Sure, April 13-15 is a long way off, but Stephanie Hollowell’s already got the dates booked: She’s the lone Dallas resident competing in The 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest, which takes place at the Fairmont Hotel. And, yeah, it’s a big deal: The grand-prize winner will walk away with a million…

Rob Lowe’s allegedly been added to the Dallas cast. Can Ally Sheedy be far behind? They just won’t give up. It’s been months since we’ve mentioned that left-for-dead Dallas movie, which was scheduled to be shot around these parts in November till a new director and new writers were brought…

If nothing else, my 4-year-old thinks Justin Spence’s follow-up to yesterday’s unofficial Vote Yes! ad is just swell. “I like that,” says the kid. “It’s funny. Very … Halloweeny.” Then again, he also liked this Sam Coats ad, and look where that got Coats. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Today’s Wall Street…

UNT Division of Jazz Studies This photo of Marchel Ivery dates from September 2005, when Ivery performed with Stefan Karlsson, Tom Warrington and Ed Soph. Last night, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in tonight for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli’s…

Thanks to some e-mail server issues on our end, we missed receiving the invite to this morning’s Mayor Tom-led unveiling of a parcel of land that will connect the Katy Trail with the Trinity Strand Trail. Turns out, according to our invite, that Cienda Partners — which owns, among other…

Very, very sad news today, as Dallas has lost one of its greatest jazzers and finest people: Marchel Ivery. His wife confirms to Unfair Park that he died this morning at Presbyterian Hospital, just one day after checking in. He’d had a fever for two days and was diagnosed with…

Fred Durst, well-regarded director — no, seriously It’s been, what, a week since the last area film festival? But fear not: OutTakes Dallas kicks off this weekend at the Magnolia Theater, ready to fulfill all your lesbian and gay film festival needs. Then, on November 7, the Lone Star International…

Two weeks after Will Clarke’s autobiographical short story “How to Kill a Boy That Nobody Likes” raised a ruckus in Rhode Island, the story resurfaces. That’s because Lori Drew, mother of a 15-year-old freshman at Cumberland High School up in R.I., is still so furious over Clarke’s tale that she…

To the Friend of Unfair Park who sent us the link to the following video, thanks. And by Friend, I do not mean “Schim Jutze.” Oh, and Sam Merten at Dallas Blog has the info concerning who made the thing. Not official, looks like. But officially funny. –Robert Wilonsky…

Harwood International’s Gabriel Barbier-Mueller has a new pet. Doesn’t make a mess — how Swiss. Till this morning, I’d never heard of “Harwood, Dallas.” Didn’t know such a place existed — but, gee, sure sounds magical. Then I read this media release concerning a Friday-morning event involving the installation of…

India-based Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd. runs some 44 multiplexes — with 703 screens, you do the math — in Malaysia, Singapore and, sure, India. It also has some theaters in North America, operating as Pyramid Saimira Entertainment America, Inc., and today comes word that the exhibition titan now owns a…

Some crimes are petty; others, decidedly cruel. What kind of a heartless bastard goes around stealing folks’ sex furniture? The dry cleaning bill alone would be reason enough to shop new, anyway. Except that when the only fluid exchange is virtual, there’s no need to give your screwin’ settee a…

Joanna Van Vleck, left, and Brie Chapman want you to shop till they drop. Men, do you love clothes but hate to shop? Are you stylish but lazy? Would you just prefer to have a couple of women do your shopping — by which I mean, of course, women to…

Dallas-based Genghis Grill has some seven locations in the DFW, with another 10 scattered across the country; says here the company started franchising in 2001. But Jeff Sinelli’s 9-year-old Mongolian barbecue chain, originally known as Genghis Khan’s Mongolian Feast before Sinelli took ownership in 1998, is about to get a…