As Pete’s taking the day off to recover from the Dallas Observer Music Awards — and back in my day, we got an hour, tops — thought I’d sneak this musical note by the goalkeeper. Because — surprise, surprise — it’s a New Year notice, yet another in advance of…
Shoulda heard the Granada crowd go wild for Burton Gilliam last night, as he presented a handful of Dallas Observer Music Awards to a grateful nation. We’ve tried for years to get the actor — who, as a fanatical heckler reminded the crowd, first appeared in Paper Moon before co-starring…
If you live between Lemmon Avenue, Kings Road, Maple Avenue, the Denton Drive cut-off and Inwood Road, the city has a favor to ask you. Like, could you please, pretty please, stay inside tomorrow night — say, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.? Swell. Nothing big –…
President Bush was in Houston last week raising dough for Pete Olson. Took a few days, but a video making the rounds today, courtesy Miya Shay of Houston’s ABC affiliate KTRK-Channel 13 and the likes of the Houston Chronicle and The Huffington Post, features remarks about the economy the president…
One of dozens of photos Angela Hunt took during her trip to Mexico, where the elephants are rocking — though, not in a good way. Joyce Poole has spent most of her life documenting the behavior of elephants; she has, as National Geographic put it, decoded their language. Which is…
Dunno about you, but I need a little palate cleanser. And it’s times like these I turn to Jessica Simpson. Weepy, ranty, adult-language video after the jump, from her weekend performance at the Country Thunder USA hoedown in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, where she debuted “You’re My Sunday,” written for and…
After saying the arrested talk show host would likely return today, David Henry, general manager at KLLI-FM (Live 105.3), has changed his tune. Why? Dunno. He just called Unfair Park to say “we are going to keep Russ off the air for the time being.” Which means, once more, Live…
Over on her blog, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member Joyce Foreman directs our attention to the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board. Among the items on the agenda: a reopening of the August 25, 2005, discussion concerning proposed names for new and existing…
Russ Martin, courtesy the Southlake PD David Henry, general manager at KLLI-FM (Live 105.3), tells Unfair Park that Russ Martin will be on the air today. As scheduled. At 3 p.m. Like every other day. Except yesterday, when the station ran a best-of — since, as you’re no doubt aware,…
Tom Kemper Tom Kemper, founder of Dolphin Blue and chair of the Sustainable Dallas board, gets quite the national shout-out in the latest issue of Entrepreneur. The piece celebrates his decision in 1994 to troll the local landfills — with 350 50-gallon garbage bags — for recyclables, which no one…
In today’s legal news, Electronic Data Systems Corp. shareholders want more than the $13.2 billion Hewlett-Packard Co. offered the Plano-based company on May 12. And they’re prepared to go to court in Collin County to delay the special shareholder meeting set for July 31, when EDS investors are supposed to…
At around 10:20 this morning — sorry, trying to be more specific here — the Parkland Board of Managers will finally thumbs-up their plan for a new Parkland Memorial Hospital, across Harry Hines Boulevard from the old one, as pictured above. The morning paper has a few details, but the…
Funny thing. So, yesterday I e-mailed Richard Bitner, because I’d just read this U.S. News & World Report Q&A about his involvement in the “subprime debacle.” Bitner lives in Dallas and, a decade ago, began snapping up subprime loans; eventually, he turned it into quite the profitable business called Kellner…
As Richie’s out of town, here’s the latest on the Russ Martin arrest. The Dallas Morning News’ Web site, in a story about a protective order issued against the Live 105.3 FM show host, offers only the Southlake Police Department’s media advisory, which doesn’t go into any detail at all…
Notes Angela Hunt: “This is a picture from Africam Safari. It’s critical to note that the elephants can’t get to the lush trees behind them — there is a fence (you can see the wire fence if you squint).” In tomorrow’s Dallas Morning News, you will find this story about…
Julie Bologna Every couple of days, seems like, another comment gets added to the March 7 item about Rebecca Miller’s getting released from KXAS-Channel 5, where she’s since been replaced by no-not-that-Jennifer Lopez. Why, just last week Sharon Joyce of Dallas wrote, “Rebecca has it all — thorough and easily…
Richardson High School grad David Gordon Green’s Pineapple Express opens August 6 — and, to quote the Dazed and Confused trailer, bring a bud. By way of a reminder, here’s the red-band trailer, which is NSFW, natch. But, courtesy a Friend of Unfair Park who visited a Hawaiian Falls yesterday…
After the jump, Chris Bosh’s video adios to his hometown as he leaves for Las Vegas on his way to Beijing, where the Toronto Raptor forward will play for Team USA along with the likes of Jason Kidd, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade. The…
George Soros T. Boone Pickens, out to sell his plan that would ween the U.S. and A. off foreign oil, gave an interview to The Washington Post this morning, in which the Dallas billionaire addresses his decision not to swift boat a presidential candidate this year. This, eight months after…
The Federal Communications Commission’s throwing a four-hour shindig at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh today — and you’re invited, virtually, via the FCC’s audio-video homepage. The get-down starts at 3 p.m. Dallas time, and it should be intriguing: The subject matter’s “Broadband and the Digital Future,” and joining the panel…
Dig the “concept” of an urban lake downtown. Because the “reality,” well, it isn’t close at all. Back in October, Christopher Anderson of the North Texas Tollway Authority helped debunk several of the claims made by Mayor Tom Leppert and the Vote No! team during the Trinity River toll road…
Whatever this is, I can’t wait till tomorrow. –Robert Wilonsky…
