If anyone knows how to throw a bash, it’s Double Wide’s booking maven Chelsea “Cha Cha” Callahan. For three years, Callahan has cooked up celebrations with amazing line-ups—line-ups that play for free since proceeds from the teensy $5 cover (after promotional expenses) go straight to charity. Cha Cha’s Third Annual…
Allen Brothers’ Rick Hamilton was holding court at Mercury Grill last night over some devilishly decadent prime flesh (not A. Jolie, but the filet, New York strip, Cowboy ribeye kind). Hamilton waxed poet-like on his company’s retail link-up with Sigel’s Fine Wines & Great Spirits. Seems Sigel’s is the only…
In case you forgot, that’s Jackie Earle Haley at the far right–Kelly Leak, the player’s playa. Has it really been 30 years? For years it was a question that nagged at anyone who came of age with The Bad News Bears and Breaking Away: Whatever became of Jackie Earle Haley?…
Our old pal Cindy Chaffin, founder of TexasGigs.com and recently the master of The Fine Line, is calling it quits for a few reasons. Seems she’s burned out (which has never stopped us). Seems she figures there are enough local-music blogs to go around. Seems she might be leaving Dallas…
I just got back from the Magnolia Theater, where, once more, somebody rammed a minivan into the front door opposite the just-closed Club Nikita in order to swipe the ATM perched in the downstairs lobby. Funny thing is, only 10 days ago did Mag management finally replace the plywood that’s…
What is good karma? I don’t know for sure, but I must have done something good, because a few weeks ago, I was in the right place at the right time: a booth at Club Dada, sitting next to Dallas photographer Hal Samples. Known for his soul-searching stare both behind…
If so, you’ll be delighted to know something called the Intense Football League is coming to Dallas. Well, actually, like everything else, it’s coming to Frisco. I don’t know a lot about this little venture, but I’m guessing it’s a semi-pro, indoor and X-tremely watered-down version of the old XFL…
David Richards went from HP to SMU to the NFL…to real estate. Well, of course. On Halloween, as you no doubt recall, the largest commercial real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., announced it was acquiring Trammell Crow Company for $2.2 billion. The deal isn’t expected…
Yes, I know. Thanks for the calls and e-mails, really. KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) is not on the air right now–at least, not on the AM side. Its FM counterpart at 104.1 is up and running, but the guys back at the station have no idea what’s up at present…
This is a rendering of the entrance to CityWalk@Akard, the Central Dallas Ministries’ low-income downtown housing project. Everything you need to know about the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation you can find right here. Long story short: It’s the 8-year-old 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created by Larry James’ Central Dallas Ministries,…
Tod Seelie St. Vincent (otherwise known as Annie Clark) is one step closer to releasing her full-length debut. Till then, an early Christmas present… Our pal Chris Cantalini at Gorilla vs. Bear today posts the latest from the greatest local singer going, Annie Clark (or St. Vincent, as she’s billed)…
We can hide it no longer: Some of us at Unfair Park have an enormous man-crush on Tony Romo. There. We feel so much better. That’s the unique challenge for your Dallas Cowboys as they upgrade from playing the one-win Cardinals to the no-loss Colts Sunday at Texas Stadium. I…
Since 2004 Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. has eliminated service to hundreds of small towns across the country; in Texas, for instance, you can no longer hop the bus from Dallas, home of Greyhound’s seventh-busiest terminal, to, oh, White Deer or Alpine or Pampa or 23 other rural outposts once on…
The Dixie Chicks doc did OK in Dallas, but it’s unlikely to be a hit by any estimation. It got great reviews, locally and nationally; a “riveting documentary,” wrote David Ansen in Newsweek, while USA Today called it “a compelling and rousing film.” Both The Dallas Morning News and the…
Megan Feldman Elizabeth Villafranca, who owns the Mexican restaurant Cuquitas in Farmers Branch with her husband, was among those protesting the anti-immigrant measures passed yesterday by the city council. While protestors chanted and waved American flags outside, the Farmers Branch city council on Monday night unanimously passed a series of…
Looks like Dallas-based band The Hourly Radio is reaching a new demographic. This kid’s rendition of HR’s successful single “Crime Does Pay,” posted anonymously (or semi-anonymously–it’s attributed only to “Erin”) to MySpace, has us slightly creeped out, but also giggling at the subtextual commentary on the median age of HR’s…
Lone Star Funds’ CEO John Grayken says his people ain’t flying to Korea unless they can come back to Dallas, which is unlikely to happen–arrest warrants being what they are and all. Almost from day one, Unfair Park’s been following the doings–and undoings–of Lone Star Funds in South Korea; here’s…
We mentioned it last month, and the Los Angeles Times repeats it once more today: If you get your local news from Telemundo, well, chances are it ain’t really local. Nope–it’ll come straight outta Fort Worth. That’s because NBC Universal, Telemundo’s parent company, is cutting $750 million from its budget,…
Glenna got a heapin’, steamin’ dose of Nancy Grace Friday night. Yecch. In short: What’s “a fact”? Horror, sheer horror. Three minutes into my appearance on CNN Headline News Friday night, and I was ready to leap through the television monitor and rip out through Nancy Grace’s flared nostrils the…
Who’s the second-best QB in the NFL. Guess. And it’s not Drew Bledsoe, whoever he is. Two names I just know you didn’t expect to see atop the charts: Borat and Romo. But, alas, here they sit. The reporter from Kazakhstan is still the No. 1 movie in the U.S…
Laure-wife-of-Larry David doesn’t like TXU. She’s warmed to the mayor, though–just not global-warmed, heh. We already know what Laurie David thinks of Dallas. In April, the eco-activist–and wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s irritainer Larry David–penned a piece for The Huffington Post in which she took a swipe at the city…
The Rangers want this man on their team next year. So do half a dozen other MLB teams. So, bye-bye, Daisuke. It woulda been swell. Some random sports notes before Richie wakes up: The Newberg Report’s Mike Hindman sends word this a.m. that “the Seibu Lions will hold a board…
