Charles Hatley’s not giving up on his quest to join the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Here’s what you need to know about Charles Hatley: The dude’s got a punch named after him. It’s a step back cross to the chin, says here. Ever since that story came out, we’ve been…
The strippers are coming! The strippers are coming! Quiet, wholesome city of Richardson, prepare yourself for a full-on thong invasion! EVERYBODY PANIC. If you saw a WFAA-Channel 8 story last Saturday by Craig Civale called “Sex District Planned For Richardson,” you might think an army of busty, silicone-stuffed women were…
Our old colleague Sam Machkovech is right: The Galaxy Club is — for the moment, at least — no mas. What you see at right is the seizure notice slapped on the club yesterday by Randy Brestrup, a local officer for the Office of the State Comptroller. Unfair Park has…
We always felt bad for then-Mavs coach Gar Heard, who deserved better than to coach an 11-win team–and get replaced by Quinn Buckner. In you case you were too distraught over Drew Bledsoe’s departure or the current bad karma of Mercury to notice, your Dallas Mavericks won their 14th consecutive…
So, the Unfair Park braintrust has selected a winner for those Toadies tix and accompanying VIP pass: Laura Archer, whose simple suggestion mirrors one offered up earlier in the week by our very own Merritt Martin. “You should give it to the first person who can produce a receipt for…
News 14 Carolina The long and sordid past of “Black Widow” Sandra Bridewell finally caught up with her today. News flash: A television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, is reporting today that Sandra Camille Bridewell — better known as the Black Widow when she was in Dallas — was arrested…
Hello, her name is Natasha, and she loves you. Hi, it’s me, your friendly TiVo shark, fresh from the waters of the Season Eight premiere of America’s Next Top Model. I was surprised to see a healthy Texas showing for the initial 20. Deer Park and Houston (also a final…
We are so looking forward to putting away a pack of smokes with David Lynch at the AFI. A Friend of Unfair Park was remarking only yesterday that he’s seen little promotion for the inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival, save for last September’s initial announcement and this week’s media…
WFAA-TV Our former colleague Zac Crain found himself on Channel 8 last night, defending his voting record — or lack thereof. So, WFAA-Channel 8’s picking on Zac Crain, whilst its Belo print counterpart is stickin’ it to Tom Leppert. At least, that’s the impression this morning after both outlets ran…
A few days back, the local Warner Bros. rep called to see if we were interested in talking to Chuck Liddell about the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300. “Uh, is Chuck Liddell in the movie?” we asked. She said no, but that he’d seen the movie, liked it…
Here’s the deal. We have a few Very Big Items to give away (hint), but it’s getting late in the day, and we still have these Toadies tix and VIP pass to give away. So…we were going to give the Toadies ducats to the first person to send a cogent,…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna sends us a reminder that in 1979, Dallas punk legends the Nervebreakers played with Roky Erickson — at, amazingly enough, the original Palladium. Well, longtime readers of Unfair Park may remember that on June 1, we actually posted a track from an unofficially…
Michael Young will probably be a Ranger for life. Poor rich guy… Sorry I’m late to the birthday bash. Seems my mouse, a Trojan horse and my hard drive were waging civil war and…anyway, if you’re getting me a belated gift, do not — I repeat, do not — get…
Back from the movie, and a Friend of Unfair Park suggests this as a trivia question: What movie poster hangs over my desk? Well, really only two ways to know the answer to that one: You’ve been in my office, or you visited Cindy Chaffin’s Fine Line Live today, where…
Ya know, if you squint real hard, Roky Erickson kinda looks like Brent Best, so you can pretend Roky was there, if you have to. File this under “We are complete jack-asses” or “Blame it on the music editor.” So, yes, this week’s issue of the paper version of Unfair…
I have a screening to get to this afternoon, so Unfair Park will resume giveaways around 4ish, during which we’ll have Stars tix, a night at the Belmont and Toadies VIP passes. So, ya know, do stay tuned. Till then, here’s Scrap Iron — Hal Samples’ “discovery” — making his…
OK, here’s our second prize package: Fifty bucks good for drinks and dining at Taste and/or State & Allen and two passes to the Nasher Sculpture Center. Hey, that’s pretty nifty, innit? And all you have to do is be the first one to tell me from which sporting good…
Here’s our first birthday present to the Friends of Unfair Park: two passes to the Dallas Museum of Art and a $50 gift certificate for St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin (see, we love Deep Ellum, so there). All you have to do is be the first to complete the following, which…
A press release has gone out announcing that the law firm of Steve Susman, the Houston-based attorney representing Mayor Laura Miller’s Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition, has “successfully concluded its pro bono representation” of the coalition in its fight against TXU’s 11 proposed coal-fired power plants in the state. As…
We love this photo of Max Wells, because it suggests Max Wells already believes he’s mayor. Actually, Ed Oakley already has the job of pretend mayor. They made the WaMu Banker’s Pen look like the cast of Lost. We’re talking about the top-tier candidates for mayor, who last night gathered…
One year ago today we launched Unfair Park; I know, feels like 13 and a half months, right? During that period, we’ve learned a few things — chiefly, any posting with the words “Deep Ellum,” “Cotton Bowl,” “Standard & Pours,” “Avi Adelman” and “Bible Girl” get read and responded to…
T. Boone Pickens — who, just two weeks ago, was named the nation’s eighth most generous philanthropist by Slate and the Chronicle of Philanthropy — is in Doha, Qatar, this week for the Forbes magazine CEO conference. And in an interview with the Associated Press published today, the 78-year-old founder…
