Just as we thought the “bromantic comedy” had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is finally the text—it’s right there in the title. The movie delivers an absolutely complete, fully realized, delightfully novel redo of the hoariest of forms: the…
Last night, Quincy Jones got a jump on signing copies of his coffee-table history-of The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions, which he’ll do for you starting at 6 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Park. With his good pal Allison V. Smith in tow, Q stopped…
If nothing else, this City Hall-provided video concerning the Bexar Street redevelopment project in South Dallas is the first city-made video you can dance to — though it’s hardly Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good,” as advertised. (Anyone? Because Shazam’s no help here.) I, for one, hope this is the wave of…
‘Member how, last month, the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee started talking about changing the Juvenile Curfew Ordinance to include daylight hours as well? Turns out, a group’s done sprung up to oppose such an alteration: the Citizens Against the Dallas Daytime Curfew, which IDs itself as a “small,…
Don McLeroy, a Republican dentist from Bryan, is the chair of the Texas State Board of Education. He’s also a book critic: Over the weekend, an indie book publisher posted his recommendation of Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.’s new book Sowing Atheism: The National Academy Of Sciences’ Sinister Scheme To Teach…
In light of the news that American International Group — better known as AIG — is doling out those “distasteful” but nonetheless delicious bonuses to its execs, the House Financial Services Subcommittee is meeting at this very moment to discuss AIG and “how it got into its current situation, why…
Judy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall just called to say she’s not sure where The Dallas Morning News got its info about a Mayor Tom Leppert-led Trinity River Corridor Project Summit this morning, because, she insists, there weren’t no such thing. But she does remind those so interested that on…
Last month, the feds put off the digital TV transition till June 12 — which isn’t stopping two Dallas stations from making the switch well before the deadline. Late yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission released a list of some 150 stations going all-digital early, and among those making the transition…
The 33.5-acre Park Lane mixed-use development, across Central Expressway from NorthPark Center, today announced that it’s open for business — which is to say, four of the 15 announced restaurants and retailers will commence to sellin’ beginning tomorrow. First up is Nordstrom Rack, followed by the bows of Dick’s Sporting…
Schutze and Merten are on vacation today, which means no one’s going to Mayor Tom Leppert’s Trinity River Corridor Project summit this morning on the 69th (heh) floor of the Bank of America building downtown. Schutze, though, did ask for two small favors before he sped off to East Texas…
Hard Rock execs told Unfair Park way back in June of last year: Yes, the eatery-museum, stockpiled with hickory-smoked foodstuffs and Dimebag Darrell memorabilia, would be returning to Dallas sooner than later following the exodus from McKinney Avenue two years ago. This morning, they confirm the not-terribly secret, long-rumored, oft-speculated…
Speaking 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 House Stanley Marcus Built. You can follow the links — such…
Back in October we gazed up at the old waterfall billboard on Stemmons Freeway — up on Goat Hill, where Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine used to stand — and noticed the water had done gone dry. And we got our answer as to why: It was gettin’ a makeover and…
Just came across the press site for Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s six-part series about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and … well, you know, because it’s right there in the title and because you follow the news. Word was Discovery had waited to shoot…
Come September 14 (and certainly year’s end), Dallas Area Rapid Transit is looking to up the price of everything, from a local single ride fare (from $1.50 to $2) to a premium weekly pass ($25 to $35) to a two-zone commuter rail annual pass ($800 to $1,050) and so forth…
Every few years, Dallas Mavericks fans are reminded of the team’s greatest failure — not the loss to Miami in the NBA Finals, not the one-and-done against Golden State in ’07, not the 11-win season under Gar Heard. Rather, it’s two simple words: “Roy” and “Tarpley,” whose travails and tragedies…
What you see at right is a reproduction of Willliam Adolphe Bouguerau’s Notre-Dame des Anges (Our Lady of the Angels), painted in 1889 in France; this version sells here for $15, though, at the moment, it’s on sale for $11.99, so act now. It might look especially familiar to locals:…
On Friday, in the comments to Rawlins Gilliand’s Neimans recollections, Friend of Unfair Park Joseph B. wrote:I recently read an article on famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman and discovered he filmed a 4 hour documentary on Neiman Narcus here in Dallas back in the early 80’s. Anyone seen it? Several critics…
Probably need to workshop that headline. Till then, here’s Angela Hunt’s perspective on Saturday’s festivities along Greenville Avenue: “better than last year.” And she’s got the video and photos to prove it.2009.03.14 – St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party from Angela Hunt on Vimeo…
Till late last week, the formerly prolific Carla Ranger hadn’t posted to her blog for most of 2009. But the Dallas Independent School District board member has returned, and today she points our attention to state Rep. Yvonne Davis’s H.B. 3532 introduced late last week, which calls for “the abolition…
We were asked not to say anything till later this week, but the full-page ad in yesterday’s paper ran a week too early yesterday and jumped the starter’s gun … so, we’re off. As it said in the AFI Dallas International Film Festival spread on Page 18A, this year’s Star…
Back in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that “at one of those big office parks on International Parkway” in Carrollton, “a whole bunch of people got really mad” and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related the story to Granberry:…
