A couple of videos for your eyes this a.m.: The R-rated red-banded trailer for the out-in-August Pineapple Express is online now — and the stoner comedy-thriller gets a mention because it’s directed by local-boy-done good David Gordon Green, whose other 2008 release, the more indie-fied Snow Angels, finally opens next…
Current Energy Big ol’ ad for the Current Energy store on Knox Street in the new issue of Time, and co-founders Joe Harberg and Josh Stern didn’t have to pay a penny for the promotion — nice article, gents, down to writer Bryan Walah’s generous gift of the slogan, “The…
At least this brand-new photo of Lynn Flint Shaw won’t go to waste. Lest we begin feeling too terribly sorry for former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chairman Lynn Flint Shaw, who did the perp walk today at Lew Sterrett calaboose when she turned herself in on forgery charges, we might…
High-stakes testing doesn’t result in better education, at least not among minorities — it just leads to a disproportionate number of African-Americans, Latinos and ESL students dropping out of Texas schools. That’s one finding in a new report released today by Rice University and the University of Texas. The study…
For those who might have missed the news, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board chair Lynn Flint Shaw — you know who she is, right? — turned herself in to authorities this morning. Shaw’s being investigated for allegedly forging Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ signature and letterhead to dodge…
Still no word if or when Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are coming to town, but Bill Clinton will be kinda close tomorrow — Tyler’s, what, 90 miles east? Hillary’s campaign just sent over the details of the ex-president’s trip to East Texas tomorrow, well in advance of the March…
They’re fightin’ over fightin’ at Addison City Limits — that’s kinda why Megan Feldman wrote about it in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park. But reading? That’s for suckers. Hence, Jonathan Finley’s exclusive video addendum below, with a soundtrack and everything. –Robert Wilonsky…
NBA.com Or, maybe Mark Cuban knew Devean George would block the Jason Kidd trade, thus making it look like Cuban was willing to make a move he didn’t really want to make in the first place? The Mavs’ trade for Jason Kidd isn’t dead yet, but it’s severely wounded. I’d…
Does this look like $40 million to you? No? Well, get used to it. Late yesterday, Sam wrote about the city council’s decision to spend $500,000 on some parking-lot property in BeloWorld’s shadow — property that may or may not become the much-ballyhooed convention center hotel, where Tom Leppert’s planning…
Three items for the price of one: Men’s Health says Dallasites are a bunch of fatties — as in, we’re the sixth-fattest city in the U.S. and A. Top of the list of reasons why? “Mayor Thomas C. Leppert participates in fewer fitness-related events than most mayors.” (Blaming Leppert for…
Still no word on whether or not these sex toys are Constitutionally protected About four years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, we chronicled the plight of Burleson’s Joanne Webb, who was arrested by local police for selling dildos and other self-help devices out of her house. You…
“If I’m the bad guy …” So began Devean George last night on TXA-21, following the Dallas Mavericks’ win over Portland, concerning his killing the Jason Kidd trade that was all but a done deal by late yesterday afternoon. Someone has posted to the YouTube the entirety of George’s interview…
WTOC-TV Savannah A Dallas attorney’s ad in a Savannah paper is an unpopular read following last week’s sugar plant explosion. A week ago today was the explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar Company refinery near Savannah, Georgia, which left eight dead, one missing and more than a dozen critically…
Flyers Rights Maybe you recall the name Kate Hanni — she was among those stuck on the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport tarmac for some 13 hours in December 2006 after her Oakland-to-Dallas American Airlines flight was diverted due to weather. Hanni and at least one other woman have sued the Fort…
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy—one worth the effort, because some effort’s actually been put into it. Imagine really old-school Woody Allen starring that shit-eating smirker from Van Wilder, Ryan Reynolds, who’s always been…
No Reservations (Warner Bros.) From its cheap, mid-’90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed Food Network behind-the-scenes, blech) to its wide-screen/full-screen option, this feels like something dropped right into the discount bins; it probably debuts at half off this week. And this soufflé of a romantic comedy deserves…
So, it took a while to get the answer directly from Radiohead’s U.K. peeps, but thanks to the tenaciousness of the band’s NYC PR folks, we now have the exact second at which tickets will go on sale for Radiohead’s May 18 show at Starplex. Ready? Here goes. They will…
Best part of the Jason Kidd trade: his girlfriend, Hope Dworaczyk I’ll have more details on the Jason Kidd trade come morning — and, says the latest version of the ESPN report, Jerry Stackhouse “ain’t going nowhere” –but for now, here’s why I hate it. Granted, your chances for an…
John Wheeler If a Canadian developer gets its way, this Howard Meyer-designed building on Turtle Creek will become a hotel-condo high-rise with a restaurant. Local architect Cliff Welch sends word today of another important Dallas building on the chopping block: the Howard Meyer-designed office building at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard…
Mavs owner Mark Cuban has, in recent days, vehemently poo-poo’d the idea of bringing Jason Kidd back to Dallas from the New Jersey Nets. But former Dallas Morning News’er Marc Stein, now at ESPN, brings word that the deal’s back on — and damned near done. Wrote Stein moments ago:…
Eric Dickerson’s mentioned somewhere in this item, and in a nice way. Hard to top last week, when we said goodbye to two assholes (Bill Belichick and Bobby Knight) and hello to a hero (Nolan Ryan). Today, however, could be just as delicious as sports climbs atop Capitol Hill. NFL…
For forever, the Stoneleigh Hotel’s been promising it’ll open the doors to a renovated gem in “early 2008” — well, actually, at one point it was fall 2007. (Of course, back then it was also a $28-million makeover, and now the price tag’s a little closer to $36 million.) Well,…
