After a stream of virulent comments posted to Unfair Park in response to items I’ve written on immigration issues, I thought I’d respond and clarify a few things. First, so you know what I’m talking about, here’s a sampling, the first comment posted by my favorite Unfair Park screen name,…
Katherine Heigl stars in Zyzzyx Road, which drove off into a ditch when it played Highland Park last year. The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contains the fascinating tale of a thriller called Zyzzyx Road, which I know you’ve never heard of — despite the fact it counts among its…
Fortune writer Julie Schlosser writes this week about getting spammed via her cell phone, courtesy an unidentified e-mailer who offered her the promise of big riches: “Castleguard Energy (OTC: MOAT) strikes BLACK GOLD in Wyoming. Watch the share price double, triple, more? Exxon, watch out!” Turns out, Castleguard’s a publicly…
In case you missed it, on Sunday some thousand folks gathered at the state capitol building to protest TXU’s plans to build at least 11 new coal-fired plants in the state. And, in case you missed it, Laurie “Wife of Larry” David and Sheryl Crow are embarking on a two-week…
Really, is this any way to repay an old friend? Today, it says here, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner and former Dallas Observer cover story subject Ralph Isenberg — you remember, the dude who married the Chinese masseuse who, in 2001, pleaded no contest to a prostitution charge — is…
Celso Martinez told Sarah Dodd he has the God-given right to live wherever he wanted. Yeah, tell it to the boss, Celso. Celso Martinez was kind enough to call and give me the news personally. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has denied the DISD spokesperson and associate superintendent’s waiver request to continue…
Brett Hull may be the Dallas Stars’ Ambassador of Fun. But, as you well know, I’m the Dallas Stars’ Bearer of Good News and Positivity and Stuff. So, in an effort to placate fans I seemed to have awoken — dare I say, pissed off? — with this little diddy,…
Seriously, how I do love the Friends of Unfair Park. On January 29, I mentioned how Rolling Stone’s David Fricke had teased the magazine’s readers with the mention of a Jeff Beck Band bootleg made from a show at LuAnn’s on Greenville Ave. in 1968. Fricke had said it was…
I just got an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park concerning his getting popped by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for — get this — smoking at Gezellig on Lower Greenville Avenue. This is what he has to say, and after the jump, TABC’s repsonse. This past Saturday night…
Theater Fire has covered an Elliott Smith song for a doc-in-progress called Future Butterflies. This morning, while doing our semi-regular GooTube search for locally related postings, we found a brand-new Theater Fire song, which the band performed at the Granada Theater on Friday night. It’s the rare homemade, shot-by-an-audience-member video…
How do you like this description of Deep Ellum? “One can view Deep Ellum as a palimpsest; a layering of stories and histories; a place that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. Within the last two decades, the vibrant street-life…
My old pal and collegiate colleague at The Daily Texan, Katy, Texas’ own Rob Walker, yesterday devoted his Consumed column in The New York Times Magazine to Pizza Patr�n. After the breathless debate a few weeks back concerning the locally based chain’s decision to accept pesos from its customers, Rob…
Seriously, we could not be more delighted for the Dixie Chicks, who we can say we knew back when. (Joey Tomato’s, anyone?) Five Grammies last night, including the Holy Trinity for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year — which no one predicted, of…
CBS News A scene from Norah Jones’ forthcoming appearance on 60 Minutes this Sunday We leave you this week by pointing you to a couple of musical notes. One, you might wanna go here, say, or here to grab a couple songs from the new Apples in Stereo release, New…
It didn’t take long for the ol’ Clinton charm to hypnotize the crowd at the former Prez’s speaking engagement last night at the Nokia Theater at Grand Prairie. After a sustained standing ovation, the first thing out of his mouth was, “Thank you. This must be about 90 percent of…
Exactly a week ago, we mentioned a fundraiser taking place tomorrow night at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie featuring Willie Nelson and Jessica Simpson performing gospel songs with the Fort Worth Symphony, a performance by the Dallas Black Dance Theater and an emcee duties provided by Kinky Friedman, with…
Damn you, MediaCart. Not kidding. Till, like, an hour ago, I’d never even heard of the Plano-based company. Then I read this story from Advertising Age, in which it says MediaCart has cracked the apparently unsolvable riddle about how to put advertisements into your grocery shopping cart — quite literally,…
Tracy Evers, executive director of the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association for the last decade or so, sends word she’ll be stepping down in June. Or stepping out. Of Dallas. Seems her husband Brad Evers, 24-year chef with ClubCorp., has assumed an executive chef post at an undisclosed country club in…
Josh Howard’s an All-Star, finally. But don’t think he’s thrilled about how he got to Las Vegas. I’ll provide much — and I mean much — more on this in next week’s paper version of Unfair Park, but the NBA just named Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard to the All-Star…
On the drive to work this morning, I noticed a house for sale — and not just any ol’ house, but the nice pink one sitting at 8915 Douglas Avenue, which any longtime local can tell you used to be the manse of one Mary Kay Ash. Here’s the description…
John Sparks, KTVT-Channel 11’s exec producer in charge of investigations and political coverage, alerts us to a Robert Riggs report getting national play via the CBS News mothership. It involves “the theft of the century,” or close to it: the pilfering of millions of dollars’ worth of oil in Iraq,…
Rod Dreher is no friend of the local Muslim community. He explains why. Should make plenty of new friends. It’s because he’s the “new face of hate,” duh. That what The Dallas Morning News’er and Crunchy Con writes in the winter issue of City Journal, the urban-affairs quarterly published by…
