Now this is the only way to listen to any album: Get every single song on the disc, edit each till one till it runs no more than five or six seconds, then post the thing as a “sneak preview.” That’s what someone’s done for the new Norah Jones disc,…
Vindication! And, alas, a modicum of disappointment. Here’s the latest e-mail from DISD spokesperson Celso Martinez, who so wanted to be my new best friend this week: “A determination has been made that there is insufficient material regarding trespassing at Preston Hollow Elementary School. Nevertheless, I would encourage you to…
There have been shouting matches, lawsuits and demonstrations, but the fight in Farmers Branch is just beginning. A petition has forced the city’s controversial ban on renting apartments to illegal immigrants to a May vote, the city revised the measure only last week, and supporters are continuing with fund-raising efforts…
A little while ago we linked you to the Comedy Central site, where you could see Stephen Colbert talking last night about the Dubya Library at Southern Methodist University. But, since we never like you to leave Unfair Park for any reason, and because we love you, we’re just gonna…
Things be gettin’ uh-guh-lee in the legal battle over TXU’s proposed new 11 coal-fired power plants that will, in all probability, choke us to death. Today the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition (or the TCACC), fronted by Mayor Laura Miller, is going to try to force TXU — and, specifically,…
Oh, you know you want it. It’s just that, like a lot of us, you aren’t exactly sure what it is. I come to you today with this high-definition TV scouting report, because I care. Because I care, and because I damn well expect to be invited to your Super…
Former Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells finally spoke about his “retirement” earlier this week — and, natch, he didn’t do it on a local station, because God forbid he talk to the team’s actual fans. So, instead, he spoke with The Fan (WFAN-AM) in New York, specifically to hosts “Mike…
So, earlier this week, Billy Crudup hisself confirmed to us that he did indeed go to Hillcrest High School in the early 1980s. Even told us he was in the yearbook. Only took us a few days, but we now have all the proof you ever needed: Crudup’s freshman class…
Last night, the glory that is Stephen Colbert spent a considerable amount of time talking about SMU — pronounced “SMOO,” apparently — and the George W. Bush library. “As somebody who loves our president and hates books, I don’t know where I stand,” said the host of The Colbert Report,…
Look, because I love — and because it’s late, and who knows, maybe you too gots nothing better to do — here’s a tip: Go here. The sooner, the better, I’d say. You never know how long these things stick around, and by “these things,” I mean a very, very…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park you’ll find our preview of tonight’s New Riders of the Purple Sage show at the Granada, which kicks off promptly at 8 p.m. with a set by Austin’s Brothers and Sisters, our favorite new act from the 512. The band first caught…
David Beckham: Yes, but is he good for the Mexicans? Al Dia ran an interesting story yesterday about the arrival of David Beckham to the MLS, saying that his success here will depend largely on whether he can attract more Hispanic fans to MLS (don’t forget that a large chunk…
This is not young Jim Schutze… OK, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind, but I thought you might like to know about it anyway: That picture (at right) on the cover of this week’s Dallas Observer, accompanying Jim Schutze’s story about the de-hippy-fication of East Dallas, is not Schutze…
We can’t tell Jamie Foxx from Ray Charles anymore. That’s how much of a genius he is. So he says. Just yesterday I was reading in The New York Times a review of Terrell native Jamie Foxx’s Monday-night concert at Madison Square Garden. Sounded kinda…awful. Sample sentence: “He began with…
Just one hour after we posted that item about the missing Giuliani docs, which were posted to reporter Ben Smith’s blog only yesterday, they’ve already been taken down. Good thing we didn’t save the .PDF file to our hard drive. Yeah, that would have been a very bad idea. Gosh,…
We can take no credit for this; nope, all due propers to Josh Benton at The Dallas Morning News, who yesterday on BoldTypes penned an item about those infamous Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign plans that went, uh, missing from a hotel room in November. Ben Smith, the New York Daily…
Big story yesterday about a Boston couple who was booted off a flight because their 3-year-old was throwing a tantrum and refused to be buckled in to her seat. Fair enough, considering that you’ve got another 115 or so passengers waiting to take off. The story ran on KDFW-Channel 4,…
Who says the newspaper business is dead (well, besides, like, everybody)? Don’t tell that to the folks over at American Community Newspapers, the Minnesota-based publisher of 16 papers in the North Texas area — including the Plano Star Courier, McKinney Courier-Gazette, Frisco Enterprise and Mesquite News. (The North Texas papers…
Get your tickets now: As if this year’s Coachella music-fest (April 27-29) lineup wasn’t stellar enough, boasting acts from Rage Against the Machine to Willie Nelson to Roky Erickson, there’s one more reason for Dallasites to pack up their tents and make the long journey to the deserts of California:…
Uh, note to DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: You’d best tell your spokesperson the definition of “legal” before this gets ugly. Oh, wait. Too late. Our bad. Breaking news: The Dallas Independent School District is investigating whether a crime was committed at Preston Hollow Elementary School in the wake of a…
Sometimes, I love being wrong. OK, not really. I pretty much hate it all the time, but if I have to be wrong about something, I’d like to be wrong about ways in which Dallas sucks. See, in my column a couple weeks back, I mused that the last time…
Somewhere beneath this Dolphins helmet is former — and, maybe, future? — Dallas Cowboy Jason Garrett. Uh…Coach Garrett, perhaps? That’d be kinda cool. Took a break from guessing about Bill Parcells’ replacement long enough to breathe in the fresh air of the NHL All-Star Game last night. And, of course,…
