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Red Bull Is Giving $10 to Anyone Who Wants It

By Stephen Young
Oct 9, 2014

Red Bull is giving consumers $13 million dollars to settle false advertising claims. The settlement is unsurprising. Not once in all the times Unfair Park has consumed the horrid tasting energy drink have we grown wings, one of Red Bull's primary claims. As long as you pinky promise that you...
Act Fast, Because I Have an Extra Copy of Epic Swindle, That Book About Hicks and Liverpool

By Robert Wilonsky
Jun 6, 2011

Took a couple of weeks, but I just received my copy of An Epic Swindle: 44 Months With a Pair of Cowboys, Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade's just-published-in-the-U.K. 338-page recap of Tom Hicks' disastrous run as co-owner of Liverpool FC. So far, so good, though I feel like I've already...
The Dark Knight by Moonlight: Free Film Series Returns to Main Street Garden Next Month

By Robert Wilonsky
May 26, 2011

This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful series, wherein online voters...
Food Fight, or: Beginning Your Friday With a Chance to Get Iron Fork-ed For Free

By Robert Wilonsky
Apr 22, 2011

While awaiting several calls back about items forthcoming, allow me to dispense with these four VIP ducets to Wednesday's Iron Fork event at the Fashion Industry Gallery, where chefs John Tesar and Scott Romano will square off whilst attendees dine on samplings from the likes of Il Cane Rosso and...
Also, The Many Hairstyles of Bobbie Wygant

By Robert Wilonsky
Feb 11, 2011

Bobbie Wygant's 2011 Coming Soon Film Reel from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Our pal Erik Clapp, keeper of the Bobbie Wygant Archive, just sent this most watchable teaser featuring little look-sees at classic interviews he's in the process of restoring before posting to the site. Good Lord, that's an estimable roster of...
If You'd Like to Get Low With Robert Duvall Saturday Morning, You'd Best Hustle

By Robert Wilonsky
Nov 17, 2010

Last month we mentioned: Robert Duvall's in town Friday night for a Dallas Film Society fund-raiser at the Hall of State, during which he'll be Q&A'd by Elvis Mitchell. But say you didn't have the $250 to $25,000 necessary to make the up-close-and-personal. No sweat: The DFS has added to...
Giveaway! Win a Pair of Tickets to Kevin Smith at the Granada Theater Tomorrow Night!

By Andrea Grimes
Jul 27, 2010

It wasn't Kevin Smith's proudly rude series of films-as-dick-jokes that brought him fame among the masses. It was a bad customer service experience. You remember: Southwest Airlines designated him a "passenger of size" and kicked him off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight. One assumes the Southwest staff had not seen much of...
More DOMAXXII Showcase News And Info Than You Can Handle. Also? Free Wristbands!

By Pete Freedman
Jul 15, 2010

Hello, Unfair Park. It's nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Sorry to say, though, it's just a short stay--a follow-through on a promise I made yesterday to Robert, y'know. That promise? That I'd roll on through to this side of the fence for a moment to tell you...
If You'd Like to See Whether America's Got Talent, Fair Park Music Hall Awaits

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 24, 2010

Maybe this slipped your schedule: They're taping America's Got Talent at the Music Hall at Fair Park this week -- tomorrow and Friday, twice daily. I only remembered because I happened to see Nick Cannon's tweet of moments ago ("Catch me spinning tonight in Dallas at the Aura Lounge! It's...
Turns Out, There's Still a Chance You Can See Conan O'Brien at SMU. For Free!

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 19, 2010

Good Lord. Was it only last week that Conan O'Brien announced he was coming to McFarlin Memorial Auditorium on May 13? Feels like four years ago. Anyway. Didn't take long for the 2,386-seat venue to sell out -- a few hours, tops. Which doesn't mean you can't catch Coco at...
Free Tickets to Where "Art Is Only Part of the Show," Says The New York Times

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 17, 2010

I'm going to use this opportunity to do two things: link to a New York Times story about the Dallas Museum of Art in order to give away 30 tickets to the Dallas Museum of Art. Good through June 30. Admits one; limit two per winner. Just post, oh, your...
Giveaway: Everyone's a (Matthew) Weiner!

By Robert Wilonsky
Jan 13, 2010

Fan of The Sopranos? Mad Men? Andy Richter Controls the Universe? Um ... Becker? Then you are already familiar with the name Matthew Weiner, good for you. But how you'd like to see the creator of Mad Men in person? Tomorrow night, no less, at the Casa Mañana Theater in...
Trade Ya: Top 10 Movie Lists for Free DVDs

By Robert Wilonsky
Dec 17, 2009

Forthcoming later today is this year's Unfair Park holiday-season auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank, which features not one by several one-of-a-kind, locally produced items. But while we wrap up this year's goodies, first this giveaway.Yesterday I posted the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association's tops-of-2009 list. But what say you...
Free Flatlanders: A Contest!

By Robert Wilonsky
Nov 20, 2009

The folks at the AT&T Performing Arts Center picked quite the inaugural concert for the Wyly Theatre: The Flatlanders, otherwise known as Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. No doubt they'll break in the joint Tuesday night with the first song on their first album, recorded in 1971...
Free Tinsel! Or: Do You Want a Copy of That Book About Christmas in Frisco?

By Robert Wilonsky
Nov 16, 2009

Washington Post writer Hank Stuever begins a three-day sign-and-speak stint in North Texas tomorrow -- a sprint compared to the marathon of spending three years, on and off, living in Frisco in order to document how folks spend Christmas up thataways for his book Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas...
With the Lengthy City Hall Corruption Trial Finally Over, Let the Wild Speculating Begin!

By Sam Merten
Sep 24, 2009

OK, now that the Dallas City Hall corruption trial has wrapped up and landed in the hands of the jury, it's time for everyone to weigh in. And, to make it interesting, Robert has generously ponied up a fabulous prize so this isn't just about fun and yuks. That's right,...
Mayor Leppert Was the Best-Dressed Man at the AFI Dallas Gala Last Night. By Far.

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 27, 2009

Barack Obama has Pete Souza. And Tom Leppert has Patrick Michels...
Free Stuff Friday, Grab Bag Edition

By Robert Wilonsky
Jan 11, 2008

Bedhead, just because they're mentioned somewhere in this mess of a blog item A few desk-clearing items before heading out to meet Galaxy Quest's Missi Pyle at the Dallas Comic Con this weekend. Turns out, I have two tix to Art Garfunkel's Sunday-night show at the Nokia Theatre in Grand...
We Have a Winner. Now We Need a Drunk.

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 2, 2007

So, the Unfair Park braintrust has selected a winner for those Toadies tix and accompanying VIP pass: Laura Archer, whose simple suggestion mirrors one offered up earlier in the week by our very own Merritt Martin. "You should give it to the first person who can produce a receipt for...
Are You Smart? And a Winner?

By Robert Wilonsky
Mar 1, 2007

Here's the deal. We have a few Very Big Items to give away (hint), but it's getting late in the day, and we still have these Toadies tix and VIP pass to give away. So...we were going to give the Toadies ducats to the first person to send a cogent,...

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