>

Duran Duran, Neon Trees

Thursday, October 6, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

We knew it! Porn is Good.

A pro-porn column in the News doesn't get a rise out anyone.

Spill the Beans, Sister

Dirk, Dallas Doing It Again. But Even Better.

​After Dirk Nowitzki's one-legged, fadeaway, high-arcing, 18-foot shot - off the glass, no less - Friday night in Utah, TV analyst Hubie Brown was almost speechless. "C'mon!' he exclaimed. "Some of the things this guy does at seven feet is just unfair." Nowitzki was again brilliant over the w ... More >>

Tell Me More, Mayor Tom

Sam Merten​A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us: Mayor Tom Leppert is on today's episode of National Public Radio's Tell Me More, along with Utah Governor Gary Herbert. The subject: How Utah and Dallas are leading the economic recovery, per that Brookings Institution report to which we directed y ... More >>

Dallas' Other Teams are Playing Too. Who Knew?

For the last month we've all been - gladly, of course - buried up to here in the Texas Rangers. Don't look now, but the other sports in our city didn't shut down. Let's play some catch up, shall we? FC DALLAS - In the Major League Soccer's Western Conference semifinals, they have a 2-1 aggregate le ... More >>

Edgefest 20 with Limp Bizkit, 30 Seconds to Mars, Deftones, Phoenix, Metric, Hole and 10 others

Saturday, May 1, at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco

Mavs Down the Stretch: 6-2 Gets You No. 2

​Sure, the Dallas Mavericks produced an epic victory Monday night. Whipping the Denver Nuggets gave the inside track on the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Western Conference playoffs. But that momentum, that achievement - that seeding - could all be lost in the next 48 hours. Tonight the Mavs vis ... More >>

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

TCU's Football Team Demands National Recognition While SMU Takes Relatively Quiet Steps

Does Amarillo Have Better Radio Than Dallas?

Making my way back to Big D after a week spent camping in Utah and Arizona, I stumbled upon KWTS 91.1 FM out of Amarillo. Broadcasting from the West Texas A&M University campus, this little oasis of deep indie rock kept me locked in until the signal finally diminished just outside of Wichita Fal ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.3.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn't comfortable talking with teams - specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers - about his parent ... More >>

How the Dallas Mavericks Can Avoid the Lakers

Not saying Dirk and the Mavs are sitting pretty. But they have a chance.About a month ago in this cover story Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told me his team didn't fear a first-round NBA Playoff matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. "The Lakers don't intimidate us at all," Cuban maintains ... More >>

Today In Music News: Chris Brown Gets Backers, Rachel Ray Gets Bands, and Hammer and Ice Are Back WIth A Brand New Invention

Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 27, 2009...People are starting to stand up in defense of Chris Brown's actions--like Kanye West and Bow Wow. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is still backing Rihanna.In Orem, Utah, tonight, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will share a stage for the ... More >>

Today In Music News: Hammer and Ice Are Back, Santogold Is No More, Foreigner's Drummer's Woes and Ryan Adams Gets Engaged

Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, February 12, 2009... Been waiting for the day when MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice would team up again and rock your socks off? Well kids, your dream has come true! This Friday, Stanley Burrell and Robbie Van Winkle will play a show together in t ... More >>

Mav. Wrecks.

Four straight losses. Four spots dropped in the standings. A four-game, East Coast road trip looming that ends at Detroit and Boston. Mark Cuban even lost his request for Denver's J.R. Smith to be disciplined by the league for throwing an elbow at Antoine Wright. In short, not a good week for your ... More >>

Florida 38, Oklahoma 30

UPDATE: Our Village Voice sister paper in Palm Beach will be live blogging from the game tonight. Pop Quiz: A) I'm jazzed about tonight's BCS National Championship Game, pitting the two best teams in college football this season. B) I'm mildy interested, even though I think Southern Cal, Texas ... More >>

Texas v. Ohio State: The Siesta Bowl

Was watching the Cotton Bowl with some buddies on lower Greenville when Ole Miss sacked Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell for a game-clinching safety. While most of the joint emitted a primal scream, spiked their red-n-black hats, or ordered another mind-numbing shot, one dude sat and ... More >>

In Utah, Accused Freeway Shooter's Ex-Colleagues Recall "A Great Guy"

From KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, comes this piece about former Utah state trooper Brian Smith, accused of the Monday-night shootings on LBJ Freeway that left two dead. So happens Smith had given the station's crew a highway tour in his cruiser in March 2007, 14 months months before ... More >>

Polygamy and Me

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but for one mainstream Mormon, the effects linger

Ask a Mexican

Dear Babe: Mexicans don't hate you because you're Spanish, but just because you're you

Mount Righteous' Dispatches From The Road: Days 11 and 12, On The Rockies and The Plains

Pix of a Polygamist Smooch Is Worth a Thousand Icks

An Unprecedented Peek into the Life of the FLDS, Courtesy Portfolio

The Road to Eldorado's Paved With Good Intentions -- Still, Questions Remain

Sundancing As Fast As We Can

Ringing Up Baby

Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...

DEAF Kids

Deep Ellum throws a loud party

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

Howard Forbes Officially Most Famous Dead Man in Town This Week

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

Yes, There is Life in Deep Ellum

Things get complex

Snow Business

Two Dallas filmmakers recall Sundancing as fast as they can

Green Grass for a Local Filmmaker

RE: The Unfriendly Skies

The Polygamists Are Coming!

Nervous West Texas townsfolk brace for the arrival of a sect of Mormon fundamentalists and their many wives

Truth Be Told

It's the docs that rock this year's USAFF schedule

Best Start to a Season

The Mavs go 14-0

Snow Job

Vertical Limit isn't a "relationship" flick--it's a numbing Die Hard on ice

Even punks get the blues

Reliving not-so-happy days in Salt Lake City, 1985

No retreat

After the setback of the Cartwrights, Donny Ray Ford gets a taste of success

Lost Tribe

Grand Prairie's Henry Clayton has proclaimed himself chief of the new 'nato Nation. Is he the head of Texas' largest Indian tribe-or an indian impostor?

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