Andrew Breshiers, a.k.a. “Cmndr Tatz,” beams as he cradles his new love — Halo 3.7 p.m. Sept. 24: Five hours before the most anticipated video game in history, Halo 3, will be released. Lines are forming. Droves of devoted fans all around the metroplex lined the streets waiting for the…
From human hands, to leather gloves. On the heels of the highly successful and semi-controversial exhibition delving into the human body, the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science this week debuts its kindler, gentler endeavor — baseball. In conjunction with the State Fair of Texas, the DMNS will host Baseball…
This weekend the Doubletree Hotel Dallas-Campbell Centre will host the annual Dallas Southern Pride extended-dance-mix weekend, for which organizers are expecting some 10,000 members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender “community of color.” Oak Lawn will be crowded too, with copious parties scheduled throughout the weekend. Here’s the full…
Says here that apartments in the DFW are filling up faster than in recent memory — and, accordingly, local rents in the area are on the rise as well, up to an average of $724 per month. “It’s the best we’ve done in quite awhile,” says Greg Willett, vice president…
Where you will find Jim Schutze starting at 6:30 this evening: at Rosemont Primary School, off N. Hampton Road and W. Davis Street, not far from the Stevens Park Gold Course. He’s attending — what else? — a League of Women Voters of Dallas-sponsored Trinity toll road debate that’ll pit…
The guy on the right is former Dallas Cowboy Alan Veingrad. No, wait — on the left. No, right. Pretty sure. Alan Veingrad’s trek from schmo to Shlomo is interesting, even fascinating. But I mean, really, even the truest, bluest Cowboys fan would be hard-pressed to recite any specifics of…
What’s a nice Jewish girl like Dawn Eden doing in a place like this? Dawn Eden manages to make chastity funny. Not ha-ha funny, but way funnier than I thought. Now that’s quite an accomplishment, don’t you think? I know it never got a belly laugh out of me before…
New York magazine’s reporting that the Dallas Mavs owner has “no chance” of ever owning the Chicago Cubs. A billion dollars he would disagree with the assessment. There’s a crazy story in New York magazine that says the Yanks’ third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, might be outta NYC at the end…
Coral Eugene Watts, who killed women he believed had “evil eyes” Fifty-three-year-old Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed to slaying 11 women in Texas — two from the Dallas area — died of prostate cancer on Friday in a Michigan prison. Watts was the poster boy for the unintended consequences of…
Was that the Twilight Zone or Telemundo? Either way, the Cowboys’ utter dismantling of the defending NFC Champion Chicago Bears was bizarre, shocking and, let’s face it, delicious. 13-10? Maybe. 34-10? Pinch me. In Dallas a 3-0 start means the Cowboys are going to the Super Bowl. While in Chicago,…
Bloc Party at the House of Blues Saturday night — not as boring as everyone else, matter o’ fact We’re not prone to running concert reviews on Unfair Park — our kid sister, DC9 at Night, has that beat in its back pocket. But UP’s best Friend attended the Bloc…
At the end of July, the San Antonio Express News took note of the “the largest Army contract-rigging and bribery case to emerge from the Iraq reconstruction effort” — which just so happened to involve a Dallas-area teacher. Court documents allege that Carolyn Blake — along with her brother, Army…
Mark Stuertz John Force lights a nifty burnout before a qualifying run on Saturday. One day later, his car was cut in half, and Force was in the hospital. You could see who had the Force just by wandering through the pits. While there was a small swell around Tommy…
Recently, when I was handed the assignment of writing a weekly political column for our Web site and blog, I hoped to go as long as possible without writing about the Trinity River vote, since people far smarter than I — and Steve Blow — have explored every corner of…
Our music blog, DC9 at Night, features a brief chit-chat with Ryan Hamilton — one half of Smile Smile, we’re not not sure which Smile — concerning the band’s October 17 show in New York City, at the Alphabet Lounge. As it happens, Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme have been invited…
A Virgin Mobile ad not featuring Alison Chang, far as we can tell Late yesterday, the Associated Press shipped the story about how the family of Dallas girl Alison Chang was suing in state district court Australia’s Virgin Mobile phone company, claiming the company had used a photo of 16-year-old…
On April 27, 1983, David Bowie was in Las Colinas rehearsing songs for his “Serious Moonlight” tour, in support of his Let’s Dance album. Joining him was that hit record’s lead guitarist: Oak Cliff’s Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was only two months away from releasing his own debut, Texas Flood,…
As you no doubt are aware, Simon, Paula and Randy are in town today and tomorrow, putting second-round American Idol wannabes through the paces at the W Hotel. But re-auditions started yesterday, and this guy who made it past the first round found the second phase of hoop-jumping more than…
Have you met our adoptive parents, Annette and Harold Simmons? They’re very nice people. Mazel tov, Harold Simmons! Looks like you’re still the richest man in Dallas — and the 43rd richest person in the entire country. Yet again, Forbes has posted its list of the 400 wealthiest folks in…
Jack Hamm/Grace Bible Fellowship Need we remind you of what Tom Landry thought of gambling? Thought so. I know what you’re thinking: Hey, douchebag, what happened to Week 2? To which I retort, “What happens in Vegas haunts you all the way back to Dallas.” Find a comfy chair and…
WFAA-Channel 8’s Janet St. James Thanks to the several Friends of Unfair Park, including Uncle Barky, who’ve pointed out that on Wednesday, WFAA-Channel 8 medical reporter Janet St. James’s story about Carter Albrecht and the smoking-cessation drug Chantix, which features an interview with Albrecht’s girlfriend Ryann Rathbone, received prominent play…
Comic Book Resources offers two very odd green-screen preview pics from this week’s Sunday Night Football intro, in which Terrell Owens and Heroes’ Masi Oka vie for the title of — here it comes — most heroic. Guess it couldn’t be any worse than this. –Robert Wilonsky…
