Still Waitin’ for The New Year

As Pete’s taking the day off to recover from the Dallas Observer Music Awards — and back in my day, we got an hour, tops — thought I’d sneak this musical note by the goalkeeper. Because — surprise, surprise — it’s a New Year notice, yet another in advance of…

Hands Down, The Most Popular Presenter in Music Awards History

Shoulda heard the Granada crowd go wild for Burton Gilliam last night, as he presented a handful of Dallas Observer Music Awards to a grateful nation. We’ve tried for years to get the actor — who, as a fanatical heckler reminded the crowd, first appeared in Paper Moon before co-starring…

Now, Where’s My HazMat Uniform?

If you live between Lemmon Avenue, Kings Road, Maple Avenue, the Denton Drive cut-off and Inwood Road, the city has a favor to ask you. Like, could you please, pretty please, stay inside tomorrow night — say, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.? Swell. Nothing big –…

W: Off the Cuff, Off the Record

President Bush was in Houston last week raising dough for Pete Olson. Took a few days, but a video making the rounds today, courtesy Miya Shay of Houston’s ABC affiliate KTRK-Channel 13 and the likes of the Houston Chronicle and The Huffington Post, features remarks about the economy the president…

As Promised, Angela Hunt’s Video from Her Trip to Mexico

One of dozens of photos Angela Hunt took during her trip to Mexico, where the elephants are rocking — though, not in a good way. Joyce Poole has spent most of her life documenting the behavior of elephants; she has, as National Geographic put it, decoded their language. Which is…

Look, You Made Jessica Simpson Cry

Dunno about you, but I need a little palate cleanser. And it’s times like these I turn to Jessica Simpson. Weepy, ranty, adult-language video after the jump, from her weekend performance at the Country Thunder USA hoedown in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, where she debuted “You’re My Sunday,” written for and…

Russ Martin Will Not Be Live Today

After saying the arrested talk show host would likely return today, David Henry, general manager at KLLI-FM (Live 105.3), has changed his tune. Why? Dunno. He just called Unfair Park to say “we are going to keep Russ off the air for the time being.” Which means, once more, Live…

An Arts Magnet By Any Other Name

Over on her blog, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member Joyce Foreman directs our attention to the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board. Among the items on the agenda: a reopening of the August 25, 2005, discussion concerning proposed names for new and existing…

Tom Kemper Goes Green, Makes Green

Tom Kemper Tom Kemper, founder of Dolphin Blue and chair of the Sustainable Dallas board, gets quite the national shout-out in the latest issue of Entrepreneur. The piece celebrates his decision in 1994 to troll the local landfills — with 350 50-gallon garbage bags — for recyclables, which no one…

Dallas’s Richard Bitner Explains the Subprime Mess to Jon Stewart

Funny thing. So, yesterday I e-mailed Richard Bitner, because I’d just read this U.S. News & World Report Q&A about his involvement in the “subprime debacle.” Bitner lives in Dallas and, a decade ago, began snapping up subprime loans; eventually, he turned it into quite the profitable business called Kellner…

Channel 11’s Out of Bologna

Julie Bologna Every couple of days, seems like, another comment gets added to the March 7 item about Rebecca Miller’s getting released from KXAS-Channel 5, where she’s since been replaced by no-not-that-Jennifer Lopez. Why, just last week Sharon Joyce of Dallas wrote, “Rebecca has it all — thorough and easily…

Is That “Tall” or “High”?

Richardson High School grad David Gordon Green’s Pineapple Express opens August 6 — and, to quote the Dazed and Confused trailer, bring a bud. By way of a reminder, here’s the red-band trailer, which is NSFW, natch. But, courtesy a Friend of Unfair Park who visited a Hawaiian Falls yesterday…

Mark Cuban Will Be on the Interwebs Today, Courtesy the FCC

The Federal Communications Commission’s throwing a four-hour shindig at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh today — and you’re invited, virtually, via the FCC’s audio-video homepage. The get-down starts at 3 p.m. Dallas time, and it should be intriguing: The subject matter’s “Broadband and the Digital Future,” and joining the panel…