We just received our University of Texas Press Fall and Winter 2007 catalog, and toward the back we found word of a new travel book — kinda, sorta. Titled Placenotes — Dallas, it’s actually described as a “boxed set of cards that guides you to the unique and memorable places…
Fine — so that’s overselling it by just a bit. Nonetheless, great filmmakers zoom in on the little details — beads of sweat, shifty eyes, restless hands and, now, bouncing feet. Over the weekend, whilst waiting for Plano boy Josh Evans to bust out of the 2007 World Series of…
Were you wondering why it was taking so long to get on Stemmons Freeway this morning? Did you try to find out and discover that The Dallas Morning News’ traffic report took 16 minutes to load on their new, improved, streamlined, easy-to-use Web site? (Hey, I really was going to…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna, proprietor of Kettle Art down in Deep Ellum, took his peeps up to NYC in the middle of June for the Affordable Art Fair. It was no ordinary shindig — the AAFNY, one of several Affordable Art throwdowns held throughout the year in…
The big-money men at Dallas’ Beta Capital Group are trying to scrape together enough spare change to stop Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal takeover. Word was only 10 days ago that Rupert Murdoch had succeeded in his efforts to buy The Wall Street Journal from Dow Jones & Co. –…
Interested in franchising a Which Wich? Because according to the sandwich-makin’ chain’s Web site, you need about half a mil, at minimum, to open a location — but it oughta be worth it, insists the NY-based site RestaurantChains.net. Says here that Jeff Sinell’s chain of eateries — which opened its…
Who says the Mavs’ owner doesn’t have a sense of humor? Certainly not the Mavs’ owner. Because he thinks this is “hysterical.” And, he adds, “Hopefully whlie [sic] you are laughing with me, or at me, Im laughing all the way to the bank.” That, you can count on. Especially…
As Clear Channel owns five major stations in the Dallas market — among them, KHKS-FM (KISS 106, home to Kidd Kraddick), KDGE-FM (102.1, Your Alleged New Rock Alternative) and KZPS-FM (92.5, the recently rechristened Lone Star) — this certainly qualifies as local news. And if you’re an unsigned local artist…
Amongst the pleasures we’ve missed in our adventures in gluttony is the joy of pink salt from the Himalayas. Say what? Yeah, the Paris Hilton-pink unrefined fossil marine salt that formed some 200 million years ago in the mountains of the Sherpas. It has a pinkish shimmer, a swell granulometry…
On a recent flight from Houston to Dallas, my plane-ride banter took a grisly turn when I learned why the woman next to me was coming home to Big D. She lives in Maryland, and the day before, her brother’s Labrador mauled their elderly mother, leaving both of her hands…
We keep meaning to make it over to the Romance Writers Association annual shindig, being held this weekend at the Hyatt Regency downtown. But since something always keeps coming up, we’ll rely instead on my new favorite-named Web site: Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels. Among their “random thoughts” so…
No idea how we missed this one, but a couple of weeks back, the Barbie Doll Collectors Convention came to town — well, the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, close enough. Far as I can tell, there was a fashion show during which growed-ups dressed like Barbie dolls; fine,…
The thing I like about Fox News is how reliable it is. I needed something to scare me into believing the country is being overrun with immigrants who will take away my American way of life and my unalienable rights to drink Bud Light and listen to Toby Keith. And…
In news that prompts an initial reaction of “Why, oh, why couldn’t it be Tom Hicks?”, Mark Cuban’s interest in buying the Chicago Cubs has escalated from superficial to serious. Cuban has filed the official paperwork with Major League Baseball, joining a prestigious pile of prospective buyers for the fabled…
Joseph Farah looks a little like Doug Henning, if you kind of squint your eyes. Or Yanni. Ron Glass, maybe? In the past, Joseph Farah has advocated resurrecting the Hollywood blacklist (all because of Johnny Depp and George Clooney — sorry, “George Looney,” oof) and the murdering of cheating spouses…
Earlier today we mentioned the Associated Press story about Earth Biofuels’ creditors seeking Chapter 7 liquidation of the Knox Street-based company. Well, Forbes has just followed it with a piece that pretty much lays it all out there: “The Party’s Over,” reads the headline, which is old news to folks…
Frankie Campagna, son of good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna and front man for self-proclaimed greaser punks Spector 45, needs your help. This morning, his van was stolen — and inside was all his gear, which he’d packed for a show tonight down in Deep Ellum. After the jump,…
Texas Rangers director of communications Gregg Elkin, an all-around fine American, today e-mailed Unfair Park a pic of the new sign installed this week over the Home Plate entrance at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Says Rangers president Jeff Cogen, “This signage replacement at the home plate entrance represents the…
Courtesy KDFW-Channel 4 First Jim Schutze had to go and ruin that Trinity River buzz, now it’s the Drug Enforcement Agency. Says here that DEA agents just today found “a large number of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area near the Trinity River.” KDFW-Channel 4’s reporting that the stuff…
Cat Cora will be here in September to debut Dallas’ chapter of Chefs for Humanity. So, all together now, allez cuisine! At the bottom of the press release announcing what we already knew — The Ritz-Carlton Dallas is opening August 15 — there’s a note with some actual new news:…
Meet Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy Saturday. Bask in his Quiet Strength. Sickened by yet another Texas Ranger complaining, when he just should shut up and start homering? Bummed that OU’s 2005 football team, in hindsight, actually went 0-4? Depressed that, despite repeated first-round playoff flame-outs, the Dallas Stars are…
Doesn’t seem so long ago that Dallas-based Earth Biofuels was a company on the rise: Julia Roberts, Willie Nelson and Morgan Freeman were shareholders and on the board of directors, and exactly one year ago, Roberts signed on to act as spokeswoman for the alternative-fuels company HQ’d on Knox Street…
