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Good news for folks who’re good with computers and stuff: If you’re not working today — which is to say, you’re out of work and not just taking the day off to download current theatrical releases or browse for porn — just wait till the beginning of 2007. You just…

The long-rumored, difficult-to-confirm is official now: New York-based Smith & Wollensky is closing its huge Dallas Steak House, incurring $3.2 million in charges in the process. In short: “The Company decided to close S&W Dallas because it was unable to achieve a level of income from operations that was in…

Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead For the last year or so, the plight of the Ash Creeek Mobile Home Park — a low-income enclave on Highland Road, between Interstate 30 and White Rock Lake, that’s been around since the 1940s — has been the source of much…

Like I said Wednesday, the Reunion Tower Revue tracks available here and here are coming down on Monday. Fret not, they’ll resurface at a later date, but if you want ’em to warm you on a cold winter’s night, best act fast. Enough’s been said about that night, but not…

Whilst browsing through some federal court documents this morning, we stumbled across a case filed on Wednesday: Miguel Arango v. Dallas Independent School District et al. Certainly, any cases involving the DISD intrigue us, even one as seemingly routine as a wrongful termination suit — the kind filed against city,…

Yesterday, we mentioned the Dallas Voice article in which good Baptist and Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson said, in response to a question about whether homosexuality is a sin, said, “According to the way we’re taught, and what it says in the Bible, it is.” And we pointed you to her blog…

Young and old, they lined up to get healed. Old farmer’s wives with calloused, misshapen hands. A pot-bellied guy and his bum knee, souvenir of an athletic youth. Willowy teenage girls with their eyes closed, arms raised, illness unspecified. On some faces you saw quiet expectation. Others seemed so weary…

Back and better than ever: Terrell Bolton now gets to say he made a federal case of his firing. How awesome is that? Terrell Bolton’s already gotten some $1.8 million from the city in retirement benefits. Yesterday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, Ya know, maybe we oughta…

In the paper version of Unfair Park last week I had a little something to say about little d musician Daniel Folmer’s latest release Wear Headphones. I gotta say, I like Folmer — from his handwritten letters to his “Hey, so, this is who I am” songwriting style. He’s no-bullshit…

You know what’s odd? Yesterday, we linked to City Plan Commission chair Betty Culbreath’s blog, where she wrote on Wednesday about the possible reasons behind the Dallas Housing Authority’s decision to get rid of CEO Ann Lott. In her post, Culbreath wrote that she knows “for a fact a Professional…

All I want for Christmas is the chance to dance with Emmitt Smith. Now, where’s my earring of honor? Much as this pains me, I cannot deny your (creepy) fascination with watching grown men dance. So, in the spirit of Christmas, here goes: You can win a chance to dance…

Yeah, so the new Whole Foods, with its panty-waist spa, has a place to watch cheese mold, a chocolate drainage system, a taffy-yanker and a place to buy hair shirts, all christened by a proclamation from a mayor who specializes in bridge merchandising. That can’t out hot-wax Central Market in…

Got a missive yesterday from a Little Forest Hills resident who reminds us to mark the calendar: January 3. A little early still, but the reason’s a good one: That’s when University of Texas-Dallas new media and emergent communications professor Dean Terry’s documentary Subdivided debuts on KERA-TV. Had no idea…

Brian Gray, at left, says Shelley Hallman is hanging up pictures of him affixed to a shooting-range target. Dude, who hasn’t been there? Felony prosecutor Shelley Hallman, who prosecutes death penalty cases and has a knack for acting like a 7-year-old, has struck again. The wife of failed district attorney…

The beloved Denton DIY hang Secret Headquarters is in trouble, if there’s anything to glean from a MySpace bulletin I — and many others — received yesterday. Yup, the venue is asking for donations via the Paypal button on its Web site; as SHQ’s Scott Porter says, “[W]ell, it turns…

Among the short films selected to screen during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, is one from a local filmmaker: writer-director Jesus “Chin” Beltran’s debut, The Grass Grows Green. The Sundance Web site says of the movie only this: “A Marine’s complicated relationship with life and death, from…

Seriously, dozens of Friends of Unfair Park wonder why we haven’t commented on the local woman who lit matches on an American Airlines flight from Nashville to Dallas to cover the smell of her flatulence. Really, what is there to say? Poor lady. Says she suffers from a medical condition;…