Fightin’ For a Spot

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…

Once Upon A Time…

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…

We Have a Winner. Now We Need a Drunk.

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…

The Black Widow’s Been Arrested. First Time Too, Go Figure.

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…

Are You America’s Next Top Model? Da.

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…

Haven’t Heard Much from the AFI Fest Yet? Oh, You Will.

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…

Rock the Vote — Or, At Least, the Candidate Who Doesn’t

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…

Gary Cogill Will Put You To Sleep, Apparently

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…

Are You Smart? And a Winner?

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,…

The Night the Nervebreakers Met Roky Erickson

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…

Everybody’s Getting Birthday Presents Today!

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…

A Puckin’ Freebie

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…

No Rust on This Scrap Iron

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…

Take Aim…

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…

You Say It’s Our Birthday?

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…

Still Plenty of Smoke to Be Cleared in TXU Deal

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…