Brian Harkin This is one of the photos Brian’s selling tonight — consider yourself sneak-peek’d. Brian Harkin has provided Unfair Park with many frameable memories in recent months — see here and here and here, for starters. So here’s a treat for the Friends who are fans: Tonight you can…
An actual photo of Amanda Brooks. No, really, an actual photo. This ain’t the paper version of Unfair Park, dig? The Dallas Morning News really blew its interview with Amanda Brooks — you recall, the “former independent escort and stripper in Dallas” quoted in the high-priced hooker piece (and you…
KDFW-Channel 4 Melissa Cutler of KDFW-Channel 4 was in the office yesterday interviewing Schutze for a story that ran on the Fox affiliate last night. And, yes, it was about Lynn Flint Shaw’s “Inner Circle” and the e-mails about which Jim wrote on Tuesday. The video, which has Mayor Tom…
Mark C. Austin David Bean performed with The Judy’s last night in Austin, years after the band swore off a reunion. Also, no wonder Josh Venable’s a fan. Like, amazing. About 10 years back, I interviewed David Bean about his historic Houston band The Judy’s — who, by 1998, had…
At least, maybe it should be when a Dallas couple turn their wedding vows into a bit. Though, we do wish them well in their heads-up match. –Robert Wilonsky…
Attorney turned film producer Sally Helppie This week, Dallas film producer Sally Helppie has been shooting footage for her second film, a supernatural thriller called The Beacon, at locations around Dallas and Waxahachie. Those dreaming of a life in Hollywood, take note: Helppie’s also a Carrollton mom with five kids…
George Gillett, left, and Tom Hicks in happier times — like, a year ago George Gillett, of course, is co-owner of Liverpool FC with Tom Hicks — they’re partners, 50-50, all things being equal. And Gillett, also the owner of the Montreal Canadiens, would like to put an end to…
No Country for Old Men (Paramount) “A horror comedy chase” is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow actors add to the list such adjectives as “a very primitive ride,” “a rabbit chase through Texas,” and “a very…
Amanda Brooks, we have a very legit business proposition to discuss with you. Picking up on Wednesday’s revelation in The New York Times that now-former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer got the high-priced pro treatment in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News follows with this piece about how, well, our hookers…
View Larger Map Early this morning over on DC9, Rich Lopez posted word that John Freeman has closed down the newish yet already beloved Sloppyworld — only because, well, five Dallas police officers and an assistant city attorney made him. See, Freeman — the genius behind Dooms U.K., Dutch Treats…
The ironic insanity of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban banning bloggers from his team’s locker room reminds me of this: While Cuban is a thousand times smarter than me, he’s also a billion times times more sensitive. It’s rare you’ll hear me getting empathetic toward Dallas’ Only Daily, but for…
Yeah, that’s spelled right — because, see, Mayor Tom will be holding court tonight at Urban Market on Jackson Street. He’s speaking from 7-8 p.m., providing an “update on downtown” (less urine-y!) and then taking Your Questions, and I do believe we have a few. Better still, there are wining…
A scene from To the Ends of the Earth Not the most productive South by Southwest Film Festival for local filmmakers: The best story coming in and going out of Austin remains that of 15-year-old R.L. Turner sophomore John Gordon III, whose five-minute movie To the Ends of the Earth…
As teased here a while back, Dallas Mavs coach Avery Johnson spoke with Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith for this month’s ish, online today as a preview piece courtesy, well, Evan Smith. Guess we somehow missed that Johnson had a book forthcoming in 12 days: It’s titled Aspire Higher –…
Dean Fearing, clearly not a role model for young chefs Speaking of The New York Times and Dallas and our city’s estimable pleasures, as we were one item down, today critic Frank Bruni releases the names of three more eateries that make his list of “Intriguing New Restaurants Outside of…
There’s a Dallas connection to Eliot Spitzer after all: Turns out, reports The New York Times, the almost-former Democratic first-term New York governor funneled a little of that long green into the local economy. As in: “A person with knowledge of the service’s operations said that Mr. Spitzer had begun…
Lynn Flint Shaw Tomorrow’s edition of the Dallas Observer will include a story about a series of e-mails that have been in the Observer’s possession since last summer, depicting Lynn Flint Shaw as the enforcer in a tight-knit group called “The Inner Circle.” The e-mails have been on my desk…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this link to an Associated Press video concerning a dispute over a KKK supply store in Laurens, South Carolina, where you can load up on swastika stickers (swastickers?), Confederate-flag patches and other racist doodads. The reason our Friends shot us the link? The…
Yes, indeed, the United States Bowling Congress is bringing its pins and its balls to Arlington — it’s a five-bagger! And they’re not taking it well in Milwaukee, where they tried to pick up the spare and keep the 2.3-million member organization (and 230 jobs and $12 million). Here’s a…
No doubt, a thousand other bloggers will provide you with a far better photo of Mark Cuban, on stage at left, and Michael Eisner, speaking today at SXSW. A true South by Southwest film fest first: a waiting line to get into a panel. Course, this was the Mark Cuban-Michael…
Adrian Estaban Sanchez Heredia After the jump, a media release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office — this one, involving today’s guilty plea of 49-year-old Adrian Estaban Sanchez Heredia, a cocaine trafficker who smuggled the drugs from Mexico to Dallas via Laredo. As in: In documents filed in Court, Heredia admitted…
Rufus Shaw Shortly before 10:30 a.m., Dallas police Lt. Craig Miller, commander of the homicide unit, confirmed what had already become evident in the light of day: Late yesterday, Dallas Blog political columnist Rufus Shaw took a handgun and shot his wife, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chair Lynn Flint…
