So, about eight Friends of Unfair Park — who I assume also read FrontBurner — e-mailed me this piece from The New York Times today, in which Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of J.F.K. author Gerald Posner says, in short, that the just-released George Jefferies footage of…
A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that Brad Pitt was finally going to produce and probably star in The Dallas Buyer’s Club, a true-life tale about Ron Woodroof — the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and eventually went on to…
Steve Susman is the attorney leading the anti-TXU coal plant crusade down in Austin this morning. Last night in Waco, Steve Susman — the Houston attorney working pro bono for Mayor Laura Miller’s Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition — laid out the group’s case against TXU and the 11…
Well, it looks like Mayor Laura Miller’s schedule has cleared up for tomorrow. She was supposed to land in Austin at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday for the first day of hearings before the State Office of Administrative Hearings concerning TXU’s attempt to get permits for 11 coal-fired plants throughout the state…
Hard to believe that 25 years ago insalata Caprese (mozzarella, tomato, basil, olive oil) was virtually unheard of in Dallas. That’s why God granted Dallas’ Paula Lambert, who, in 1982, opened a cheese factory in Deep Ellum to satisfy a fetish for fresh mozzarella — the kind oozing with milk,…
The forthcoming issue of Fortune (which is to say, the March 5 edition not yet online) features a special report called “An Almanac of American Wealth.” In it, the magazine says “that money in America is still predominantly white: The median net worth of a white household was $141,000 in…
Yesterday, Unfair Park and the rest of the friggin’ world mentioned that newly discovered footage of “the fateful Kennedy motorcade.” And if you tried to see it yesterday on the Sixth Floor Museum’s Web site, well, you probably got no love, as the site crashed shortly after the initial Associated…
Bill Hearne’s been accused of stalking his former bassist. Whenever folks ask me why I would move from a comfortable gig as a music writer in Santa Fe to the 105-degree-heat, concrete and overdeveloped jungle of Big D, I tell them it’s because of wack-ass stuff like this story about…
We’ll have to give Steve Blow credit: We too noticed the odd full-page what-the-fuh? advertorial for the World Reserve Monetary Exchange on page 3B of today’s edition of Dallas’ Only Daily. Almost looked like a regular ol’ story, and it probably did to some Core Readers who were without their…
Somewhere in this picture, Andre Gurode’s having his face stomped on by Albert Haynesworth. Andre would love for you to ask him about that tonight. I know, let’s give up football for Lent. (Psst, since the NFL draft isn’t until April 28, we won’t miss a thing.) Luckily for us,…
The Dallas County Commissioners Court has just agreed to settle the the James Mims lawsuit that sparked a series of investigations into the troubled Dallas County Jail. Voting unanimously, the commissioners agreed to pay the families of three county inmates $950,000, an extraordinary sum for this type of litigation. Typically,…
Williams McKie founded Mustang 34 years ago to sell booze to folks driving to Dallas. Now, his widow and another feller are debating its fate. In the 1970s, attorney William McKie had a brilliant idea: He’d turn the town of Mustang, some 60 miles away in Navarro County, into a…
Yesterday afternoon, the president of the Deep Ellum Association, Gianna Madrini, sat down in the comfy confines of the All Good Cafe with various interested parties — Unfair Park, some guy running for mayor and other remarkably good-looking people — to talk about a piddly issue. Actually, make that a…
Since this seems to be a real musical holiday ’round Unfair Park, might as well link you to this: yesterday’s Good Records in-store featuring Kevin Barnes, from Of Montreal. I was gonna go to the free 3 o’clock shindig, but couldn’t seem to get myself out of the house. Turns…
This afternoon we received a missive from Erv Karwelis, bossman at Idol Records, informing us he’s just signed Glen Reynolds to his label. Glen, as you no doubt recall, used to be the guitarist in Chomsky, which was signed to Idol when it released its terrific discs A Few Possible…
There are a lot of perks to having friends — or so we hear, if the conversations overheard in public restrooms and at crowded restaurants are any indication. You can call friends for a shoulder to cry on or for Friday-night drinking company. You can see movies with them and…
So, that sniper’s perch thing didn’t seem to work out, hunh? Never you mind that. Here’s something better, and it’s totally gratis. Over at the Sixth Floor Museum’s Web site, they’ve just posted a newly discovered home movie of “the fateful Kennedy motorcade” that escorted the president from Love Field…
Speaking of Neil Young (see below), his album Living With War — you know, the one with “Let’s Impeach the President” — has been out since May of last year. So it isn’t new. But what is relatively recent is a review of the disc that can be found on…
A couple of weeks ago, our music ed asked me if I was obsessed with Norah Jones. Uh, no, Jonanna, why do you ask? Hey, it’s just that some of us remember trying to eat our Popolo’s way back in the day whilst Norah tinkled and twinkled for tips, that’s…
What will the new Whole Foods — which is to say the Park Lane edition, reportedly to sprawl more than 80,000 square feet when it opens spring 2008 — be like? Will it be the chain’s largest? Will it have a spa? Will it have an organic hybrid-car wash? The…
These are some of the people served by Joel Pulis’ ministry for the severely mentally ill in Oak Cliff. It’s pretty much the last place I expected to find a story about the Well Community, an Oak Cliff church that ministers to the severely mental ill living on little income…
The greatness of Mel Renfro will be at a McKinney Ave. lunch today highlighting the problems facing pro football’s old-timers. Dead presidents? Hardly. On this most special of days, when we take time to remember and celebrate the men whose talents helped shaped our lives and whose posters help cover…
