Fight! Fight! Fight! Tonight!

Where you will find Jim Schutze starting at 6:30 this evening: at Rosemont Primary School, off N. Hampton Road and W. Davis Street, not far from the Stevens Park Gold Course. He’s attending — what else? — a League of Women Voters of Dallas-sponsored Trinity toll road debate that’ll pit…

How Jesus Found Dawn Eden Goldstein

What’s a nice Jewish girl like Dawn Eden doing in a place like this? Dawn Eden manages to make chastity funny. Not ha-ha funny, but way funnier than I thought. Now that’s quite an accomplishment, don’t you think? I know it never got a belly laugh out of me before…

Cuban Dancing

New York magazine’s reporting that the Dallas Mavs owner has “no chance” of ever owning the Chicago Cubs. A billion dollars he would disagree with the assessment. There’s a crazy story in New York magazine that says the Yanks’ third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, might be outta NYC at the end…

Obituary for a Serial Killer

Coral Eugene Watts, who killed women he believed had “evil eyes” Fifty-three-year-old Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed to slaying 11 women in Texas — two from the Dallas area — died of prostate cancer on Friday in a Michigan prison. Watts was the poster boy for the unintended consequences of…

!Viva Los Vaqueros!

Was that the Twilight Zone or Telemundo? Either way, the Cowboys’ utter dismantling of the defending NFC Champion Chicago Bears was bizarre, shocking and, let’s face it, delicious. 13-10? Maybe. 34-10? Pinch me. In Dallas a 3-0 start means the Cowboys are going to the Super Bowl. While in Chicago,…

Havin’ a Bloc Party at the HOB

Bloc Party at the House of Blues Saturday night — not as boring as everyone else, matter o’ fact We’re not prone to running concert reviews on Unfair Park — our kid sister, DC9 at Night, has that beat in its back pocket. But UP’s best Friend attended the Bloc…

The Havoc of Force

Mark Stuertz John Force lights a nifty burnout before a qualifying run on Saturday. One day later, his car was cut in half, and Force was in the hospital. You could see who had the Force just by wandering through the pits. While there was a small swell around Tommy…

A Reason to Smile Smile

Our music blog, DC9 at Night, features a brief chit-chat with Ryan Hamilton — one half of Smile Smile, we’re not not sure which Smile — concerning the band’s October 17 show in New York City, at the Alphabet Lounge. As it happens, Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme have been invited…

Bowie and SRV’s Golden Year

On April 27, 1983, David Bowie was in Las Colinas rehearsing songs for his “Serious Moonlight” tour, in support of his Let’s Dance album. Joining him was that hit record’s lead guitarist: Oak Cliff’s Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was only two months away from releasing his own debut, Texas Flood,…

American Idol Tryouts Aren’t So Fun the Second Time Around

As you no doubt are aware, Simon, Paula and Randy are in town today and tomorrow, putting second-round American Idol wannabes through the paces at the W Hotel. But re-auditions started yesterday, and this guy who made it past the first round found the second phase of hoop-jumping more than…

You’re a Rich Man, Harold Simmons

Have you met our adoptive parents, Annette and Harold Simmons? They’re very nice people. Mazel tov, Harold Simmons! Looks like you’re still the richest man in Dallas — and the 43rd richest person in the entire country. Yet again, Forbes has posted its list of the 400 wealthiest folks in…

You Betcha: Week 3

Jack Hamm/Grace Bible Fellowship Need we remind you of what Tom Landry thought of gambling? Thought so. I know what you’re thinking: Hey, douchebag, what happened to Week 2? To which I retort, “What happens in Vegas haunts you all the way back to Dallas.” Find a comfy chair and…

Taking the Chantix Story National

WFAA-Channel 8’s Janet St. James Thanks to the several Friends of Unfair Park, including Uncle Barky, who’ve pointed out that on Wednesday, WFAA-Channel 8 medical reporter Janet St. James’s story about Carter Albrecht and the smoking-cessation drug Chantix, which features an interview with Albrecht’s girlfriend Ryann Rathbone, received prominent play…

We Could Be Heroes. Or Not.

Comic Book Resources offers two very odd green-screen preview pics from this week’s Sunday Night Football intro, in which Terrell Owens and Heroes’ Masi Oka vie for the title of — here it comes — most heroic. Guess it couldn’t be any worse than this. –Robert Wilonsky…

Hunt-ing Season

Ray Hunt and the missus, who kinda know George and Laura Bush just a little, dig? Yesterday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Kucinich demanded to know precisely how Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company got that deal to drill for oil in Iraq, which it signed a…

And Now for a Whole Different Kind of American Gladiator Tryout

Forget Vegas. If you need fast cash and are jonesing for a vacation, look no further than your nearest Army recruiting location. In late July the U.S. Army instituted the new “Quick-Ship” enlistment bonus for recruits who report for training before September 30th. You’d best hurry — only 10 days…

A Totally Pointless Poll

Shinsei’s Casey Thompson, like you didn’t already know Gawker’s running a poll at the moment, as it wonders who its readers think will be the next Top Chef. And though there are four cheftestants left, Gawker’s editors only give you two chefs from which to choose: Dallas’ Casey Thompson (“Little…