Hello, her name is Natasha, and she loves you. Hi, it’s me, your friendly TiVo shark, fresh from the waters of the Season Eight premiere of America’s Next Top Model. I was surprised to see a healthy Texas showing for the initial 20. Deer Park and Houston (also a final…
We are so looking forward to putting away a pack of smokes with David Lynch at the AFI. A Friend of Unfair Park was remarking only yesterday that he’s seen little promotion for the inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival, save for last September’s initial announcement and this week’s media…
WFAA-TV Our former colleague Zac Crain found himself on Channel 8 last night, defending his voting record — or lack thereof. So, WFAA-Channel 8’s picking on Zac Crain, whilst its Belo print counterpart is stickin’ it to Tom Leppert. At least, that’s the impression this morning after both outlets ran…
A few days back, the local Warner Bros. rep called to see if we were interested in talking to Chuck Liddell about the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300. “Uh, is Chuck Liddell in the movie?” we asked. She said no, but that he’d seen the movie, liked it…
Here’s the deal. We have a few Very Big Items to give away (hint), but it’s getting late in the day, and we still have these Toadies tix and VIP pass to give away. So…we were going to give the Toadies ducats to the first person to send a cogent,…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna sends us a reminder that in 1979, Dallas punk legends the Nervebreakers played with Roky Erickson — at, amazingly enough, the original Palladium. Well, longtime readers of Unfair Park may remember that on June 1, we actually posted a track from an unofficially…
Michael Young will probably be a Ranger for life. Poor rich guy… Sorry I’m late to the birthday bash. Seems my mouse, a Trojan horse and my hard drive were waging civil war and…anyway, if you’re getting me a belated gift, do not — I repeat, do not — get…
Back from the movie, and a Friend of Unfair Park suggests this as a trivia question: What movie poster hangs over my desk? Well, really only two ways to know the answer to that one: You’ve been in my office, or you visited Cindy Chaffin’s Fine Line Live today, where…
Ya know, if you squint real hard, Roky Erickson kinda looks like Brent Best, so you can pretend Roky was there, if you have to. File this under “We are complete jack-asses” or “Blame it on the music editor.” So, yes, this week’s issue of the paper version of Unfair…
I have a screening to get to this afternoon, so Unfair Park will resume giveaways around 4ish, during which we’ll have Stars tix, a night at the Belmont and Toadies VIP passes. So, ya know, do stay tuned. Till then, here’s Scrap Iron — Hal Samples’ “discovery” — making his…
OK, here’s our second prize package: Fifty bucks good for drinks and dining at Taste and/or State & Allen and two passes to the Nasher Sculpture Center. Hey, that’s pretty nifty, innit? And all you have to do is be the first one to tell me from which sporting good…
Here’s our first birthday present to the Friends of Unfair Park: two passes to the Dallas Museum of Art and a $50 gift certificate for St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin (see, we love Deep Ellum, so there). All you have to do is be the first to complete the following, which…
A press release has gone out announcing that the law firm of Steve Susman, the Houston-based attorney representing Mayor Laura Miller’s Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition, has “successfully concluded its pro bono representation” of the coalition in its fight against TXU’s 11 proposed coal-fired power plants in the state. As…
We love this photo of Max Wells, because it suggests Max Wells already believes he’s mayor. Actually, Ed Oakley already has the job of pretend mayor. They made the WaMu Banker’s Pen look like the cast of Lost. We’re talking about the top-tier candidates for mayor, who last night gathered…
One year ago today we launched Unfair Park; I know, feels like 13 and a half months, right? During that period, we’ve learned a few things — chiefly, any posting with the words “Deep Ellum,” “Cotton Bowl,” “Standard & Pours,” “Avi Adelman” and “Bible Girl” get read and responded to…
T. Boone Pickens — who, just two weeks ago, was named the nation’s eighth most generous philanthropist by Slate and the Chronicle of Philanthropy — is in Doha, Qatar, this week for the Forbes magazine CEO conference. And in an interview with the Associated Press published today, the 78-year-old founder…
This shit’s crazier than Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows. I mean, there is a pre-game show, albeit hosted by failed Roy Firestone successor Chris Connelly. No. 1 Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is in the crowd alongside Sports Illustrated cover girl Beyoncé. And hostess Ellen DeGeneres seems to be wearing Michael Irvin’s garish…
The grassy hills and lakeside pier of a sprawling park in Coppell have been transformed into a makeshift boot camp. It’s a windy Saturday in December, and as the bullet-gray clouds grow heavy and drop low, newly enlisted soldiers march, read maps and learn rank symbols. One group stands in…
Adel Elkenan, an Iraqi Shiite, fled his home in 1991 after the failed Shiite and Kurdish uprisings against Saddam Hussein’s government. He spent weeks in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia before being flown to the United States and placed in Dallas by a refugee agency. Sixteen years later, after…
For Darrell Bock, the notion that Jesus of Nazareth married and had children is like the game Whac-A-Mole. The researcher and professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary only recently has caught his breath from tours for his books debunking the mega-best-selling Da Vinci Code—which claims that Jesus…
Gone daddy gone: Constable Mike Dupree, who became the subject of scorn and ridicule after this paper reported his own loopy story of how he had his ex-boyfriend deported to Honduras, is mired in another sex scandal that seems to have cost him his job. Three of Dupree’s deputies have…
The flu season in Texas started out mild but came on like a tiger in late January, prompting the closings of several schools in the area. That’s when Texas and Oklahoma went red on the influenza map posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Grapevine resident Joe Lastinger,…
