Several Friends of Unfair Park have shot us e-mails wondering precisely when Bill Wisener’s opening his new joint on the Southside of Lamar, as his Spring Valley Road location’s going adios tomorrow. Well, Bill tells us it’ll pretty much be open this week — kind of, sort of. See, it’s…
This is Donnie Davies, who doesn’t like gay people. Or this is Joey Oglesby, who probably does. C’mon. He’s an actor. The problem with satirizing idiots is that even your wildest jokes come so close to reality that some people have trouble seeing the difference. Trust us on this. We…
I just got waxed by a little Romanian lady, and it was hot. Literally. Eyebrow-waxer to the stars (Jennifer Grey is a star, right?) Eliza Petrescu launched the Dallas outpost of her 5th Avenue brow-a-palooza, Eliza’s Eyes, at Hotel Palomar’s Exhale Spa yesterday. I took the opportunity to avail myself…
Spent some time late last week speaking to N9NE Group founder Michael Morton (son of Arnie Morton, founder of Morton’s The Steakhouse). We spoke of stainless steel, million-dollar kitchens and the Dallas efficacy of a N9NE Steakhouse in Victory Park, where cheap steak loots you 43 bucks and a cold-water…
Cue the twinkling piano, usher in Jim Nantz’s hushed, reverent tones and get PETA on speed dial, because I’m about to beat a dead horse. While Sammy Sosa and Mike Singletary are coming to town, Barbaro is gone. The tributes, of course, are pouring in. During the eight months the…
Ed Bark thinks Justin Farmer’s a real mimbo. Gee, what gave it away? File this under Things The Great Ed Bark Never Coulda Said About WFAA When He Worked At The Dallas Morning News: “Justin Farmer and Jackie Hyland seemed happily under glass, bantering with almost shocking ineptitude on a…
No, this still isn’t Jim Schutze. And God knows it ain’t Rod Dreher. Yesterday it was “Schutzesque”; today, it’s “Schutzism.” Seriously, who ya gotta screw around here to get your name turned into an adjective? Anyway, I see the Crunchy Con himself has taken Jim to task for his cover…
Amory Lovins is gonna change the world, probably before he changes a lightbulb. Melting ice caps, starving polar bears and costal towns in eminent danger of submersion — all of these depressing scenarios are at least in part the results of the stubborn belief that energy efficiency is inevitably and…
On Friday, Dallas’ Only Daily ran a piece about the new City Performance Hall — known to some as “The Third Hall,” since it ain’t as fancy as its Dallas Center for the Performing Arts siblings, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre…
Ben Harper and Bill Wisener share a moment, as mutual fans and as old friends. Bill Wisener has been contemplating moving his legendary record store for years — since at least the fall of 2005, when I spent a day with Bill talking about how difficult it was going to…
Denis Braham is the man in charge of bringing the Super Bowl to North Texas. Yeah, we thought that was Jerry’s job too. Late last week Dallas-based law firm Winstead PC announced it had a new chairman and CEO: Houston attorney Denis Clive Braham. Who he? Well, in a nutshell,…
When she’s not running the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Nancy Brinker’s reading People magazine. How do we know this? Because she has a letter in the new issue (the one with Tyra Banks on the cover) — specifically, a response to a story the magazine recently did on…
“Schutzesque.” I’ve yet to find a precise meaning in the dictionary — Jim says it means “ruggedly handsome in tweed” — but the word has officially entered the lexicon at Bold Types, The Dallas Morning News’ Metro blog that has becoming infinitely more interesting with the recent additions of education…
A few weeks, on the way down to my old man’s auto parts store a few blocks from Fair Park, I noticed that the South Dallas Cultural Center was in quite the state of disrepair — not such a surprise, given that the 20-year-old building is undergoing substantial renovations, to…
A Friend of Unfair Park this morning directed our attention to Amanda Newman’s Web site, Boca Tinta, which in turn directed our attention to a terrific mini-documentary made by local art-makin’ great Frank Campagna. It’s a nine-minute short film about the famous Deep Ellum gateway known as the Good Latimer…
A few months back we mentioned that Emmitt Smith, who was then in the middle of dancing his way into America’s hearts (oy), was in Phoenix pitching a real-estate development: a 237,738-square-foot retail center. Turns out, it’s hardly a one-off venture: The February 5 issue of Fortune, which isn’t online…
This is David Fricke, who writes about “must-have” bootlegs you can’t have because he doesn’t tell you how or where to get them. To hell with Rolling Stone. Apparently, the only reason I take the magazine, which stopped being relevant long before I was born, is because every couple of…
Revisit the glory days of Duane Thomas this week, when the NFL Network pays tribute to America’s Team on America’s Game. No, your Dallas Cowboys still don’t have a head coach. But I’m sticking with my initial prediction, which sounded solid on January 11 and feels stronger than ever today…
Two editorials over the weekend — one in The New York Times, another in the Houston Chronicle — suggest, in short, that S.M.U. oughta be happy with that George W. Bush Library-Think Tank-Pet Store-Juice Bar proposed for the Hilltop, but only if Dubya stops being so, like, secretive. Yup –…
Bible Girl, if it makes you feel any better, distributors don’t think anyone else wants to see Dakota Fanning get raped in Hound Dog either. One of us has got to be crazy. One of us has got to be deluded, dumb and blind. It is so very daring to…
Yeah, Doug Jones isn’t creepy at all in this pic from Pan’s Labyrinth. So, sure, go say hi to the man with the eyes on his hands. Earlier today we received a press release from the Vistas Film Festival folks concerning two chances tonight to meet Doug Jones. Who’s that?…
Trust me, famous people are way overrated. But on the off chance you wanna meet one or just feel the need to spend some time hanging out with film industry folk, here’s the deal: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which makes its bow March 22 through April 1 in…
