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Because if you are, and you want that extra weight to translate into some extra dough-re-mi, then be at Dave and Buster’s on North Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. That’s when the producers from ABC’s show Supernanny will be in town scouting talent…

Can’t believe we went a whole day without a Deep Ellum posting. But, alas, it’s a brand-new day, and we’ve got some brand-new news, more or less: The Deep Ellum Association had separated itself from the Deep Ellum Foundation. For background on the spat between the two entities, read Andrea…

On KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) this morning, “Dunham & Miller” co-host George Dunham was blaming Mayor Laura Miller for the Cotton Bowl’s leaving the Cotton Bowl. Sure, why not. Only problem is, George is wrong — at least, partially wrong. See, everyone’s to blame here, if blame is what you’re…

Michael Snellgrove, SMU’s chief of police, is taking his law-enforcing to Afghanistan. Fewer sorority girls, probably. This definitely doesn’t count as a promotion: SMU’s Daily Campus had a piece late last week about Michael Snellgrove, who, for the past four years, has been the university’s police chief. (He’s actually been…

Photo by Tod Seelie I do so regret not being able to make the St. Vincent-Midlake-Tacks, the Boy Disaster show Saturday night at the Granada Theater; family duties and all. Nonetheless, our boy Chris Cantalini at Gorilla vs. Bear does have some pics to go along with his rave, natch…

There’s a meeting this week to see if Uptowners actually want to preserve the former church that, till next week, is the home of the Hard Rock Cafe. New Friend of Unfair Park John McKee called to let us know that on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at William B. Travis…

At 10:30 this morning, Environmental Defense’s president Fred Krupp and Austin-based regional director Jim Marston and Natural Resources Defense Council’s David Hawkins got on the phone with journalists from around the country to discuss their roles in TXU’s decision to withdraw permits for eight of the 11 coal-fired plants it…

John Carmack, fourth from left, and his crew at the Oklahoma Spaceport, with the craft called Pixel So, Virgin Records’ Richard Branson wants to create the world’s first private spaceline by 2009, costing folks some $200,000 for two hours in space. And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is out in West…

So, that was quick: From “first reported on Friday evening” to settled by Sunday afternoon, TXU yesterday was taken private after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group forked over $45 billion for the Dallas-based energy provider. And eight of the 11 coal-fired plants TXU wanted to build throughout the…

Dunno if you saw this Saturday night — and I did, a sad admission — but Saturday Night Live’s latest “Digital Short,” starring The Office’s Rainn Wilson as a business exec trying to slash the budget, had a local tie. Granted, it was a very tenuous and accidental local tie…

Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ is accused of assaulting at least eight women. Eight women have now come forward alleging that Pastor Sherman Allen of Fort Worth beat them with a wooden paddle and, in several cases, sexually abused them, according to Stan Broome,…

Craig Watkins is apologizing to folks exonerated by DNA evidence. He might be very, very busy… New Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is making it a practice to shake hands with and apologize to those folks who have been exonerated through DNA tests — which has happened twice since…

We Americans are be ob-freaking-cessed with winning awards. There are the obvious accolades: Oscars, Heismans, Super Bowl trophies, Grammys. And then there are the less obvious ones that, amazingly enough, we strive for just the same. Like the “I have the grossest, messiest, most junked-up room in the history of…

Former county treasurer Lisa Hembry’s now in charge of local cable access TV. Party on. Pretty much every day since last Friday, The Harrell Group’s David Dunnigan has been on my ass — by which I mean, asking very nicely, actually — to post something about the changes at Dallas…

The crew at the first Pig Stand, built in 1921 on the highway between Dallas and Fort Worth During a little late-night GooTube browsing I stumbled across a documentary called Carhops, which was filmed here in the early 1970s. It was posted only yesterday by its maker, Don Pasquella. (Who,…

That National Public Radio story about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, which we mentioned Wednesday evening, ran this morning on Morning Edition. You can hear it here. Already a couple of Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed with some unhappy comments (they’re not thrilled with the portrayal of Dallas…

The Huffington Post’s Melinda Henneberger accompanied her old pal, The Mayor, to Austin yesterday for the TXU coal-plant permit hearings that weren’t, and she filed this report for the Web site. Henneberger, a former Dallas Morning News’er, also brings something new to the table, a quote not found in Dallas’…