Dotty Griffith. Remember her? She’s the former Dallas Morning News restaurant critic who Nick & Sam’s-Eatzi’s founder Phil Romano hates to love. He drug her through the lawyer trough, donchaknow. Anyway, after being ceremoniously eased into the last Dallas Morning News newsroom pruning last September, Griffith has landed herself a…
John Peel in 1972, five years after he returned from his stint in the States For years, I tried to contact legendary BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel about his days in Dallas — back when he was known as John Ravenscroft (his birth name), “Beatles correspondent” for KLIF…
Park Cities-raised Doug Wright is among those with local ties nominated for a Tony Award, which is, you know, quite a tony award. The announcement of the 2007 Tony Awards nominations yesterday thrilled three folks with Dallas ties. Dallas actress Julie White, bright and brassy in The Little Dog Laughed…
Don Hill wants you to know that he isn’t supporting Ed Oakley or Tom Leppert in their bids to become Your Next Mayor. Not supporting them yet, that is. He might pick someone to endorse, if either Oakley or Leppert believes as Don Hill believes. And what does Don Hill…
Because Richie won’t say it, we will: Tom Hicks, fire Jon Daniels. Then sell the team to a real owner. Come back, Bobby Valentine, all is forgiven. Tony Romo’s earned a new squeeze (insert joke about the end of his ball-bobbling days). And, in news just as unremarkable, the Rangers…
Because they’re too cool to walk at ad agencies… Well, congratulations and all to imc2, the Dallas-based virtual ad agency that markets on the Interwebs such big-money clients as 7-Eleven, Inc., Kellogg’s, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. Advertising Age has once more chosen imc2 as a “top 10…
Two days ago, an e-mail concerning missing SMU student Meaghan Bosch made the rounds and wound up, among many other places, on Unfair Park. Turns out, as everyone in town was posting the missive, Bosch’s body was being discovered — in a portable toilet in Hewitt, a town just south…
“As heard on the Howard Stern show.” Jesus, ya think? And, yes, this is Kiki Curry with her new best friend. Hi, mom. Somebody named Kiki Curry left me a voicemail here at the office late Friday night. “Have I got a story for you!” she cooed, leaving a callback…
Say, Tim O’Hare, the ghost of Rosa Parks would like a word with you… Lucky for you, dear Friends of Unfair Park, our early-rising blog editor caught Saturday’s 7 a.m. Today show, during which Farmers Branch city council member and deputy mayor pro tem Tim O’Hare — a fervent proponent…
Dallas Mavericks Tears. Regrets. Sorrow. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2006-’07 National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player: Dirk Nowitzki. “Honestly, this is a tough day for me,” Dirk today, just said minutes after accepting the highest individual honor in professional basketball. “Let’s face it, these are not great circumstances. As time…
Damn, the White Drugs are good! Addicting, even — so good they make your ears ring and your face go numb. So here’s your hit — from Denton’s White Drugs, whose fun, fuzzy, freaky punk will smack you right in the face. The Drugs will release Harlem, their debut album,…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda You already knew Saturday’s election in Farmers Branch, where voters overwhelmingly approved the law that bans apartments from renting to illegal immigrants, was only the beginning of the battle. Today, we get a better of idea of where this thing’s headed: The Mexican American Legal Defense…
We had two choices: run a picture of Wade Phillips or this one of his daughter, Tracy, who you might know from that My Chemical Romance video. Sorry, Wade. And thanks! A Dallas Cowboys head coach did something today that hasn’t happened in five years. Yep, Wade Phillips appeared on…
The band Chevelle tells Unfair Park it isn’t likely to play Dallas any time soon. Apparently, we have a rep as the city in which gear gets gone. Dallas doesn’t have a crime problem. Dallas has a music problem. That is, we relieve the piper of his pipe. We loot…
Yesterday, the missus phoned in the escape of the sea otter at the Dallas World Aquarium. Turns out, someone got the whole thing on video — though you’ll have to wait till about 1:45 in the clip to get to Muneca’s great escape. And you’ll have to endure a techno…
Avi Adelman sends word that an SMU student named Meaghan Bosch, a senior English major, has not been seen since Thursday evening. As the police and her parents are seeking the public’s help in locating her, here is her description: Ms. Bosch, 21, is 5 feet 4 inches tall and…
Because I am already tired of looking at that Escape logo below, and because this morning Pitchfork posted an “exclusive” peek at Polyphonic Spree’s summer tour to promote the due-June 19th The Fragile Army, here’s a sneak look at the album’s cover. And, sure, here’s another listen to that Polyphonic…
I’m sorry I couldn’t make it out to Firewater Grill on Friday night, because I missed seeing Journey and U2 — by which I mean, of course, Dallas-based Escape: The Journey Tribute and Vertigo USA, the you-too band from Illinois. (Who headlines there? And how do you even decide? And…
Liz Mikel, a familiar face (and voice) on Dallas stages, will continue her run on NBC, thanks to last week’s good-news announcement. The news late last week that Friday Night Lights will be back for a sophomore season on NBC was no surprise to Dallas-based actress Liz Mikel. She had…
This dude was only 14,745 votes shy of making the runoff. So, a mere 71,421 turned out to vote — or about 12 percent of the registered voters in the city, which isn’t shameful at all. And out of those votes cast, 103 went to a write-in candidate, and there…
Now, see, if Sam Coats had actually run this ad, which his campaign posted to YouTube today lest it wind up on the shelf, then maybe he’d have gotten more than 5,470 votes in his bid to become mayor. Or, fine, maybe not. Either way, it’s still a giggle, and…
The missus just called from the Dallas World Aquarium, where officials have just closed off part of the Orinoco — because a sea otter’s gotten loose! Yup, seems Muneca jumped the fence on the backside of his (her?) tank and is running through the open public area, and actually put…
