Yesterday, Unfair Park and the rest of the friggin’ world mentioned that newly discovered footage of “the fateful Kennedy motorcade.” And if you tried to see it yesterday on the Sixth Floor Museum’s Web site, well, you probably got no love, as the site crashed shortly after the initial Associated…
Bill Hearne’s been accused of stalking his former bassist. Whenever folks ask me why I would move from a comfortable gig as a music writer in Santa Fe to the 105-degree-heat, concrete and overdeveloped jungle of Big D, I tell them it’s because of wack-ass stuff like this story about…
We’ll have to give Steve Blow credit: We too noticed the odd full-page what-the-fuh? advertorial for the World Reserve Monetary Exchange on page 3B of today’s edition of Dallas’ Only Daily. Almost looked like a regular ol’ story, and it probably did to some Core Readers who were without their…
Somewhere in this picture, Andre Gurode’s having his face stomped on by Albert Haynesworth. Andre would love for you to ask him about that tonight. I know, let’s give up football for Lent. (Psst, since the NFL draft isn’t until April 28, we won’t miss a thing.) Luckily for us,…
The Dallas County Commissioners Court has just agreed to settle the the James Mims lawsuit that sparked a series of investigations into the troubled Dallas County Jail. Voting unanimously, the commissioners agreed to pay the families of three county inmates $950,000, an extraordinary sum for this type of litigation. Typically,…
Williams McKie founded Mustang 34 years ago to sell booze to folks driving to Dallas. Now, his widow and another feller are debating its fate. In the 1970s, attorney William McKie had a brilliant idea: He’d turn the town of Mustang, some 60 miles away in Navarro County, into a…
Yesterday afternoon, the president of the Deep Ellum Association, Gianna Madrini, sat down in the comfy confines of the All Good Cafe with various interested parties — Unfair Park, some guy running for mayor and other remarkably good-looking people — to talk about a piddly issue. Actually, make that a…
Since this seems to be a real musical holiday ’round Unfair Park, might as well link you to this: yesterday’s Good Records in-store featuring Kevin Barnes, from Of Montreal. I was gonna go to the free 3 o’clock shindig, but couldn’t seem to get myself out of the house. Turns…
This afternoon we received a missive from Erv Karwelis, bossman at Idol Records, informing us he’s just signed Glen Reynolds to his label. Glen, as you no doubt recall, used to be the guitarist in Chomsky, which was signed to Idol when it released its terrific discs A Few Possible…
There are a lot of perks to having friends — or so we hear, if the conversations overheard in public restrooms and at crowded restaurants are any indication. You can call friends for a shoulder to cry on or for Friday-night drinking company. You can see movies with them and…
So, that sniper’s perch thing didn’t seem to work out, hunh? Never you mind that. Here’s something better, and it’s totally gratis. Over at the Sixth Floor Museum’s Web site, they’ve just posted a newly discovered home movie of “the fateful Kennedy motorcade” that escorted the president from Love Field…
Speaking of Neil Young (see below), his album Living With War — you know, the one with “Let’s Impeach the President” — has been out since May of last year. So it isn’t new. But what is relatively recent is a review of the disc that can be found on…
A couple of weeks ago, our music ed asked me if I was obsessed with Norah Jones. Uh, no, Jonanna, why do you ask? Hey, it’s just that some of us remember trying to eat our Popolo’s way back in the day whilst Norah tinkled and twinkled for tips, that’s…
What will the new Whole Foods — which is to say the Park Lane edition, reportedly to sprawl more than 80,000 square feet when it opens spring 2008 — be like? Will it be the chain’s largest? Will it have a spa? Will it have an organic hybrid-car wash? The…
These are some of the people served by Joel Pulis’ ministry for the severely mentally ill in Oak Cliff. It’s pretty much the last place I expected to find a story about the Well Community, an Oak Cliff church that ministers to the severely mental ill living on little income…
The greatness of Mel Renfro will be at a McKinney Ave. lunch today highlighting the problems facing pro football’s old-timers. Dead presidents? Hardly. On this most special of days, when we take time to remember and celebrate the men whose talents helped shaped our lives and whose posters help cover…
On Friday, the Dallas Children’s Theater went to Manchester, New Hampshire, to perform Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad to Freedom at Saint Anselm College there. It was more than a little ironic, then, that one of the traveling party wound up without his freedom and planted behind bars after he…
This morning, we mentioned that KTVT-Channel 11 anchor Tracy Rowlett would be retiring in July 2008. We weren’t necessarily shocked by the news; rumors of Rowlett’s leaving have been circulating for months, if not years. (He’s been through two contracts since moving to Channel 11 from WFAA-Channel 8 in 1999,…
One of last year’s most interesting music compilations was Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys, a double-disc compilation (dreamed up by Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski) that included performances by Nick Cave, Jolie Holland, Bono, Lucinda Williams and a host of other notables…
So, would you exchange your current job for, let’s say, immortality? Not exactly the deal on Michael Irvin’s table, but according to the New York Post, the recent Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee may be on the way out the ESPN door. According to the article — OK, more…
Bible Girl questioned Bishop Jordan about his prophecies during a recent visit to town. She did not ask about the fake dreads, however. “You must prophesy for me.” E. Bernard Jordan heard the words in a dream, and he knew it was God speaking. But he was only 15, he…
So, this is the person who bought the so-called “sniper’s perch” from Caruth Byrd off eBay: “r.seydel” from the Netherlands. And R. wasn’t cheap with his or her bid, either: $3,001,501 is what the alleged window from the former Texas School Book Depository sold for, after more than a week’s…
