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On Christmas Eve, The New York Times noted that Dallas-based Chemistry.com — a Match.com spinoff aimed at coupling “independent-thinking, confident, diverse singles” — was out to out eHarmony.com as homophobic. (But only because it is?) Over the course of 2007, Chemistry.com ran several ad campaigns mocking eHarmony’s refusal to make…

Now, she’s from Houston, but 18-year-old Kady Malloy was among the 13,000 wannabes who sweated to the oldies at Texas Stadium and the W last summer. And last night, during American Idol’s Dallas-auditions segment, Malloy proved herself a capable mimic and a fine singer all by her lonesome. “Of all…

Mmm…Grilled Horse Flesh I can’t figure the logic in selectively opposing slaughtering and eating horses (“Tex-Mex Horse Meat,” by Megan Feldman, January 10) but being just fine with slaughtering and eating cows and pigs. OK, you love horses and don’t feel anything for cows and pigs. Obviously, there are others…

Brian Gibb is sitting in his Deep Ellum art gallery on a sunny winter day, talking about why he moved to Dallas from Denton and how much his art means to him, when he looks out the big window to the street behind him and makes a telling observation. “This…

Dog pile: Frisco’s Michael Morford could be the poster child for the “If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade Society.” A 34-year-old employee of an investment bank, Morford says he went through a period of deep depression in 2006, which he endured with the help of a friend, coming out…

Take her off the bench and Sharon Keller is funny, smart and personable, if a little shy. People genuinely like her. One of the most powerful judges in Texas plays gin every week with a group of Austin friends and enjoys sharing drinks with lawyers who’ve just tried to persuade…

Just two links today — one of which is from NBC’s Today, matter of fact. Reporter Don Teague made the trip to Stephenville for hisself, to discover whether that “something weird” in the sky was really a UFO or a “whatever.” Turns out, Don Teague was in Stephenville at the…

Not gonna lie — it might be easier to get me into virtual synagogue than the real thing. Sure, I went to Israel when I was a teenager — Teen Tour, y’all? And during that time I discovered several important things about my faith: Mogen David should not be consumed…

Unfair Park absotively does not condone the spray-painting of police vehicles; let’s make that perfectly clear. But we posolutely condone our Friends sending us photos of spray-painted police vehicles. This one comes from near Greenville Avenue and LBJ Freeway. After the jump, an explanation from the finetastic Friend who sent…

Luke Wilson stars in Mark Pellington’s Henry Poole Is Here, making its Sundance bow this week. Welcome to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Circumvent the Writers’ Strike. But seriously, folks: As Park City, Utah’s famed independent-film trading post opens for seasonal business…

Lone Star Funds’ chairman John Grayken For damned near two years we’ve been mentioning, off and on, the mess into which Dallas-based Lone Star Funds got itself in South Korea — long story short, it bought Korea Exchange Bank for cheaps, then tried to sell for big dough without paying…

Houston-based Joe’s Crab Shack today announced it’s hired itself quite the fancy-schmancy executive chef and director of culinary: Dallas’ Matthew Dunn, best known for having been in the kitchens of Star Canyon, Stephan Pyles and Hibiscus. Apparently, the former Central Marketeer got the gig because he “epitomizes ‘seafood with an…

So, that Fashion in the Park shindig in the NorthPark Center parking lot’s not going anywhere: Yesterday, the dates were announced for the spring fling, March 26 through March 29, with tickets going on sale February 1. (Dallas promises to be extra-fab that weekend: The AFI Dallas International Film Fest…

Robert M. Edsel Dallas’ Robert Edsel, now famous for paying homage to the folks who tracked down millions of artistic and cultural art items stolen by Hitler and the Nazis, is profiled this morning in The Wall Street Journal — though I almost stopped reading right about here: “In a…

So, it’s safe to eat clones — even if they’re made from Jango Fett? Oh, sorry: Says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about a ton of evidence-supporting docs released yesterday, “meat and milk from cow, pig, and goat clones and the offspring of any animal clones are as safe…

John Mayer — Jessica Simpson’s ex and, apparently, some kind of musician — wants you to lay off Tony Romo’s galpal. And, yes, I mean you. Why else would he lead off a blog item yesterday — one titled, no less, “DON’T EX WITH TEXAS” — with the salutation, “Dear…

A question: Does this mean Dave Levinthal is the new Carl Monday? As Levinthal writes in this tasty tongue-twister of a sentence, “Easy availability of pornography at Dallas’ libraries also pits two strong interests against each other: Those who don’t believe a taxpayer-funded facility designed for education and research should…